NY Post Q&As for 2008 New York Comedy Festival
Friend and fellow funny reporter winner Mandy Stadtmiller interviewed Sarah Silverman, Tracy Morgan, Joel McHale and Louis CK in advance of this week’s New York Comedy Festival for the New York Post (an official fest media partner). In print, we only got a taste from each of the comics. Online, we get the full Q&As. And after the jump, I’ll share my favorite tidbits from each interview. From Stadtmiller’s Q&A with Sarah Silverman, about her recent trek to the U.K.: England was bizarre – I had the time of my life and the live show was a blast – the crowd was fantastic and I fell in love with them. Then I woke up the next morning and every reviewer said I got booed off the stage and bombed. I honestly thought I was being punked. BELIEVE ME I know when I bomb – I’ve bombed a billion times in my life. It was literally the opposite. Weird. Then of course Perez picked it up and all my friends in the states emailed me going, "f–k London, they suck" — but it wasn’t true. I wish I DID bomb there, at least all this press wouldn’t be so frustrating. Defamer posted a video someone took with their phone from my encore (I went back out and just shot the s–t for a bit. It was really fun – something...
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