<![CDATA[Beyond Parody with Bridget Phetasy: Another Round]]>https://www.phetasy.com/s/another-round-with-bridget-phetasyhttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NrQY!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F89da843c-d8fe-400c-9173-1f85a616efd7_339x339.pngBeyond Parody with Bridget Phetasy: Another Roundhttps://www.phetasy.com/s/another-round-with-bridget-phetasySubstackWed, 20 May 2026 20:50:35 GMT<![CDATA[The End of An Era]]>https://www.phetasy.com/p/the-end-of-an-erahttps://www.phetasy.com/p/the-end-of-an-eraMon, 09 Feb 2026 21:01:40 GMTWe filmed this the day before Maggie left to drive back to RI. We’re just processing the fact that we won’t be living down the street from each other for the first time since 2003.

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]]><![CDATA[Let's Catch Up!]]>https://www.phetasy.com/p/another-round-17https://www.phetasy.com/p/another-round-17Wed, 02 Jul 2025 21:01:54 GMTBridget & Maggie catch up on everything they’ve been doing, take stock of where they are now and make plans for the rest of the year. Plus Bridget’s classic “Band-Aid story”.

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]]><![CDATA[Bridget Confronts Her Younger Self]]>https://www.phetasy.com/p/another-round-16https://www.phetasy.com/p/another-round-16Thu, 10 Apr 2025 03:00:12 GMTPeople who don’t have kids should not weigh in on parenting and the end of the Girl Boss.

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]]><![CDATA[Bridget's Facebook Meltdown & The Transition to Substack]]>https://www.phetasy.com/p/another-round-15https://www.phetasy.com/p/another-round-15Thu, 06 Mar 2025 02:01:18 GMTBridget and Maggie discuss the subscriber move from Locals to Substack. And Bridget shares her Facebook meltdown story.

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]]><![CDATA[Experiencing the Joe Rogan Experience]]>https://www.phetasy.com/p/experiencing-the-joe-rogan-experiencehttps://www.phetasy.com/p/experiencing-the-joe-rogan-experienceWed, 12 Feb 2025 19:01:18 GMTBridget describes what it’s like to go on JRE.

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]]><![CDATA[Bridget's Introduction to They/Them]]>https://www.phetasy.com/p/another-round-13https://www.phetasy.com/p/another-round-13Thu, 30 Jan 2025 01:01:36 GMTAnd other random stories, including Trump’s America, her time on a Goat Farm, and what’s next in the gender ideology movement.

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]]><![CDATA[Will Phetasy Survive to see 2025?]]>https://www.phetasy.com/p/another-round-12https://www.phetasy.com/p/another-round-12Sat, 14 Dec 2024 02:00:47 GMTIt’s our final Round of 2024. Maggie and I analyze surviving a make-or-break year for the business and look forward to building in 2025. We can’t do any of this without you, our supporters, and for that, I am eternally grateful. You eclectic mix of rascals are what motivates me to keep going. You are a the “why” — even when I’m not exactly sure how.

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]]><![CDATA[Bridget Considers The Unthinkable]]>https://www.phetasy.com/p/another-round-11https://www.phetasy.com/p/another-round-11Wed, 25 Sep 2024 01:20:08 GMTHormones, a double moon, Trump, burning down your life, and our eternal branding problem. Another Round is back!

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]]><![CDATA[What it's like to bomb]]>https://www.phetasy.com/p/what-its-like-to-bombhttps://www.phetasy.com/p/what-its-like-to-bombMon, 09 Sep 2024 17:00:21 GMT(I dedicate this piece to Adrienne Iapalucci and Dave Landau. Thanks for talking me down off the ledge. They are great friends and monster comedians. If you have the chance to go see them live—you should.)

Stand-up is a numbers game. Eventually, you’ll bomb—and I had it coming. It was bound to happen because it hasn’t happened to me in a long time. Certainly not since I started doing stand-up again after a break where I considered quitting it forever. (I’ve been documenting my return to comedy with video of my rickety-ass stand-up sets for founding members of Phetasy.com just to show people if you love something, it’s never too late to start over again.)

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Bombing is a visceral cringe you can’t shake until you chase the dragon and get back on stage.

A dear friend who is now gone, Gary Garfinkel, said to me back in 2011 after he watched me absolutely eat shit in the Main Room at the Comedy Store: “It’s not the comedians who keep going after they kill who make it—it’s the ones who get back on stage after a set like that.”

I considered quitting again after this recent bomb on my long drive home. My drive to Austin is at least 37 minutes long. Which means I have 37 minutes to either pump myself up or get in my head on my way to a show, and I have 37 minutes to beat myself up on the way home. At no point do I ever pat myself on the back. I never ruminate on the wins.

My interior monologue on the drive home went something like this:

What am I doing with my life? I’m forty-five years old. I have a toddler for crying out loud. I’m too old to be starting over again. I’m kidding myself and not in a way that’s funny or cute. I’m the joke. And I’m a fraud and an embarrassment. I left my kid and my husband behind on Father’s Day for a five minute set. They love me. Why do I need love from strangers? Maybe I should just drive into the quarry.

