June 20, 2025 • 7 mins
Comedian Sarah Colonna joined the show to discuss her upcoming stand-up gigs, her podcast The Booklisp, and what it's like being married to one of the 50 Greatest Seattle Seahawks of all-time. Give the interview a listen!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's one or two point five kzy okay, being joined
(00:02):
by one of our favorite funny people, Sarah Kelowna. Good morning,
Good morning, how are you doing well? Are you doing okay?
It's a little early for most people.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
No, I got cats. They wake me up early.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Well, we love when you joined the show. But you
are talking with us this morning for a very specific reason.
You are coming to Seattle this weekend. Tell us what's happening.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yes, it was kind of last minute, so probably usually
that means they had an open spot and needed the
weekend filled, and they reached out to me because obviously
everyone knows I love Seattle. And it's the Emerald City
Comedy Club and it's Friday, this Friday, the twentieth, and Saturday,
the twenty first three shows one Friday, two Saturday. And
(00:47):
I'm just so excited because I know the co owner
is he owns the Tacoma Comedy Club. If people have
been out there, it's amazing, Spokane Comedy Club. Like he
has a bunch of clubs all over and so I
know it's got to be, you know, the top notch
comedy club. And I'm excited because everyone is always like,
why why don't you ever perform in Seattle proper And
(01:08):
I'm like, because they don't have a club and now
they do.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
So this is on the newer side, Emerald City Comedy Club.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yeah, it's pretty new. I think. I know it opened
because they reached out and asked me to, you know,
to post about it and stuff when they were opening.
So it was the beginning of the year it opened
and hasn't been opened very long. I know it's in
the Capitol Hill area, and I just I'm so excited
to check it out and to perform there and to
actually be in Seattle for the weekends.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
And you can get Voodoo Donuts because they opened up
a location up there on cap Hill.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Oh see, see you at all the tips. I knew that.
I knew you would have the tips for me. And
then someone told me to go to the Unicorn Bar.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Oh yeah, it's kind of circusi ish themed inside and
they make some good drinks.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Okay, I mean, I don't know how I'm gonna have
time to do my shows. I'm gonna be so busy
eating donuts. I'm taking unicorn drinks, but I'm gonna I'm
gonna squeeze the man, I know. Yeah, Yeah, I'm really excited.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
So you've been doing stand up forever, you have been acting,
You're an author, You're a podcaster with more than one
podcast found on our free iHeartRadio app. Where would you
say you get inspiration for your comedy? Like some people,
it's specific, like Jim Gaffigan it's his kids.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
What about you?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Is there something you would say is where you get
your funny from?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I honestly feel like my comedy I really want it
to be relatable, right, And so I find talking about
I was single for a very long time, didn't get married,
you know, traditionally, so as they say traditionally, just because
I grew up in Arkansas. So I didn't get married
when I was you know, eighteen. I waited until I
(02:44):
was forty. And so I feel like I have a
ton of material about being single, about dating, and now
about being married, so I can kind of relate to
all those aspects of life. And then a lot of
family and a lot of friends, and I feel like
we all either, you know, when I tell stories about
(03:05):
my friends, I find very much that that everyone kind
of can relate to either being that friend or knowing
that friend, or having that friend, and That's really something
that's been important to me is just to basically after
I talk, after I do my shows, to have people
talk to me and go I related to this part
so much. I related to this so much. And I've
(03:27):
really noticed over the years that for men and women
both approached me with that, and it makes me really
happy because you just want, you know, I think we
can all laugh the most when we when we get
it right, when we when we're related to something, and
whether it be that you're you can find yourself as
the own sort of butt of that joke. You know,
I'm not mean spirit or anything like that on stage.
(03:48):
But then and also, as you guys know, I'm married
to your your one of your fifty greatest seahawks of
all time, and I have quite a bit of material
about being married to someone who you know, retired at
such a young age and.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
What is he forty two?
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yeah? Yeah, so we have our wait is he forty three?
Forty three? Yeah, so he's really getting.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Up there now it's more appropriate for him to be retired.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yeah, exactly, So we have so there's a lot of
material about that, and you know, I do talk a
lot about what about him playing football? And stories that
come from that. And I wasn't ever really sure that
that stuff played outside of Seattle, but it really does,
because it's really just if you're a fan of football,
(04:39):
or if you just even watched a football game, like
you can you end up relating to the stories that
that I that I find, you know that I tell,
and that in Seattle I can have a little more
fun with it because nobody gets it better than the
Seahawks fans. With the Seahawks fans stands yeah yeah again.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Sarah Colonna performing at the Emerald City Comedy Club up
on cap heill On Newer Comedy Club and it's three
shows this weekend Friday, two on Saturday. Tickets handful of
tickets are still available. Will your husband, the esteemed fifty
greatest Seahawks of all time, John Ryan, be joining you?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Because I know he's also quite a funny man.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I know, and he usually does and usually and he
almost can't believe he can't come to Seattle with me,
but he is helping out with a kicking camp this
weekend and he was already signed on to do it.
