Hannah Berner has taken a circuitous route to cultural behemoth. Prior to her brief stint on Summer House or her hit podcast, Giggly Squad, with pal Paige DeSorbo, long before her current career as a stand-up comedian (see her latest special, None of My Business, which spent the past weekend in the No. 1 slot on Hulu), her desire to be on camera briefly had her attempting a career as a sports broadcaster. Briefly.
“It’s so embarrassing to like admit that you like being on camera,” says Berner, who likes her screen time but not enough to endure idiots. “I didn’t want to move to a small town to become a sports broadcaster and deal with the misogyny of trying to prove to men that I know about basketball.”Berner’s unlikely path to success should buy her some credit, something she says she’d like people to keep in mind as she dips her toe into acting. Speaking during a recent episode of The Hollywood Reporter podcast I’m Having an Episode (Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple), Berner talked about her evolving stand-up audience, her thoughts on Summer House suddenly becoming water cooler conversation and working on a potential scripted TV show at Netflix with DeSorbo and their producer — Amy Poehler. “I feel like I’m in a master’s program with like one of the greatest of all time,” says Berner.
