Maija! Maija! Maija!

Maija DiGiorgio spends her set running straight at the confusion caused by her mixed background. Being half-Black and half-Italian means strangers constantly guess her heritage wrong, while well-meaning relatives fret over whether casual ethnic observations count as prejudice. She argues that risotto was merely an accident caused by Italians who failed at cooking plain rice, setting the tone for an hour grounded in lived friction rather than sociology lectures.

Filmed live during the 2021 Tribeca Festival in New York City and directed by Brian Volk-Weiss, the hour arrived via Comedy Dynamics in August 2022.

DiGiorgio was hardly a newcomer when this was recorded. She began in the nineties, scoring early spots on Def Comedy Jam and Live at the Apollo, and later directed the backstage comedy documentary Bitter Jester. Her material here leans into the practical realities of dating, relying on female friends to vet suitors, and the cultural disconnect between New York grit and Los Angeles manners.