How a hot tub tragedy shaped Rosebud Baker’s Dark Sense of Humor (exclusive)

Stand-up comedian and Saturday Night Live Author Rose bridges have a great moment, with the release of its second Netflix special, Mother Lode.

“Life has been busy lately, to say the least,” laughs Baker, who also writes for SNL‘S Weekend Update and recently participated in the show’s 50th anniversary event. But she takes everything in steps.

“I am very pleased with how the special came out,” says Baker, which is centered on pregnancy and motherhood. “But I know that with all the special I do, I don’t like it six months later. So I just like this time as I do Like it. ”

Mother Lode – Who came out on February 18 – was filmed in two parts: one where Baker was pregnant and another after her the birth of her daughter. In the special, she discusses topics about pregnancy, miscarriage, is a reluctant mother and (mostly) embraces the movement in everything.

Baker explains that even though she loves to be a mother, she felt compelled to return to her job six weeks after giving birth.

“It was really important for me to get back to work,” she says. “My mother was a painter and artist but had five children when I was ten, and it was impossible for her to find time to do it. So it was important for me to continue working.”

Baker, who was raised outside DC with his siblings, had a grandfather in politics. James Baker worked as Chief of Staff for Ronald Reagan before later becoming secretary for the Treasury.

In 2002, the tragedy beat her family when her younger sister Virginia Graeme, then 7, was killed during a hot tub that drowned incident that made National news. Graeme’s body was caught under the water by the powerful drainage suction at the bottom of the hot tub, and the accident was crucial at the time of the Virginia Graeme Act in 2007, which required drainage protection and pump valve emissions on public pools throughout the country.

For Baker, the event changed her life in many ways and certainly affected her humor.

“I think having an early experience with death, it really gives you a darker humor,” she explains. “At least did it to me. Because when you lose a loved one, everything feels so absurd, and your real life feels so absurd, and to me it struck me as funny. And I believe since then, it’s like it’s not A little sad, it’s not really fun for me. ”

But she credits to work on Saturday Night Live By making her see the joy in silly things too.

“It has broadened my humor that way, because I had such a dark humor that went in there, and humor there is so stupid and fun that it made me go, oh yes, something can only be stupid,” she says. “You can really enjoy it too.”

When it comes to motherhood, she has also found the stupid in it, but admits that she was afraid to death by parenting.

“The amount of terror that I felt I was pregnant and being a mother was the next level,” she shares. “And I wanted to capture it in the special, because I think there are many people who are ready to be mothers or who spend all their lives to imagine being mothers. And I was not one of them. So I wanted to talk out that perspective.

Next up for Baker? She is about to go into a comedy tour and possibly do another season at SNL.

“We always have to wait and see,” she says she doesn’t know if she will be invited back next season.

“It’s very scary!” She admits the job. “It’s still daunting. It’s one of the places where it doesn’t matter how long I have been there, I go in there every day goes,” You have to bring your funniest I into this building every day, “Even if you feel less fun than anyone who has ever passed through these doors.”

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Mother Lode Now flows on Netflix.