It's our usual yuck fest, plus, WE HAVE A LIVE SHOW COMING UP! Details:

Where: The Annoyance Theater in Chicago, IL

When: Sunday, October 12 @ 6pm CT

Price: $15 in-person and $8 livestream

Why: Doi.

Follow us on IG @thebelladonnacomedy to stay up to date (and purchase yourself a ticket when we get our grubby hands on that link).

Show notes:

Hosts Katy Maiolatesi (⁠@kmaiolatesi⁠), Heidi Lux (⁠@fabulux⁠), Emily Kapp (⁠@emilykapp_⁠), & Kristen Mulrooney (⁠@kristenmmm⁠)

• The Belladonna: https://thebelladonnacomedy.com/
• The Annoyance Theatre: https://www.theannoyance.com/
• Kristen's incredible acting debut: https://verabradley.com/pages/most-perfect-couple
• Kristen's favorite recent piece: https://thebelladonnacomedy.com/jane-eyre-discovers-ethical-non-monogamy-21c385c1f694
• Emily's favorite recent piece: https://thebelladonnacomedy.com/a-list-of-2025-spinoffs-for-those-too-old-and-full-of-rage-to-watch-the-summer-i-turned-pretty-a1061fb3ba06
• Heidi's favorite recent piece: https://thebelladonnacomedy.com/what-pitchfork-would-have-rated-the-beatles-albums-in-the-1960s-ab28eb026b0f
• Katy's favorite recent piece: https://thebelladonnacomedy.com/the-court-overrules-its-previous-decision-on-oatmeal-3acb62ffbc43
  

Girls, we really get into it in this ep. We talk about what the bases are sexually (no one knows 2nd or 3rd), AI (and whether clank*r is an offensive word), and as always, our magical jeggings. AND WE HAVE A LIVE SHOW COMING UP! Follow us on IG @thebelladonnacomedy to stay up to date.

Show notes:

• Hosts Katy Maiolatesi (@kmaiolatesi), Heidi Lux (@fabulux), Emily Kapp (@emilykapp_), & Kristen Mulrooney (@kristenmmm)

• The Belladonna
• The Annoyance Theatre
• Heidi's first humor piece
• Katy's How to Humor piece
• Katy's favorite recent piece
• Heidi's favorite recent piece
• Emily's favorite recent pieces
• Emily's How to Humor piece

In this month's episode we welcome humor writer and frequent Belladonna contributor Viktoria Shulevich (@vikshulevich on IG)! She imparts her stunning humor writing wisdom on us, and talks about the 90 seconds of blindness she experienced upon learning she got into the New Yorker. Show notes:

• The Belladonna

• The Devil Is in the Retails show
• Viktoria's Tiny Delusional Love Stories in the New Yorker
• Katy's pick: https://thebelladonnacomedy.com/a-hypochondriacs-search-history-f92601bbc709
• Heidi's pick: https://thebelladonnacomedy.com/local-woman-seeks-justice-for-fathers-murder-but-interviewer-just-wants-to-talk-about-her-ex-fe2632a9f983
• Emily's pick: https://thebelladonnacomedy.com/manly-cocktails-for-manly-men-c9731f08de4d
• Viktoria's Belladonna pieces: https://thebelladonnacomedy.com/i-am-a-man-on-hinge-and-my-simple-pleasure-is-clean-sheets-e76372e299f6 & https://thebelladonnacomedy.com/faq-about-my-familys-eastern-european-immigrant-style-thanksgiving-17eda30abb94
• Viktoria's pick: https://thebelladonnacomedy.com/the-hippocratic-oath-rewritten-for-modern-american-healthcare-dbb1e18e96a0

• Hosts: Katy Maiolatesi (@kmaiolatesi) Heidi Lux (@fabulux), Emily Kapp (@emilykapp_), & Kristen Mulrooney (@kristenmmm)