Sophie Buddle and Her Hot Takes

Get­ting to know peo­ple is hard. Intro­duc­tions can be a dance of social awk­ward­ness, but you find your foot­ing. Get­ting to real­ly know who a per­son is at their core is exquis­ite­ly dif­fi­cult, but that’s part of our mis­sion at Com­e­dy Wham. Let­ting you know the per­son behind the per­son behind the mic. 

In our most recent inter­view with Sophie Bud­dle (inter­view num­ber three, if you’re count­ing), I feel like we real­ly hit the mark, but we can’t take all the cred­it. I’ve lis­tened back to our first inter­view with Bud­dle (gosh, I wan­na call her Sophie), and when I lis­tened I heard a very fun and curi­ous per­son, so you were get­ting the real her, but in-per­son there was a very pro­fes­sion­al and com­posed Bud­dle that bor­dered on shy. 

This year a viva­cious, gre­gar­i­ous old friend showed up full of sto­ries and ready to dish! We got the same Bud­dle in 2023 that we got in 2022, but this year we got Sophie at her core, giv­ing us a look into all the expe­ri­ences and the very big dif­fer­ence one suc­cess­ful flour­ish­ing year can make. 

Bud­dle has been very busy {non-stop tour­ing across the coun­try, record­ing a new spe­cial, record­ing a Com­e­dy Cen­tral spe­cial) but also cred­its her more relaxed Moon­tow­er self with hav­ing made more friends in the indus­try and feel­ing more com­fort­able now that Austin, Texas is no longer a stranger to her. In the span of one year, she’s per­formed two Moon­tow­ers and a head­lin­ing spot at Cap City Com­e­dy Club, which means Austin is now a famil­iar friend. 

When I say Bud­dle is curi­ous, it shows imme­di­ate­ly. Inter­views often start with many questions…from her. Her pod­cast Obsessed with Sophie Bud­dle digs into her curios­i­ty about the both pop­u­lar and obscure things peo­ple are obsessed with (from vine­gar to Meryl Streep). She admit­ted to us that ​“nobody in my fam­i­ly will talk this long about this with me. So I’m very relieved. That’s why I start­ed the podcast.” 

Bud­dle can take con­ver­sa­tion­al dives into her own fas­ci­na­tions from fash­ion to Chat GPT and the poten­tial soci­o­log­i­cal impacts of tech­nol­o­gy. She drifts us into exis­ten­tial placid­i­ty and joy, with some refresh­ing philoso­phies about why we are here (atten­tion Shane Mauss!). Meld­ing philoso­phies seems to please her, too. Bud­dle says ​“I have been think­ing a lot about why we exist in a more kind of exis­ten­tial way. And I real­ly think that we exist to laugh. And, of course, a come­di­an is going to be ped­dling that kind of nar­ra­tive.” I thought we exist­ed to eat choco­late, but I’m not about to argue with my new best friend. 

This isn’t to say Buddle’s life has been smooth sail­ing since last year’s Moon­tow­er. She’s final­ly learn­ing to dri­ve (in Los Ange­les? No thank you!) and dur­ing our con­ver­sa­tion, she recounts the tale of her recent­ly released spe­cial, that … is no longer avail­able (extra hard teas­er to lis­ten to the episode to hear her tell the story).. 

But there’s so much going in the right direc­tion for Bud­dle. She recent­ly land­ed her sec­ond late night appear­ance on The Tonight Show with Jim­my Fal­lon, we’ll soon be see­ing her on Com­e­dy Cen­tral, and she is in the throes of a vin­tage cycling shirt fash­ion renaissance. 

Catch­ing up with Bud­dle may have to become an annu­al tra­di­tion (don’t be jeal­ous Jere­mi­ah Watkins). She is hys­ter­i­cal­ly fun­ny on stage and an absolute­ly bril­liant con­ver­sa­tion­al­ist off stage. We might just be obsessed.

In the vast expanse of pod­cast­ing, there’s a cer­tain charm that comes with a con­ver­sa­tion that is as enlight­en­ing as it is humor­ous. The recent exchange between Valerie Lopez and the comedic vir­tu­oso, Sophie Bud­dle, was a per­fect exam­ple of this — a delight­ful fusion of wit, wis­dom, and a rather unex­pect­ed con­fes­sion about teenage boys.

Sophie Bud­dle, a come­di­an who can make even the sternest of faces crack a smile, was on top form. Her wit was as sharp as a fresh­ly honed blade, cut­ting through the air­waves with pre­ci­sion and leav­ing lis­ten­ers in fits of laugh­ter. Valerie, our ever-gra­cious host, was the per­fect coun­ter­point, her laugh­ter pro­vid­ing the ide­al accom­pa­ni­ment to Sophie’s comedic concerto.

Bud­dle also shares the secret to some of her comedic influ­ences. ​“The con­nec­tion I have with teenage boys is so deep. Like, we have the same exact inter­est,” she declared, with a dead­pan deliv­ery that would make a stand-up com­ic proud. She fur­ther elab­o­rat­ed on her bond with her boyfriend’s nephew, stat­ing, ​“We’re so on the same page with every­thing my boyfriend is say­ing. It’s weird that we just are exact­ly the same music. I’m just a teenage boy, I think.” The teenage boys of the world, no doubt, felt a sud­den kin­ship.

When asked for one word to describe her future, Sophie, with­out miss­ing a beat, respond­ed, ​“Enlight­en­ment.” A lofty goal, indeed, espe­cial­ly con­sid­er­ing her pre­vi­ous year’s choice was ​“Mon­ey.” Sophie’s dry remark about her past choice was deliv­ered with a cer­tain charm. ​“I still wish it was mon­ey,” she admit­ted, prov­ing that even comedic mae­stros aren’t immune to the allure of finan­cial stability.

The rap­port between Valerie and Sophie was pal­pa­ble through­out the inter­view. Their con­ver­sa­tion was a delight­ful dance of wit and wis­dom, with Sophie’s humor lead­ing the way. Her part­ing words were a tes­ta­ment to this cama­raderie. ​“Amaz­ing. Well, it’s so great to sit down with you again,” she said, leav­ing lis­ten­ers with a sense of shared laugh­ter and con­nec­tion.

With Sophie Bud­dle, the one thing you can be cer­tain of, is the next thing you see is like­ly to be the last thing you expect. So, stay tuned for more of Sophie’s comedic adven­tures on social media and beyond. After all, in the world of com­e­dy, every day is a new performance.

Fol­low Sophie

• Web­site — SophieBud​dle​Com​e​dy​.com
• Twit­ter — @sophiebuddle
• Insta­gram — @sophbuds
• Link­tree — Link​tr​.ee/​S​o​p​hbuds
• Youtube — Youtube​.com/​S​o​p​h​i​e​B​uddle

Sophie can be seen and heard:

• Com­e­dy Cen­tral Spe­cial Com­ing Soon
• The Tonight Show with Jim­my Fal­lon — link
• Debut Album (2020 Juno Com­e­dy Album of the Year): Lil Bit of Buddle
• Pod­cast — Obsessed with Sophie Buddle