Alex Borstein Explains Why Her Prime Video Comedy Special ‘Corsets & Clown Suits’ Is ‘Like a Filthy TED Talk’
21.04.2023 - 20:39
/ thewrap.com
For those who only know Alex Borstein as the sarcastic, no-nonsense manager Susie Myerson on “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” boy, do you have a lot to learn. As proven in her new Prime Video comedy special “Alex Borstein: Corsets & Clown Suits,” she’s the kind of comedian that Susie Myerson would jump through hoops to represent.“It’s just a real different animal.
It’s not standup really. It’s like a filthy ‘TED talk,’” Borstein told TheWrap. “You’re gonna learn something, you’re gonna hear a story and hopefully laugh… and there’s music.
So I think because it’s like a strange hybrid; it hits differently, you know?”The show is deeply personal in some places and wildly fictitious in others, all told with comedy, music (yes, she sings too) and an occasional prop or two (there’s a bit about a “patch” women can wear on their cheeks when they choose to be celibate).And if you’re at all curious about the title of the show, she explains it up front and thoroughly in the act:“I have spent 40 years of my life in a clown suit. OK? Twenty of those years I have spent with the same person. Only, it turns out I didn’t really know that person.
My perception was way off. The joke was on me. The clown has been clowned.
So I find myself a divorced human being. It’s like coming out of a 20-year coma. It’s a whole new world in front of me, a whole new landscape.
And I have to figure out how to navigate in this new world. In order to do that, I have to figure out who I was, who I am, you know? And can I move around in this new world in a clown suit? If I wanna meet somebody, can I do it in a clown suit?”Borstein explained it further when we chatted with her. “I think most women in general are always trying to balance a couple of things.
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