{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Everything's Funny With Helen Keaney","title":"#5 - Vanessa Graddick","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3892,"description":"Vanessa Graddick is a stand-up comedian, TV producer, and author from St. Paul, Minnesota. She is a producer on Byron Allen’s Comics Unleashed, the late-night stand-up comedy talk show now airing on CBS, and before that she produced Funny You Should Ask. She also produces the podcast Say What You Mean with Aida Rodriguez, was a Top Ten finalist in NBC’s Stand Up for Diversity search, and has worked the road with Loni Love.\n\nHelen and Vanessa first met when Helen taped Comics Unleashed.  In this episode, Vanessa gives listeners a rare look behind the scenes: how comics actually get booked, why a referral from another comedian beats a manager’s submission, and the one thing that gets a comic quietly crossed off the list. They get into why a seven-minute set is harder than 45 minutes, why Vanessa hates comedy competitions, how clubs have pushed ticket sales onto the comedians, and her take on all those cluttered AI comedy posters. Vanessa also tells the story of the day her mom’s cancer diagnosis drove her to her first open mic, and what a fellow comic whispered to her before she went on. Plus: her dream dark-comedy cop show, and Helen’s pitch to play the dead naked lady in it.\n\nFind Vanessa:\nWebsite: vanessagraddick.com\nInstagram: @VanessaGraddick\nHer affirmation journal I Don’t Want to Be Strong... Today is on Amazon","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/zsZLo0m8wGZtkedFv6uloVatTUqetp3G1GUJnmnR3ns/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9mZjY0/MTMzZjNjYmM0OTBi/Y2Y1YzkwZjdkNzEy/OGJjNS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}