Aug. 12, 2025 - Slightly Offensive - Elijah Schaffer
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The DARK SIDE of Comedy: Trump Support & January 6 DRAMA! | Almost Serious | Chrissie Mayr
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On this explosive episode of Almost Serious, Elijah Schaffer and comedian Chrissie Mayr dive into the gritty underbelly of comedy! Chrissie opens up about her journey to stand-up stardom, the raw challenges of the industry, and how her bold Trump support and vaccine stance led to career chaos and cancellation from her job.
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Interned at Conan, was in college, did a little bit of improv.
So that's what attracted me to stand-up.
I was like, wow, I can just say whatever I want in front of a group of people and I'll never see them again.
So during this six-year period where I'm working for my last boss, when I got the job, I was like, woo-hoo, I'm in media.
The pandemic happened.
And then I was like an out-Trump supporter.
And then I went to one rally in D.C., another rally in D.C.
Then I went to January 6th.
And my boss, this is ultimately what led to my firing from the job.
It's like my boss heard me while he was waiting for his flight to Hawaii for a vacation, actually read a headline about me being on Megan Kelly talking about January 6th.
It was one of the first shows she did when she got her show and was interviewing me and I was talking about how the media had overblown it and they were not being honest about what went on.
You voting for Trump, they could tell you were a Trump supporter and because you were a Trump supporter, you were essentially fired.
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I know that it was politically motivated because I have all the emails saying because if you were liberal and you didn't get the do you think you would have been fired just for that alone or do you think he would have let you off the hook?
But I've always had, like, since I, if I want to, if you want to dial it back even further, was interested in comedy like when I was a little kid, a communications major, thought I wanted to be a reporter, interned at Dateline, realized that was incredibly boring.
Got an internship at Late Night with Conan O'Brien for my senior year of college.
I ended up writing to Allison Silverman, who was the only female writer at the time.
So with a Dateline internship, I got a little bit of help because my mom was friends with one of the producers because she worked at the local middle school.
She was like the secretary to the music and performing arts guy.
So she was like, anyone who was playing an instrument in Rockville Center, oh, she knew about it.
Stand-up, you've got people from all walks of life.
Like Mark Normand was a janitor.
There's so many other people who do stand-up who had regular day jobs.
And then there's people who are doing open mics who just like want to get better at public speaking.
I mean, that's true for improv too, but I find there's a much more diverse group of people doing stand-up versus improv, which is like, it's not as likely they're going to make a living off improv.
Stand-up, you could, like, if you really hang in there.
Whereas like the only people are paying to see improv are people who see TJ and Dave perform.
TJ, Jagadowski, and Dave Pasquesi.
They're the two guys you see a lot in the Sonic commercials.
So these are, so I like, look, I'm not knocking because I've got like a D-level podcast, but at the same time, like, I would, I'd probably kill myself if I knew I was known from a fast food commercial.
A lot of them have, and you don't know who until you're in it for a few years.
Then you're like, oh, this chick wears like made-well jeans to all the open mics.
Oh, this chick lives her apartments in a really nice part of the city.
Like, and then you're like, oh, yeah, these people have rich parents who are floating them through this lifestyle.
Whereas some of us have like day jobs and, you know, there's, there's probably three groups of people doing stand-up main groups.
There's people who have rich parents who are floating them.
They can kind of do whatever and do the open mics.
Then there's people in kind of like regular day jobs, maybe a corporate day job, which I often was always in corporate jobs because my parents paid for a college degree.
I was like, I'm not going to just like make coffee or be a waitress.
I'm going to get whatever assistant position I can and like have health insurance and like do the most with this degree while I'm also doing comedy.
And then there's the people who maybe they didn't go to college and they're just like, they're a waitress or a host or they're a barista, but also doing stand-up at nights.
It's like, I'm however many years in at this point.
And like the longer, especially now, there's so I don't even know what's going on like in the main like New York scene.
I'm on the road mostly and I'm doing my only thing with like podcasting and other people's shows and I get booked wherever.
And I mostly have kind of garnered my own audience at this point.
But I would say it's easier.
It's easier to make it in comedy and there's more and there's many more different ways to the top.
Whereas like the old model of comedy, which is like pre-social media, was you move to a major stand-up city, LA, Boston, New York, you grind it out at the open mics, you get good enough to do like a showcase, which then exposes you to maybe a late-night booker.
