She's a Girl Daddy and proud of it – then again, given all her success, her fans wouldn't have it any other way.
A native of Dayton, Ohio now living in Los Angeles, Beth Stelling cut her teeth in the competitive Chicago stand-up scene while also studying improv at The Annoyance Theater. (She did graduate magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts from Miami University and interned for The School at Steppenwolf in Chicago before graduation, so she's been developing her chops for quite some time.) She would go on to be named the “Best Stand-up Comedian in Chicago” by The Chicago Reader in 2010, be named a "New Face of Comedy" at the prestigious Just for Laughs Festival and re-located to Los Angeles in 2011. Within her first year in L.A., Beth made her late night TV debut on Conan and released her debut album “Sweet Beth” on Rooftop Records. Beth soon after appeared on comedy programs such as Comedy Central’s @midnight, Chelsea Lately and The Pete Holmes Show.
With a Comedy Central Half-Hour special and second album (Simply the Beth) as well as Netflix's The Standups under belt, her most recent achievement has come in the form of Girl Daddy, Beth’s first hour stand-up special “produced by Conan O’Brien and Team Coco is available now on HBOMax. And she's got plenty more in the works ...
On this episode of A Tight 45, Tabari and Beth explore her comedy roots, life as an entertainer in L.A. during a pandemic ... And hosting a podcast with her mom.
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