The Comedy Point is kicking off The Hottest Month of Summer with the Hottest Guests! Tune in this Tuesday for our featured guest Kelly Carlin, as she just returned to the states from her one woman show in the, “Just For Laughs,” Comedy Festival in Montreal. Check out the review on her show!
Follow her on Twitter @kelly_carlin,
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Her Podcast: Waking from the American Dream Download Here on iTunes
And visit Kelly’s website!
About Kelly:
As a young girl, Kelly Carlin showed her many gifts early on – from writing and performing (her Ethel Merman imitation was quite good for an eight year old) to fostering wisdom far beyond her years. Well, someone had to keep the “counter-culture” and all it’s party favors from killing her parents Brenda and George Carlin.
Kelly began her showbiz life working in TV production for her mother and father on various shows for HBO (read – production assistant who does all the Xeroxing). In 1993, at the not-so-ripe age of 30, she graduated from UCLA, Magna Cum Laude with a B.A. in Communications Studies (no she was not stupid, it’s just that she had a few panic attacks, a crazy first husband, and what felt like the weight of the world on her shoulders for a few years). While at UCLA, Kelly discovered her voice as a writer, which lead her to a brief career in writing for film and TV with her writing partner and husband Robert McCall where they penned the Rose McGowan b-movie thriller “Devil in the Flesh,” and an episode of Fox’s The George Carlin Show.
In the late 1990s, after she was pretty sure that mainstream showbiz was not her cup of tea, she pursued her craft through various media such as writing/producing/hosting “Lost in LA LA Land” on the earliest online comedy channel Comedynet, and writing/performing her one-woman show “Driven To Distraction” about her tumultuous childhood and her mother’s recent death.
In 2001 after two decades in “the biz”, Kelly stepped away to pursue her love of Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung and mythology and received her masters in Jungian Depth Psychology. She thought she might become a therapist, but then after a few years away from writing and performing, her desire to be on a stage and yell the word “fuck” kept gnawing at her, and so she decided to follow the call of the stage once again.
Kelly is currently busy with numerous projects. She hosts her weekly radio show “Waking from the American Dream” at newdissidentradio.comwhere she converses with comedians, authors, visionaries and artists about the comedy and tragedy of life, while also writing and performing personal essays for audiences all over. She interviewed a few legendary comedians for Laugh.com‘s On Comedy CD series, and is having a blast talent producing for Showtime Network’s The Green Room with Paul Provenza. And if that wasn’t enough, she is touring her one woman show A Carlin Home Companion beginning the fall of 2011.
Follow her on Twitter @kelly_carlin,
Like Kelly on Facebook
Her Podcast: Waking from the American Dream Download Here on iTunes
And visit Kelly’s website!
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