SHAPIRO: This character, much like you, is a swimmer, sang in show choir, was raised in Kansas. It's called "Somebody Somewhere," and Bridget Everett told me it taps into some of the real, conflicted feelings she has about her hometown.ĮVERETT: While I appreciate Kansas and there's a lot of love about it, I never - I always felt like a square peg in a round hole there. Well, the new show on HBO imagines what would happen if someone like her, a character named Sam, went back to live in small-town Kansas, where the real Bridget grew up. She seems like the kind of performer who could only exist in the big city. SHAPIRO: That's a clip from her performance at the legendary New York cabaret venue Joe's Pub. She uses the size of her voice, personality and body to connect with an audience emotionally and physically.īRIDGET EVERETT: Let me just clear up two quick things. nycomedyfestival.Once you see Bridget Everett perform live on stage, you will never forget her. “I’m a full-bodied f - - kin’ woman, with not just a p - - - y, but a big and strong one!”ĭiscover for yourself at her Town Hall gig, which Everett says “is my biggest show yet. “My response to that is through my performances,” she says. The singer, who’s been known to throw around the P-word herself, has some thoughts on the “grab ’em by the p - - - y” line that’s dominated recent headlines. But she’s not giving up the stage show - especially right now. Everett, who also appeared briefly in “Trainwreck,” more recently acted in the Maria Bamford comedy “Lady Dynamite” on Netflix, and wrapped three indie films over the past year. This year, Schumer invited the singer to join her on tour as a surprise musical guest. Lately, she’s shared her show with a bigger audience, including that of Comedy Central’s “Inside Amy Schumer,” on which Everett closed two season-finale episodes.
She quickly garnered a following and some well-known collaborators: Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz from the Beastie Boys plays bass in her band, the Tender Moments, and in 2013 she dueted with Patti LuPone on “Me and Bobby McGee” at Carnegie Hall. “They’re just t - ts! It makes me feel powerful.
The nudity, she says, just happened organically. In 2007, those worlds meshed when she created her first live show, “At Least It’s Pink”: “I thought maybe I could take my wild karaoke style, and cabaret, and put them together in my own act.” “Every Sunday night for like seven years I’d go to this place on the Upper West Side, and I would just go apes - - t,” she says. Why not share that with the audience?’ - Bridget Everett ‘They’re just t - ts! It makes me feel powerful. She was also going uptown to blow off steam doing karaoke. “But I started going to see Kiki and Herb, and Murray Hill - it was like, ‘Oh, my God, there’s this whole crazy world of performers I didn’t know existed.’ ” She got her start in the early 2000s when she moved to New York as part of a children’s theater troupe. Everett, 44, is known in downtown circles for her bawdy, anything-goes live shows, in which she’s likely to take her top off, straddle patrons’ faces, spray mouthfuls of Chardonnay into the air, use colorful phallic props and, as she puts it, “motorboat” the occasional aisle-sitter. The entirety of that line, as Everett’s fans know, is more vulgar than anything an 82-year-old would normally sing.Īpparently, an appreciation for raunch runs in the family. “I brought the microphone to her and she sang a verse of my song, ‘What I Gotta Do.’ ” “My mom was there, she’s 82,” says Everett. Tamara BeckwithĬabaret singer and comedian Bridget Everett last week kicked off her new tour - which arrives at Town Hall Thursday as part of the New York Comedy Festival - in her home state of Kansas. Cabaret star Bridget Everett performs Thursday at Town Hall.
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