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Julia Wiedeman On Abuse, and Not Laughing
03/06/2013
Julia Wiedeman On Abuse, and Not Laughing
Our story this week: something a little different. For a year now, we've been bringing you stories that we thought were funny, many of which came from disasters, traumatic events in the lives of the storytellers. It's in many of our natures and especially in the nature of the kind of person who gets up on the stage to tell these stories for a room full of strangers, to laugh at the macabre and the dark, to smile and snark in spite of terror. For a comedian this irreverence is her first and prime instinct. A few weeks ago, comedian Julia Weideman took the stage at the UCB East in New York and wrestled that instinct to he ground. When the dust cleared, we had a story, one she had never told before, with no punch lines, no clever similes, no witty rejoinders, and yet it was a story we knew we had to share with you.
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