What was Kat Lister to do when her husband died of a brain tumour, leaving her a widow in her 30s? Grieve, obviously, but then try to laugh too. Here, she explains why
, running support outreach while also performing for grief groups who get in touch with her.
“I don’t know why I just said that I ‘Iost’ my husband, it’s not like I mislaid my wallet,” I say on another Zoom call to the States a few hours later.I was introduced to New York-based standup comedianvia Platis’s Death Is Hilarious podcast a few months ago.
Before his dad died, Wasserman’s comedy was always off the cuff and non-autobiographical. In the weeks that followed his death, he wasn’t sure if he could be so honest and vulnerable, but something profoundly shifted when he wore that T-shirt, and when he describes it to me, it seems very close to the repossession I’ve sought in my own grief. “I want to honour how wild and chaotic and messy, but ultimately how OK I’ve been through this experience, you know?” I tell him I do.
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