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Is it Nicole Kidman?
my friend leans over and whispers to me.
I shrug; I have no clue.
Were nearing midnight on a Friday at Caveat, a downtown new speakeasy space on the Lower East Side.
guess Noth and Washington.
guesses the other team.
They instantly clock that the clues chewing tobacco and a Restoration Hardware table refer to Frances McDormand.
Were still used to [comedy] being a space where were going to be attacked and feel weird.
(An important historical exception to this isScott Thompsons withering Buddy Colecharacter fromThe Kids in the Hall.)
It also allowed for more flexibility in tone, content, and style.
What distinguishes it today is a queer sensibility.
Itsqueercomedy: stranger and more off-kilter than ever before, with a distinctly camp flavor.
(And so many more!)
rant from cycle four ofAmericas Next Top Model, a millennial touchstone for the self-actualizing mythos of reality television.
The performance is deconstructive, with the comedy noodling into the different parts of identity.
If you start looking, the imprint is unmistakable: Its bountiful, dizzying, bone-rattling stuff.
to be more authentically themselves now than any other point.
Or, as John Early oncetweeted: too niche too rarefied honey just call me a faggot!
Theres a difference between representation and perspective, Cole Escola said to me over iced teas recently.
Just to see if I could do it.
At the very least, it would be a great sketch.
