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- She doesn’t really tell jokes. She holds forth in the digressive voice of a seductive, larger-than-life guru, evoking a New Age businesswoman or a trendy academic. Her outsized personas shift slightly, enough to indicate they’re contrived, but her language and style remain remarkably consistent wherever she performs.
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Aug 23, 2022 · In the overly enunciated voice of the pretentious intellectual she had perfected in her stand-up, she said with a dismissive flip of her hand: “I don’t participate in the economy of...
- Jason Zinoman
Nov 23, 2022 · Before she takes the stage, a clip of her work in A League of Their Own flashes on a screen, a joke tucked into a “blatant careerist moment.”. Berlant in her solo stage show, KATE. Courtesy ...
Sep 8, 2022 · Like a lot in the exquisite one-person show Kate, written and performed by Berlant and directed by Bo Burnham ( Connelly Theater, to October 8 ), the joke is not isolated but threaded into a...
Jan 24, 2024 · For Kate, the quasi-autobiographical character in experimental comedian Kate Berlant’s delightfully odd solo show, “Kate,” the answer is the ability to cry on cue. No matter how sad the...
- Charles Mcnulty
- Theater Critic
- charles.mcnulty@latimes.com
Jun 28, 2022 · John Early and Kate Berlant derived their extremely high-concept Peacock special from inside jokes the two have had in their friendship.
- Sasha Urban
Jan 29, 2023 · All the jokes were quite abstract. I told jokes about the Pope. It was bizarre. I was, like, “If the Pope sleeps on his side, does the word of God get in?”
Feb 16, 2024 · In her one-woman show, there’s a running joke that Kate Berlant cannot cry on cue. Throughout the performance, she stands in front of a camera that projects footage of her onto a screen...
