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Most importantly, her mode is silliness, which requires intimacy and surprise to keep the laughs coming. She’s a virtuoso performer, with unexpected intonations and emotional swings (using, say, a Sam Kinison scream to convey the most childish impulses or ending a disturbing story with a peppy self-help bromide), a rubber face, impressive clowning skills, and expert mimicry. Many of the voices she does are of confident upper-middle-class women, or upper-middle-class women desperate to sound confident.
Organizing the Opposition, an online event with Sara Nelson, Astra Taylor, and Zephyr Teachout, moderated by Fintan O'Toole