![]() “When I was younger, I was always getting in trouble for being a little too foul-mouthed or a little too obnoxious or a little too wild,” Everett adds. “I’m a wildebeest on stage, but in real life I’m an introvert who’s sad a lot, which isn’t very interesting, but it’s true.” “And for me, those themes are present in my real life,” she says. Because they would not fucking have it if I did.”Įverett says Somebody Somewhere, which was co-created by High Maintenance alums Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen, is really about “finding your people” and “re-engaging with the world” after losing a loved one. “But honestly it’s been really fun and cathartic and healing in a way to do a show back in Kansas.” And though the series is full of deeply personal details about her family, including her sister’s death and her mother’s alcoholism, she insists, “This is not like a hit piece on my family. “I had never thought about doing a show back in Kansas. “The live stage show is the juice, it drives me, it makes me very happy.” So instead of trying to recreate her onstage persona on screen, she asked herself, “What if Bridget Everett never moved to New York and stayed in Kansas?” “I’m not gonna lie, I became really, really depressed about it,” she says of her long hiatus from the stage. Update your settings here to see it.ĭespite earning nearly universal critical raves, Everett admits she felt “a little uncertain at first” about Somebody Somewhere, “because it’s a show that kind of wears its heart on its sleeve and that’s not always considered cool.” The low-key exploration of life by a group of mostly queer outsiders in her conservative hometown of Manhattan, Kansas, aka “the Little Apple,” is a far cry from the sweaty, booze-soaked bonanzas that Everett had been putting on for years at Joe’s Pub in the Big Apple-until the pandemic made her style of up close and personal cabaret nearly impossible. Everett has toured nationally with Amy Schumer.This content is not available due to your privacy preferences. Rock Bottom was directed by Scott Wittman and written by Everett, along with Marc Shaiman, Wittman, Adrock of the Beastie Boys and Matt Ray. Bridget was awarded a grant from Joe's Pub in 2013 as part of their New York Voices series. Bridget has appeared at Montreal and Chicago's Just For Laughs Festival, HBO's Aspen United States Comedy Arts Festival, The Adelaide International Cabaret Festival, The San Francisco Sketchfest, and The New York Comedy Festival. ![]() ![]() Her film, theater and television credits include Inside Amy Schumer, At Least It's Pink, Bridget and Neal are F*cking and Adam Is Watching, Two Broke Girls, Jeffrey Cole Casserole, The Bleep Show w/ Whitney Cummings, Jukebox Jackie and Our Hit Parade. Bridget Everett & The Tender Moments released their debut album of original music in October 2013 featuring the singles Titties, What I Gotta Do and Fuck Shit Up.īridget Everett has been called one of the Funniest People in New York by Time Out. Imagine Freddie Mercury, Richard Pryor and Sophie Tucker had a baby, and then you might be getting close…maybe. Each performance is as explosive as it is unpredictable, welcoming special guests as varied as Fred Armisen, Patti LuPone, Flea, Dan Finnerty (The Dan Band), Tonya Pinkins, Marc Shaiman, Erin Markey, Peaches, Neal Medlyn and Jake Shears (Scissor Sisters) while fans such as Ben Stiller, Jonah Hill, Andy Cohen and Lily Taylor can be seen laughing hysterically in the audience. Led by the singing tour de force Bridget Everett, “a mouthy, flesh-jiggling early Bette Midler” (New York Times), the band has sold-out venues nationally and instantly developed a cult-like following with their edgy, sexed-up, punk rock cabaret. Every month Bridget Everett & The Tender Moments bring their funny yet gut-wrenching and outrageous performance to Joe’s Pub at The Public.
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