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Episode 13: Fortune Feimster

First 5 with Eleanor Kerrigan and Lexi Shoemaker

Release Date: 02/24/2014

Episode 23: Jamar Neighbors

First 5 with Eleanor Kerrigan and Lexi Shoemaker

Eleanor and Lexi sit down with Jamar and learn about the benifits of living in a group home with NO parents!! ...

Episode 22: Jade Catta-Preta

First 5 with Eleanor Kerrigan and Lexi Shoemaker

Eleanor and Lexi sit down with Jade and learn about her first 5 mins! ...

Episode 21: Sandy Danto

First 5 with Eleanor Kerrigan and Lexi Shoemaker

Eleanor and Lexi sit down with the super funny Sandy Danto and learn about his first 5 and the perks of going to sports camp. ...

episode 20: Andrew Dice Clay

First 5 with Eleanor Kerrigan and Lexi Shoemaker

Eleanor and I sit down with the Legendary Andrew Dice Clay and learn about his first 5 and the pain pollen has caused him. We are joined occasionally by his beautiful ex-wife/girlfriend Valerie and his dog.

Episode 19: Tiffany Haddish

First 5 with Eleanor Kerrigan and Lexi Shoemaker

Eleanor and Lexi sit down with Tiffany Haddish and learn all about her first 5! ...

Episode 18: David Taylor

First 5 with Eleanor Kerrigan and Lexi Shoemaker

Eleanor and Lexi sit down with David Taylor and learn about everything but his first 5. David is known for his acerbic comedic persona, intellectual material and his interviewing/skewing of celebrites on stage at his shows. David is a former scientist, computer programmer and internet millionaire. He hosts a live talk show called "The David Taylor Catastrophe" ...

Episode 17: Nick Youssef

First 5 with Eleanor Kerrigan and Lexi Shoemaker

Lexi and Eleanor sitdown with the amazing Nick Youssef and learn about his first time! ...

Episode 16: Rick Ingraham

First 5 with Eleanor Kerrigan and Lexi Shoemaker

Eleanor and Lexi sit down with Rick and talk about his first 5. Rick started stand-up comedy at Stanford and Sons Comedy Club in Kansas City (little Hollywood). After two years in the fast-paced, highly competetive Kansas City comedy scene, I moved to L.A. and started doing comedy full time. I’ve been a regular at the Hollywood Comedy Store since 2003, performing 5 nights a week. I also perform at the "Comedy and Magic Club" in Hermosa beach occasionally, and I’ve performed at both "Laugh Factories" (L.A. & N.Y.), a number of "Improv" Comedy Clubs (L.A., Miami, Ontario,...

Episode 15: Lauren Ashley Bishop

First 5 with Eleanor Kerrigan and Lexi Shoemaker

Eleanor and Lexi sit down with Lauren Ashley Bishop and learn all about her first 5! ...

Episode 14: Nancy Pimental

First 5 with Eleanor Kerrigan and Lexi Shoemaker

Eleanor and Lexi sit down with Nancy and learn about her first 5! Nancy Pimental, a Massachusetts native, graduated from Worcester Polytechnic Institute with a degree in chemical engineering and studied classical acting at a theater conservatory in Boston. After moving to Los Angeles, she performed stand-up and improv comedy and was hired as a writer for Comedy Central's animated hit, (1997) in March of 1998. In addition, she has sold her first screenplay to Columbia Studios, a romantic comedy which stared . She has also written a pilot for for NBC Studios...

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Eleanor and Lexi Sitdown with Fortune and talk about all sorts of stuff, oh and her first 5. The loveable Southern comic, Fortune Feimster, moved to Los Angeles in 2003 to pursue comedy after graduating Summa Cum Laude from Peace College in North Carolina. First she made a pit stop in Sevilla, Spain where she taught English, studied Spanish, and backpacked all over Europe for a year. Then with $25 in her pocket she landed in Los Angeles, slept on a friend’s couch for a month, and hoped for the best.

After a brief stint as a personal assistant where she lost her boss’s cat on at least three occasions (don’t worry she found him!), Fortune was hired to be an entertainment journalist for the syndicated newspaper column Beck/Smith. She would remain with them for seven years where she was published in such outlets as the Creators Syndicate, Netscape.com, and the LA and NY Daily News.

It was in 2005 that Fortune began taking improv and sketch classes at the Groundlings Theatre as a way to make friends but soon a budding comedian was born! After four years of intense training, she was selected to be in the Groundlings’ prestigious Sunday Company (with alumni like Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig) where she performed a new sketch show every week for a year-and-a-half.

It wouldn’t be long before Fortune would begin making a name for herself in the standup world after being made a paid regular at the World Famous Comedy Store and being selected as one of the “New Faces” at the renowned Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal. Soon she made her national TV debut on NBC’s “Last Comic Standing” where she finished as a semi-finalist.

During this time, she was flown out twice to New York to audition in front of Lorne Michaels for “Saturday Night Live,” but it would be Chelsea Handler who would give Fortune her next big platform. Fortune has now been a full-time writer and performer on the E! Network’s popular show, “Chelsea Lately,” for the last three years, and is a main cast member on their scripted series “After Lately.”

Most recently Fortune opened for Chelsea at Caesar’s Palace in Windsor and she performed in front of 15,000 people as part of Dave Chappelle and Flight of the Conchord’s “Oddball Fest.” Her standup was also featured on HBO Canada’s “Funny As Hell” and she’ll be appearing in an upcoming episode of Comedy Central’s storytelling show “This Is Not Happening.” She can currently be seen in the Jim Belushi movie, “The Secret Lives of Dorks,” which was just released in theaters.

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