Big Guy is both the name of Rachel Feinstein's new stand-up special and the unromantic nickname her firefighter husband gave her. What makes “Big Guy” such a good fit? Before you rush to Netflix to watch her fun new hour, here's everything you need to know about Rachel Feinstein, from Rachel Feinstein herself...
“When I was at my old house, like before we moved when I was seven, watching The Tracey Ullman Show was my only memory there. Putting on my mom's robe and doing that thing she did at the end of her show. She would come out and say: 'Go home, everyone go home!' I thought she was great.”
Director: Gillian LaubStar: Rachel Feinstein
“She did voices, and I remember doing voices when she was in kindergarten. She made something called Bagel Face for a laugh. People demanded the Bagel Face. “She played characters and impersonated people, and that's what I liked from a very young age.”
“My second grade teacher was very cool. I was a terrible student, devastated by ADD and my hair was like a nest. She would let me sit under her desk to try to get me to work. And then she would take me to the front of the class and make me do my little imitations.”
“I remember coming home after school and doing impressions for my parents, and my mom was laughing. And then she would do it to the person, and I remember my mom explaining to me, 'No, you can do it with us, but you can't do it with them!' But that's where the party is: I have to show him. I can do them. 'No, you just come home and make fun of us.'”
“I did stand-up for the first time in a bar on the Upper East Side. The problem was that the microphone wasn't even aimed at my mouth, but rather diagonally in front of my face. I never stopped talking and they were waving me off stage, but I was like, 'That was fantastic! They told me: 'No, you lasted five minutes too long and no one could hear you because the microphone wasn't even pointed.' Your face'. I loved her, although no one heard anything.”
“My mother has an important presence in my monologue, but in reality it is a collective impression of all of her friends: I combined all of her voices. “They are the kind of liberals who write angry letters about racism that are published in The Post and then keep them on their refrigerators.”
“My mom is always writing a letter. That's how you connect with my mom. If you're going to talk about your personal feelings, she's not there. But if you want to talk about racial suffering, she will listen to you and crawl over to you to talk about racial suffering.”
“I joke about my mom wanting to be anything but white, but in her opinion, that gives her street cred.”
“People always say to my husband, 'What's it like to be a punchline?' It must be hard". He stays outside after my show so people can tell him that. But my husband is emotionally a desert. He is a firefighter; he does not care. He finds it funny to say those ridiculous things and they end up on stage. The guy who will call you "Big Guy" is not the guy who will have complicated feelings when you tell other people he said that. He says: 'It's amazing! She says that on stage now!’”
“Most people, when they date a comedian, think they're funny for the first few weeks. And then, being on the road and missing the holidays, people get bored of that very quickly. But it has the same schedule. Firefighters work on Christmas. He never cared. And so he's this accidental feminist because he doesn't care if his wife is working on Christmas or New Year's. He respects that. And we both have this family that we go back to. Firefighters obviously have an incredibly close bond because of what they do. And comics are the only people who can understand this strange lifestyle.”
“As a new father, he had the same fears as any new father, but I didn't realize how funny it is. Every day is hysterical. My daughter congratulates me for getting into bed. She says, 'Oh, you look pretty!' “You’re paying for someone to come entertain you every day.”
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