Chicagoans is a first-person account from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford. This week’s Chicagoan is Peter Alexander Bresnan, stand-up comic and podcaster.
“When you start out in comedy, there’s so much failure. It’s just part of the work. But I’m pretty sensitive, and I take criticism personally. So I had the idea for my podcast, Tell Me I’m Funny, which is a serialized audio journal. The podcast lets me turn that inevitable failure into something productive, so I don’t have to go to an open mike and bomb hard and go home and be sad about it and eat tuna from the can. I can take that failure and make it into something valuable for me and, I hope, for other people.
