Sophie Buddle (Volume 5)

Sophie Bud­dle may be a three-time Moon­tow­er com­ic, but she’s a five-time Com­e­dy Wham guest. To her, the allure is obvi­ous. ​“I love pod­cast­ing,” Bud­dle says. ​“You just talk to your friends, and some­how you’re cre­at­ing con­tent, and you’re putting out sto­ries that are not strong enough for standup, but you still get to use them.” For these rea­sons, Bud­dle sees pod­cast­ing as the ulti­mate ​“grift” or rather, an eco­nom­i­cal way to milk the most out of her mate­r­i­al. ​“I’m using every part of the bit”.

Bud­dle doesn’t have time for her own pod­cast, though. Between going on the road and writ­ing for After Mid­night, she’s been far too busy enter­tain­ing the mass­es along­side friend and tour­mate Tay­lor Tom­lin­son. Tap­ing four one-hour shows a week and then tour­ing every week­end makes two full-time jobs for the both of them. After Midnight’s recent can­cel­la­tion came at Tomlinson’s wish to focus on her own standup. By exten­sion, it gave Bud­dle the breath­ing room to do the same. 

“It’s hard to say no to mon­ey,” Bud­dle jokes about the deci­sion, but who could dis­agree. Lucra­tive as it was, such a tight sched­ule didn’t afford her the time or ener­gy to write new mate­r­i­al for her­self. A come­di­an can’t live that way for­ev­er. To lose her week­ly series so soon after being pro­mot­ed may be bit­ter­sweet, but the dis­tin­guished title of ​‘head mono­logue writer’ is a résumé boost­er that will open doors for Bud­dle wher­ev­er she takes her career next. Maybe that next move is podcasting.

Of all the fests Bud­dle has done, Moon­tow­er is her favorite. Most venues are with­in walk­ing dis­tance from each oth­er, most shows are in the evening, and every night ends with after-par­ties where comics can min­gle. It’s like a sum­mer camp for comedians.

For comics the fest is an oppor­tu­ni­ty to make new friends. It’s also a chance to see per­for­mances from oth­er come­di­ans whom they might nev­er cross paths with oth­er­wise. ​“Every­thing has got­ten very sec­tioned off,” Bud­dle says to her larg­er point that now more than ever, in the age of Tik­Tok, comics tour for their niche audi­ence and sel­dom break out into the wider com­e­dy com­mu­ni­ty. A fes­ti­val like Moon­tow­er brings every­one together.

For Bud­dle, see­ing a comic’s hour is like get­ting to know them. ​“I like to see their filler mate­r­i­al,” Bud­dle says. The stray jokes comics reserve for their long sets are often the purest rep­re­sen­ta­tion of who they are, even when they’re self-indul­gent or not their best work. ​“When you get to see somebody’s hour, you get to see those chunks, which is my favorite part of standup, because those are the things you’re nev­er going to see on a Tonight Show set, or when they’re try­ing to kill at a club.” And if these jokes that don’t make it to prime time are a lit­tle hacky, so be it.

As a friend of the pod, Bud­dle has some catch­ing up to do with Valerie out­side of what’s new in her com­e­dy life.

For one, she’s engaged now. There’s no wed­ding date set, but there is a loca­tion (well, there was — lis­ten for the dis­ap­point­ing reveal). The Hou­di­ni Estate would have been a des­ti­na­tion wed­ding for both Buddle’s Cana­di­an friends who want to vis­it LA, and for Buddle’s fiancé Mayce Galoni who, before he was a com­ic him­self, ​“used to be a pro­fes­sion­al magi­cian, if you can believe it.” Once a new venue is secured, the only wed­ding anx­i­ety for Bud­dle is decid­ing which of her 300 clos­est friends to invite.

If you fol­low Sophie on Insta­gram, you’re prob­a­bly won­der­ing where the wed­ding will fit in among the stream of ​“unhinged” images and videos she posts to her sto­ry. ​“It’ll be a hard ​‘post to-grid’ “.

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
• 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
• In Austin
  • Open­ing for Tay­lor Tom­lin­son May 30 – 31, Moody Center
  • Head­lin­ing August 29 – 30, Red Room at Cap City Com­e­dy Club

• Lis­ten to Sophie’s past episodes with us
  • Sophie Bud­dle is an Excep­tion­al Per­son (2022)
    
  • Sophie Bud­dle Head­lines Cap City Com­e­dy Club 12÷30−31, 2022 (2022)
    
  • Sophie Bud­dle and Her Hot Takes (2023)
    
  • Sophie Bud­dle Serves Up (Vol­ume 4) (2024)