Then you get your late night spot, then you get booked on sitcoms, then you get like a road deal, then you get an HBO special or a Comedy Central special.
And then that's, then you get, well, you would get management before that point.
But then that kind of sets you up for having a career in comedy.
Whereas if you start comedy like now in 2025, you might not even need to set foot in an open mic.
You might just, I mean, didn't Matt Reif like he blew up over TikTok.
Except like podcasters are by and large way more successful and they can be a little business-minded, a little more insular.
Whereas like stand-up, you have to go to shows.
You have to see people.
You have to get on a list to get on a mic.
You're on a lineup with other people.
You're in a green room with other people all the time.
So it's hard to do stand-up completely by yourself.
Whereas podcasting, you more or less could.
I mean, the more successful you get, you have more of a crew working for you, but like you could do more of it by yourself.
You don't have to go to events, you know.
So yeah, there's a lot of degeneracy.
Sure, in the beginning, like, you know, you're like the toe, there's not as many women doing stand-up because it's not a lifestyle that most women are down for.
It took me 10 years.
Generally, it says take like 10 years to kind of establish yourself and like make find your voice, right?
And most women don't want to sign up for that.
They don't want to take the best, you know, like the middle of their 20s to the middle of their 30s to just figure out if they can make a living doing stand-up.
That's a huge gamble for women.
Those are like your prime mating and dating years.
That's when most women want to like find a husband and start a family, not like gamble 10 years on stand-up.
But luckily, I somehow found a great husband and also behind you.
It's you have a hard time prioritizing and you just, you're like, okay, I have these 10 things to do, but you're like, what's the most important thing to do today?
Do you know that Scott Adams had a really interesting idea on like procrastination and laziness, he says, are inextricably linked.
And also, I think something that's related to that as well.
And the way I fix that, by the way, you want to know, I have that too.
And I used to put me on drugs as a kid for that reason.
But the fix to that is people who procrastinate are lazy or claim they have ADHD is what it is, is that you think about the cost that it takes to get somewhere.
So sometimes you're like trying to think like, so what I need to do to do that?
What do I need to do to do that?
Should I go ahead and do that and to do this?
That ends up leading to like several things.
And I don't think it's just laziness and procrastination.
I think it's also to ADHD and just confusion, like where you just feel like, I don't even know what to do.
Because you're thinking about from the start line, where do you start?
And then you're thinking about what the steps are in between versus people who get things done and are focused or type A personalities.
You don't have to be born with it.
I trained myself out of that by thinking about what I want to, like what I want to.
accomplish by the end of the day.
So what do I want?
So what I want is I want money.
What I want is I want, I want, I want notoriety.
What I want is I want home and I want meaning and purpose.
Like these are the things I want.
So I just do because all anything I just ask myself, okay, what about this?
Yep, does that get me my goal?
And I just go do it.
And I don't question myself anymore, because when people that are like not good workers or don't like to work is they're always thinking about like oh, like I got black people just kidding kidding, I'm kidding, as we call them youths.
I mean yes, I mean by Basketball Americans, but it's like, but it's like also, it's like, it's like it's like uh, you know, they only think about what they want in the moment, about long-term goals, like you're just going, so I just get up and I do whatever work, like I'll just, I have a set of like five, seven goals and I just go and do whatever I want.
But I'm saying, with that procrastination thing, I think a lot of people get into comedy and stuff.
It's like I don't really know what I want to do, and there's a group of people over there that also don't know what they want to do.
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Yeah, and it's like good, and that's also why a lot of people, that's why a lot of people go to law school too.
What attracted me to comedy was I grew up in a house where my parents were very passive, aggressive to one another and like the whole house was very passive, aggressive.
Nobody spoke to anyone really directly, nobody really cared about each other's feelings or wants or needs.
It's like I was like oh dad, I'm cold.
He'd be like that's nice, put a sweater on, like I'm really hot, like I don't know, stick your head in the fridge um, and that might also just be like immigrant boomer mentality that you know they weren't our.
You know, no one has perfect parents.
They're they're all just figuring it out with what they have.
But I just I didn't feel like I could be honest with my parents.
I didn't feel like I could just like speak my mind.
So that's what attracted me to stand up.
I was like wow, I can just say whatever I want in front of a group of people, and there I'll never see them again.
The stakes are really low.
I can just say whatever, make jokes about myself, and and it's like no consequences, right.
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So as you mentioned, your parents, you know, you kind of like had this upbringing.
