Julia Sweeney - Older & Wider - Full Stand-Up Comedy Special
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- The actor, comedian and SNL alum writes, directs and performs her third one-woman show about aging and parenting.
“Julia Sweeney is Older & Wider and really, really (really) funny. She remains a full-throttled charmer with the observational skills of Proust.” - Los Angeles Times
Follow Julia on X: @juliasweeneymeh
Thank you, Julia. Your candidness in your shows has been a real joy to the rest of us just plugging away at life and its absurdities. I hope you remain well and all the best to Mulan.
What a wonderful talent! Julia’s sense of humor lines up perfectly with mine. I really enjoy her nuanced delivery which allows me to savor the joke. I’m my wife’s caregiver from 9pm to 7am everyday and her observations on her mother certainly resonate with me. At 70 I’ve experienced enough life to be able to appreciate the alchemy of joy, sorrow, victory, disappointment and wonder that constitute this journey. I’m grateful I can laugh at the absurdity of our human condition. Well done Julia - thanks for sharing your story and providing me with an hour of laughter and edge of my seat anticipation of what comes next.
Julia, I am in my twenties and I’ve been reading your books which led me to your “God Said, ‘Ha!’” Special and now I’m here. I think you are wonderful. So thoughtful and funny and intelligent, I really adore you. Thank you for all the warmth and art and creativity and inspiration you’ve put out and continue to put out into the world. This is another great special ❤
I realized I first saw you when I was a kid in Beethovens 3rd haha
The speed with which my fingers did click! You were my touchstone through my own cancer journey, and you have been one of my favorite funny voices since I was 10 years old, loving Pat, and watching them with my late Grandma. Thank you for this, and for all the laughs. Enjoy your peace and love!!
Thank you so much for posting this! Initially I was so sad to see on your website that you are no longer performing and not available for podcasts or interviews, but after seeing the ending of this performance, I now see that you're just enjoying a well-earned retirement. From 'I love my shunt!' and 'Julie where are your mixes?' to these endearing stories of your mom in her later years, thank you so much for the laughter and tears. You have been given a wonderful gift. Sending so much love from Portland, OR!
The entire show was a work of talent and a solid offering, but that ending....oh my and wow....that ending...what poetry. Many women of a certain age will be touched at the soul level by the poetry of that ending.
What an amazing talent. So full of heart and irony and just pure fun. This surely is not your last show and stop calling me surely lol.
Great stories! Prepp’ing for a New York conference in the late ‘80’s, fate sat me NEXT to A young Miss Sweeney at a steak house bar in the small beach town of Playa del Rey, CA. NEVER forgot her! We playfully flirted and ate - Delightful person! I flew east the next morning. Now? I am FAIRLY confident she had been shooting a movie or something! And am VERY certain my being so nervous about a now-useless conference circumvented my chance to get to know a very SPECIAL lady! Followed her ever since she began showing up on youtube!
Julia, thank you!! Can't tell you how good it is to see you again.
Excuse my ignorance but I've just realised Julia was in Frasier as the character Ann Hodges and I LOVED her / you in that!!!!! The dinner date episode when Frasier "ate all my ravioli's" is still something me and my girlfriend joke about to this day, no jokes! Such a funny woman. SO glad I found this!!!! :D
A wonderful show, thank you so much for sharing! I helped cared for my aging grandmother and we would tell her that her grandpa (deceased) was out working the fields when she asked about him. Her mind was in a different decade and she would calm. They farmed for over 40 years together. My friend works with dementia patients and says it's best to tell them their loved one is away for the moment rather than say they're dead if the reminder upsets the patient. I'm glad the thought of Heaven brought your mother peace.
Very Inspiring, Julia. Brave, honest, and full of thought provoking ideas.
As someone helping to care for a loved one with mid-stage dementia, your experiences are comforting and informative.
'Letting go of god' was one of the external sources that gave me support, as I was doing just that. Thank you.
Peace
Your woman’s point of view has found the universal. Thank you!
I had the pleasure of seeing you a number of times at UnCabaret in L.A. when I was helping Beth out with seating people, etc. It was a true pleasure to watch you every time you performed. “God Said Ha” is an amazing show and this, your final show, is something to treasure. You are so talented and will be missed. Thank you for all that you have given us. Wish you the very best and more!
