“of course I wanted to get married for attention. come to mewhich airs on the streaming service Veeps on October 17. (“If you want to dress cool and have everyone look at you, try to be fun!” she advises, pointing to her shimmering sequined jumpsuit.) But if you’re in the early to mid-teens , this joke is particularly uncomfortable. (At least one or two of them.)
“Now that I have a boyfriend, I forgot about it, but for a long time my whole life was ‘I have Get a boyfriend,’ and now I’m like, who is that guy? Cohen recalled as we sat outside Katz’s Deli eating bagels. Cohen recently moved in with actor Brian Mueller, whom she dated for five years, allowing her to see a whole new side of him: “Now that I’m living with him, he’s acting like a little boy. Like, You have such a high emotional intelligence, yet you eat sweets in the morning. He is perfect.
Cohen’s tolerance for(er) romance may have increased in recent years, but on stage her image remains much the same as it was at the beginning of her career, when she sang “Boys never want to kiss me, so now I act Comedy”; the Houston-raised, Princeton-educated comedian and her group of friends — including Patty Harrison, Mitra Juhari and Lori Adefope — have long been The de facto “it girls” in this almost intentionally unfashionable alternative comedy scene. Take Cohen’s musical, for example, with its sparkly jumpsuits (designed by stylist Kelsey Randall) and punchlines that are mesmerizing and intentionally affecting, if only she weren’t so clearly in on the joke , which would appear inappropriate.
Some comedians might have trouble letting a special about growing up coexist with a series of less demure reveals. (“It was like putting eyeliner on someone,” Cohen said recently of performing oral sex on a woman for the first time.) But Cohen has a unique gift for establishing and sustaining a party atmosphere, no matter how dark the tone of her material. It was a talent she had ample opportunity to hone over the years performing in cabaret at Club Cumming, a gay bar in the East Village. Cohen, podcast co-host seek treatment Working with comedian Pat Regan, she has a knack for using her physical form to get laughs without muddying the comedic waters with uncensored fatphobia. In Cohen’s world, the joke is always about the world’s inability to accept big butts, not the big-butt owners themselves. (“My boyfriend loves my body because he’s a fucking pervert,” Cohen confided to her shyly. come to me audience.
