At Hershey High School in Pennsylvania, Michelle Wolf was a state-meet qualifier several times with personal bests of 5-feet-4 in the high jump and 35-8 in the triple jump (along with a 60.3 quarter-mile).
But she left the sport after a freshman-year ankle sprain while training for the long jump at the College of William and Mary.
Track’s loss was comedy’s gain.
She became a stand-up comic and writer, eventually appearing on “The Daily Show With Trevor Noah” as the red-haired feminist making the host quite uncomfortable.
No she’s made the leap to Netflix — planning a weekly show.
“The 32-year-old rising star, whose show does not yet have a name, is expected to make fun of everything and everybody, with no preaching or political agenda — unless, of course, it’s funny,” said The Hollywood Reporter.
In a statement, Wolf said: “You can expect the types of jokes my former bosses would tell me we couldn’t do on TV.”
The Hollywood Reporter also noted that funny-newbie Wolf has earned the respect of comedic celebs including Louis C.K., “who tapped Wolf to open for him on his 2016 stand-up tour and to act in his celebrated web show Horace and Pete, and Chris Rock, who hired her to write for his Oscars ceremony.”
Wolf isn’t above tapping the similarity of her name to (apparently unrelated) author Michael Wolf, author of “Fire and Fury.”
In early January, Michelle took advantage of any confusion about the Trump-bashing book’s authorship, saying: “It was me. I wrote the book.”
She said the favorite part of interviewing Steve Bannon was “when he farted into a jar and then married it. I wanted to judge but you could see it was true love.”
It was me. I wrote the book. My favorite part of interviewing Steve Bannon is when he farted into a jar and then married it. I wanted to judge but you could see it was true love.
— Michelle Wolf (@michelleisawolf) January 3, 2018
Back to Michelle’s true love.
The Comic’s Comic quoted her as saying: “Track was my first love. The day before my very first meet freshman year, I got a third-degree ankle sprain practicing long jump. I never fully recovered.
“That was my first heartbreak. I thought I’d be a coach. I wanted to do more in exercise science—that’s what I was studying: kinesiology. I thought track was going to be something that was going to happen in my life. It never went in the direction I wanted it to, no matter how hard I tried.”
Her other direction has been funny, at least:
No matter your political affiliation, this has been a great year for poster board.
— Michelle Wolf (@michelleisawolf) January 20, 2018
Sometimes I see a clip from Game of Thrones and think, “wow, England has a crazy history”
— Michelle Wolf (@michelleisawolf) January 10, 2018
Smartphones may be bad for kids. But so was, like, the depression.
— Michelle Wolf (@michelleisawolf) January 9, 2018
A part I left out of Fire and Fury was how every day trump would walk in and bannon would take his little hands, look him in the eyes and say to him, “you is smart, you is blind, you is impotent.”
— Michelle Wolf (@michelleisawolf) January 6, 2018
I’d be so bad at the mob. I’d constantly be like “please don’t kill me. I didn’t tell anyone. Ok, I told two people and talked about it on a podcast.”
— Michelle Wolf (@michelleisawolf) January 6, 2018
The interview had been going on for some time when Steven Bannon said he was hungry, put his hand in a pocket of his cargo shorts, pulled out a chunk of congealed gravy and took a bite. He offered me some. I declined.
— Michelle Wolf (@michelleisawolf) January 3, 2018