![]() A bright light of the alt-comedy scene, she’s been landing knock-out punches for years, like a 2018 episode of Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers' podcast Las Culturistas in which she shares her experiences touring as a pop star in Scandinavia and running afoul of a transphobic, rampaging Ellen DeGeneres. The trans comedian, writer, and actress of color was banned from the platform earlier this year when, in response to Oreos tweeting “Trans people exist,” she impersonated Nilla Wafers - or, more specifically, impersonated pop star Sia doing a social media takeover of the Nabisco brand account - and proceeded to cherry-bomb the discourse, tweeting statements such as “There are only two genders” and “If you are Bisexual, we do not want your business.” (She apologized later, on Jimmy Kimmel Live, telling bisexual people who love Nilla Wafers that she understood “it was probably really painful to read that your favorite cookie hates you.”) “Her manic, irony-poisoned wit is the closest thing we have to the defining sarcasm of our present zeitgeist” Her hysterical punchline - “Santa brought it early” - brought Harrison her first taste of social-media memedom, though she’s not stuck around Twitter to enjoy it. A comedic demolitions expert, Harrison has become a key player on Tim Robinson’s I Think You Should Leave, where her bone-dry wit and confrontational deadpan gradually unhinge every scene she’s in (like the above segment) from reality.įans of Tim Robinson’s demented sketch comedy series for Netflix will remember Harrison’s debut in Season 1, as an office worker whose Santa-themed photocopier joke failed to impress colleagues. In delivering such bizarre sentiments, there’s never a reason for Harrison to stress random syllables the way she does, but the end result is always perfectly clunky, riotous in its absurdity. In Netflix’s surreal sketch comedy show I Think You Should Leave, Patti Harrison weaponizes her enviously natural wit to unhinge viewers from any known reality.
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