Tim Barnes chats with comedian, actor and writer Sonia Denis about how she navigates the choppy waters of entertainment and learned to balance her comedic pursuits with her day-to-day-life.
Sonia Denis is a New York-based comedian set to appear in the upcoming MARVEL series Ironheart on Disney+. She was named one of Vulture's Comics to Watch and is an Emmy-nominated writer whose work has been featured on HBO’s A Black Lady Sketch Show, The New Yorker, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency.
Sonia co-starred in the Emmy-nominated web series Brown Girls and has also appeared on Adult Swim’s BIRDGIRL, HBO’s High Maintenance, and Netflix’s Bojack Horseman. Her standup was featured on The New Negroes on Comedy Central.
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CREDITS:
Host: Tim Barnes
Guest: Sonia Denis
Theme Song: “You Are The Genre” by Freddie Nunez
Music Engineer: Adam Smith (@a_scug on Instagram)
Podcast Art: Madhuri Shukla
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