Nashville’s Beth Donahue-Weedman has been a successful comedian and former on-air radio personality for more than 20 years. You may recognize her from the CMT special “Southern Fried Chicks” where she performed alongside Etta May, Trish Suhr, and Sonya White. These days, she is a perfectly healthy, self-professing shut-in, proclaiming: “If Starbucks delivered, I’d never leave the house.
Thankfully, you can still hear from Beth online – she’s on Facebook and Twitter AND she has started writing a column for DreamRow about stand-up comedy:
I am a 22-year vet who had a great career till I ruined it with drugs and alcohol. But we’ll get to that later! You may be looking to get into stand up, or maybe you’re just here for an interesting read. Nevertheless, I’ll tell you all about what it takes to get there, and show you how easy it is to screw up.
Her first lesson? Appearance – check it out, it’s good information from someone who knows what they’re talking about.
