43 min
Wake and Cake with Comedian Irina Voronina The Jewcy
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- Umorismo
"If you live through 2020 you should legally be able to take a year off your age" says this weeks Wake and Cake guest!
Meet Irina Voronina, Teen Model and Playboy Playmate turned Stand Up Comedian and Actor (plus TikTok sensation), who moved to the states from Dzarzhinsk, Russia at the age of 23.
"All blonde girls in comedy eventually meet" which is true for us and in pandemic fashion, we met online!
It took a minute to adjust to the online platform. It was first stated by governing officials that we'd only be in lockdown for three weeks...translation a year and counting. While I give 2020 the shitty credit it deserves, a lot of incredible things happened as well like working with fierce females in comedy like Irina.
Online comedy has been viewed by many artists as a necessary medium to lean into to keep the muscle working and there's no doubt it's efficient. While it's not the real deal, it's a money and time saver to get reps in plus it's also how comedians network these days.
Irina says it takes her a month to craft a five minute set and that's working at it EVERYDAY. Initially taking ideas from paper to formulating jokes, building bits and workshopping them with other comics until they're stage ready...or as of late, screen.
A month ago I got to meet my comedy sis in person to see her perform live at a Drive-in production at the Hollywood Hotel Roosevelt on a dreadfully cold (for us Southern Californians) winter night with Santa Anas in full effect at 40 mph. Other members of our all female comedy studio, 'The Misfit Toys' were in attendance cheering like soccer moms on the sidelines from our cars. Irina crushed it managing not to blow away delivering her punchlines in between the desynchronized cacophony of honking horns...the modern day way to heckle.
A recent TikTok Irina posted of what comedians commonly get on the regular to "tell us a joke!" which has us in unity saying, "we don't work for free!" So while at home support the arts and buy a ticket to a show friends (a little secret, a lot of them are still FREE) and when we're back in the land of the living join us at at a live one, too. You're not gonna get Irina's "Fancy Feast" at a show streaming on YouTube that's for sure...well maybe a little "Chunky Tuna", she says.
Follow Irina's Laugh Path here:
IG: @irinavoronina
TikTok @iamirinavoronina (One of my faves! "Russian Mom" vodka is the solution for everything! https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMeBsaDjx/ )
Comedy Therapy New Jersey Tournament 3/22 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/142442895535
Knuckleheads San Clemente 4/23
Fun read on Irina's show in LA at Bar Lubitsch, "Comedy Stew" http://voyagela.com/interview/meet-of-comedy-stew-all-female-comedy-show/
With Love and Grat, XO, LJ AKA Kosher Barbie
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Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wakeandcakepod/support
"If you live through 2020 you should legally be able to take a year off your age" says this weeks Wake and Cake guest!
Meet Irina Voronina, Teen Model and Playboy Playmate turned Stand Up Comedian and Actor (plus TikTok sensation), who moved to the states from Dzarzhinsk, Russia at the age of 23.
"All blonde girls in comedy eventually meet" which is true for us and in pandemic fashion, we met online!
It took a minute to adjust to the online platform. It was first stated by governing officials that we'd only be in lockdown for three weeks...translation a year and counting. While I give 2020 the shitty credit it deserves, a lot of incredible things happened as well like working with fierce females in comedy like Irina.
Online comedy has been viewed by many artists as a necessary medium to lean into to keep the muscle working and there's no doubt it's efficient. While it's not the real deal, it's a money and time saver to get reps in plus it's also how comedians network these days.
Irina says it takes her a month to craft a five minute set and that's working at it EVERYDAY. Initially taking ideas from paper to formulating jokes, building bits and workshopping them with other comics until they're stage ready...or as of late, screen.
A month ago I got to meet my comedy sis in person to see her perform live at a Drive-in production at the Hollywood Hotel Roosevelt on a dreadfully cold (for us Southern Californians) winter night with Santa Anas in full effect at 40 mph. Other members of our all female comedy studio, 'The Misfit Toys' were in attendance cheering like soccer moms on the sidelines from our cars. Irina crushed it managing not to blow away delivering her punchlines in between the desynchronized cacophony of honking horns...the modern day way to heckle.
A recent TikTok Irina posted of what comedians commonly get on the regular to "tell us a joke!" which has us in unity saying, "we don't work for free!" So while at home support the arts and buy a ticket to a show friends (a little secret, a lot of them are still FREE) and when we're back in the land of the living join us at at a live one, too. You're not gonna get Irina's "Fancy Feast" at a show streaming on YouTube that's for sure...well maybe a little "Chunky Tuna", she says.
Follow Irina's Laugh Path here:
IG: @irinavoronina
TikTok @iamirinavoronina (One of my faves! "Russian Mom" vodka is the solution for everything! https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMeBsaDjx/ )
Comedy Therapy New Jersey Tournament 3/22 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/142442895535
Knuckleheads San Clemente 4/23
Fun read on Irina's show in LA at Bar Lubitsch, "Comedy Stew" http://voyagela.com/interview/meet-of-comedy-stew-all-female-comedy-show/
With Love and Grat, XO, LJ AKA Kosher Barbie
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Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wakeandcakepod/support
43 min