Sheletta Brundidge, The Funniest Woman in the Twin Cities

Sheletta Brundidge
The Funniest Woman in the Twin Cities

When someone suggested to Sheletta Brundidge earlier this year that she start her own blog, her first response was “What the hell’s a blog?”

At KSTP-TV, where she works part-time as an assignment editor, she often wrote funny e-mails to her friends. The webmaster at the station offered to help set her up online, and the result is the modestly titled The Funniest Woman in the Twin Cities, a blog of brassy observational humor about, as she says, a “black woman living in Minnesota, trying to make it and not kill herself, her husband, and her child.”

Her honest and irreverent diary entries already draw between 400 and 600 hits a day from readers around the country. When she conducted a recent reader survey, she says, “I thought it was all going to be black people. Because I’m like real black, like Al Sharpton black.” To her surprise, she found out she was writing for a widely diverse audience.

She spends two to three hours a day on her site, writing while her infant son naps. “I’ve got to have it down to a science with so much going on,” she says. In addition to being a full-time mom and her weekend job at KSTP, she also hosts the Sunday morning TV show Crossroads on KSTP sister station KSTC, writes a weekly serialized soap opera for the Spokesman Recorder newspaper, is an occasional monologuist for TPT’s Almanac, and has even done standup comedy.

Even with all that, she looks forward to her daily Web diary. “It’s like a release for me,” Brundidge says. “Being a stay-at-home mom you don’t get somebody to talk to. The mailman’s running from you. The UPS man doesn’t want to deliver packages ‘cause you talk too much. So I can get on my blog and feel like I’ve actually talked with somebody.”