Sabeen Sadiq - Where Does Comedy Go From Here?

Sabeen Sadiq updates us on her life during the lockdown and takes a stab at the question 'Where Does Comedy Go From Here?'

Sabeen is an actress, producer, and stand-up comic. You may recognize her from the series 'Code Switched', her commercial work, or her time on the 'Wallah, She's Funny' comedy tour.

 

Time Stamps:

01:30 – “I’m a skincare addict”

01:45 – “I didn’t have the funding until the pandemic relief”

02:06 – Dermatologists on Tik Tok

02:23 – “You’re THIRTY?!”

02:36 – ‘Sex and the City’

02:49 – Online backlash against female creators

Mentions of ‘Twilight’, ‘Sex and the City’, and ‘Insecure’

04:40 – Cancelled schedule due to COVID

Couldn’t go on tour, had to stop nannying for money, moved back to parent’s house “am I in heaven?”, going to therapy for some human connection, solo auditions, making family run lines with her

Mentions of Stuart Talent and the ‘Wallah, She’s Funny Tour’

07:39 – The Lottery Commercial

09:08 - The ‘Wallah, She’s Funny’ Tour

Mentions of Atheer Yacoub, Zainab Johnson, Yasmin Elhady

10:40 – The gradual COVID performance shutdown

Mention of Strip Joker

11:29 – “Um…What’s your job?”

Mention of Hope Littwin

12:51 – Corporate gigs on Zoom

Mention of Pat Treuer, Treuer Laughs LLC, Ali Sultan

15:32 – Audience members throwing on tags without heckling

Mentions of Instagram Live, ‘Buns and Bits’

17:56 – Socially-distanced live shows

Mentions of Zanies, Josh Johnson

20:35 – Trying to find the funny in COVID times

22:01 – Jim Gaffigan’s Twitter Tirade

24:55 – “Everyone’s cracking a little bit, and it’s coming out in weird ways”

25:45 – Self-taping auditions when you live with your parents

26:50 – What is the entertainer’s role right now? How have you been helping?

Mentions of the crisis in Yemen, Dr. Sylvia Chan, Harvard University, Islam

29:34 – “You’re doing the work”

31:45 – Internalized Capitalism vs. COVID Lockdown

Mentions of FOMO, Anxiety, Zion National Park

38:53 – [This bit was stolen from Rachel Feinstein]

39:26 – Meghana Indurti and the Inadvertent Social Media Cleanse

40:44 – Does social media have any utility?

43:12 – Media Diet

Mentions of Jillian Ebanks, Netflix, ‘The West Wing’

44:10 – “I have gotten into… Anime”

Mentions of ‘Your Name’, ‘Howl’s Moving Castle’, Hayao Miyazaki, Shonen, Dragon Ball, ‘Spirited Away’

46:58 – ‘American Horror Story’

Mentions of ‘The Haunting of Hill House’, ‘Jurassic Park’

47:27 – Losing hours to relationship coaches on Tik Tok

51:20 – ‘Space Force’

We agree the show needs more weight, higher stakes. Needs to go darker

Sabeen loved the monkey in space

54:08 – “I left and I don’t know why”

55:08 – I pitch ‘Watchmen’ to Sabeen

56:12 – Sabeen stans for ‘Baskets’

Mentions of Louie Anderson, Zach Galifianakis, Hulu

59:28 – Maria Bamford’s ‘Weakness is the Brand’

1:01:57 – “Where does comedy go from here?”

Mention of Laugh Factory

1:03:15 – “There was never just one path into comedy”

1:03:55 – “It was so nice meeting you” (our version of “Aloha”)