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During this period, which she likens to “comedy school,” Stalter also realized she was bisexual when she bonded with a woman who had also dated her terrible ex-boyfriend and the friendship blossomed into a short-lived romance.

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She soon moved to Chicago to pursue comedy - “the best decision of my life,” she said - and stayed for seven years, making ends meet as a nanny and performing in her free time. (This boyfriend was gay, but Stalter didn’t mind: “We never kissed with our mouths open but we were, like, the power couple in drama club.”)Īfter high school, she took community college classes in nursing and education and spent time in Peru as a missionary because, she said, “I loved God and I loved people.” (Though she went to Catholic school, Stalter and her family attended a “pretty wild” Pentecostal church she now says she considers herself spiritual but no longer goes to church.) She returned from a long trip abroad with a realization: “What God wants me to do is what I really want to do. She and her boyfriend worked at her stepfather’s telemarketing company and would play a game where they earned points by working unexpected phrases (e.g., “Would you like waffles?”) into their sales calls. 5,” as she put it - Stalter displayed a knack for offstage improvisation. Though she was usually relegated to supporting roles in high-school theater - “Nun No. “Probably my mother loving me too much or something.” And I don’t know where it came from,” Stalter added.

“There was something in me that always thought I was special.

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“Superstar,” the movie starring Molly Shannon as chaotic, fame-hungry Catholic schoolgirl Mary Katherine Gallagher, “was life-changing.” Stalter once scrambled to put together a dance routine when her Catholic elementary school put on a talent show and loved to make age-inappropriate home movies with her many cousins using the family camcorder. “When I fell asleep at night as a kid, I always imagined I was on the ‘E! True Hollywood Story,’” she said. They were divorced, and Stalter spent a lot of time caring for younger siblings.īut Stalter was surrounded by funny women and, from a young age, felt a powerful need to be onstage. Unlike Kayla, a showbiz nepotism baby, she was not rich or well connected her mom was a nurse and her dad a tattoo artist. The eldest of four children, Stalter grew up in Dayton, Ohio.

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“No one wants a TV show more than Cole Escola,” Amy Sedaris says of the rising star, who once turned to sex work to make ends meet.

Now they’re part of comedy’s queer new wave Television New York had Cole Escola down and out. Increasingly, though, Stalter has brought her lovably unhinged alter egos to projects filmed outside her living quarters. She epitomized a new generation of DIY comedy stars, like Cole Escola and Ziwe Fumudoh, who distributed their own content on social media when traditional venues were closed. In addition to “Hi Gay!,” probably her biggest hit to date, there’s “ woman who doesn’t realize she joined a cult,” “ woman who accidentally says ‘you too’ after someone tells her to have a good flight,” “ influencer mommy who keeps getting interrupted,” and many others.

Stalter’s profile ascended rapidly during the early days of the pandemic, when she performed nightly on Instagram Live from her Brooklyn apartment and shared a staggering number of “front-facing comedy” videos, or solo character sketches recorded on a smartphone. And they’re like, ‘Everything is fine!’ when it’s not.” “Someone whose house is burning down but they have a smile on their face. “I love to play people that are a little bit in their own world, yet there’s something endearing about them,” said the actor, 31, during a recent video chat from her home in Los Angeles. With a key scene in its Season 1 finale, HBO Max’s comedy crystallizes the way it turned generational conflict into a kind of romantic comedy.

Television ‘Hacks’ began as a battle of generations.