Bridget Everett

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Her mother was a music teacher and gave her a love of music.

Growing up, Everett participated in competitive swimming and was involved in both traditional and show choir. She attended college at Arizona State University (ASU) on a full scholarship to study music and opera. She graduated from ASU in 1995 with a degree in vocal performance.

Everett moved to New York in 1997 and worked as a waitress. She got her Equity card doing a bus-and-truck children's-theatre tour of Hansel and Gretel. She worked in the restaurant business for 25 years before she was finally able to quit around the beginning of 2015.

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Career

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2007—2016

In 2007, Everett starred and co-wrote alongside Michael Patrick King the off-Broadway musical comedy At Least It's Pink: A Trashy Little Show. King gave her a small part in the 2008 Sex and the City movie, as a drunk woman who interviews to be Carrie's assistant. Everett met Amy Schumer at the Just for Laughs comedy festival in 2009. Everett has been regularly opening for Schumer on her comedy tours since 2012. Everett has even upstaged Schumer, which then led Schumer to prefer to have Everett close for her instead, according to Schumer on her podcast.

Everett often performs with her band, The Tender Moments, which includes Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz from the Beastie Boys and Carmine Covelli from The Julie Ruin. In October 2013, Everett and Horovitz performed in a show called Rock Bottom that the two co-wrote with Hairspray songwriters Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman. Rock Bottom won Everett the 2015 Special Citation presented by the American Theatre Wing.Obie Awards, 2015 Winners . In 2013, Bridget Everett and the Tender Moments released a 12-track album titled Pound It! Everett has also performed with Brad Williams in a show called Down n Dirty (hosted by Broad Citys Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer) at the 2014 Bonnaroo Music Festival. Everett performed a duet of "Me and Bobby McGee" with Patti LuPone at Carnegie Hall in 2013.

Everett made her first television appearance in 2012, playing a guest-starring role in the CBS sitcom 2 Broke Girls. She had secondary roles in films Gayby (2012) and The Opposite Sex (2014), and in 2015 appeared in the Amy Schumer comedy film Trainwreck. Everett's first one-hour TV special, Bridget Everett: Gynecological Wonder, premiered on Comedy Central in 2015. In it, she performs her usual brand of comedy cabaret.

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2017—present

In 2017, Everett starred in four movies; two premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. She starred alongside Toni Collette and Molly Shannon in the comedy film Fun Mom Dinner. It received generally negative reviews from critics, but her performance was noted by The New York Times. In the dramatic film Patti Cake$, Everett played Barb Dombrowski, marking her screen breakout as Barb Dombowski the alcoholic mother of Danielle Macdonald's character Patti Dombrowski. Patti Cake$

On August 1, 2017, Everett got a standing ovation for her "Piece of My Heart" karaoke performance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. On January 3, 2018 The Tonight Show aired a repeat of Everett performing "Piece of My Heart". She also performed the song in the third episode of the 2022 TV show Somebody Somewhere. In 2018, Everett had a recurring role in the short-lived HBO comedy series, Camping. The following year, she appeared in the Netflix miniseries, Unbelievable playing Colleen Doggett, one of the foster parents of teenage victim Marie Adler (Kaitlyn Dever). In 2021, she appeared in the black comedy film Breaking News in Yuba County directed by Tate Taylor.

In 2022, Everett began starring in the HBO comedy-drama series, Somebody Somewhere playing the leading role of Sam, a woman in her 40s trying to find happiness. Her performance received positive reviews from critics. Ciara Wardlow from RogerEbert.com wrote in her review: "Everett is remarkable as a woman who hides behind a mask of apathy and witty barbs. She’s hardly the sort to talk about her feelings by choice, but Everett’s performance manages to consistently convey to the audience things that Sam refuses to say or acknowledge with crystal clarity. It’s a subtle and compelling portrait of depression, a sadness that creates an intriguing counterbalance to the bold and bawdy sense of humor for which Everett is known, which also gets plenty of opportunity to shine." The Rotten Tomatoes critical consensus reads, "Led by a captivating Bridget Everett, Somebody Somewhere explores the human condition with tenderness, grace, and warmth. At the 38th Independent Spirit Awards, Everett received nomination for the Best Lead Performance in a New Scripted Series. She was also nominated for an TCA Award for Individual Achievement in Comedy. The show received the 84th Peabody Awards in Entertainment.

• 2013: Pound It (Beavertails Music)
• 2015: Gynecological Wonder (Comedy Partners)

• 2013: "Titties"
• 2013: "What I Gotta Do?" (Dirty Version)
• 2016: "Eat It"
• 2017: "Pussy Grabs Back" (All proceeds go to Planned Parenthood, download only.)
• 2021: “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” (w/ Matt Ray)
• 2023: “Home”
• 2023: “Thanking You”

• 2015: Gynecological Wonder (Comedy Central)

• 2018: Just For Laughs - Premium, Vol. 25 (Track 3: “Put Your Dick Away (Jfl 2015)”)

• 2014: Neal Medlyn: For Real, You Guys - 3 songs: "More Wet", "Aspirbations Skit" (feat. Ad-Rock & Bridget Everett) & "Just Woke Up" (vocals)
• 2015: The Dan Band: The Wedding Album - song: "Making Love Forever" (vocals and songwriter)
• 2016: Champagne Jerry: The Champagne Room - song: "One Talent" (feat. Bridget Everett, Murray Hill, Erin Markey, Larry Krone, Jim Andralis & the Champagne Club) (vocals)
• 2016: Jim Andralis & Bridget Everett: "Hit the Ground Fuckin'" - Single (backing vocals)
• 2020: Morgan James: She Is Risen, Vol. 2 EP - 5 songs
• 2022: Raymond Angry & Timo Elliston: Life & Beth (Original Series Soundtrack) (Track 9: “Blue Bayou”)