Inside Joke: How Comedian Catherine Cohen Workshops New Material | Nylon

Inside Joke: How Comedian Catherine Cohen Workshops New Material | Nylon
• Inside Joke: How Comed...
If you don’t know who Cat Cohen is yet, believe us, you will. She’s a comedian, singer, and actor with staggering stage presence who has influenced the New York comedy scene more than you can imagine. Now that her beloved show “The Twist? She’s Gorgeous” is out on Netflix, she’s workshopping new material, and Nylon was lucky enough to come along for the ride.
We followed her for a day as she prepped to perform a new joke about blow jobs and abortion rights, and told us all about her creative process, her influences, and so much more.
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Credits:
VP, Creative, Video: Lauren Sofair
VP, Production, Video: Whitney Buxton
EP: Julie Cid
Director/Producer: Rebecca Halfon
Cinematographer: Marshall Stief
B Camera: Jasmine Velez
Sound: Casey Eastmond
Post Supervisor: Amy Eakin
Editor: Claire Fishman
Motion Designer: Ling Yang

[@NYLONMag]

The twist? She’s brilliant.

[@mareezy]

Also, her voice is so good. How can one person be so talented

[@Hariatasanders]

Obsesssseddd with kitty cat Catherine cappuccino cohen ❤️❤️❤️

[@gotchaxel]

Very talented and refreshing comedy.

[@misterpantybuns]

Awesome! So funny, musically excellent, pretty, love the fashion taste, and what a fabulous sense of humour! :D

[@marshallstief5024]

Still humming this song!

[@rebeccaroseen]

Catherine is the best!

[@kit675]

i love her so much

[@BryannaBrown]

I love her!!!!

[@michaelmetalsky2226]

Her and Megan Starter are the future of comedy!!!!!

[@bunnyboowub]

I love kitty Cat cap 4eva! 💕

[@mareezy]

She is a genius. I wish I was her bestie

[@PinchePerro123]

“That was kinda baaad, not good…”

[@schtuff.8207]

shes funny - Now, I don't know enough about Catherine's stuff to pass judgement, but my gut instinct is she's probably more a comedian than a musician. Not saying everyone has to be Tim Minchin and have a 50/50 balance and be a virtuoso, but still - because musical comedians are rarer, even if they're meh, audiences eat them up cos they're refreshing and hearing a joke in song often enhances them cos its surprise of a joke, plus the surprise of hearing a joke sung. And algorithms tend to reward comedians way more than musicians - so musical comedians often get an unfair advantage I think. Getting laughs without a song seems like a lot more work to me - if you write a song with jokes that land, being in a rhythm and key and melody makes it a lot harder to mess up the inflection or timing and make a joke fall flat. Non-musical comedians also require a lot more crowd work. And btw, I'm not speaking out my keister either - I do improv comedy songs in my music sets and audiences usually love them I dabble with some original comedy songs too, but I'd rather write stuff that isn't funny usually, at least for now.