EXCLUSIVE: Comedian, actor, producer and podcaster Andrew Schulz (Infamous) has signed with CAA.
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Ariel Elias says she still hasn’t fully processed the incident at Uncle Vinnie’s Comedy Club Saturday night in Point Pleasant Beach, NJ, a moment that’s since gone viral.
“I still haven’t cried, and I know I need to,” she said today on Gianmarco Soresi’s podcast The Downside.
“I think I’m feeling irritated at some of the attention,” continued Elias. Deadline revealed yesterday that, in addition to outlets like Rolling Stone and CNN reaching out, producers for Jimmy Kimmel Live! are looking to book the comedian.
The incident in question involved a seemingly drunk woman in the audience asking Elias who she voted for the the last election before insisting, “I can tell by your jokes that you voted for Biden.”
That led Elias to take (the verbal) gloves off.
“I can tell by the fact that you’re still talking when nobody wants you to that you voted for Trump,” the comedian replied to big cheers from the audience.
Just a few seconds later, a beer can sailed across the room and splattered against the wall behind Elias, whose jaw dropped. But without missing a beat she came up with the prefect rejoinder.
“As soon as I picked up the beer and felt liquid still in it,” Elias told Newsweek on Monday, “I knew to chug it. It felt like the only way to recover. Also suddenly I really needed a drink, so it really worked out.”
But in some ways, Elias still hasn’t recovered saying, “I haven’t slept in a few days.”
She continued, “Saturday night when I got home, I watched the video and I was like, ‘Oh…that was thrown really, really hard.’ I don’t think I had processed how hard that was thrown and what would have happened if it had hit me: It misses me, [and] it’s great for my career [and] it’s like a fun viral clip; It hit’s me, [and] it’s
EXCLUSIVE: Comedian, actor, producer and podcaster Andrew Schulz (Infamous) has signed with CAA.
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J. Kim Murphy After Ariel Elias garnered online attention for a video of her handling a heckler during a standup set and chugging a beer that was thrown at her by an audience member, “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” is now looking to book the comedian for an appearance. A spokesperson for ABC’s late-night program confirmed that the show is “in touch” with Elias and figuring out a date that would fit their schedules. Elias faced down the situation during a show Saturday evening in Point Pleasant Beach, N.J.. During a stretch of her set in which she opened the stage up for a Q&A with the audience, one attendee shouted “Did you vote for Donald Trump?”
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