Chick Force is a 3 woman comedy mission exploring every and any angle. Performers are Laura Baggett, Michelle Miracle, and Abbey Schachner.
1. What is the funniest thing you have ever seen?
Laura Baggett: Will Ferrells Funny or Die sketches “The Landlord” and “The green Team”
Abbey Schachner: The funniest thing i’ve ever seen was a two foot long, very narrow wall lamp from a 70′s hotel room, fall off the wall onto my father’s bare, bald head… it slowly slid off as he passed out from the blow. My brother and I had been jumping on the bed and my father was reading and was telling us to stop. Then… the lamp fell off. My brother and I laughed under the bed. I was eating pringles… I kinda thought he was dead, but I also thought… when he wakes up, he’s gonna kill us.
Michelle Miracle: I laugh at stuff all the time, but when I laugh the hardest, it’s usually because someone has fallen down. Also there’s a video on Youtube where an old lady is launched into the air when her great dane dog runs after another dog. It gets me every time.
2. What is your pre-performing ritual?
Laura Baggett: Before I perform I do a ritual where I release all the demons and evil caspers from my body that might have become trapped in my subconscious. I burn sage and light a 3 foot votive with a bucket of water at the base. Using various mantras and hip hop verses I dance, naked around the candel and ask the evil spirits to please leave. I then paint my body in peanut butter and and allow it to dry while listening to Alanis Morissette. After connecting with my inner goddess through dream therapy i remove the peanut butter with a spatula and set it on fire.
Abbey Schachner: rituals… i used to put water under my eyes… like dab it… right before a show. I still do that… so…
If I’m with other people, I like to connect.
Michelle Miracle: I usually eat something that disagrees with me.
3. What is the funniest thing that has ever happened to you?
Laura Baggett: Being asked to host my College’s minority student union’s variety show. One of the Basket Ball players came out and danced with nothing but a sock on. It was hot and funny and slightly disturbing.
Abbey Schachner: I think it’s when my friends from college showed me my new bedroom. Basically in college, I lived like a travelling hippie, but at the same time, my mother was in a house buying phase. Basically, she bought a house, then the house next door, then the house down the street all in the matter of like two and a half years. So… friends were down in florida visiting with me on a road trip from college… and it was in the polo club and i was so anti that. Anyway, we all went to a polo match, I freaked out… walked home with a friend… and my other friends who went home with my mother drove up and they were like, “you gotta see your new house” “you gotta see your new bedroom!”. I really didn’t want to see this, but I did. First step in the new house… I started rolling up the carpets. I started stealing the sponges and bath soaps. I was living like a pauper (i mean, really… REALLY) and my mother got like three homes decorated and made from the ground up by a decorator. I thought that was disgusting.
Hey… was that even funny? Tissue anyone? Oof. You think it’s all right if I call home for a check?
Michelle Miracle: I was delivering cookies as a second job around the holidays and I didn’t know it, but my pants were ripped in the back…from the belt loop to vagina! It was a HUGE gaping hole, and I didn’t even notice. Some guys on the street were smirking and approaching me, and I thought one of them was going to ask me out or something, because he seemed so embarassed. But he was just telling me that my pants were ripped. The worst part was the realization that I had made 10 other deliveries that morning, and all those people got a little holiday cheek with their cookies.
4. What inspired you to do comedy?
Laura Baggett: Growing up I got to stay up late only on Sat, so I was a faithful SNL watcher, that and Kids in the Hall. I would gather kids in my neighborhood to act out my skits.
Abbey Schachner: Shel Silverstein, Dr. Seuss, Gilda Radner, my father– they all inspired me to do comedy. And just… life.
Michelle Miracle: I’m not good at anything else! And also, when I realized I could make my dad laugh, I knew I might be onto something. He was one of the funniest people in the world.
5. What is your perfect day?
Laura Baggett: My perfect day is waking up and making breakfast with my boyfriend, going to farmers market, drinking raw milk, taking a yoga class and hanging out with friends upside down in Topanga canyon trees.
Abbey Schachner: My perfect day involves some form of exercise, good food, getting some work done… a little flirtation and a successful walk with my dogs. I’m sure there’s other stuff, like, getting a nice paycheck… oh… and teaching the kids. A successful day teaching is a great day.
Michelle Miracle: I have two. #1. Sleeping in, taking a walk, performing, and making my friends laugh.
#2. Getting in the car and driving somewhere I’ve never been before, eating at a truck stop, buying a magnet of something rediculous like a baked potato, And laughing to myself.
6. What is your favorite place to perform?
Laura Baggett: My favorite place to perform was in NYC on the lower east side called The Collective Unconscious. It was a place where all sorts of performers came and shared. I felt so safe there and Reverend Jen was the host who had elf ears on and called everyone ART STARS. It was just an amazing group of mix mashed artists.
Abbey Schachner: Anywhere there’s people… or at least someone who doesn’t hate me.
Michelle Miracle: There are a lot of great places to perform in LA- like the Westside Eclectic, Comedy Carhole, but I’ll always be partial to theaters/clubs in Denver, because that’s where I started. It’s a great community- very supportive of improv, stand-up, sketch, etc, and there’s a lot of parking.
7. Who would you most like to perform with and why?
Laura Baggett: I would love to perform with Kat Williams, Miley Sirus, Kristen Schaal, The Cohen Brothers.
Abbey Schachner: I’d like to perform with a lot of living people… although, i’d like to do some movies and tv shows with the dead ones. Like a pilot with me and red foxx could be fun.
Michelle Miracle: Oooh.. so many people! Amy Poehler, Kate Flannery, Stephanie Weir- they are all amazing improvisers. I wanna hang out with Will Ferrell and George Clooney, because I think I could make them laugh-and that would make me shit my pants. Also, I want to do a movie with Jason Segal, because he’s hot and I saw his penis once (in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, but still, I feel like we are close).
8. What is your favorite art besides comedy?
Laura Baggett: My favorite art besides comedy is food. I’m a foodie. I love cooking and going to new places to eat.
Abbey Schachner: My favorite art besides comedy is sewing, making cards, and cooking. Eating’s an art too. Did you know that?
Michelle Miracle: I like going to museums, but art is so subjective, I just end up feeling dumb, because I don’t know the difference between a masterpiece and a piece of crap. But I really enjoy crafting!
9. What is your creative process like?
Laura Baggett: I live with my notebook. Dimitri Martin said to be a comic you have to be like a detective and be inquisitive about every thing that happens to you, then you find the funny. Music really gets me playful too.
Abbey Schachner: My creative process is painful, joyful, frustrating… and freeing.
Michelle Miracle: I don’t really have a process. A lot of my comedy is fueld by anger or disgust. If something pisses me off, I will write a blog about it. www.biraclemlog.blogspot.com, talk about it onstage, or write a character based on the situation. It’s funnier than sitting in my room crying. Also, I like to get out and live my life. Because comedy just happens all around us, don’t you think?
10. Would you rather live in a world without boobs or sauce?
Laura Baggett: I take my sauce on the side so i could do with out it. I love boobs, they are like snowflakes and by the way Katie’s are amazing! Thats off the article record right!?
Abbey Schachner: I would rather live without boobs… cuz the idea of sauce makes me salivate. However, boobs are nice, so I might just eat my food sauceless-ess.
Michelle Miracle: Ooh that’s a tough one. I’ve been thinking about getting a breast reduction- not because I hate my boobs, but I just really want the guy to be able to hear me when I’m on top. But I really like sauce too. Can I have smaller boobs and a little bit of sauce?
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