On the GoodOnePodcast, Jo Firestone discusses teaching comedy to seniors and what it’s like to be be called “quirky”
Jo Firestone Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photo by NBC What even is a comedy special? Somebody complaining about the complaints they received about their last hour of stand-up? To comedian Jo Firestone — who made a name for herself by putting on the weirdest, most chaotic comedy shows New York has ever seen — it means teaching a class of senior citizens how to do comedy and filming them as they perform in front of an audience for the first time.
If you met all these people individually, you wouldn’t necessarily think that all of them are friends. They’re not very similar at all, except for their age group. It is very sweet to see them bonding and doing things for each other, like buying each other socks that are an inside joke or dressing up like each other. It’s very sweet to see, and it’s very funny. It does feel like it is a comedy scene.
On Being Called “Quirky” and “Whimsical” I mean, those are the top two words that they put to me, and that’s okay. One time I went to a general at IFC, and they were like, “We do not do quirky!” And I was like, “Well, me neither!” If you want to call it whimsical and quirky, then that’s okay by me. That’s not what I’m trying to do, but I understand it comes off as Zooey Deschanel kind of style vibes. I understand why it happens. All I can do is keep making the stuff that’s true to me.
And I didn’t really even understand the industry. There’s no one in my life who did it. There was no connection. The first stand-up comedians I saw in person were Stone and Stone; they came to my school and did stand-up, and I was like, I guess all comedians are twins. And they were like, “The scene is tough, but there’s a few different scenes. You can choose your scene.” And I remember just being like, This is it! These are the people.
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