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Kate Berlant's comedy special Parmesan is on HBO.
“Kate is a comedian, an actress, and um, artist, and she has a new special, uh, on HBO called Parmesan.”
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Kate Berlant
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Kate Berlant says she appeared in a New York magazine piece about nepo babies.
“There was like a New York magazine piece about nepo babies and they and my face was in it.”
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Kate Berlant says her mother made the Stonehenge prop in Smile 2 and that this was cited as evidence of nepotism.
“my mom did prop design, and she did make the Stonehenge prop in Smile. Two, famously so, and that was also there, cited as nepotism.”
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Kate Berlant says her father works in metal collage.
“so my dad works in metal collage. It was funny. I was this was huge for me a few years ago.”
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Kate Berlant says she did stand-up for the first time at age 17 at her high school.
“I started comedy. I did stand up for the first time when I was 17 at my high school.”
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Kate Berlant says she has attended Zoom meetings of Internet Technology Addiction Anonymous (ITAA).
“I have gone to ITAA meetings, Internet Technology Addiction Anonymous. I don't know if I'm supposed to say that.”
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Kate Berlant says she once went six weeks without social media scrolling and has done month-long breaks several times.
“I had six weeks of sobriety, I did a six week cleanse, nothing, I've done, I've done a month a few times.”
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Kate Berlant says she bought a neck massager advertised on Instagram, worried she had hurt a neck artery, and ended up having an unnecessary angiogram.
“Instagram advertised to me this neck massager. I go, sure, bought it.”
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Kate Berlant says that after watching Erin Brockovich as a child she began doing her homework in heels, which she describes as mimicry of smart people.
“I remember, like, when I saw Aaron Brockovich, I started doing my homework in heels.”
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Kate Berlant says she did voice acting for call-in radio prank segments and was paid about $75 per job.
“I would get paid like seventy five bucks or something, I don't know”
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Kate Berlant says she met John Early on the set of a friend's short film and that he first messaged her on Facebook.
“we met on set of a friend's short film. And, uh, we had like, he'd message me on Facebook or something”
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Kate Berlant says John Early slept in her bed for about three years.
“he slept in my bed for like, three years, right? And I was like, Why can't I get a man?”
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Kate Berlant says a dispute with a chimney sweep who left soot in her home led to lasting jaw tension (TMJ).
“that night went to bed literally permanent TMJ, like one night of clenching from the chimney sweep and that years later.”
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Kate Berlant says her podcast PooG, goop spelled backwards, began during Covid as a wellness and beauty podcast.
“we started PooG in Covid and really kind of started as a way PooG goop backwards.”
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Amy Poehler says Kate Berlant and Jacqueline Novak's podcast PooG moves from products such as a red light mask to Dante's Inferno.
“They like, talk about a red light mask and then somehow get to Dante's Inferno very fast.”
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Kate Berlant says she has seen several ghosts in recent years, two of which upset her.
“I've always been scared of ghosts, and then the last couple years, I've seen a few.”
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Kate Berlant says friends have been told by psychics that a curse could be lifted for $500.
“truly the amount of people friends I've had that have been like, and she said that for $500, she could lift the curse.”
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Kate Berlant says she is from Los Angeles and lived in New York for ten years.
“I'm from L. A. I lived in New York for ten years.”
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Kate Berlant says she had the Upright Citizens Brigade manifesto printed out as a young fan of Amy Poehler.
“I had the Upright Citizens Brigade manifesto printed out on where the words, where the T text gets really, really tiny at the bottom.”
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Kate Berlant says she was told the lipsticks in the green room were left by Jennifer Lawrence a few months earlier.
“yeah. Jennifer Lawrence left those a few a few months back.”
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Kate Berlant says she used to take drop-down world maps from her school classrooms for her bedroom, and she jokes about being a bit of a klepto.
“So I, uh, so I would jump up, unscrew them and walk out.”
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