You kind of could say what you want at the clubs.
Do you feel like there's a lot of comedians are just trying to fix, like find themselves and they do it through comedy?
I got into it because I didn't feel like I could be honest with the people around me.
And it was like a form of like, I've always been a creative person.
Like I was almost a like a fine arts studio arts major for college.
And then I just had like a, an argument with a professor.
She gave me a C.
It was like a stupid installation art class.
I had to hang something to the ceiling.
I broke a light.
She gave me a C for the whole course.
And I was like, F that.
I guess I'm not doing art anymore, which is like so silly that I would let just one person keep me off of that.
But I've always been just like super artistic.
And like when I was little, I would like take puppets to church and try to convince people that there was like a real cat that I was playing with.
And so this, I was like always kind of funny and creative.
So this just stand up really just, I felt like I could be myself on stage in front of people.
And of course it was part of it is validation.
Like I did well enough to keep going, right?
Like if you start doing stand-up and you just never get any laughs ever, like you're probably going to quit.
So I was successful enough to that the positives outweigh the negatives and kept Going and it was like a powerful form of validation.
And I hate to be a stereotype, but like I did very much have daddy issues.
And like when I graduated college, I was a textbook kind of feminist and I was like a women's studies minor and like I lived in Brooklyn and I you know had an ear cartilage piercing.
Well now it's the nose ring that people have right but never blue hair but um I was like textbook you know open micer.
So you went into this and did you have like a I'm not gonna like make you tell about, like who'd you sleep with or whatever, but like did you sort of get sucked into the lifestyle, like because I know, like even me, I kind of got sucked into this.
Like yeah you, I ended up dating a few comedians, but not necessarily to get ahead.
I compare it oftentimes to like a homeless shelter, like if you're a, if you're a cute woman at a homeless shelter there's probably not very many cute women at the homeless shelter and you probably tell yourself, don't date, don't date any of these homeless dudes, don't date any homeless dudes.
Like you can do better, you can do better.
You're, you're gonna get out of this place.
Okay stop, don't look at him, don't look at that guy.
And then after a while, like you're still there and you're like well, this is the best looking of the homeless dudes.
I see him all the time.
I'm gonna date him and that's how stand-up is.
You would like to think that you could do better than dating other comics, but they're just who's around all the time.
So you end up just dating other comics and like I dated a comic who was 14 years older than me, had you know at the time, great credits Comedy, Central credits, like everything, everything that you would think oh, this person's really gonna get you ahead in your career.
When it was the opposite, I got banned from a club for dating this guy because this woman liked him and dated him before me, and it's like i'm still banned from her club from this day.
So it was ultimately like a net negative to to date this person for a couple years.
Um, so I never really reaped any of the benefits from dating anybody else in comedy, so I just kind of I was honestly, I feel like floundering in my career until I met my husband who finally was like, helped me get organized, was like, what are you doing?
I was there for six years and I always had like random day jobs.
I would you know I had a bunch of headhunters that I worked with and I would lose a job.
I got fired like I don't know who knows four times or something and i'd be like all right, i'd email the headhunters, be like, literally whatever you have, like i'm not picky.
I worked a hedge fund.
I worked at a school doing like admissions uh, like OLD boys prep school in the Upper East Side.
I worked at um.
Did I say, like a title insurance company?
I worked at like three different advertising agencies NYU in five different positions.
It was also my first film that got me into the industry and then I got my last day job, which I was the most at the time when I first got it in I guess 2017, I was the most excited about having this day because i'm like wow media.
So I was working um for the president of the International Emmys.
So everyone knows the Emmys.
There's an International Emmys as well and I was his executive assistant, so i'm in charge of like, all his travel, like helping him with gifts for his wife, all of his mistresses, medical appointments and stuff.
Yeah oh, he was.
No no, there was.
This guy didn't have any mistresses because he he's the same age as Joe Biden.
He had a leg injury or something, like crazy bacterial infection.
I went and visited him at the hospital, like would give him his fucking mail to open so he wouldn't feel FOMO.
I'd like take notes and stuff.
And I just, just like, which I didn't have to do, I took cabs of my own dime to like go visit him in the hospital and make sure he didn't feel like, you know, it was a kind of person who was like retired from their regular position, but they're still like a consultant to feel, you know, like important.
So he was, we were working out of the Hearst Corporation building.
That was my office for six years.
And so he's the president of the International Emmys.
