Hannah Berner Really, Really Wants To Collaborate With Shaquille O'Neal
Hippos can open their mouths 150 degrees, according to Snapple Real Fact #398. Hannah Berner hopped on a FaceTime call with me while kicking off Snapple’s Roadsip tour in New York City. “I don't have time to read a book. I can barely read a caption. So reading a Snapple fact is perfect for me,” she says over the noisy crowd. Any fun “animal” Snapple facts are the ones that stuck in Berner’s brain as a kid, just like the aforementioned Hippo fact.
The comedian is getting ready for her Fall tour, which is set to take off in early September until late November. “This is my first theater tour — so I started doing basements, restaurants, clubs, and now I'm at the theater level, which is super exciting,” Berner says. “It makes me feel like a little Broadway star, except it's just you on stage.”
What are her go-to road trip essentials, you ask? Snapple (obviously), Supergoop sunscreen, and Summer Friday’s Lip Butter Balm. “I'm always talking and I want to make sure that my lips look good while I'm talking and making silly jokes at people,” she adds. As a girl with a current fascination for lip glosses and lip stains, I couldn’t agree more.
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Berner is a feminist, so she is specifically excited to see “the community of women” coming out to see her shows, laugh with friends, and just “having the best time.” The social media sensation is known for her TikTok videos featuring street interviews, where men and women discuss relationship (and notably sexual😂) questions and phrases. Berner comments that she is “definitely going to have crowd work at the shows” for her audience on and offline — similar to Hannah’s street interviews that pop up on your For You Page.
The Giggly Squad podcast host says laughing, “A lot of girls bring their boyfriends — make fun of them — and I think it's humbling and it's really good for feminism.” With Barbie, the Eras tour, and Girl dinners taking over the internet, I’d say it’s a year for the girls. Berner has interviewed some famous female faces recently, such as Jennifer Lawrence and Kesha — but her dream interview may take you by surprise.
“I actually really want to interview Shaq [Shaquille O’Neal].” She continues, “I feel like he'd make me laugh, but he'd also give me good insight and he'd be, like, crazy tall. I'd be, like, talking to his belly button.” The basketball star is 7’ 1” (for reference, that’s like really tall).
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Berner is also a huge fan of Amy Schumer, including that “working with her would be a dream.” There’s something about Hannah and Amy’s humor styles that I think would be an epically hilarious collab (so if someone from Schumer’s team is reading this, please make it happen...Shaq’s team too, while we're asking for favors.)
In addition to Berner’s much-anticipated tour, the television personality has “a really exciting project coming up in the spring” and is expected to announce it in the “next couple of months.” So make sure to keep an eye out! In the meantime, you can listen to her latest podcast with her hubby named, Burner Phone. I feel like this FaceTime interview was basically a Burner Phone episode already — at least, the fangirl side of me will classify it as one!
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