Oops, Vol. 1

Moving up a wedding date to outrun Hurricane Matthew only to watch the storm hit within an hour of the original ceremony time is a decent metaphor for the year Emma Kay Kennedy recounts here, right down to the divorce 18 months later. Performing under her usual stage name Emme Kay Kennedy, she treats her YouTube debut, titled in full as OOPS Vol 1 - A Comedy Special About Fleeing America, less like a tight club set and more like a semi-improvised debrief with an audience she expects to talk back. She pulls material from leaving the United States for Canada after more than 25 years, coming out as a trans woman later in life, and reconciling an organizational leadership master’s degree and Internal Family Systems therapy with hitting Hot Topic an hour before showtime. Filmed November 7, 2025, at The Registry Theatre in Kitchener, Ontario, the 91-minute special was funded by 43 Kickstarter backers for CA$1,653 and released online March 31, 2026. Kennedy’s background is in devised theatre from Philadelphia’s Pig Iron School, and in 2026 she has been working in Kitchener-Waterloo as an arts organizer, crowdwork teacher, and staffer at the local queer center SPECTRUM.