You get the idea. It went on like this for a while. 37 minutes to be exact. And I’m writing this because it’s better than lying in bed, staring at the ceiling, replaying my set over and over in slow motion like a field goal kicker who missed the winning kick; breaking down everything I did wrong and beating myself up for all the rookie mistakes I made.

What’s funny about bombing is that it doesn’t matter that I killed for 15 minutes the night before. Or that I’ve recently had the humbling experience of opening for heroes of mine like the great Colin Quinn and Dave Landau. The bomb is all-consuming. It’s temporarily blinding.

Bombing makes you feel green and it was a reminder to me that in some ways, I am still green, still shaking the rust off, still not in control of the stage. It’s also a reminder that this is price of doing stand up. Public humiliation. Everyone bombs. The difference between being green and not is that I can identify most everything I did wrong, misstep by painful, humiliating misstep.

Just thinking about this set makes me want to curl up in the shower and attempt to wash off the stench of shame.

So let’s start, shall we?

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]]><![CDATA[The Post Rogan Working Vacation Update]]>https://www.phetasy.com/p/another-round-episode-10https://www.phetasy.com/p/another-round-episode-10Tue, 30 Jul 2024 18:48:20 GMTBridget talks about her latest appearance on Rogan, taking a working vacation, and her advice for running a rinky dink small business.

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]]><![CDATA[Bridget Finally Accepts She's A Clown]]>https://www.phetasy.com/p/another-round-episode-9https://www.phetasy.com/p/another-round-episode-9Wed, 24 Jul 2024 17:01:48 GMTBridget describes opening for Colin Quinn at Comedy Mothership, embracing being a comedian and a creative, all the projects she wants to tackle, and how art brings us together.

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]]><![CDATA[Bridget, Obama & George Clooney]]>https://www.phetasy.com/p/another-round-8https://www.phetasy.com/p/another-round-8Thu, 11 Jul 2024 00:39:12 GMTBridget talks the George Clooney letter, Obama, and how the Democratic party and media are like a clique of teenage girls turning on one of their own.

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]]><![CDATA[Bridget's Debate Analysis]]>https://www.phetasy.com/p/another-round-7https://www.phetasy.com/p/another-round-7Sat, 29 Jun 2024 19:39:24 GMTBridget’s incisive and hilarious analysis of Thursday’s debate.

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]]><![CDATA[Bridget & Maggie Horrify A Zoomer]]>https://www.phetasy.com/p/another-round-6https://www.phetasy.com/p/another-round-6Sat, 15 Jun 2024 16:01:15 GMTBridget & Maggie describe the look of horror on a Zoomer kid’s face when he realizes they have absolutely no idea what they’re doing.

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]]><![CDATA[Bridget's First Time At The Comedy Mothership]]>https://www.phetasy.com/p/another-round-5https://www.phetasy.com/p/another-round-5Sat, 08 Jun 2024 16:01:14 GMTBridget describes her first time on stage at the Comedy Mothership. It’s a miracle she even got out of the car.

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]]><![CDATA[We Have A Branding Problem]]>https://www.phetasy.com/p/another-round-episode-4https://www.phetasy.com/p/another-round-episode-4Sat, 01 Jun 2024 19:00:58 GMTBridget & Maggie talk about wind, solar flares, tornadoes, risk assessment, robot nannies, Peloton, being basic, our branding problem, and writing books.

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]]><![CDATA[Recognizing Toxic Insecurity]]>https://www.phetasy.com/p/another-round-episode-3https://www.phetasy.com/p/another-round-episode-3Sat, 25 May 2024 15:00:58 GMT** Apologies for the sub-standard audio quality in this episode. The sound board audio was lost, so we had to do our best with secondary audio.

Bridget and Maggie discuss dating, why it’s so hard to find someone, when the last time they felt supremely confident was, and the insidious nature of toxic insecurity.

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]]><![CDATA[Bridget Reads Her Meth Journal]]>https://www.phetasy.com/p/another-round-episode-2https://www.phetasy.com/p/another-round-episode-2Fri, 17 May 2024 15:01:16 GMTBridget recently discovered a journal from her days of trying meth when she was 19. She reads some excerpts which are heartbreakingly hilarious and reflects on that time in her life when she was both very lost, yet oddly confident.

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]]><![CDATA[Bridget's Dissident Dialogues Experience]]>https://www.phetasy.com/p/another-round-with-bridget-phetasyhttps://www.phetasy.com/p/another-round-with-bridget-phetasySat, 11 May 2024 15:01:21 GMTShe was worried it would be a disaster. Now find out how it actually went. Bridget dishes on her experience as a speaker/comic at Dissident Dialogues in New York - what was good, what was bad, what she’d change for next year, and what one self-proclaimed “crazy stalker” fan offered her.

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