When Rosebud Baker found out she was pregnant in early 2023, she had to decide how to approach her standup material as she embarked on a national tour. She’s not afraid of the challenge of weaving her personal life into art — the comedian known for discussing the intimacies of her marriage onstage, as well as the death of her sister at the age of 7 — but after two miscarriages she struggled with the decision to speak about her pregnancy.
“Look, I’ll be honest with you, I didn’t have a ton of faith that she was going to make it,” Baker says with her signature deadpan delivery. “I’ve never had a superstition about it, where I thought oh if I talk about this something bad could happen — it was more like, if I talk about it and then something bad happens, how do I address that?”
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