[EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW] Comedian Katharine Heller’s Last Laugh: Fantasizing About ‘Scandal’ Cast, Pervy Neighborhood Watch & Taking A Stand On Ferguson [VIDEOS]

In Last Laugh, MStars News talks to our favorite comedians or funny people about some of the last experiences they've had over the years. For this installment, we welcome in comedian/podcaster Katharine Heller.

If you've ever been drunk in Brooklyn and found yourself deep in conversation with a bartender, chances are that story could have ended up on comedian Katharine Heller's Tell the Bartender podcast. Is it probable? Maybe not, but it is possible! The New York native is a stand up in Brooklyn, hosting the aforementioned Tell the Bartender along with The Struggle Bus, an advice podcast that aims at helping listeners through problems with no "legit" credentials whatsoever. What she and co-host Sally Tamarkin do have, however, are "lots of feelings and opinions."

Additionally, Heller's Tell the Bartender sits as a storytelling podcast featuring tales of once-upon-a-time customers. She is also a frequent guest on the Keith and The Girl podcast, which she will be touring with this coming March. Until then, Heller agreed to drop by MStars News for a Last Laugh.

So, Katharine Heller, who/what/where/when was the ...

MStars News: Last time you wore something you hated?
Katharine Heller: Right now I'm wearing a hoodie from my college's improv group that has a cupid with a bow and arrow on the back (I have no idea why) and it says "Improv Comedy Since 1995!" I don't hate it, per se, but improv has a bad stigma (because there's a lot of bad improv) so I try not to wear it out of the house. But it's super comfortable.

MS: Last person to see you naked?
KH: My boyfriend, and maybe any of the nosy neighborhood watch people that like to stare into my window on occasion (I like to walk around naked). It's weird because they don't even live in the neighborhood, but I feel safer knowing they're around.

MS: Last day job you had?
KH: Bartending! Although that's technically at night.

MS: Last place you traveled to outside of the US?
KH: I was in England this Summer. I have a French passport and I can legally work anywhere in the EU, so my manager set up some meetings to get potential work. But really, I also wanted to drink overpriced beer and see some friends.

MS: Last guilty pleasure you discovered?
KH: I just found out last night there's a show on Netflix called Dogs With Jobs. I probably won't be leaving the house for the next few days.

MS: Last piece of advice another comedian gave you?
KH: Katina Corrao (who just I love) once said, "Keep your eyes on your own work," as in, don't compare yourself to others – just keep doing the best you can do. That doesn't mean don't support other people's work or promote their stuff. I think that's really important. Just don't get bummed if they get a big project and you don't. It doesn't mean you won't, it just means everyone's career path has a different trajectory. It's great advice and everyone should know Katina!

MS: Last thing you regretted?
KH: Stumbling across Dogs With Jobs on Netflix.

MS: Last time you bombed onstage?
KH: It's not technically bombing on stage but recently I worked a private bachelorette party show, and I was improvising as this character and I made a joke that offended the bride. It wasn't even that bad, and all of her "friends" afterwards told me she was just a miserable person anyway. The joke was, "We're all virgins on our wedding night RIGHT?!?" Turns out she was a virgin. So really it was more of a statement of fact than a joke.

MS: Last time you lost your cool?
KH: I'm pretty laid back. I called a person I know a racist piece of sh*t to her face because she told me she fired an African American employee because he "didn't speak like us." I said, "He's from New York. I'm from New York. What do you mean?" And she was like, "You know..." (she's white.) So I told her she was awful –– I never liked her anyway.

MS: Last piece of advice YOU gave someone?
KH: I host an advice show (The Struggle Bus) and I told a listener that it's okay to gently remove yourself from family members and friends who are "emotional vampires" – people who suck all the life and energy out of you and don't give back anything in return. I said, if you cut off their feeding supply, they'll find another person to suck on. It's just not worth it to be in a one sided friendship/relationship. Unless you like getting sucked on but now we're in completely new territory.

MS: Last time you were the butt of the joke?
KH: Thanksgiving. My sister was making fun of anything I ever do/did. I love her but I had a new friend with us so she felt like she could tell all the humiliating stories about me to them.

MS: Last time you got into a fight?
KH: Thanksgiving. I told my sister to knock it off, lovingly. Physical fight? Never.

MS: Last time you wished you were someone else?
KH: I want to be the suit that actor Norm Lewis (from the TV show Scandal) wears in Phantom of The Opera on Broadway. We saw him in the show 2 weeks ago (my mom met him and he invited us – long story) and his performance was so sexy I was willing to forgive the part in the story where he kidnaps Christine and it gets rapey and weird. But yeah, I was jealous of anything that got to touch him that night. What was the question?

MS: Last thing you and to apologize for?
KH: I should probably apologize to my boyfriend for my last answer about Norm Lewis. But I'm not jealous of my boyfriend's clothes because I get to be close to his body, like they do.

MS: Last time you laughed really hard?
KH: It was a recent episode of Keith and The Girl. Keith was playing the Johnny Depp drunk speech at an awards show over and over and I was on a train and I was laughing so hard I started to cry. It made some people on the Metro North uncomfortable, I'm sure.

MS: Last time you felt uncomfortable?
KH: I tweeted something about the Ferguson decision and got some racist guy trolling me, telling me to send me pictures of my t*ts because that's all I'm worth, blah blah. I mean, to be fair, my t*ts are glorious. But it bothered me because he jumped from racism to sexual harassment, but as we all know anything is possible, especially on Twitter.

Catch Katharine Heller on:

Twitter | Tell the Bartender | The Struggle Bus