The Origins
I suppose it all started after I was staying up too late watching clips of Saturday Night Live. I kept thinking to myself “sketch comedy is fun but I don’t think it’s for podcasts”. Then I stopped myself thinking “wait a second, who says sketch comedy isn’t for podcasts?”. when I couldn’t come up with a good answer I decided that I would try making my own sketch comedy podcast. The humor analysis I did in English helped me synthesize my ideas as to what sort of elements I wanted to include and the specific humor techniques I wanted to use as well as specific humorists I wanted to study. I chose both Kate McKinnon for her well-known sketch comedy work on Saturday Night Live and John Oliver for his blue and black humor on HBO’s Last Week Tonight. I really wanted to go in with the black and blue humor even though my script went in another direction. It ended up becoming a sketch comedy sort of repartee with some caricature and banter elements thrown in.
*download the file and listen because it’s not a video so this was the best I could do.
Now for a professional introduction of our hosts.
Boomer to Zoomer Bios
Lauren is a high school senior and grocery store cashier. In this alternate universe she stays up until 3am podcasting without worrying about the repercussions from her mother. On this podcast she ponders the generational divide and pokes fun at Boomers. No Karen is immune.
Linda Farmer is a doctor, turned minister, turned activist. Linda spends her time traveling the country preaching to people about the growing crisis of faith among Americans. She believes she has been told by God that it’s her duty to save the world from the “fires of hell that are melting our ice caps already”. When she’s not preaching Linda can be found on the right-wing app Parler fangirling over Little Miss Patriot.