I inherited a piano and I’d already played other instruments so I was familiar with scales and things like that. Maybe when you’re not pushed into anything you tend to want to do it more. ‘Hey hey hey you’re freaking out too much about this, it looks great.’ And I’d be ‘but this color isn’t right, or this outline, I didn’t draw the horse, it doesn’t look good enough.’ I’m such a perfectionist – which is weird because my parents didn’t really force anything on me, I forced all that stuff on myself. If I wanted to draw something I’d work on it until my Dad literally took away my art book. So with comedy, you wanted to dive right in. I’m still friends with Russell Johnson’s daughter, Kimberly. He kinda introduced us all to one another. A mutual friend, Bill Funt, his dad was Alan Funt, somehow connected all the family members from Gilligan’s Island on Facebook and on email. Dawn Wells came and sat in the front row. We talked to Natasha (Leggero) after the show and she told me about ‘Pretty Funny Women.’ And I was like ‘OK, I’m curious.’ And whenever I’m curious or scared of things I tend to dive right in.įirst show I did was at the Comedy Union here in Los Angeles. So one day a friend asked ‘do you wanna come to The Women of Chelsea Lately at the Laugh Factory?’ And I was like ‘sure, sounds fun.’ And I sat there thinking ‘they’re so empowered. And there were so many women my age doing the same thing.
You can’t help what you look like, or if you remind the director of an ex-girlfriend, or you’re too tall or you’re too fat. Doing acting, I’d get little things here and there, but I was frustrated because so much of that is out of your control. I really put that pressure on myself at a young age. I thought if I’m going to have any value as a human being, I needed to carry on the family name. I thought I needed to be an actor because that’s what my family did. I took some time off because I was doing documentary stuff. The first was ‘I wanna be a good comic.’ I wanted to actually know what to do with an audience. I think it’s the beginning of a new stage. So that said, what stage is ‘I’m Only Happy When It’s Raining Men’ for you? And I thought: OK, one, everyone apparently has a story about your grandfather, and two, this restaurant he had must’ve been later in his career.
– and a socially-distanced horseback outing to discuss her history, her path as an up & coming comic, and drawing the perfect horse.Įarlier today I ran into a friend who’s a Vietnam vet and he said: ‘ask her about ‘The Lobster Bucket…’Īnd a few other people shared ‘I remember Alan Hale’ stories. No stranger to the public eye, Hale is granddaughter to the late Alan ‘The Skipper’ Hale jr. “I spent more time promoting it than I did recording it.” “I worked my ass off for that,” Hale said. Samantha Hale’s first comedy album I’m Only Happy When It’s Raining Men dropped in February and quickly went to Number One on iTunes.
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