had big plans for his award-winning stand-up career before he woke up one morning unable to speak. His lack of voice, likely brought about by a combination of physical and emotional factors, came about just as he was about to start a Netflix special from shows in three countries; India, the UK, and the United States. Just six weeks before it, he wasn’t sure if he’d ever speak again at all.
He has made a similarly wide-ranging special that features a big tour but said that it isn’t exactly the same special because “When your voice comes back, it sounds different.”(Personally, I feel a little bad that it took weeks of crisis, silence, and a big medical journey for me to discover this comedian’s work…he’s pretty good, even without the “Ooh, ethnic copy!” of it all—Netflix still has a clear advantage over the other streamers I’ve sampled this summer when it `comes to the quality of featured stand-up acts, in my opinion, which I hope you care a bit about if you’re reading this.
And, yes, I am always a little excited—if not, you know, Excited, when I can
bring Bohemian Crip readers something a
bit outside the narratives we all know, such as the Optimistic Child Who Doesn’t
Know She’s Broken Yet.
Much like Apu with the Stereotypes bowling team on The Simpsons,”They begged me,” my best shot at being recruited at anything, but at this point, I think I’ve aged out of what is clearly a young woman’s game. I coulda been a contender…if it stayed 1983 forever. Alas.)
I do think diversity is important, though as someone doing a lab(our) of love by keeping this up, I can’t promise that I have a running tally of percentages of world populations in my head so that it’s absolutely, full-on representative. I pretty much know that I won’t be doing that that precisely, ever, unless some kind of contract changes hands.I hope to do enough to make the De Sanctis types reach for their smelling salts on a bimonthly basis.
Wouldn’t want my disability to Hold Me Back, right?
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