Chelsea Peretti - yet another RYWHM interview.
I have loved comedian/blogger Chelsea Peretti since I first started reading her. She is dry and funny and writes like she talks. Also I was planning to do a series of 'wommyn' blogger interviews to run while I was on holiday but it didn't work out so I get to show you this one now. It is yet another of my patented flirt pieces and I do so very much hope you like it and thus me.
RYWHM: What made you decide to take up a career in blogging?
Peretti: I used to treat blogging like a hobby. But when I first got 1 million unique visitors in a single day I felt like screw it—CAREER TIME!
RYWHM: How has your life changed since you started blogging?
Peretti: My hair seems more shiny.
RYWHM: Is there a prettier word to replace 'blogging'?
Peretti: Unicorns!
RYWHM: Had any hate mail?
Peretti: Absolutely.
RYWHM: Has there ever been a moment you thought 'fuck it' and wanted to quit?
Peretti: Oh, fuck yes. Absolutely.
RYWHM: How many damn websites do you have, anyways?
Peretti: Hm. Blackpeopleloveus.com, Rejectionline.com, chelseaperetti.com, chelseaperetti.blogspot.com, punrisepunset.blogspot.com , varietyshac.com.
I think that's it. (I also blog to Huffington Post and Modern Pooch sometimes).
RYWHM: Have blog-stalkers turned up at your stand-up gigs?
Peretti: Absolutely. The most frightening was a guy who came to three in a
row...first time it was sweet, second: "Oh hey you again..."(headscratch and then back to my Courvasier) and by the third time, the instant I saw his face I felt instantly frozen inside.
RYWHM: What makes a blog good/bad?
Peretti: Eh, my opinions on this are flighty. I mean my blog goes through
different phases. Sometimes it's more personal other times more political other times super jokey or writerly. I can convince myself I suck pretty easily no matter what the particular bent of a post is, and other times persuade myself I'm a great wit.
I guess I don't like blogs as much that are super celeb-obsessed or catty. I also don't so much love music blogs that are supposed to be really hip. I should have had each point in the previous sentence link to an example on my blog of when I have done these things. Link humor 4 lyfe!
RYWHM: Who do you think are the funniest women on the net?
Peretti: Melanie Griffin. I also like Michelle Collins for funny pix and
Jessica Delfino for scandalous honesty and entertaining comment drama. And Andrea Harner for city life pix, animal pix, and a cute/witty tone. And FITS 4 lyfe! Did I mention the Variety Shac shorts? We're funny in those, I think. My favorites are probably The Headshot, Potluck, and TGIF Danceparty. In conclusion: Hallewood.com.
RYWHM: Are you proud to be a blogger - is it something you would announce loudly at parties? Or do you mumble it like people do when they're into dorky stuff?
Peretti: For the most part, yes, I always announce it loudly at parties. Though there are def. places I would downplay it--ie: everywhere.
RYWHM: Has blogging made your writing funnier/sharper/stranger?
Peretti: My writing has become so sharp that people need to wear protective
goggles to read it or they would literally have their eyeballs gouged out.
RYWHM: Has anyone you know randomly stumbled across your blog?
Peretti: If by "randomly stumbled" you mean intentionally located and read
diligently--then, yes, I believe a girl I went to high school did that. And a boy I went on 2 dates with. Dangling preps 4 lyfe!
RYWHM: Hey, do you think we could ever be friends in real life? I'm quite nice.
Peretti: We cannot be friends in real life but we can be friends in real LYFE! (Starts weaving elaborate friendship bracelet).
RYWHM: Is that too many questions?
Peretti: Feel free to cut some. My suggestions for cuts would be 8 and 12.
RYWHM: You have an incredible brain and I love the way you write. You have quite a devoted fanbase here in Aus. Please do visit soon - we will take good care of you. And not in a creepy way.
Peretti: Fanbase? Grabs suitcase, kicks knee up, cartoonish dashing sound.
PS get on AIM
PPS Find a frivolously wealthy Australian to fly me out, in exchange for nothing.
810 days til the next election.
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i always go to blackpeopleloveus.com when i am feeling a bit blue.
funniest. site. ever.
funny lady.
For a while there I thought she was trying to shake you off but you hung in there like a real terrier!
(Well okay, you emailed her all the questions at once. Still.)
Also: I don't get this 'lyfe' shit.
BlackPeopleLoveUs is a joke site!?! NO FUCKING WAY!!
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Watch out Chelsea: she isn't very nyce.
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Chelsea is the real deal, virtually.
I like her. I thought her sense of humour is proportional to her schnauzer. That's a good thing.
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sweetiepie's links are not funny and definitely NOT worksafe. And made my firewall go apeshit.
i dont think you know what funny means
Blackpeopleloveus.com is perhaps the best thing I have ever seen on the internet that doesn't involve naked women, a masturbating walrus, or a recepie for "magic" brownies.
Ms. Peretti should be given a huge pile of money just for that site. Can you point me to other things that are on the same level comedically.
A million unique visitors? How the fuck does that happen?
Ah, you met a real blog star.
I am genuinely jealous. I'm doing something wrong. Please advise. Visit and advise.
Fits remove both the sweetiepie links.
One link crashed my fucking computer with a virus.
I am not joking. It was that stupid link that was last funny in 1997 when you would open a link to a vast unending series of horrid pictures of torn rectums and penis covered in fecal matter etc.. while that loud voice screams "Hey everybody I'm looking at gay porno!" It was funny circa '97, except you sent me a fucking virus you scab-ridden whore!
Sweetiepie, at the risk of satisfying your desire for attention I will tell you that you are a waste of human life and I only wish I knew who you were so I could take a shit on your coffin after wild dogs tear off your genitals and out of mercy I stab you in the throat with a rusty pitchfork, allowing you to slowly bleed to death and gasp for air while buried alive under a pile of soiled diapers, rotting fish and diseased rats. Fuck you for sending me a virus. I sincerely hope any children you ever have are stillborn.
Jesus loves you.
i am scared of commenting after kranki but i will anyway
im gonna be in melbourne from the 27th till 31st of august and i was wondering if you guys knew of anywhere cool for me to go?
thanks heaps
i don't, i'm uncool and old. i know the playcentres and child-friendly cafes.
sorry
sadly i know the playcentres and child friendly cafes in adelaide, hence why i ned some guidance in the kid free melbourne department
I'm sorry, Little Faerie. I was really mad when I wrote that. The world is a beautiful place. Cue the butterfly, rabbit and puppy parade.
is that parade kind of like what happends at the end of the sonic levels when you jump up and land on the big button?
and um, does anyone have ideas where i could hang out? im kinda cool...i have a hello kitty vibrator remember
I suggest you walk into any cafe in melbourne. All anyone does there is sip frapacinos (or are they so last season?) and, with their austudy cheque in one hand and a cell phone in the other, bitch about how the australian government is ruining our nation because a few good men died.
Melanie GRIFFITH.
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