Clare Blackwood: Creating A Late Night Talk Show And Everything That Comes With it!

Are you planning on creating a show or learning something new? Are you afraid to bother people and ask for help? Don't! Be a bother and reach out! It's normal not to know everything. Actor/Writer/Comedian Clare Blackwood from the hit Late Night in Canada show is joining the conversation on Cue To Cue this week to remind us that it's ok not to know things and not always get things right. You can tap your artistic community and seek for their guidance and feedback. Whatever you're feeling, don't let it stop you from trying, reaching out and developing yourself while waiting for that opening. Life is like a double dutch game, it's all about timing, finding your opening and keeping the momentum! You just need to have the stamina and endurance for it.

In this episode:

• How a joke about starting a Canadian late-night show prompted her to pursue her passion for comedy and writing.
• The challenges in Clare's multi-step artistic journey from classical acting to comedy and writing and how she overcame it.
• The importance of using her platform to talk about issues that might not get talked about.
• How she dealt with her insecurities when she was starting in the comedy community.
• How artists can enrich the fabric of society in which we live.

A little about Clare:

Clare Blackwood is an award-winning Toronto-based actor, writer, and comedian, an alumna of the Second City Sketch Conservatory, a Second City Tim Sim's Encouragement Award nominee, and the creator, writer, and host of Late Night in Canada, a new weekly political late-night show on YouTube. She is a contributing writer for The Beaverton and has also been published on CBC Comedy, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and more.

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