I don't know if you remember during the pandemic, people were like, why did Andrew Cuomo get an Emmy?
Like, why did he get an Emmy for his performance during the pandemic?
That was my boss.
That was his decision to give.
And I remember saying to him, I'm like, people are really upset still about the nursing home issue.
And it's his job to give out Emmys, like an Emmy for somebody who made entertainment during the pandemic, right?
I'm like, you know, who you should really give it to is like the CEO of Zoom.
Like he created a lot of entertainment over the pandemic.
How many late night shows, how many people were in broadcasting were using Zoom to do their shows over the pandemic.
Someone's like, you should give it to him.
He's like, no, nobody knows who that is.
And then I was like, oh, the whole entertainment industry is just one big circle jerk.
And it's not about who's the most qualified.
It's who you can do favors to and for and who and the name dropping.
Although, the one thing I would say it's worth it because we got that fabulous moment of that, I think it was on CNN where you saw in the back of the guy, like the little kids like wandering into the room.
And then like the little girl and like the wheeled holder thing.
And then the mom come in and be like, no.
And she like pulled the kids away.
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That was also got the, what was it?
And all the people that imagine there's no heaven.
Like two weeks ago, the internet, we're going to talk to you, talk a second about reputations, but like, I wrote last night that it's really hard to keep up with rumors on the internet because just two weeks ago, there was a rumor on the internet that I was having intercourse with, like regularly, with like a group of black guys or something at turning point conferences.
And then today, I got like a high-up person, two people get to me and ask me if I was finger blasting a chick in a lobby at a turning point conference.
No, but like, I was just saying, like, with all with all the reputational stuff, you've, you've had that too, where they say all types of kooky things about you.
One article by somebody who hated me, Anthony Kumia, everybody at Compound Media.
He, God, I forget this guy's name.
I think his name is Jake Flores or something.
Just hates any non-woke comedian, any non-liberal comedian.
This guy hated.
And he wrote this one article, I think, for the New Republic, where he claimed that I was like in QAnon or something, made a bunch of ridiculous because he was just bagging on Kumia and Gavin McGinnis and everything.
He just lumped me in with it.
And now that shows up on everything.
Like that shows up on my Grok AI, Wikipedia, any bio of me.
I'm like, oh, just because this one ass bag claimed that I'm with QAnon, whatever that even means, now that's everywhere.
So that's, that actually really bothers me.
I know there's, of course, there's going to be untrue things about everybody on the internet, but I'm like, this one freaking article.
Well, so let's let me because we're going to get to the we're going to get to the story about what's censored and compound and all that stuff.
But so you get into this, we're going to, we're going to day job.
It's crazy stuff.
We, we, you know, we sidetrack a little bit, but I feel like there's a lot to be said about that because, you know, we were, we, we knew each other then.
When do you feel like you actually started to like make it?
Like, when is it in a comedian's life where you're like, I'm making it because I've been to your sets and I don't know how you did it.
I would say when I went from featuring to headlining, that was a huge, important step, which my husband really helped me get organized and get my shit together.
It's like, not only do you have to have, like, it's baby steps.
It's like getting the time together and then you got to just like pitch yourself to these clubs.
And that's why the social media part of it really did help because I could say, like, this is my social media following.
This is about how many asses I guess I could get in the seats there.
So that helped in my transition from like feature to headliner.
And then you keep that up.
And then along with like the podcast side of it.
So it's like you're building up your own audience.
And in my mind, making it was not, is not needing a day job, like to be able to like pay for all my expenses with just like what I make from podcasting and comedy.
That to me is making it.
I don't need, I don't need to be like a household name.
I don't need to be like hosting an award show or anything like that.
But so to me, I have to remind myself sometimes like when I complain about little stuff, like, no, like you are living the dream.
Like you are, you're doing it.
So I would say probably, when did I start finally headlining?
I don't know, maybe like it's hard to say what year, at least five or seven years ago.
And then, you know, you start making your own little tour.
So during the six-year period where I'm working for my last boss, when I got the job, I was like, woohoo, I'm in media.
That was 2017.
And I wasn't, and I didn't even go for Trump until 2018.
And that's when I kind of started being radicalized.
And then the pandemic happened.
And then I was like an out-Trump supporter.
And then I went to like one rally in DC, another rally in D.C.
Then I went to January 6th.
And my boss, this is ultimately what led to my firing from the job.
