OK, we have confirmation! I’ve emailed with Emily and my hunch IS correct, and even better, she answered a few questions for us. Hooray for accommodating funny ladies!
Jezebel: Where did the idea come from?
Emily: The idea came from a couple places. One was my old roommate Chris Burns who would give me hilarious, super dry tarot card readings when we lived together. She is genuinely knowledgeable about them. But I also realized soon after that I could give people tarot card readings with basically no knowledge. It didn’t even have to be a tarot deck. I’m that good at BS-ing. Anyway, a couple years later, I was trying to think of an excuse to be mean to people I respect and it all came together.
Jezebel: What can we expect in future episodes?
Emily: There are 5 more episodes to come — featuring Kal Penn, Janeane Garofalo, Kenan Thompson, John Mulaney, and Jorma Taccone (who also directs). We talk apocalypse, roommate situations, money grubbing, and failed sponsorships.
Jezebel: Are you really psychic?
Emily:I don’t know if I’m really psychic. My mom thinks I am. She also thinks she is. I think we like to remember when we were right, and never when we were wrong. That being said, you are definitely gonna give me a hundred bucks.
Jezebel: Where can we see more of you?
Emily:You can see more of me in these places! I co-host a podcast with the delightful cartoonist Lisa Hanawalt called Baby Geniuses, I’ll be on Conan on March 26th, I was on the 3rd season of John Oliver’s New York Stand Up Show on Comedy Central [and] there are clips of me talking about feminism from that episode on Comedy Central’s website; I run two stand up shows in New York — The Afterlife at the Sidewalk Cafe on Tuesdays at 8pm, and Fresh Out! at UCBeast on Thursdays at 9pm, I’m on twitter at @MrEmilyHeller, and all my tour dates are on my website.