Comedian Missy Hall & Finding the Humor in Growing Older

That, okay, first of all, that's an honor.

Second of all, I'm so glad somebody is looking out for the older people in this country because it's easy to feel invisible when we get up towards this end.

So thanks for doing what you do and thanks for having me.

You're welcome.

And in terms of being invisible, I have no idea what you're talking about as an older person.

We're going to talk about all that and ageism in this culture a little bit later, and maybe even ageism in comedy if you want to get into that.

But you call yourself the queen of happy things, the queen of happy things.

And if you go to your website, which I'll give people at the end, there's a picture of you with your arms outspread, big smile, and said, it's a happy thing.

What's that all about, Missy?

A hundred years ago when I was in college, when I was trying to describe something as good, somebody said, oh, no, that's a shame.

I'm like, no, no, no, it's a happy thing.

So just throughout the years when I would say something was great, I would just call it a happy thing.

And it stuck and people started saying it back to me.

And then when I was writing a bio years ago, My friend Dina was like, well, what your name should be is the queen of happy things.

So she did that and it kind of stuck.

So I just glommed onto those things as kind of like my comedy name and tagline.

Oh, that's great.

I love that.

We'll talk more about your outlook, you know, your comedic voice.

I do want to start with this, though.

And this is one reason I wanted to have you on the show.