About WOMEN WRITE FUNNY Celebrating Women Keeping Humor Alive in Dire Times
Host Didi Balle interviews funny female writers, performers, directors, composers, stand-ups and sit-downs about their lives as Comedy Creators.
Women Write Funny is dedicated to kick-ass funny femmes who share Thalia’s DNA (Thalia: Goddess of Comedy).
Our comedy-star line-up features one guest per podcast with special live performances of their latest creations. Join us as we explore the serious biz of making funny.
WOMEN WRITE FUNNY humor spectrum: snark 2 slapstick, satire 2 subversive, witty 2 surreal, deadpan 2 dark, raging 2 ridiculous.
Host/Writer: Didi Balle. Music: Leslie Doc Steinweiss. Cover Art: Hernan Braberman. Trailer: Special guests: Karen Morgan. Antoinette Lavecchia. Produced by The Flying Poodle Ranch Production Co.
EP 12: WOMEN WRITE FUNNY BEST OF SEASON ONE with Host Didi Balle and Guests: Antoinette LaVecchia, Karen Morgan, Lynn N. Silver, Brooklyn Dicent & Kate Abbruzzese
We’re celebrating our Women Write Funny BEST OF SEASON ONE to mark the end of our first season! Check out the highlights from my interviews with amazing brilliant funny kickass comedy creators who all share the same DNA as Thalia, Goddess of Comedy. Juicy excerpts from:
Ep. 1: “Cooking Up Comedy” award-winning Off-B-way playwright/star
ANTOINETTE LAVECCHIA
Ep. 3: “Not Caring After 50” Stand-up Star and Mega Comedienne
KAREN MORGAN
Ep. 5: “What’s Not to Like?” playwright, actor & web sitcom creator
LYNN N. SILVER
Eps. 7/11: Happiness Coach, Corporate Shapeshifter & Comedy Wild Card:
BROOKLYN DICENT
Ep. 9: “Sending Up Shakespeare” with Red Bull winning-playwright gifted actor
KATE ABBURZZESE
25 Aug 2021
Women Write Funny: Interview with HAPPINESS COACH & CONSULTANT BROOKLYN DICENT. PART TWO. Host: Didi Balle
PART TWO: Brooklyn Dicent is the world’s only CHO “Chief Happiness Officer” and founder of The Happiness Consulting Company whose bottom line is to bring joy, laughter and conscious-raising comedy to corporate America. Join Host Didi Balle as she interviews Brooklyn in PART TWO of a wise cray off-the-wall interview.
Brooklyn never stops honing her comedic gifts as a performer, improviser, stand-up, former DJ, intuitive healer/humorist. She’s an admitted COMEDY AGENT OF CHANGE. In PART TWO you’ll learn about her mission to interact with audiences in positive, joyful ways to get people to “elevate their thinking, elevate their energy to create something.”
What’s a “Conscious Comedian?” A “Curandera Comedian?” And how Brooklyn uses humor to open hearts and awaken audiences. PLUS find out why “gay people are the funniest and happiest people and on the planet." And why Puerto Ricans are the world’s gay culture. (Hint: Whether protest or fiesta it’s gonna be a party with fun, congas, food trucks, clanging pots, music, dancing, and yeah, laughter).
Tune in to my interview with Happiness Coach and Consultant, Brooklyn Dicent who believes the key to being happy in life is to be creating.
Listen to Episode 7 for PART ONE of my interview with Brooklyn Dicent!
Listen. Learn. Laugh. Women Write Funny The Podcast
18 Aug 2021
IS YOUR THERAPIST A FLAMING NARCISSIST? A new Interview With My Psyche. With Host and Author DIDI BALLE.
This week's Interview With My Psyche:
IS YOUR THERAPIST A FLAMING NARCISSIST?
Written and Read by Didi Balle
I usually Interview My Psyche in the middle of the night but once a week in the light of day I delve into my psyche with a bona-fide therapist.
This week’s Interview With My Psyche asks what few dare: “Is My Therapist a Flaming Narcissist?”
Hear how I made the scary discovery during a Zoom therapy session just last week.
Can you imagine your therapist falling asleep while you’re telling him/her your dream and then, when he/she wakes up, he/she tells you his/her dream and asks you to analyze it? Peak weird? Nope. That’s just the start!
11 Aug 2021
Women Write Funny Ep. 9: Sending Up Shakespeare with Writer and Actor Kate Abbruzzese. With Host Didi Balle.
This week I interview thirty-something Brooklyn-based actor, playwright and comic illustrator, Kate Abbruzzese, a grad of NYU Tisch School of the Arts Grad Acting Program.
