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Deliciously Vulgar

Kathleen McGee

Stand Up! Records · Album · 2019

A filthy, charming collection of dating disasters and sexual misadventures.

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Kathleen McGee was never one to dance around a subject. On her 2019 debut album, Deliciously Vulgar, she delivers a direct, explicit, and cheerful set about sex, dating, and bad decisions. Rather than playing the part of a hardened shock comic, McGee presents her bedroom misadventures and club excursions with a friendly, conversational ease, making topics like face-sitting waivers and swingers’ clubs feel as casual as a chat over coffee. Released by Stand Up! Records and produced by Dan Schlissel, the 44-minute album captures the Edmonton-born comedian at a high point in her career. Around the time of its release, McGee was a fixture on CBC’s The Debaters and was nominated for a Canadian Comedy Award for her live festival work. The tracks here cover everything from family interventions and bad dates to Tinder etiquette and the mechanical realities of modern vibrators. Reviewers pointed to her warm, likeable charm as the secret ingredient that keeps her highly graphic material from feeling alienating.

The set list

2 bits

  1. Drinking and partying too hard

    Autobiographical storytelling used as the opening routine for the album.

  2. I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant and 16 and Pregnant

    Riffing on reality television pregnancy shows immediately following the album opener.

How it plays

Tone
Sexually explicit, graphic, clever, and matter-of-fact.
On stage
Bawdy, unapologetic, and charmingly likeable, delivering graphic and taboo material in a calm, matter-of-fact manner.
About
drinking and partying, sex and one-night stands, blowjobs and vibrators, strippers and swingers' clubs, pregnancy

What the critics said

Richard Lanoie of The Serious Comedy Site praised the album as a superb, clever, explicit, and extremely funny release, highlighting McGee's ability to cover graphic adult subjects without cringe while keeping the audience on her side.

In the room: Remained onside throughout the adult set, with only a couple of groans during the entire performance.

Summed up from reviews, articles and listings. Sources: theseriouscomedysite.com, en.wikipedia.org, standuprecords.com, winnipegfreepress.com, starlitesessions.com, imdb.com.

Backstory

Released on Stand Up! Records and produced by label founder Dan Schlissel.

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Stand Up! Records (album)
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