![]() ![]() “Julia Sweeney: Older and Wider” performs through May 30 at Second City’s e.t.c. It’s like getting to work on a machine, and tinker and tinker…and the audience’s laughs are your results. think of jokes, and I didn’t think I could do that. I love this process so much. I literally doing nothing but thinking about my show and wanting another chance to tell my stories and jokes, desperate for another chance to see if I can make it work better or see if it needs to be scrapped. It’s like turning on a separate faucet in your mind and seeing what comes out. It’s hard not to let it take over your life. Prior to this run, you workshopped the show for nine weeks in Chicago. ![]() So, yes, it’s very important to me. And the humor, well, it’s the sugar that keeps people listening. For me it’s essential. When I was young I didn’t think about the grand meaning of it, or understand the architecture of it, much less the psychology of it. But as I got older, I got curious about this aspect of myself and of everyone else. Its Pat The Movie is a 1994 American slapstick comedy film directed by Adam Bernstein and starring Julia Sweeney, Dave Foley, Charles Rocket, and Kathy Griffin. Storytelling is the way the mind knows itself, and that means every human being is a storyteller. Why is it important, and how does humor help deliver the message? Storytelling is at the heart of your art. ![]() It got to be creepy to me how some people were so uncomfortable not knowing Pat’s gender…I think we’ll have truly evolved as a society when Pat is no longer funny. JULIA SWEENEY is a writer and actress most known for her years on Saturday Night Live. But then people liked the questioning almost too much. So I threw a joke in about Pat’s gender being hard to nail down and it got such a laugh, it really took off. Yes! To my surprise I got many letters from people who are intersex…You know, the androgynous aspect Pat was an afterthought. I was actually trying to play a male character and didn’t pull it off quite convincingly. Julia Sweeney is best known for her four hit seasons on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE and her most popular character while on the show: Pat, as well as her. Have fans shared their stories with you throughout the years? Pat, the iconic androgynous character you inhabited on SNL during the 1990s, spotlighted gender ambiguity in a time when it seemed taboo. Sweeney was best known for her popular recurring character Pat, an annoying, androgynous, bespectacled person whose gender remained a mystery. Bill can't figure out if his supervisor, Pat, is a man or a woman. But to almost anyone else, it’s practically the same thing I was doing before. This softly pretty comic writer-performer is only one of many women whose talent was largely wasted on NBCs 'Saturday Night Live' (on which she was featured from 1989-94). I always hung out with stand-ups, and performed at alternative comedy clubs with them, but never actually considered myself a stand-up…I see it as a challenge to shape the things I want to say into short bits that are funny. So for me, it’s a very different area of comedy. Julia Sweeney: Ha! I love that you say it that way. ![]()
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