Is like my boss heard me while he was on waiting for his flight to Hawaii for a vacation.
Actually, read a headline about me being on Megan Kelly talking about January 6th because she interviewed, it was one of the first shows she did when she got her show and was interviewing me.
And I was talking about how the media completely had overblown it and they were not being honest about what went on.
And I was saying like, it was no big deal.
January 6th was very super chill.
You know, like, I'm like, I'm like, the part where I, the part of the building where I was at was pretty chill.
Just a lot of people meandering around.
I'm like, there were kids there.
There were dogs in costumes.
There were people in costumes.
The food was great.
Nobody talked about how good the food was at January 6th.
So like, I'm just like messing around talking to Megan Kelly about how like I was saying, it was chill.
January 6th was pretty chill.
And so he hears this while he's waiting for a flight.
So he, he, he just was like, whoop, like, because he knew I was kind of dabbling in stand-up, but I wasn't telling him like, this is my dream.
I'm like, I'm, I'm doing it more and more.
And guess what?
I don't want to be your assistant for the rest of my life, believe it or not.
I don't want to fetch chicken salad sandwiches until I'm dead.
So he heard that.
He was like, whoa, not only is she not a liberal like me, you know, like everybody in the entertainment industry, but she's for Trump.
She's radicalized.
She was at January 6th.
And guess what, dude?
You signed off on those vacation days.
So he wanted to fire me right then and there when he found out he was at January 6th.
But part of my job was to read his emails.
Part of my job was to send emails for him.
Like a lot of executive assistants, you're in their inbox.
You're like, I would have to type up drafts to emails.
And he got to, he's old.
He shouldn't have been working anymore.
But my typical day in the life of my job was like, I type up a draft of an email and then I literally put it back in his drafts so he can look at it and press send.
Because if you were liberal, if you were liberal and you didn't get the, do you think you would have been fired just for that alone or do you think he would have let you off the hook?
No, but I mean, like, I mean, like, it's like, you know, these people that sign themselves out, like, I'm the greatest victim.
I'm the most canceled.
I got like, dude, there are people who are homeless and divorced because they lost their job for not getting vaccinated.
And it's like, you know, I know people that lost their marriage.
It caused, they lost their income.
It caused tensions.
They got divorced.
They lost their house.
And it's like, I literally have a friend in Texas.
That's what happened to him.
And it's like, you know, you're not, your suffering's not more than him.
Guy who got fired from a job, you know, and it might be on a greater scale because of what, you know, is out there, but God doesn't give you greater temptation to that which you are able to withstand.
And so, you know, temptation, you know, they people always say that God doesn't give you more than you can handle.
Yes, he does.
People are literally killed for their beliefs.
I don't think you can handle death.
But what he's saying is he doesn't give you greater temptation as in like what we were going through wasn't actually death.
It was, it was, will you capitulate?
Will you do something morally wrong?
Will you give into the hive mind?
And whether it's you are, you know, got canceled from PayPal or during that time, I think Hermes, the guy who's here, just got canceled from PayPal and a couple of his bank just canceled him.
Look, that's fine.
But are you willing to stand on business, right?
And that's, that's the kind of moral question: is like, do you stand up for yourself?
And we got to get away from this mentality of like, look, comedians suffered, like, Rob Snyder suffered.
And Rob Snyder's Jewish.
So people can say, like, oh, well, Jews don't suffer.
Well, Rob Snyder lost his career because he didn't want to get and he wanted to vote for Trump because he believed it was the right thing to do.
And it's like, you know, is his suffering less than my suffering?
Your suffering?
Not necessarily because, you know, if you lose what's in your life and in your world for your beliefs, that is admirable.
And that's why I like Rob.
Like, do I like bad Jewish people?
No.
Do I think Rob's a bad Jewish guy?
No.
So why would I hate him for being Jewish?
No.
I can actually respect the guy because he did stand on his business, you know?
And I think that kind of goes in a lot of categories.
Like, you lost your job, but here's the flip.
This is what I want to get into.
Not only did you lose your job, but sometimes God uses evil for good.
You know, what the enemy means for evil, God uses it for our good, scripture says.
So, so how did this work out to where you are now?
It was a blessing in disguise because I always, you know, the guilt of my parents and the fact that they paid for a college degree always kind of sitting on my shoulder.
I was always going, you always have to have a job.
You always have to have insurance.
You always have to like, don't ever be a financial burden on anybody.