It's in San Diego with John Carney, who is a
kicker A long time in the NFL and he helps
out with kickers and punters, and I think it's like
(05:38):
a big free agent type thing. So wow, he's doing
that and he can't come to Seattle with me, which
is really sad. But I told him I'm just going
to troll him and send him photos of me last
in his city.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Yeah, drinking unicorn drinks and eating Voody donuts.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Yes, exactly, like, oh, why am I doing this? Why
am I doing this? But yeah, it was, like I said,
since it was so last minute, it was kind of
he'd normally be always there with me at every show.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
But now you guys have been married for are we
coming up on ten years?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Nine years?
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Coming up on nine years?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:15):
So I know he is a big baseball fan, big
supporter of the Mariners for a long time owner of
the Portland Pickles said he loves to go down to Mexico.
Are you a genuine sports fan or is it just
the person that you fell in love with happens to
be a former athlete and a huge sportshead.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
No, I'm a big sports fan too, so I actually
grew up a big Angels fan. So we have a
rivalry and we go to Angels games, and we actually
just went when they played. The Mariners were here, so
John was representing. And I grew up a big sports fan.
My dad was a sports editor and so he basically
(06:52):
I would visit him. He worked at the Orange County
Register and every summer I would come to visit him,
and it was baseball season, so I just kind of
grew up in the press box going to baseball games,
and because of that, I always loved baseball. And then
I grew up to college at the University of Arkansas,
so that's a big football town. So I grew up
(07:13):
always loving football. And I didn't have an NFL team
really because it's all college sports there, and boy do
I have one now and it's so much fun. So
I never got to experience NFL the way obviously that
it is like in Seattle, so it's really fun.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Absolutely well, we are very excited that you are coming
to town. Sarah Colona Emerald City Comedy Club again. It
is Friday and Saturday. Tickets are available now. If you
can't make it to the show, you'll see her eating
donuts and drinking in the streets.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Of Seattle as always. Sarah Kalona, thank you for joining us,
Thank you
Speaker 2 (07:53):
For having me,
It's one or two point five kzy okay, being joined
(00:02):
by one of our favorite funny people, Sarah Kelowna. Good morning,
Good morning, how are you doing well? Are you doing okay?
It's a little early for most people.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
No, I got cats. They wake me up early.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Well, we love when you joined the show. But you
are talking with us this morning for a very specific reason.
You are coming to Seattle this weekend. Tell us what's happening.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yes, it was kind of last minute, so probably usually
that means they had an open spot and needed the
weekend filled, and they reached out to me because obviously
everyone knows I love Seattle. And it's the Emerald City
Comedy Club and it's Friday, this Friday, the twentieth, and Saturday,
the twenty first three shows one Friday, two Saturday. And
(00:47):
I'm just so excited because I know the co owner
is he owns the Tacoma Comedy Club. If people have
been out there, it's amazing, Spokane Comedy Club. Like he
has a bunch of clubs all over and so I
know it's got to be, you know, the top notch
comedy club. And I'm excited because everyone is always like,
why why don't you ever perform in Seattle proper And
(01:08):
I'm like, because they don't have a club and now
they do.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
So this is on the newer side, Emerald City Comedy Club.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yeah, it's pretty new. I think. I know it opened
because they reached out and asked me to, you know,
to post about it and stuff when they were opening.
So it was the beginning of the year it opened
and hasn't been opened very long. I know it's in
the Capitol Hill area, and I just I'm so excited
to check it out and to perform there and to
actually be in Seattle for the weekends.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
And you can get Voodoo Donuts because they opened up
a location up there on cap Hill.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Oh see, see you at all the tips. I knew that.
