330: Ellie Hino and Soft Bones

Ellie Hino! Comedian! Podcaster! Friend! Delight! More! Ellie is a super funny nice comedian person! She has a new album out today called Soft Bones! Get it! Stream it! Listen to it! Share it! About Ellie:​ Ellie Hino is a Minneapolis-based stand-up comic with a heart of gold. She appeared in the 2019 and 2021 Limestone Comedy Festivals, Boston’s Women in Comedy festival, and was featured in “best of the fest” at 10,000 Laughs Comedy Festival. Recently, she’s opened for Maria Bamford, Atsuko Okatsuka, Dana Gould and Bobcat Goldthwait. On Thursday nights she co-hosts Darlings with Ben Katzner, a weekly showcase of local and national stand-up comics at Zhora Darling in Minneapolis.  About Soft Bones: Blonde Medicine is excited to announce the upcoming debut comedy album from Ellie Hino, Soft Bones, out April 5th (TODAY!), available everywhere comedy is streamed and sold.  After dabbling in stand-up in her early twenties, she became a member of the main cast at the Brave New Workshop Comedy Theater in Minneapolis. She returned to stand-up when she was pregnant, and is back with a new sense of urgency to follow her comedy dreams. “I was lucky enough to open for Maria Bamford at a big theater show in Minneapolis and she told me it was time to record an album. ‘Poop it out! Just poop it out!’’, she said. So I did!” says Ellie Hino. Soft Bones is a compilation of stories about being an ADHD mom, a weird wife, and a regular human woman.  About this episode of this podcast that this is all describing: This is only the first HALF of my chat with Ellie! For the second half, subscribe via Apple Podcasts OR click on over here to Patreon!     ​