Improv, she says, is where she fully embraced her quirky sense of humor for the first time. (Editor’s note: we spoke with Skinner, Nancherla, and Brito just days before Totally Biased was canceled, so none of them had gotten the news yet.)Įliza Skinner has performed in Charleston many times, as part of the musical improv duo I Eat Pandas and with her solo show Eliza Skinner is … Shameless! She’s a veteran of the improv, sketch, and stand-up worlds who’s been making it as a full-time comic for several years now. Instead, we talked to the ladies about other stuff - like monsters, going on strike, and what it means to be a mean lesbian. While the real story here might be what happens to three comedians when they throw themselves straight into the happy heart of American consumerism, since their Charleston stop is on the way down to Florida, we couldn’t ask them about that. “And we were like, ‘Oh, we should do that, we can just make it a tour and we’ll book two shows on the way and two on the way back.’ So that’s what it is.” “I had mentioned that I hadn’t been to Disney World since I was a little kid, and Janine has family down in Florida, and she said ‘You could just stay with my family and go to Disney World,’ ” Skinner says. In case you’re wondering, they did come up with the name for the tour before getting the news that their show got the axe, but it still works.Īnd lest you think the whole Disney World thing is nothing more than a convenient gimmick, it’s not. They’re calling it The Happiest Tour on Earth, and it’ll consist of three extended stand-up sets, one by each comedian. Skinner, Nancherla, and Brito decided to do just that, and on the way they’re doing a couple of shows together, including one at Theatre 99. And while that could be kind of stressful, what with the loss of income and everything, it can also be awesome - like, if you decide to take a road trip to Disney World. Either way the writers get some time off each year to do other things. They’re hilarious.)Īnother thing about comedy writers? Their shows usually go on hiatus for a couple of months. We’re sure all three will bounce back easily, though. (OK, did - the three comedians were all writers for the FXX show Totally Biased with Kamau Bell, a politics and current events-based comedy show that was abruptly canceled last week. This is what Eliza Skinner, Aparna Nancherla, and Janine Brito do. They sit around a table with a bunch of other funny people five days a week, throwing out jokes, making each other laugh, and, if we’re to believe 30 Rock, eating lots of pizza and Chinese takeout. You could say comedy writers have the perfect job.
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