Thank you for sharing your life with us in such an intimate, poignant, and hilarious way! You have always managed to get a huge GUFAH out of me and I am so grateful for the laughs! You are a GEM. Wishing you all the best in the days to come! Love and Loss... ah Life! Thanks again. XO
Yet another great show, Ms. Sweeney. You've been a heavy influence for me as an artist and shows like this are a reason why. Maybe I'll write and perform another one-man show here in Jax. If I do, I'll give you the credit.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! The story of Julia Sweeney's mother asking how to screw in a lightbulb has lived in my brain, since the late 90's.
Thank-you Julia❤❤! 52 year empty nest mom former Catholic from Wilmette- I hand lived your talent since I first saw you in SNL* and Pat was a great character and hilarious movie- I watch it once a year!*I still love him/her😂 This was just so perfectly in your voice- you had me laughing wildly with the windows open while I clean the house! xoxoxo A true fangirl! ❤❤-Mary (what else would I be named)
I never knew what a lovely, funny story-teller she is. What a great performance. ❤
You MUST watch "God Said, Ha!" It's one of the best monologues ever performed.
@@Ignatius_Lives I will look for that one! Thanks!
Thank you for posting! I’ve always loved your humour & storytelling. I absolutely broke down hearing the last line; both beautiful & heartbreaking as a fan. Wishing you the best Julia!
Sweeney would be an amazing voice actor for animated films
You have a laugh that is meaningful, I need to hear it more.
I love these Sweeney solo shows. She’s like John Leguizamo- best in this format, despite all their other work.
I hope this isn't your last show! Letting Go of God had such an impact on me and I have shared it with friends and family and recommended it to many others. Your story here about THE Ohio State football resonated with me. My father went to school there. Then he went to study in Mexico where he met my mother. At 22 she left Mexico and moved to Ohio. Eventually she was introduced to (Ohio State) football. This was not a sport she was familiar with. She is now 84 and continues to watch her beloved Ohio State football, in Mexico where she lives now.
I really really felt that. Thank you Julia
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WOW!!!! THANK YOU!!!! I love this so much! Your work has brightened my life, and I cherish each performance. Sending you BIG LOVE! Be well!
Thanks for posting this. I have always enjoyed your comedy and this was no different
I've been waiting years for this
I’m only a few minutes in but this will be my evening! You’re just good at talking to us. Thank you, again. ❤
Commenting to help my fellow secular atheist.
What a beautiful journey. Thank you for sharing it with us and just know that it's not over girl you still have a lot more traveling to do and you're still going to make people laugh.❤😂
SO good! I need to watch again just to laugh that hard again.❤
She IS a ballerina. I just saw her dance.
Oh the irony of how many times she says "OMG"...
Thank you. Really enjoyed your show.
It's funny throughout, I hope she does more specials in the future, this was so good 🍿🍿🍿
I hope this is not your last show!!!
My mother always told me if you can’t say something nice don’t say anything at all.
I love Julia Sweeney and I love how her whole vibe here is like Goth Eddie Izzard
You are an AmAzing woman, Julia Sweeney.
I snorted at, “hairy shicksa”!
Letting go of God helped me deconvert, I am incredibly grateful 😃
I just love this lady.
Bittersweet… ❤
Thank you Julia. Just thank yo, love from Australia xxxx
You are soooo funny!! Loved it!❤
Wonderful. thank you Julia
Pat looks exactly the same 😂
Never say never. It was great.❤
Brilliant
I love being invisible!! Trader Joes.
This is so good! 😂
Phenomenal show brilliant mind wonderful lady thank you be happy💜💜💜
Man... it's been a *MINUTE* since I saw anything from Julia! :) And for whatever reason, the one thing that comes to mind is her cameo in "Pulp Fiction" alongside Harvey K. as "Monster Joe's daughter" (Racquel). I'm pretty old myself as well. All good, though; we all do whatever it is we're gonna do until we can't do nothin' no mo'! ;)
I enjoyed your HUMOR !!!!!!!!
Bravo, Brilliant.
Luv Julia, older wider funnier 😅
Fuckin hilarious! Beyond!
I enjoyed your tales of what happened.
lovely
Probably would had been better to had gotten some driver instructing lessons
Wonderful.
❤
Yeah, no to tickled
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Her breathing worries me.
got bored in five minutes
EW
Wasn't feeling it. I like Julia a lot but I think it would have worked better as an audiobook or something like that. It just didn't hit for me