Kate’s comic influencer is a genuine classic: William Shakespeare. She's inspired by the Bard to reimagine his plays like McBeth, As You Like It and The Tempest … cherrypicking her fav characters and setting them in contemporary sitcom-ish scenes exploring their day to day lives from the serious to the mundane.
Her short (10 min.) plays are quirky, serious and inexpliquably funny. Her Shakespearean-based characters speak, act, and think like regular peeps from the 21st century … and can’t help but reveal what’s going on in their heads/hearts … in ways the Bard never imagined.
Her first 10-minute Shakespeare send-ups earned Kate first prize in the Red Bull playwriting contest twice. Their success has inspired her to expand “The McBeths” (set in 1950s Scotland) to a full-length comedy/drama.
What’s the fine line between comedy and drama?
The connection between honesty and humor? Find out:
LISTEN. LEARN. LAUGH.
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4 Aug 2021
Interview With My Psyche: DIARY OF A POODLE AU PAIR. With WOMEN WRITE FUNNY Host and Writer Didi Balle
This week is about writing memoirs. Or not. Mines called: “MEMOIRS I’LL NEVER WRITE” and it’s full of stuff any self-respecting author would never include in their enviable life story. If you’re interested in making someone grin or laugh the first thing to go are literary aspirations, which is why I prefer writing entertaining stories from an unexpected point of view like Disney meets peyote. Herewith the first chapter of my anti-memoir:
DIARY OF A POODLE AU PAIR
Yes It’s shallow, and a far cry from The Diary of Anne Frank but sometimes something shallow and silly is the perfect antidote for apocalyptic times.
Wonder what it’s like to have two massive standard poodles with intellects superior to your own who assume you’re their personal Au Pair? Find out! Meet OSCAR and SASHA my two canine companions who without my knowledge hired me as their personal au pair.
Listen. Learn. Laugh.
Women Write Funny The Podcast
28 Jul 2021
HAPPINESS COACH & CONSULTANT: BROOKLYN DICENT brings laughter and conscious-raising comedy to corporate America. Part I with WOMEN WRITE FUNNY Host & Writer Didi Balle.
Brooklyn Dicent is the world’s only CHO “Chief Happiness Officer” and founder of The Happiness Consulting Company whose bottom line is to bring joy, laughter and conscious-raising comedy to corporate America.
How much better would it be with thousands of CHOs instead of CEOs? What if companies like Apple, GM and Amazon had a CHO whose mission would not be to rocket off in a giant metal penis to their personal fame and glory but instead would be focused on uplifting employees by facilitating collaboration and creativity with bad-ass inspirational, interactive comedy? ENTER: BROOKLYN DICENT!
Fascinating listen to a grounded out-of-the-box comedian whose mind is a combo of a petri dish and an incendiary device. She explodes with on target takes about the why/how/what-ifs of seemingly effortless comedy performance which always includes riffing and reading the room.
PART 1 OF 2 INTERVIEWS
14 Jul 2021
Interview With My Psyche: EMBRACE YOUR INNER SLOTH. Host & Humorist Didi Balle explains why Laziness is a Secret Weapon for Success.
Join WOMEN WRITE FUNNY PODCAST host and humorist Didi Balle in this laid-back rant about anti-sloth propaganda. Learn some cray scientific facts about sloths. How they share common traits with writers. And why the Bible has zero respect for these funny creatures. If you're hell-bent on discovering why Laziness aka SLOTH is the Secret Weapon for Success, tune in.
LISTEN. LEARN. LAUGH.
Did you know that sloths, those crescent-grinning creatures who like to hang upside down in trees munching on tender leaves, have survived for 62 MILLION years, longer than any other mammal on earth because of their strategic survival secret called sloth aka laziness? Is the so-called Deadly Sin “Sloth Lifestyle” a vice or a virtue?
6 Jul 2021
Women Write Funny Ep. 5: WHAT'S NOT TO LIKE? Lynn N. Silver Slays Anxiety & Humor w/fellow Tisch Grad Acting Alum Writer& Host Didi Balle
Women Write Funny The Podcast: Episode Five
“WHAT’S NOT TO LIKE?” with Actor, Playwright & Thalia Clone
LYNN N. SILVER
speaks with fellow NYU Tisch Grad Acting Alum Host & Writer Didi Balle
LYNN N. SILVER Creator, actor, writer of “Dinner with Mom” a YouTube sit-com about a Jewish mother who knows no boundaries and her daughter who can’t live without them. Based on Lynn N. Silver’s play “Rules” (performed by Olympia Dukakis playing Lynn’s on-stage mother with Lynn playing the role of daughter).
Are there times when humor runs away and hides and can’t be found? Can "funny" or "timing" be taught? Is making people laugh the ultimate weapon against anxiety? Tune in:
Listen. Learn. Laugh.
