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Sarah Huttos work has run inThe New Yorker, The Washington Post, and The New York Times.
She is working on a humor book.
This week, Hutto talked with me about tweeting autobiographically and taking tweets to develop longer material.
This song was voted as my high school prom theme.
I mean, trust me, I relate.
Every time I hear it I think, No, girl!
Dont take him to the party!
Youll have to watch him the whole time to see to it hes not hitting on your friends!
Did you do comedy in school?
When and how did you get started?
What got me really started was having a second kid and getting knocked on my ass by it.
Then I submitted toMcSweeneys,who respond to every submission, and I could not get over that.
That someone was actually going to read what I wrote and respond to me.
It was like having a secret life outside of the insanity in my house.
Thesecond piece I submitted toMcSweeneyswas accepted and I was a goner.
What does that patent office look like?!
What else is pending?
How many things are pending?????
Have you ever taken a tweet and developed it into longer material, or vice versa?
That piece just got accepted somewhere and will run sometime in February.
You just have to be mindful about what youre bringing thats unique and not just regurgitating hashtags and formats.
This is definitely an autobiographical tweet.
I love the idea of needing to rent a public space to have a temporary personal crisis.
There should be a signal for that.
I guess thats what hazard lights are on a car.
Did you not see the ridiculously sized baked good in my hand?
Do I look like a person who is going to be grabbing life by the horns right now?
Dont look at me!
Im going to be laying down in the back seat in about 5 minutes!
I got teased a lot as a kid!
Is your Twitter persona true to you in real life?
They actually are surprisingly autobiographical.
I occasionally flub, but there are tweets I think people would be surprised werent just made up.
THAT IS A REAL THING.
This came about during that whole MOAB thing.
I kept wondering, Why are they dragging mothers into this?
Dont we have enough problems, what with peeing when we sneeze and all?
And then I realized, Oh, I know why.
Karen Cheeis a is a writer/performer who contributes regularly toThe New YorkerandMcSweeneys.
