Comic Fortune Feimster Joined The Swim Team For The Fun Dip

The Sporkful

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4.6 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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"I've always been a fan of food," comedian Fortune Feimster says in her 2020 stand up special, Sweet and Salty. She joined the swim team in grade school just for the snacks. As a chubby kid who became a chubby adult, she often played her body for laughs.

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0:00.0	Please note, this episode contains discussion of body image and weight loss, including specific quantities of weight lost.
0:09.7	There is this cake that Tom Cruise is known to send to people he works with.
0:14.5	Like even the lighting guy in one of his movies gets this white chocolate coconut cake from a bakery in L.A. called Don's.
0:22.2	So I sort of jokingly posted on Instagram that this was on my vision board to try.
0:29.9	This is comedian Fortune Feimster. A friend of hers did a thing with Tom Cruise and he got the coconut
0:34.7	cake. Fortune saw a photo of it and became obsessed.
0:38.4	She had to get one for herself.
0:40.6	Preferably, I wanted it sent from Tom Cruise.
0:43.5	Well, of course, yeah.
0:44.6	This food delivery service Goldbelly sent me one of them.
0:49.0	Right.
0:49.3	And then I did the Kelly Clarkson show, and she also surprised me with one.
0:53.6	Well, so in preparation to speak with you, Fortune, because I am a consummate journalist
0:58.2	with a modest expense account, I ordered the cake.
1:02.8	You did?
1:03.6	Yes.
1:04.0	Oh, wow.
1:04.4	It was delivered to my house yesterday.
1:06.8	I don't think I've ever been so excited to receive a package.
1:10.4	They sent me the UPS tracking.
1:12.7	I kept going out to my front step all afternoon,
1:15.0	opening up the front door to see if it was on the stoop or not.
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