Charlene Kaye
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Instrument as Crutch and Advantage
Charlene reflects on guitar as a safety net, crowd work skills, and respect for pure stand-up craft.
Charlene Kaye is a musician and comedian based in New York who has toured the world, opening for bands like the Arctic Monkeys and Metallica. You may have seen her "Every Taylor Swift Song" skit which now sits at out 100 million views - or in her two cover bands, Guns N’ Hoses (all-girl GNR) and Labiahead (all girl Radiohead).
She's now back with her new show Diversity Shredder, including dates at London's Underbelly. In this episode we discuss:
- why Tenacious D and Flight of the Conchords works so well
- is the feeling of being a rockstar and a comedian the same thing?
- does being successful in one creative field help starting in stand-up
- building her first stand-up show from a notebook about her mum
- performing to incompatible fan bases
- hacking algorithms through retention loops and hook writing
- how a Taylor Swift parody changed everything
- and we find out if Charlene is happy...
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- how ego shows up differently in music vs comedy
- when your safety net becomes part of the act
- and turning real-life tension into art
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Catch Up with Charlene: Charlene Kaye: Diversity Shredder is at at London's Underbelly next week on Wednesday 8th and Thursday 9th April. You find out more live dates at kayeofficial.com. You can also follow her on Instagram, @charlenekaye.
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Everything I'm up to: Come and see me LIVE including dates in Bristol, London, Manchester, Stoke, Marlborough, LA and Mach! Find out all the info and more at stuartgoldsmith.com/comedy. Discover my comedy about the climate crisis, for everyone from activists to CEOs, at stuartgoldsmith.com/climate.
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