I love musical theater so much. When done right, I think comedy songs can be the most efficient form of joke delivery. Songs can be the most efficient and the best forms of conveying emotion. Music is universal. It’s worldwide. Rachel Bloom Read Quote
I have such pride in furthering the American musical and using it as a way to tell story. Rachel Bloom Read Quote
It’s double talk and double standards. It’s like, be honest, but don’t be too honest. Look fresh-faced and young, but don’t tell us how you got there. God forbid you have plastic surgery, even though we’re telling you, ‘Oh, you look old.’ Be a career woman, but also, why aren’t you having kids? Are you some kind of cold shrew? Rachel Bloom Read Quote
For myself, the way that I learned comedy was doing it live for four years, and only after doing sketch for four years did I feel confident enough to be like, ‘Okay, I feel good about starting to put stuff on the Internet where it lives forever.’ As opposed to one time at a college sketch show where it bombs and we never speak of it again. Rachel Bloom Read Quote
When I graduated, I was director of my school’s sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group. Rachel Bloom Read Quote
We’re told all the time to give up everything for love. That’s the Western notion of what love is – love conquers all, all you need is love. And there are so many different kinds of outside, conflicting pressures on women. Rachel Bloom Read Quote
I was kind of an unhappy kid. I always felt like a cynical New Yorker trapped in a little kid’s body. I started to get some pretty bad anxiety disorders around puberty, which totally did not work with growing up a mile away from the beach. I started cutting my own hair. Rachel Bloom Read Quote
I’m a comedian, and I have my share of anxiety and depression; so do most of my friends. My humor tends to lie in the juxtaposition of extreme lightness – I’m a huge musical-theater fan – and extreme darkness. And so I really like playing with those because that’s how I feel. Rachel Bloom Read Quote
I was doing these music videos online for a couple years, and they’d be doing well to varying degrees. And I released an album, and with the album, I released three new music videos, and one of them was featured on Jezebel. Rachel Bloom Read Quote
When we’re obsessed with someone, it’s never about them. It’s about us hating ourselves. And that’s generally the tone of a lot of my videos, which is this desperate character who’s overcompensating with being super happy. But she’s broken. Rachel Bloom Read Quote