Just always have some kind of job.
And then when I got fired, I was like, and it was 2021, right?
So still full-blown pandemic times.
I was like, you know what?
Like, I, let's, let's do this.
And then just from talking to my husband, realized, like, yeah, why not do a five-day-a-week podcast?
Why not just like interview as many people as I can?
I mean, like, especially because you have, like, I didn't even have a studio until like the last six months, eight months.
Most of my stuff was over like Zoom during this time.
But just most stand-ups who have a podcast, they just interview other stand-up comedians.
It's like very few, the ones that are like, you know, obviously Rogan and then Theo Vaughan, Tim Dylan, they'll, they'll interview all types of people.
But the average comedian podcast is just very insular, just other comedians at their level.
So I was like, you know what?
I'm going to do a five-day-a week podcast.
I'm going to interview all types of people.
I want to really talk to people who have been canceled, who have been misunderstood by the internet.
So that I was really motivated to talk to kind of like canceled people.
Like, I remember you'd like bring gear in a backpack, show up, go around the Blaze TV studios, like ask people, like just people that were maybe like, like, maybe people would be intimidated because they might be like above your popularity or whatever.
You'd be like, do you want to just go sit in an apartment?
You drive to their like, like their swanky apartment, go like set up in their club room with like Asian people being like, hung shao hotel, like typing on their math homework.
And she just got like set up in this ring light and like, let's make a podcast.
You should talk about how you fit a lot of things into a small bag because right now the dildos at the WNBA learn how to hide those in very strange places so much.
Yeah, just bring equipment and it's like, it's heavy.
It was so heavy.
For a while, I would just use a tote bag.
And then I was like, you idiot, just put this in a roly bag.
Like, why are you killing yourself here?
So I did that.
And then eventually would get better equipment.
And then, like, just in the last, you know, when I got pregnant, I was like, I'm going to have a real studio.
And then did a small like give send go, just raised like five grand to help get equipment because I didn't want to like ask for too much.
So I was like, let me just like ask for some for people.
And then I've had my own studio now like the last, I don't know, six months or so.
And I like, I've hired a like, I have a couple producers.
And so it's really, it's that was such a blessing in disguise to be fired because if I hadn't been fired at that time, I would have just, well, if I had been fired during a different time, like not during the pandemic, I just would have found another day job.
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I want to talk about the funny part.
Obviously, I'm making fun of you.
I think part of being a comedian is you have to let people make fun of you.
I don't make these kind of inappropriate jokes with other females on my shows.
But down the line, I have critics, and a lot of them are fair.
Some of them are confused.
Most of them are wrong.
You have a lot of criticism because on one hand, you're going to get criticized from your own side for being Republican.
On the other hand, you're going to get criticized from comics because, again, you're trying to do your own thing.
You're podcast.
You're not in the clicks.
You weren't in theater in theater club.
And three, you're going to get criticized from the right wing because you're a woman.
Number one, this is honestly true.
They tell you to shut up, get in the kitchen.
And God damn it, it's true.
But also, sorry, I shouldn't use God's name in vain.
On the other hand, you know, you also might be criticizing yourself because now you're like, I have this career, I built it, and I just kind of want to be home with my baby.
Talk about the criticisms in your life, the pushback, and how you've dealt with it from all sides because I think it's your story of resilience.
You're still happy.
You're still healthy.
You haven't gotten, you know, unhealthy physically, spiritually, and you have a good outlook and a nice marriage.
There you go, but I appreciate that this table cuts off my fupa and that the audience can just focus on my boobs, like they should.
So yeah, there were.
There were definitely many uh rounds of, I guess, sort of cancellation or being ostracized.
The first, starting kind of in 2018, when I joined compound media, became an out Trump supporter.
Um went from hosting a monthly show at the Stonewall Inn, which was the uh, it's a national and um like local gay landmark for New York City.
It's where the Stonewall riots originated.
And um, I was doing a show there for six years which, in New York City stand-up show time is like an eternity right.
So I I went from like I didn't want to say I was an ally, because it the time I was hosting a show there was like 20, I don't know the early 2010s, so this is before a lot of this bullshit started, came through and like the trans stuff really was popping off.
Um, so I went from doing a show at the Stonewall, everybody asking me for spots.
It would, the show would be sold out every single month and it was i'd have people from the cellar on, i'd have like up-and-comers.
So it was like a good mixture of like Lgbtq talent but also like regular straight people.
