Wally Baram Wanted to Be a Cowboy—She Became a Rising Comedy Star Instead

Wally Baram Wanted to Be a Cowboy—She Became a Rising Comedy Star Instead

Click through to read our interview with Overcompensating star and rising comedian Wally Baram.

Wally Baram of Overcompensating Tells Kyle MacLachlan How She Gets Into Flow State

Wally Baram, photographed by Luisa Opalesky. Until recently, Wally Baram had more spent time in writer’s rooms than she had in front of the camera. As a stand-up comic, and then a staff writer on shows like Shrinking and What We Do in the Shadows, she became accustomed to the conventions of television writing: long hours at a roundtable, interspersed with chunks of what she calls “shooting the shit.” But then, during a workaday writing session o…