S02E09 Micky Overman, Dutch speaker - From Almere, The Netherlands 🇳🇱

Describing her accent as “a beautiful mess”, comedian Micky Overman’s show “The Recipe” was amongst the best reviewed shows at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2023. The excellent show is now free for viewing on Micky’s Youtube channel and forms the basis of this interview.Micky has one of those accents of a proficient non-native English speaker that not everyone can work out what her mother tongue is. Despite this, unsolicited advice still found its way to Micky, that she should play up her foreignness and even present herself as a Dutch cliché on stage.Except it is clear to Micky she does comedy for herself and wants to be herself performing comedy rather than a caricature. Micky was fed up with notion that a person could be largely definite merely by their nationality, she even wrote a show to mock this idea in 2018.But Micky’s latest critically acclaimed show does quite the opposite. “The Precipice” has little to do with her being Dutch. It has to do with her thinking about mental health, motherhood amongst other subjects that most other millennials would be wondering. The writing is sharp; the humour is universal.Watch Micky’s show “The Precipice”---------------------------------Follow Micky on InstagramMicky will perform at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2024 with a new show “Hold On”. July 30th to Aug 25th (no Aug 13th) daily at Monkey Barrel The Tron at 5:50. For Tickets, click here.Follow your host Kuan-wen on Instagram---------------------------------If you like the episode, please share it and leave a review. For any comments or suggestions, please contact us on Instagram or email [email protected]:43 First Impression of Micky’s accent02:19 Intro05:35 Everyone interprets Micky’s accent differently07:40 Micky’s accent shifts based on the people she talks to08:35 Micky’s opting for British pronunciation in her comedy sets for jokes to land10:38 Deliberately mispronouncing words to make them funnier12:55 Why would someone pretend to be Dutch? On national stereotypes15:55 Foreign comedians SHOULD use their “otherness”?21:11 Practicing not to over-introduce herself in the 2023 show25:07 Micky in English not having the same perceptions by others when speaking Dutch26:38 Micky’s critically acclaimed 2023 show “Precipice”: her worldview through how the jokes were structured28:22 Micky’d turns of phrase30:48 Show not tell; trust your audience and do not talk them down33:23 Comedy writing as music34:02 Enjoying being dumb, not taking herself too seriously35:36 Micky performed in a deadpan style at the very beginning37:14 Micky’s 2023 show Precipice on Youtube37:25 Micky at Edinburgh Fringe in 2024--------------------------------Podcast intro music by @Taigenkawabe