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Jillian Ebanks - Where Does Comedy Go From Here?
Performance Revue
English - December 21, 2020 17:03 - 1 hour - 191 MB - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsPerforming Arts Arts Comedy acceptance commentary insightful lgbtq npr secondcity transrights artisticprocess chicago cityofchicago Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
The first installment of Performance Revue's 'Where Does Comedy Go From Here?' is a conversation/interview/check-in with Jillian Ebanks.
Jillian is a comedian, actor, a Bob Curry fellow, a co-producer of B.A.P.S., and a brilliant black woman just trying to survive during a global pandemic in a regressive country.
Jillian's waxing video is now on YouTube! Give it a look: https://youtu.be/-_0sikMMaZQ.
Time Stamps:
01:20 - Recap of Previous Episode Begins
Mention of Drake01:55 – “I’ve toned down my love of rappers”
02:16 – “I’m trying not to idolize celebrity”
Mentions of Lizzo, Beyonce, Megan Thee Stallion02:52 – “I think celebrity is dangerous”
03:00 – Recapping the “Drake Rant”
04:01 – Recommending ‘Unlocked’ by Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats
Mention of Tiana Taylor05:14 – Harry Potter and the Curse of the TERF Author
Mentions of J.K. Rowling08:03 – Lauryn Hill, ‘Doo Wop (That Thing)’ is a slut-shaming song
Mention of ‘Friday Night Lights’09:42 – Kanye West is a mental landmine in my randomized playlists
Mention of Kim Kardashian12:20 – “I host weekly support meetings for people who have given up their favorite rapper”
Mention of ‘Rami’13:58 – The Covid Waxing Video
Inspired by waxing her face during a Zoom call. Improvised performance17:20 – “Covid Chic”
19:43 – Chicago Winters
21:17 – Will all performances be online?
Mention of BAPS23:31 – “I got invited to do a stand-up show in a back yard”
24:38 – “Broadway is closed until January”
25:14 – COVID Begins; the impact on gigs and jobs
27:25 – The governmental response, or lack thereof
Mention of Bob Curry Fellowship30:40 – How has COVID changed your comedy?
32:21 – “I haven’t been able to find anything funny about Corona Virus, itself”
33:13 – Impact of the George Floyd protests
33:45 – “Even white people are protesting now”
34:14 – “I’ve never watched any footage. Ever.”
Mentions of Philando Castile, Eric Garner36:30 – “Being black in America was hard enough”
38:05 – Mention of Colorism
38:30 – Mentions of Trayvon Martin, Sandra Bland
39:25 – “Where does comedy go from here?”
40:48 – “We are living in farce”
41:51 – “I write from a source of insecurity”
43:53 – Sidebar on Marxism
44:43 – Fuck Starbucks
44:57 – Internalized Capitalism
46:37 – “I was up for a promotion and I didn’t want it”
48:26 – “I feel like I wasted this stay-at-home order”
Mention of Pro Tools50:00 – Jillian has a hard time accepting compliments
Life During Quarantine
50:34 – Dating during quarantine
51:49 – Intimacy (or lack thereof) during COVID
53:10 – Addressing priorities and FOMO
54:00 – Roommates and companionship
56:30 – The creative process
57:10 – Jillian accepts the compliment
57:40 – Pay people a living wage (unions are good)
Jillian talks about working out of a theater in DC59:28 – “This is the most money I’ve ever had, and it’s because I’m on unemployment. That’s not fun for me”
1:01:28 – “This feels like 2008 all over again”
1:02:10 – My biggest investing win
1:03:30 – How industries and jobs are changing
1:05:06 – “We have no national guidance”
1:05:44 – “I’m not a sharp enough satirist to satirize what’s going on right now”
The Banana Republicans sketch1:06:52 – Political false equivalency, “Why are we appeasing racists?”
1:08:30 – Mitch McConnell can die
1:08:36 – Media Diet
1:09:35 – Jillian Recommends HBO’s ‘Watchmen’ and ‘Gentefied’
1:09:55 – We review ‘Veep’
Neither of us liked it, but we respect the effort by the talent involved1:11:31 – Jillian’s criteria for consuming quarantine media
1:12:16 – For the record, ‘Insecure’ is an amazing show
1:12:25 – Jillian recommends ‘Rami’, ‘Snowpiercer’, ‘I May Destroy You’, and ‘Killing Eve’
1:14:35 – Jillian does not recommend ‘Ozark’
1:14:45 – I recommend ‘The West Wing’
Stark contrast between the show and the Trump administration1:15:49 – “It’s hard to watch newer shows right now”
1:16:02 – Jillian enthusiastically recommends ‘Hamilton’
Mention of Daveed Diggs1:16:48 – We both recommend ‘Blindspotting’, ‘Black Panther’, and ‘Into The Spiderverse’
Mention of Spike Lee’s ‘Da 5 Bloods’1:18:10 – We both recommend ‘Always Be My Maybe’
1:18:53 - Jillian pitches me on ‘The Lovebirds’
1:20:17 – I pitch Jillian on ‘The Witcher’
Mention of ‘Game of Thrones’1:21:30 – No black main character in ‘The Witcher’ (Mimi Ndiweni as Fringilla Vigo notwithstanding)
1:21:54 – “Storse material”
1:22:28 – Jillian recommends the new ‘Charmed’ reboot
1:23:07 – First impressions of ‘Space Force'
Something is missing from the show, even though it has a lot of talent involved Show is trying too hard. Too much going on. Mentions of ‘The Office’, Steve Carrell, ‘High Fidelity’, Tawny Newsome, Lisa Kudrow, Zoey Kravitz1:27:23 – Jillian can’t stop watching ‘Hamilton’
1:27:56 – I stan for ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’
1:28:20 - Jillian stans for ‘Hamilton’
1:30:48 – “I love fantasy, I just don’t feel represented in fantasy”
Mention of Disney, Avengers, ‘Endgame’1:34:29 – Disney corporation constantly changes laws on public domain
Factual Error: Ron DeSantis is the Governor of Florida, not Rick Scott. I confused one anthropomorphic sack of turds for another. Mentions of Disney World, Disney Land, Michael Eisner, Rick Scott, Stacy Abrams, Andrew Gillam, Beto O’Rourke, Lori Lightfoot1:36:40 – Possible futures for media production and live performance
Mentions of ‘Euphoria’, Zendaya, John David Washington, Leslie Odom Jr., ‘The Winter Soilder’1:39:04 – “All the things we want, we can have. We just don’t want to wait for them”
1:39:40 – Final Thoughts
Recommendations for ‘Pose’ and ‘Disclosure’