He brings out so much joy in the audience and makes them comfortable and then I come on and motorboat them and we all go home happy.”Įverett will also perform her solo show, Pound It!, over two nights at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival (after cancelling in 2016 due to a scheduling conflict). We have a great friendship and I think we’re great together on stage. “He’s so funny and fresh and old-school and charming.
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“Murray was one of the first people to give me a spot in New York, so this feels like a real full circle thing,” she says. While I like to follow politics, you can’t go on Facebook or Twitter without getting depressed … it’s been a rough few months … People say it’s great for comedy, but I don’t really give a shit about show business, I just want my friends and loved ones to be happy and safe.”Įverett is in Australia this week for performances in Melbourne and Brisbane with friend and comic Murray Hill. I like Instagram because it’s pictures and it’s less commitment. “Oddly enough, I really don’t like it very much, particularly after this election cycle here which was pretty brutal. “People will stop her on the street more often than they stop me.”ĭespite her strong public presence on social media, Everett has some hesitations with the constant barrage of news.
“Isn’t it ridiculous? I couldn't help it,” Everett says. “She’s eight-years-old and pure love, sweetness and sugar.” The dog even has her own Instagram account. “She’s the best,” Everett tells Broadsheet, in a world far removed from her on-stage persona (all “big tits and money notes”).
So it’s somewhat surprising to phone cabaret luminary Bridget Everett on a Friday night and find her at home, on the couch, with her Pomeranian, Poppy. The New York Times declared her “a mouthy, flesh-jiggling early Bette Midler” with “the manners of a Flintstone”.
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