I knew you would have the tips for me. And
then someone told me to go to the Unicorn Bar.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Oh yeah, it's kind of circusi ish themed inside and
they make some good drinks.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Okay, I mean, I don't know how I'm gonna have
time to do my shows. I'm gonna be so busy
eating donuts. I'm taking unicorn drinks, but I'm gonna I'm
gonna squeeze the man, I know. Yeah, Yeah, I'm really excited.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
So you've been doing stand up forever, you have been acting,
You're an author, You're a podcaster with more than one
podcast found on our free iHeartRadio app. Where would you
say you get inspiration for your comedy? Like some people,
it's specific, like Jim Gaffigan it's his kids.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
What about you?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Is there something you would say is where you get
your funny from?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I honestly feel like my comedy I really want it
to be relatable, right, And so I find talking about
I was single for a very long time, didn't get married,
you know, traditionally, so as they say traditionally, just because
I grew up in Arkansas. So I didn't get married
when I was you know, eighteen. I waited until I
(02:44):
was forty. And so I feel like I have a
ton of material about being single, about dating, and now
about being married, so I can kind of relate to
all those aspects of life. And then a lot of
family and a lot of friends, and I feel like
we all either, you know, when I tell stories about
(03:05):
my friends, I find very much that that everyone kind
of can relate to either being that friend or knowing
that friend, or having that friend, and That's really something
that's been important to me is just to basically after
I talk, after I do my shows, to have people
talk to me and go I related to this part
so much. I related to this so much. And I've
(03:27):
really noticed over the years that for men and women
both approached me with that, and it makes me really
happy because you just want, you know, I think we
can all laugh the most when we when we get
it right, when we when we're related to something, and
whether it be that you're you can find yourself as
the own sort of butt of that joke. You know,
I'm not mean spirit or anything like that on stage.
(03:48):
But then and also, as you guys know, I'm married
to your your one of your fifty greatest seahawks of
all time, and I have quite a bit of material
about being married to someone who you know, retired at
such a young age and.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
What is he forty two?
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yeah? Yeah, so we have our wait is he forty three?
Forty three? Yeah, so he's really getting.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Up there now it's more appropriate for him to be retired.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yeah, exactly, So we have so there's a lot of
material about that, and you know, I do talk a
lot about what about him playing football? And stories that
come from that. And I wasn't ever really sure that
that stuff played outside of Seattle, but it really does,
because it's really just if you're a fan of football,
(04:39):
or if you just even watched a football game, like
you can you end up relating to the stories that
that I that I find, you know that I tell,
and that in Seattle I can have a little more
fun with it because nobody gets it better than the
Seahawks fans. With the Seahawks fans stands yeah yeah again.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Sarah Colonna performing at the Emerald City Comedy Club up
on cap heill On Newer Comedy Club and it's three
shows this weekend Friday, two on Saturday. Tickets handful of
tickets are still available. Will your husband, the esteemed fifty
greatest Seahawks of all time, John Ryan, be joining you?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Because I know he's also quite a funny man.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I know, and he usually does and usually and he
almost can't believe he can't come to Seattle with me,
but he is helping out with a kicking camp this
weekend and he was already signed on to do it.
It's in San Diego with John Carney, who is a
kicker A long time in the NFL and he helps
out with kickers and punters, and I think it's like
(05:38):
a big free agent type thing. So wow, he's doing
that and he can't come to Seattle with me, which
is really sad. But I told him I'm just going
to troll him and send him photos of me last
in his city.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Yeah, drinking unicorn drinks and eating Voody donuts.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Yes, exactly, like, oh, why am I doing this? Why
am I doing this? But yeah, it was, like I said,
since it was so last minute, it was kind of
he'd normally be always there with me at every show.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
But now you guys have been married for are we
coming up on ten years?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Nine years?
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Coming up on nine years?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:15):
So I know he is a big baseball fan, big
supporter of the Mariners for a long time owner of
the Portland Pickles said he loves to go down to Mexico.
Are you a genuine sports fan or is it just
the person that you fell in love with happens to
be a former athlete and a huge sportshead.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
No, I'm a big sports fan too, so I actually
grew up a big Angels fan. So we have a
rivalry and we go to Angels games, and we actually
just went when they played. The Mariners were here, so
John was representing. And I grew up a big sports fan.
My dad was a sports editor and so he basically
(06:52):
I would visit him. He worked at the Orange County
Register and every summer I would come to visit him,
and it was baseball season, so I just kind of
grew up in the press box going to baseball games,
and because of that, I always loved baseball. And then
I grew up to college at the University of Arkansas,
so that's a big football town. So I grew up
(07:13):
always loving football. And I didn't have an NFL team
really because it's all college sports there, and boy do
I have one now and it's so much fun. So
I never got to experience NFL the way obviously that
it is like in Seattle, so it's really fun.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Absolutely well, we are very excited that you are coming
to town. Sarah Colona Emerald City Comedy Club again. It
is Friday and Saturday. Tickets are available now. If you
can't make it to the show, you'll see her eating
donuts and drinking in the streets.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Of Seattle as always. Sarah Kalona, thank you for joining us,
Thank you
Speaker 2 (07:53):
For having me,
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