Chloe Prendergast thinks YOUR life is interesting
Chloe Prendergast is a British-American student and performer who grew up in Atlanta, GA. Chloe is the winner of Yale’s 2018 Last Comic Standing competition, after which she opened for SNL alum Sasheer Zamata at the school’s winter comedy show. She is the president and founder of the Coven, a stand up collective at Yale for women and gender nonconforming people, and the Publisher Emeritus of The Yale Record, the oldest existing humor magazine in America. Outside of comedy, Chloe has worked on the US Senate races of Democrats Michelle Nunn and Jim Barksdale and the Georgia Governor’s races of Sen. Jason Carter and Rep. Stacey Abrams. She is currently working on her senior thesis in the Political Science department at Yale on the use of humor in Northern Ireland as a social and political force throughout and since the Troubles. You can follow her on Twitter @prenderghost!
BRIEFLY describe your worst gig.
Doing a stand up audition in a full theater to three people, all typing notes on their computers! Scary and distracting!
On your deathbed, what transcendent advice would you croak at a young comedian?
Your life is as interesting as anyone else’s!
What’s your first impulse when someone says “women aren’t funny?”
Oh no! This person has been living in a bunker with no women and no television for the better part of the last 50 years.
When you were coming up in comedy, what helped you stick with it?
I am very far away from “up” in comedy.
Best comedy advice you ever got?
You should do stand up!
Worst comedy advice you ever got?
Oooh you should turn this into one of your little jokes!
Favorite response to “What’s it like to be a woman in comedy?”
It’s a constant battle between being funny and figuring out what to do with my long, long hair!
Feelings about the word “comedienne?”
Is it French?
What single word always cracks you up?
Aubergine (that’s French!)
Was there one person who inspired you to become a comedian?
Eeek! There are too many amazing, funny, talented people to name just one.
How has being funny helped you in your offstage life, either recently or when you were younger?
Being able to tell jokes about my regular life puts lots of not ideal situations into perspective. Seeing the funny parts of bad things makes them easier to handle.
Photo via: L. Thomas
Chloe Prendergast is a British-American student and performer who grew up in Atlanta, GA. Chloe is the winner of Yale’s 2018 Last Comic Standing competition, after which she opened for SNL alum Sasheer Zamata at the school’s winter comedy show. She is the president and founder of the Coven, a stand up collective at Yale for women and gender nonconforming people, and the Publisher Emeritus of The Yale Record, the oldest existing humor magazine in America. Outside of comedy, Chloe has worked on the US Senate races of Democrats Michelle Nunn and Jim Barksdale and the Georgia Governor’s races of Sen. Jason Carter and Rep. Stacey Abrams. She is currently working on her senior thesis in the Political Science department at Yale on the use of humor in Northern Ireland as a social and political force throughout and since the Troubles. You can follow her on Twitter @prenderghost!