What is the best advice you\u2019ve ever been given?
I used to be quite the worrywart. Especially in this business, there were a lot of times where I wasn\u2019t working, it was hard to find a job and I would just worry, worry, worry. My mom would just say: \u201cdon\u2019t borrow trouble\u201d \u2013 cross those bridges if and when you get there. It freed me up in a way that I\u2019ve appreciated in the later parts of my career.<\/p>\n
Who did you admire when you were starting out as a comedian?
I was a huge Carol Burnett fan. My grandmother watched reruns of her show all the time. I loved how silly she was and I was obsessed with the kind of person she was on and off screen.<\/p>\n
You play Nibbles the beaver in Zootropolis 2. Are there any interesting quirks you found with voice acting?
You don\u2019t get a script ahead of time \u2013 or not for this particular movie because it was top secret. So I never saw the full film or got to read what happened. I\u2019d go into the booth and the director, Jared [Bush], would tell me, \u201cHere\u2019s what\u2019s happening in this scene.\u201d When I recorded my sessions, I genuinely had no idea how big a part my character played. I assumed I was just popping up here and there!<\/p>\n
Can you recall a gig so bad, it\u2019s now funny?
I did a charity event in Virginia, early on in my career, in a biker bar. It was a terrible, terrible venue for comedy. The stage was a crate. The light was like one from a construction site. A karaoke machine was the sound system. No one enjoyed the show, including myself.<\/p>\n
Do you have any preshow rituals?
Gosh, no. I\u2019m way too easy going. Tom Papa, who I do a radio show with, laughs at how casual I am before a show. I\u2019m just chatting with people and I arrive at the venue like 15 minutes before and then just go up like it\u2019s a regular old day.<\/p>\n
\u2018I had no idea how big a part my character played!\u2019 \u2026 Nick Wilde (voiced by Jason Bateman), Nibbles (voiced by Fortune Feimster) and Judy Hopps (voiced by Ginnifer Goodwin) in Zootropolis 2. Photograph: Everett Collection Inc\/Alamy<\/p>\n
Best heckle? What inspired your current show, Takin\u2019 Care of Biscuits? What\u2019s a joke you\u2019re convinced is brilliant, but just doesn\u2019t land with audiences? Any bugbears from the world of comedy? You star alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger in Fubar. What\u2019s it like working with The Terminator? What kind of role would you love to play next? Fortune Feimster: Takin\u2019 Care of Biscuits is on tour<\/a> across North America and Europe until 9 August, and is at Hackney Empire, London<\/a>, on 3 June<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What is the best advice you\u2019ve ever been given?I used to be quite the worrywart. Especially in this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-594395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
When I was filming my first special, Sweet & Salty<\/a>, someone yelled out, \u201clesbian\u201d, which in some parts of the south would be a hate crime. But in that particular place, I knew it was out of love.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m talking a lot about my childhood as that was something about Sweet & Salty that people seemed to really enjoy. So I\u2019ve been digging back into those stories. And my mom is always a source of comedy for me.<\/p>\n
I have a bit about a time I tried to use a restaurant gift card and not tell my friends about it. I was trying to be very low key, but the waitress couldn\u2019t stop saying the words \u201cgift card\u201d and coming back to the table to mention it again. In real life, it was so comically embarrassing. I\u2019ve tried to retell it on stage but it\u2019s not translating somehow.<\/p>\n
This is a dream job but the travel is so exhausting. A lot of comics joke that they do the show for free \u2013 they\u2019re basically just getting paid to travel. The constant writing is tough, too. You finish a special and then have to completely start over. You think, \u201cGosh, there\u2019s not that much interesting stuff about me, what else can I come up with?!\u201d But that\u2019s the challenge, and at the end of the day it\u2019s what drives us all to keep getting better.<\/p>\n
He has been in movies. He\u2019s been a governor. He\u2019s been a world champion bodybuilder. He has accomplished all these huge feats! On set he would hold court while we would just listen. Every day you felt like you learned something new just from being around him. He\u2019s a very inspirational guy.<\/p>\n
I just wrapped two Netflix projects that are big broad comedies. One is with Will Ferrell<\/a>, who plays a professional golfer trying to relive his glory days, and I play his caddie. The other is with Kim Kardashian, Nikki Glaser and Brenda Song. So next it would be cool to pivot to maybe a more serious role in a movie where I\u2019m required to be less of myself.<\/p>\n