It just was like a fun group.
That that was just like the niche it fell in because that was the venue.
I'm like okay, I can't do a show at the Stone Wall and I have like gay people performing.
So I went from doing that to having a weekly show at Compound Media, because I just sort of gave up the Stonewall show at the time where I got compound because I was like I can't do all this and so I went from like everybody wants a spot to ugh, you're on a right-wing free speech network.
Ugh, we don't like Anthony Cumia, so we don't like you and like a lot of people not answering me back, calling me back, texting me back at that point.
Um, and then had like a dust up with a liberal girl comic who was just bad, mathing me to like anybody she could and since she had better credits at the time, like people believed her and like shit talking me at different festivals and whatnot.
Um, and then definitely, january 6th was a whole nother thing.
There were comics that were in the DMS uh, of people like my facebook friends saying hey, just want to let you know that you're facebook friends with Chrissy Mayer and she was at january 6th, so you probably should unfriend her.
Like who the fuck has the time to like go around messaging other people's like and I?
I remember when someone told me the name of this person, I was like I don't even know who that is, so people trying to get me unfriended on on facebook.
And um, there was somebody going around saying we need to make a list of all the comedians who were at january 6th so we can make sure never to book them again.
Turns out it was literally just like me and Kevin Downey Jr.
It was just like two of us, so it was not much of a list and um, but yeah, definitely like blackball attempts there, for sure, and how to go at compound.
I mean, like I remember I called in from the, the rally from january 6th.
I was like i'm up on top of a construction trailer and i'm getting getting great footage of people and this is fun, and what's?
What's going on?
And they were very supportive and thought it was fun and cool that I was there.
And yeah, just they thought it was great.
Nobody gave me shit from there, of course.
And then so, and I was the same person, same sense of humor, but because I went from show at Stonewall to show at Compound Media, like who started talking to me and stopped talking to me completely changed.
And I was like, all right, I guess this is my new group of people.
I'm like, who gives a shit?
Because I was like, everybody at Compound Media, like these guys all have my sense of humor.
They, they make me laugh so much.
I'm like, these feel like my people and like their fans feel like people I'd be friends with.
So I'm like, this is, this is better anyway for me.
So, and then that was my show there.
It was called The Wet Spot.
I wanted to make it like old school, like when Howard Stern wasn't a sellout, like liberal loser, when he would have like comedians and porn stars on.
So I did that show for from one, since 2019 till last summer, 24.
And I said that's like, what, five years?
I did that show on Compound Media.
And that was, they, they really gave me my first shot at doing podcasts.
So I'll be forever grateful to Anthony Kumia for that and loyal to him for that.
So, and that helped me kind of start my own podcast on YouTube.
So everything like built upon itself.
And so I, once I started to kind of like make my own living outside of needing a day job, I was like, wow, I guess I've made it.
This is really great.
And, and then, you know, get married, got pregnant right away.
Thank God, which was amazing, which was truly amazing.
Like I never, and I never even had like a scare.
A lot of women have like a birth scare or like a, oh, I'm late or like, oh, I have to get an, you know, never had to get any kind of, thank God, I got through my liberal brainwashed years without having to get an abortion or anything like that.
Never even had a scare, but I know that's something like women regret for the rest of their lives.
So I'm so like lucky, you know, I didn't make a mistake like that.
It's like only I can compare to is doing like a Spartan race or like a mudrunner or one of those like 10K races where there's a lot of obstacles and you just don't know until you get through it.
And then you like feel this sense of accomplishment, except for this, you know, more blood and a baby comes out of you.
It's like being a mom now, I mean, people are telling you, hey, why don't you quit?
Like, why don't you, like, what are you doing?
You know, go home.
Like, is it financial reasons you stay up or is it is it just your lifestyle?
I mean, look, you don't have to be a fit of mold, right?
I mean, a lot of people want you to fit a mold, but like I always say this, everyone you know that's in right-wing politics or like comedy or anything, they're all from big cities.
We always say this, everyone's from New York, from LA, from whatever, because people that are content and have families that are rural, they don't ever want to get into this stuff.
They shouldn't because it's four terrible people who, you know, we find ourselves towards God, right, as we go through.
So I kind of want to conclude here.
Like, now that you're a mom, what's keeping you going?
And what do you think the future holds for you?
Because a lot of people criticize you saying, well, if you really do believe what you believe, then why do you do this?
