“THE YOUNG & THE WEARY’S DEV ROGERS WEIGHS IN ON GETTING OLD, GETTING CANCER & GETTING HIGH POSTED ON MARCH 14, 2019 Eighty-nine-year-old feminist Dev Rogers is the co-host (along with Jeremy Pinsly) of The Young & the Weary, a podcast that explores everything from sex and dating to growing up Jewish and surviving breast cancer. Rogers, a former occupational therapist who began her comedy career in her eighties, is candid, whip-smart, and laugh-out-loud funny. Listen to The Young & the Weary here.
SDTC: When you were younger, did you ever think you would be doing so many creative and enterprising things when you were eighty-nine years old? How has your view of what is possible shifted over time?
DR: No. I didn’t even think about it at first, but as I’ve gotten older, I’ve gotten more hopeful. It took getting diagnosed with breast cancer to feel I had permission to start acting and being funny, and now I’m just grateful to have the opportunities to develop. I didn’t even know this world existed. It’s amazing.”
