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Comedy Central Presents

Lynne Koplitz

Comedy Central · 2005 · 22 min

A cynical half-hour about Manhattan, bad breakups, and multitasking during sex.

A displaced Southerner living in New York, Lynne Koplitz uses her 2005 half-hour to complain about the exhausting realities of dating and diets. The strongest material focuses on the practicalities of being a single woman in her 30s. Koplitz advocates for multitasking during sex so she can watch television, noting that the laundry is not going to fold itself. She also mines a five-year relationship for bits, recalling a moment when she suggested her boyfriend just end his life rather than ask her for a temporary break. Her closer on asking ‘What would Jesus do?’ is firmly rooted in Manhattan, where unhoused men critique her outfits and grace is hard to come by.

Filmed in New York City, the 21-minute set captures Koplitz during a busy television era. Throughout the early 2000s, she was a regular presence on cable, hosting and co-hosting daytime programming like Change of Heart, How to Boil Water, and Life and Style. Here, she drops the cheerful TV host persona to perform a straightforward club set built on genuine frustration.

The set list

3 bits
  1. Why you should date younger men

    Argues why women should choose to date younger men.

  2. How not to diet

    Humorous advice and observations on dieting.

  3. Never Call a Woman Crazy

    Maintains that she is 'emotional and hormonal' rather than crazy, citing 'the great cold cut fiasco' where her mother threw food to the dogs.

How it plays

On stage
Southern Belle
About
dating younger men, dieting, female emotions and hormones

Backstory

Episode of the stand-up showcase series Comedy Central Presents (Season 9, Episode 12).

Details

Released
Runtime
22 min
Where
Comedy Central
Director
Paul Miller
Topics
After
Hormonal Beast (2017)

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