![]() She’s produced stuff like Game of Thrones and Chernobyl, so my show is a real lateral move for her. Talk me through the origin story of Somebody Somewhere and how it landed at HBO.Ĭarolyn Strauss is the best in the business and I just happen to know her. For a week, I felt like I was a part of something again. Also, Joe’s Pub has the best french fries in the world, and everyone was so warm and welcoming when I came back. I love singing and having that intimate connection to a crowd of people. I am kinda like my character Sam in that way-without music, I feel a little lost. I’ve honestly been really depressed without it. Vogue : How has it felt to be onstage performing for sold-out crowds again?īridget Everett: I hate to be hyperbolic, but it was cathartic. Following a triumphant return to the Joe’s Pub stage after a two-year absence, Everett spoke to Vogue about bringing Somebody Somewhere to life. After years of stealing scenes as a foul-mouthed sidekick, the 49-year old performer finally has a star vehicle that takes full advantage of her talents. ![]() I’M AWAKE! Scramble some eggs and light up an English muffin.Somebody Somewhere is an especially welcome coming-out party for someone who’s been preparing as long as Everett has. Take a ginger shot out of the fridge and let it burn its way down the back of my throat. Like, ’90s-style hungover, which is when Zach and I became friends. Thursday, February 3ġ0:30 a.m.: I finally get out of bed. So we pound a couple glasses and hope for the best. Jason, Zach’s boyfriend, texts us to drink water. We drink some Rombauer chardonnay because we love the oaky, buttery kiss of a classic Californian chardonnay.ġ1:30 p.m.: As per usual, our night together has gone on a little longer than expected. Gotta celebrate the moments!ħ:30 p.m.: Uh oh! Zach wants to come over after happy hour. We’re celebrating the season two green light with martinis and a fancy caviar toast they have. And, also, so we can get started with the party and wrap it up in time for a respectable bedtime. “We were all so excited.”ĥ p.m.: HAPPY HOUR! I meet my friend Zach at Nougatine at 4:45 p.m., so we can get corner bar seats right as doors open. “A very, like, Rudy moment, carrying us off the field,” she says. Like, I don't know, ‘Make me another drink, bitch,’ and you have to make that into a song.” It sounds like fodder for a future scene in Somebody Somewhere-the green light for season two having arrived at an auspicious time, as Everett details below. “If it were up to me, I would just lay on the couch and stare at the wall all day, so I need to have deadlines and goals.” The group also has a hook challenge-“which is some funny shit that somebody said at the previous songwriter’s. “I have my songwriter group on Tuesday, and I do not have a song,” she says of her monthly meetup with a handful of friends, designed to light a creative fire under everyone’s ass. The same is true for Everett in this three-day wellness diary, where ’70s soul warms up a frigid walk. ![]() And all of us-in the audience, on the couch-get to bask in the raucous glory. (In addition to her 2015 Comedy Central special, Gynecological Wonder, she has toured with Amy Schumer, turned up in the original Sex and the City movie, and played a karaoke-slaying mother in 2017’s Patti Cake$.) The aforementioned bosom aside, there’s another elemental through line: “For Sam and for Bridget, there is a connection to the world through the world of music,” Everett says. ![]() She is calling from home on the Upper West Side, not far from the restaurant jobs she juggled for years while building momentum onstage. “Big tits with a tender underbelly? I think that's what they have in common,” Everett says, laughing. There is Bridget the downtown cabaret legend-spangled, sweaty, outrageously mesmerizing-who channels the collective id with lyrics like “What I gotta do to get that dick in my mouth?” Meanwhile, on Somebody Somewhere, her semi-autobiographical show now quietly winning hearts on HBO, she plays Sam, a forty-something woman adrift in her Kansas hometown, who comes alive at an after-hours variety show, belting out power ballads from her high school songbooks. What makes a feel-good show? Bridget Everett has figured it out, via two tonally distinct personas.
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