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On this episode of Speak Up, stand-up comics Marie Faustin and Marcia Belsky sit down for a conversation backstage. They share their experiences becoming comedians and how anxiety plays into how they operate. Watch this episode to get to know these women in comedy!

Speak Up was produced in partnership with Comedy Central to highlight women working in comedy.

Watch more from Marie Faustin & Marcia Belsky in Taking The Stand on Comedy Central Stand Up:
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Transcript
00:00I like our dressing room here where we were asked to send photos.
00:05I sent photos of my family.
00:07And I sent pictures of myself.
00:08Of yourself, right?
00:09Well, you know, this is what's important to me.
00:11Yeah.
00:11Me bald, me with hair, me in the dark, me in sequined pants.
00:16As a rich white woman.
00:17As a rich white woman.
00:29Hey, Marsha.
00:30Hey.
00:31Last night was fun.
00:32You crushed.
00:32Oh, thank you so much.
00:33Your set was so good.
00:34My friend loved your set.
00:35So I'm remixing my look a little bit.
00:38I shaved all my hair off last year and I bleached it on Sunday.
00:42I walked into the salon and I was like,
00:44Make me look like Jada Pinkett Smith.
00:49And the hairdresser was like, Jaden Smith?
00:54Say no more, fam.
00:57So now I look like Will Smith's sexy son.
01:01Okay.
01:02Remember when NASA sent a woman to space for only six days
01:08And they gave her 100 tampons.
01:16100 tampons.
01:23And they asked, will that be enough?
01:25Last night was fun because it really changes the vibe
01:28when the audience is there to laugh and not to hate you.
01:31Yeah.
01:32Because like sometimes stand-up audiences, I swear,
01:33will like come out just to be like...
01:35To be like, make me laugh.
01:37I would love to see it.
01:38I would love to see it.
01:39I've never laughed once in my life.
01:40But I think when you're good at what you're doing on stage
01:43and it looks so effortless, people watching you are like,
01:46Oh, I'm funny too!
01:47Exactly.
01:48And that's where hecklers are born.
01:52So do you write your premises down in your phone?
01:56No.
01:56I always say if somebody like found my premises,
01:58I would be humiliated.
02:01Oh, let me see, friend.
02:02Let's humiliate you in a moment.
02:04I wonder if they're that bad right now.
02:06Okay.
02:06Okay.
02:07Harvey Weinstein.
02:08Some topical material in here.
02:09Have you seen him in like his walker?
02:11Yeah.
02:11I love that like he's basically being like,
02:14I have no strength without the rape.
02:16Wow.
02:17I got all my power from the rape.
02:18Oh my God.
02:19Leave it in there.
02:20Yes.
02:21People who smoked into their 80s know that God wanted them here.
02:25Yeah.
02:26The confidence they sort of exude.
02:28Anytime they do like a news story on like the oldest woman in New York or whatever,
02:32she's like 112 and they're like, what's your secret?
02:34And she's like, I don't eat vegetables and I smoke weed.
02:38Yeah.
02:38And people are like, oh.
02:39Yeah.
02:39And she always says she like never got married or like divorced early.
02:43Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:44Ugh.
02:45Twitter is amazing.
02:46I wrote Twitter is amazing in there.
02:48Yeah.
02:49Twitter is amazing.
02:52So you don't write your jokes in your phone?
02:54No.
02:54Well, have like an outline of what I think I'm going to talk about.
02:58Yeah.
02:58And my memory is so bad that I'll go out there and everything's gone.
03:03So I'm just like, sir, those the shoes you wore tonight?
03:07And I just, and people think I'm mean and it's just, you know, my anxiety, you know?
03:11Interesting.
03:12Wait, you have anxiety?
03:13Mean people have anxiety too.
03:15That's like a real thing.
03:17Interesting.
03:18You know, it's my, it's my shield.
03:19Uh-huh.
03:19Right, right.
03:20Also, I'm just mean.
03:21Well, what do you have on your phone?
03:23Can I see anything?
03:24I got some dating apps.
03:25Let me see.
03:26My profile says, I'm just here to have a good time.
03:29Maybe get on somebody's boat.
03:32That's perfect.
03:34Artist.
03:35Ooh.
03:35Cause I don't like putting comedian on there.
03:37Lives in New York.
03:37Cause then they like.
03:38I cannot put comedian on dating app.
03:40It's so bad.
03:41Like you can't.
03:42Anytime I match with a guy and he's like, oh, I saw you perform at such and such.
03:46Yeah.
03:47I immediately dry up.
03:49And then I unmatch them.
03:51Yeah.
03:51I don't, I don't like when people know more about me than I know about them.
03:55No.
03:55I think it's creepy.
03:56It, it definitely be weird if they're like going out of their way to like find you.
03:59I don't like the Instagram DMs usually.
04:01Unless it's like a friend of a friend and it's not like a fan thing.
04:04Men don't slide in my DMs on Instagram.
04:06Cause you're too pretty.
04:07Apparently I'm intimidating.
04:08Cause you're too pretty.
04:08Which is crazy to me.
04:10They're probably scared you're gonna screenshot it.
04:12And like put it on.
04:13And I always do.
04:16I matched with a dude once that we were having a conversation.
04:18We were supposed to meet up and he was like, he was like, wait, whoa, wow.
04:24Uh, I just saw you on Comedy Central.
04:27He was like, forget the date.
04:28We should be friends.
04:30And I was like.
04:30See, that's what it turns into too.
04:32Is they're like, can I pick your brain about how to get him to accommodate?
04:34Yeah.
04:35No, it turns people weird because they see you being funny.
04:39I feel like, especially if you're a woman and they're like, I should have done that.
04:44Like, and it's like, well, it's too late.
04:47I think for me, being a female comic means people will come up to you after the show
04:51and be like, wow.
04:53Yeah.
04:54Wow.
04:55You were really funny.
04:56You were my favorite.
04:58She talked good.
04:59Yeah.
04:59She talked real good.
05:01They come up to you after and they're like, you can walk and talk and hold a microphone.
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