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Nell Scovell

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2018-05-07
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  1. “Thank you. So I did do well. I grew up very funny family. There's this classic story of my sister Alice on the couch reading little women and my aunt walked by, tapped her on the shoulder, and said, don't get too attached to Beth. My aunts had this very dark sense of humor. It wasn't self-deprecating, which is what I think a lot of female comedians were doing at the time. So I, and they got all this positive attention for it.”

    2018-05-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Nell Scovell, author, 'Just the Funny Parts' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “Throughout your life. When you started to talk to me about the beginning, because why do you go into, you obviously come from a funny family? You are all cracking up. You've got a pair of ants that are very funny. Your dad is funny. What got you going in the area? At one point, you said you're going to be a doctor, but your TA in college said, no, no, thank you because you sort of failed basic chemistry.”

    2018-05-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Nell Scovell, author, 'Just the Funny Parts' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  3. “In some ways, my life is a lean and case study, and because I've worked in pop culture, people might not be interested in me, but they might care about David Letterman and Homer Simpson. And so I thought it was a good way to come for the... The pop culture stay for the feminism because looking back, I realized, I mean, the books about the three things I love most, which are comedy, creativity, and equality. And they're all intertwined throughout.”

    2018-05-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Nell Scovell, author, 'Just the Funny Parts' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  4. “Thank you for coming. I have to read this part for the beginning of the Commonwealth Club. Welcome to the Commonwealth Club tonight's program in Forum. I'm Kara Swisher, founder and executive editor of Recode. Tonight it's my pleasure to be here in conversation with Nell Scoville. That's me.”

    2018-05-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Nell Scovell, author, 'Just the Funny Parts' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT