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Jan 14, 2022 · Sometimes Bridget Everett, the actress, comedian and self-proclaimed “cabaret wildebeest,” wonders what would have happened if she had never left Kansas. She has a pretty good idea.
- Alexis Soloski
Apr 15, 2023 · Bridget Everett is known for her outrageously filthy cabaret act and her hilarious yet moving HBO series Somebody Somewhere, which returns on April 23
- Lisa Tozzi
Jul 10, 2015 · It’s perhaps not surprising that Bridget Everett —a six-foot-tall, classically trained singer, who uses her breasts as props, and routinely sits on the faces of her audience members—would feel...
- Jessie Heyman
Sep 2, 2014 · Downtown shock singer and loose cannon Bridget Everett is movin' on up. Here's why you should bow before her.
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I was making a lot of friends; I was going to shows; I was immersing myself in that world. I loved going to see the drag shows, and then I would go out with [the drag queens]. If there was a karaoke bar, I would sing. Then, eventually, friends would be like, “Why don’t you be a guest on my show? I think you have a great voice. Let me give you a sho...
A lot of after hours, after dark things that I did. Thank God there weren’t video cameras on cell phones [at the time]. I was getting to know my limits and exploring my creative expression, and sometimes you go too far. Sometimes you get a little wild. I remember Murray Hill [who also stars on “Somebody Somewhere”] sitting me down after a show one ...
I wish I would have taken a chance on myself earlier. I didn’t really start going for it until I was in my mid-30s, because I wasn’t a Broadway singer; I wasn’t a TV person. I felt like my physique prohibited me from being on Broadway or on TV because I didn’t see a lot of what looked like me in any of those spaces. The best thing that my friend sa...
I was doing this show at Joe’s Pub as part of the Public Theater’s season called “Rock Bottom.” It was a collaboration with Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman and Matt Ray and Ad-Rock. I’d been waiting tables for 25 years. I was doing it to keep my health insurance, but I also still needed the money. But there was a point where my [restaurant] manager ...
You have to surround yourself with people who want the best for you. That may seem like such a simple thing, but I’ve worked with people who were either competitive or insecure. [My best collaborators have] all wanted the best for me, and once you start listening to them and trusting that, things only get better. They believe in me—why can’t I?
When we were doing Season 1 [of “Somebody Somewhere”], it was a trial by fire, learning as you go. But Carolyn Strauss, who is one of the executive producers on the show, and HBO [were saying,] “We want more you.” What I learned was, the more I poured myself into it—whether that was acting, writing, looking at all the little details, the production...
I have a character—her name is Boozy Banger, and she has triplets played by Cole Escola, Amy Sedaris, and Jennifer Coolidge. Nobody saw it coming, but it’s a show that we all need. The message is: I haven’t dreamt it up yet, but I know it’s out there, and I’ve got to try to let it come to me in the time it comes.
There’s a clip from this documentary called “Let the Good Times Roll” [with] Little Richard. It’s a 17-minute clip, and it transformed my entire creative thinking process. There’s something so lawless and energized about him. It’s him at his peak, and you see the wide influence that he’s had over all different kinds of performance, whether it’s roc...
Feb 25, 2022 · It’s something that Bridget Everett, the actress and cabaret performer who plays Sam, can relate to, up to a certain point. Ms. Everett is also from Kansas, and singing is her thing. But...
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Mar 2, 2022 · New York’s raunchiest cabaret singer paints a disarmingly genuine portrait of middle America. Opinion by Sara Stewart. 6 minute read. Published 6:20 AM EST, Wed March 2, 2022. Link Copied!...
