Live After Death, Ben Wasserman’s memorable and uproarious show about loss, is on its final run from Phoenix to Brooklyn.
In October 2019, I saw comedian Ben Wasserman perform in the dingy basement venue Vital Joint in Brooklyn as part of a live podcast taping I was hosting with a friend. The show was death-themed, and Wasserman conducted a seance to attempt to communicate with his late father. Another pal of mine was brought up to channel Wasserman’s dad, and the comedian hilariously berated him as my friend failed to properly embody Wasserman senior.
By early 2020, Wasserman had a full hour ready to workshop, which he had to put on ice because of the pandemic. Live shows returned in 2021, and while Wasserman was in a better place with the losses he had experienced, the whole world had just communally grieved for months on end, isolated and unable to properly exorcize that emotion.
Wasserman tells me about a recent show in North Carolina when one man spoke for a full five minutes to his late father during the seance; he detailed how he had bought a house and wanted his dad’s advice on upkeep and potentially having kids. Wasserman found himself tearing up along with the rest of the audience.
Because of the nature of his show and how it has affected audiences, Wasserman’s been dubbed an honorary death worker and accidental death positivity advocate. However, he’s quick to assure me that he doesn’t want to be known as the “death comedian.” Now, he’s on what he’s proclaimed “The Last Tour” of, with his final few dates taking him to Phoenix, Albuquerque, Denver, Bloomington, and back to his home base of Brooklyn.
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