Voluptuous Boy

Sarah Tollemache operates in the specific, low-key panic of the modern New Yorker—the kind of person who is simultaneously trying to practice body acceptance and worrying about getting murdered. She treats life’s minor annoyances with the same gravity as its existential crises, like her bit on the impossible physics of avocados requiring calling out of work because they might hatch at any second. Filmed at the New York Comedy Club in March 2020, just days before the city went into lockdown, this debut hour captures Tollemache with the calm confidence of a seasoned club comedian. She covers her terrible landlord blaming her for a broken shower head by suggesting she was swinging from it, her medical debt from colitis, and the late-2010s mainstream preoccupation with eating ass. In doing so, she delivers a dry, steady set that finds humor in the inescapable friction of everyday adulthood.