I haven't revealed why my parents are here for so long until this time.
I have this weird problem with my sinuses." It's a special feeling to be in your mid-30s and have your parents moving in with you. They keep saying, "Now, we've got to start planning the Thanksgiving dinner." And then my mom goes, "Why are you crying?" And I go, "Oh, my eyes are watering. And when I say this week, I mean it's just the first of many weeks. OK, my parents are staying with me this week. And there was a Pat movie, which, as she refers to, didn't really do too well. And the joke with Pat was that nobody could ever tell if Pat was a man or a woman.
She's best known for a character named Pat. She was in the cast of Saturday Night Live for a while. Some things you should know about Julia Sweeney before we start that she refers to in these monologues. And these are from the MC and ringmaster at Un-Cabaret, Beth Lapides. Also, sometimes you're going to hear laughing and off-stage comments during the monologues. And so the sound quality isn't always the greatest. These tapes are made from the soundboard at Un-Cabaret. It had its own very particular kind of feeling to it. And the way it would work is that every Sunday night, back in its early days, five or six people would go up, often with notes in their hands, onto the stage, and then do this thing that was somewhere between traditional stand-up and diary and a kind of reportage. So spontaneity was just built into the structure of it.
The rules of Un-Cabaret were that no comic was allowed to tell a story that he or she had ever told on stage before. Un-Cabaret started off as this kind of experiment in reaction to the predictability and lowest-common-denominator mentality of a lot of stand-up comedy. These recordings were made between October of 1994 and August of 1995 at a regular weekly comedy show called Un-Cabaret in Los Angeles, run by Beth Lapides and Greg Miller. Act Two, Julia is diagnosed with cancer herself and gets treated. Today show's is going to proceed in two acts. And of course, most weeks, we choose a theme, bring you a variety of different kinds of stories on that theme, documentaries, monologues, found tapes, occasional radio plays, anything we can think of.īut today, what we're going to do is devote the entire program to just one thing, to this very unusual set of comic monologues. This, of course, is your weekly program documenting everyday life in these United States through whatever means and tactics seem necessary. Well, from WBEZ Chicago, it's This American Life, distributed by Public Radio International.
And in this case, there is just no time, right? Sometimes you get the feeling when you hear these recordings that she's talking about these things for the very first time with anybody.
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There's this saying that comedy equals tragedy plus time, which isn't always true but is mostly true. Her feelings are right there on the surface. During the same weeks that some of the most horrible things that can happen to a person were happening to her, there's something about these recordings which is just very remarkable. After the worst of all these times was over, she turned some of these stories into a one-woman show, which became a book and a movie.īut there's something about these original recordings that she made. When Julia Sweeney's brother got cancer, and then she got cancer, she decided she wanted to talk about it with strangers from a stage in a comedy club. OK, here's something that most of us would never, ever do.
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