Alex Borstein Explains Why Her Prime Video Comedy Special ‘Corsets & Clown Suits’ Is ‘Like a Filthy TED Talk’
thewrap.comFor 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.
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