[ATTENDED: October 11, 2021] Ali Macofsky [Cassandra Jenkins]
I hadn’t heard that there was going to be an opening act for the St. Vincent tour. In fact it wasn’t until the night of the show that I found out there would be one at all (although I see that the information was publicly available, I must have been searching the wrong way).
We were supposed to have Cassandra Jenkins as an opening act, but the St. Vincent team, decided to limit the number of people on the tour to prevent COVID infections, so Cassandra was removed. I don’t know if Ali Macofsky did the entire tour but she was clearly slated to open the first few shows and she did our shows, so I’ll assume she was on board the whole time.
Ali Macofsky is a comedian whom I had never heard of.
She is young and, shall we say a kind of shock comic (she has a history of working with Joe Rogan I have just found out. In 2021 that would have instantly made me hate her. I don’t know if he was as much of a douchebag in 2019 when she worked with him (and maybe she still does, I’m not willing to find out).
I’m happy that women are now making the same kind of raunchy sex jokes that male comedians used to make. It’s nice to see barriers broken. But at the same time, the jokes are pretty lowest common denominator. A staggering number of jokes about sex and how she’s either bad at it or the men she’s with are bad at it. Ample jokes about her butthole and it’s shaved-ness. And of course, multiple orgasms.
Again, nothing wrong with this kind of humor. It is certainly designed for shock effect (I tend to think women go even further in the shock area than men used to). Although most of the punchlines and set up are pretty predictable.
The problem I had with it is that it seemed really inappropriate for St. Vincent’s music.
St. Vincent is not afraid to use some curse words and some mildly sexual situations. But St. Vincent is sorta PG-13 and Macofsky is a hard R if not an X. Basically, if my kids had been St. Vincent fans (they are not), I would have been pretty upset had I taken them to this show and Macofsky opened.
This doesn’t mean I didn’t laugh. There was some stuff (especially the non-sexual stuff) that was really funny. The sex stuff is, as I say, predictable, but the non sex stuff was kind original.
And I am perpetually thinking about her mask observation that anti-maskers think that liberals have a hard on for wearing masks.
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