Comics

I'm having a great time with comedian Gianmarco Soresi's podcast The Downside on youtube. Yesterday I watched his interview with Yamaneika Saunders who is effervescent even when low on iron. The first one I watched was his interview with Brennan Lee Mulligan, professional D&D dungeon master. I kind of love this exists as a job. There are some fun Jeff Goldblum anecdotes at about an hour in. I liked how Brennan described how his mother's drugs and alcohol talk during his teens has stuck with him. She referred to an incident involving one of their relatives and told him that he had particular risk for addiction because of his genetics. She said that of course alcohol and drugs are fun and asked him how many of his classmates were already indulging. He said he knew about ten people at that point. She told him that one of the ten will just disappear in the future and he'd be sad about that disappearance for the rest of his life. I'm not a teetotaller but that is memorable! 

Last night we watched Rosebud Baker's special on Netflix which was filmed when she was eight months pregnant and also when she was a year post partum. It was a little jarring at first, I had to rewind when the first jump happened to make sure I hadn't missed something. I howled at a couple of her barbs. One of my favorites was her story of her hairdresser who went in for QAnon. RB talked about the belief that a vast group of very rich people were drinking children's blood to stay young. She said 'I was raised by rich people and first of all, they're not touching anyone's children. That sounds like something poor people would believe." Oh the perfect classism. She described her career as "angry bar clown" which is a fun precis for comedian. 

Went to see Brian Posehn last week with Japan and Denmark at the casino comedy club. He and his opener were both fun, very Gen X evening. I remember BP from character actor work in sitcoms in the late 90s, early 00s. He can certainly tell a story. We missed out on Margaret Cho tickets, she sold out as well she should. I'm hoping to see Brian Simpson in a few weeks.    

May we all laugh more than we cry in the next month.