Take a Moment of Your Day to Appreciate the Brilliance of Kate Berlant
EntertainmentLast night, comedian and artiste Kate Berlant performed on the Comedy Central show The Meltdown with Jonah & Kumail. Her standup set—like all of her standup sets—served as an excellent reminder that we are living in a great time for creative, weird, intelligent, and subversive comedy.
In truth, there are few things I hate more than taking comedy seriously or trying to write introspectively and analytically about something thats main purpose is simply to make me laugh, but I’m willing to put that aside right now, all because Kate Berlant just makes me feel so damn excited.
Berlant’s style is surreal and stream-of-conscious. She takes the stage with the loopy and manic confidence of motivational speaker, peppering her (often non-sensical) speech with politically charged buzz phrases like sexualization is the only currency and forced into an economy of paying for your own subjectivity.