Women Write Funny The Podcast
29 Jun 2021
Interview with My Psyche: "HUSBAND OR HANDYMAN? A Philosophical Query" by Host&Writer Didi Balle
Get those endorphins going with this week’s 9 MINUTE WOMEN WRITE FUNNY PODCAST
Episode 4: Interview with My Psyche: “HUSBAND OR HANDYMAN? A Philosophical Query”
A comic monologue written and read for you by Did Balle
Here's the thing:
Divorced women like me often get asked by well-meaning divorced friends:
"Do you think you'll ever seriously date or marry again? "
I tell them: "For me it all boils down to a simple question:
"Husband or Handyman?"
By the end of Episode 4 you'll know my answer!
22 Jun 2021
Standup Star & Comedienne KAREN MORGAN: "NOT CARING AFTER 50" lets it rip with Host&Writer Didi Balle
If anyone can redeem the name “Karen” ... KAREN MORGAN can!
Although who needs redemption when your DryBar Comedy Special “After 50 You Just Stop Caring” has nearly 2 MILLION downloads on YouTube, 3 MILLION followers on Facebook, and more “likes” than the entire population of Bangor, Maine?
WOMEN WRITE FUNNY PODCAST Host and Writer Didi Balle interviews the seriously funny KAREN MORGAN about making people laugh, perfecting comic timing, using her husband and kids as comic fodder, and what it's like for a former Southern Belle to live in rural Maine where moose rival mint juleps.
KAREN MORGAN is a bona-fide Comedy Influencer although she's loathe to admit it. How did she become a stand-up phenomenon after starting her career in her 40s? And what does she think about these amaze-ball stats?
In addition to being a badass lawyer (warning: never steal one of her jokes), Karen’s a national touring comic with sell-out shows, a producer of comedy shows, a triathlete, a mom, a wife, and a former Georgia peach who escaped to Maine but has yet to meet a moose face-to-face. Always in search of new comedy material, she pursues random moose encounters on her early morning runs.
When I asked if her next comedy special is called: “Trawling in Lobster Boats with Comedians” she denied it ... but I wonder.
Tune in. Find Out. Laugh.
Women Write Funny The Podcast
DIDI BALLE. HOST-WRITER-PRODUCER
15 Jun 2021
Women Write Funny Podcast: "Interview With My Psyche" with Host&Writer Did Balle. This week: "When a Joke is Not A Joke"
Did you know The Mayo Clinic endorses Women Write Funny The Podcast?!?
“Laughter is good for you over the long term. Laughter may relieve and ease pain by causing the body to produce its own natural painkillers." _ Mayo Clinic Staff
Get those endorphins going with this week’s SEVEN MINUTE Women Write Funny Podcast Episode 2: “Interview with My Psyche.”
This week’s comic monologue written/performed by Host Didi Balle explores when a joke is not a joke. You know how they tell you to never lie on your resume? What if it's a JOKE NOT A LIE but no one gets the joke and thinks it real-life, like your real-life and they want to hire you not for any REAL accomplishments but for the JOKE job they think is real!
8 Jun 2021
Women Write Funny: Cooking Up Comedy with Broadway actor-comediene-writer Antoinette LaVecchia and Host Didi Balle
Nourish your spirit, soul and funny bone with Antoinette LaVecchia in Cooking Up Comedy.
In the season opening of Women Write Funny The Podcast, Host Didi Balle chows down with the Fab, Funny and Amazing Antoinette.
Hear about Antoinette’s earliest memories play-acting on an apartment balcony in Italy for passersby …. her later discovery at large family gatherings where she’d act out scenes from family life imitating her mother and brother … realizing before long she had a secret super power: The Ability To Make People Laugh.
Any surprise she’d grow up to receive rave reviews for her performances on Broadway and regional theaters? Plus write and star in an award-winning one-woman Off Broadway comedy “How To Be A Good Italian Daughter (In Spite of Myself)?”
At the close of our interview Antoinette performs live an amazing new monologue from her upcoming play, “Village Stories,” a crazy captivating collage of characters and stories from her Italian ancestry.
Spoiler Alert: Antoinette Divulges A Closely Held Family Secret: Her beloved Italian Mother's secret recipe for spaghetti/red sauce (with or without red meat for you vegans).
Face it: Antoinette LaVecchia is LA BELLA COMEDIA
27 Apr 2021
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Welcome to the insane inspiring world of WOMEN WRITE FUNNY. Every week Host DIDI BALLE interviews funny femmes who share the same DNA as Thalia, the Goddess of Comedy. Experience the gene pool of women who can't help but write and act funny. Meet today's Comedy Creators: Writers. Actors. Scriptwriters. Playwrights. Directors. Composers. Stand-ups. Sit-downs. Be part of the LOL community where joy and irreverence are instruments of change. Who said revolution can't be fun?
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