'I identify as a deeply lazy person': comedian Kate Berlant on absurdity, life reflecting art " and inventing herself on stage
Kate Berlant is turning the rules of what's funny upside down. Now the US standup is bringing her surreal one-woman show to the UK The comedian Kate Berlant doesn't tell jokes. Instead, what she does is improvise a flirty, deadpan, clownish one-way conversation with the audience, dipping quickly into academic theory ("I'm very interested in the social topography of space") before showing off her psychic powers ("I'm …