Laurie Kilmartin: ‘Cis Woke Grief Slut’
The Last Laugh
The Daily Beast
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Laurie Kilmartin knew that naming her new stand-up special ‘Cis Woke Grief Slut’ might be a little provocative. “I'm open to hate watches!” the comedian and longtime ‘Conan’ writer jokes in this episode. No stranger to controversy, Kilmartin also breaks down why she decided to tweet an incredibly dark series of jokes as her mother was dying of COVID in 2020, opens up about the experience of receiving death threats from right-wingers after making an abortion joke on MSNBC and why she prefers reluctant, involuntary laughter to the type of agenda-affirming applause that currently dominates late-night television.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the last laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast. Back in 2020, when Lori Kilmartin was still writing for Conan, her mom got COVID during her stay at a skilled nursing facility. |
| 0:18.3 | There was only so much Lori could do from afar to help her mother in those |
| 0:21.9 | final days. So, as she shared with her boss on an episode of his late night show that fall, |
| 0:27.9 | she started tweeting jokes. Did you mind sharing a couple of the tweets with us? |
| 0:34.4 | Yeah, okay. Here's a few. My sister and I are both heartbroken that mom's last words to us were complaints about the nursing home and not about our appearance. |
| 0:45.3 | I just left a one-star Yelp review of the skilled nursing facility where my mom caught COVID-19. |
| 0:53.3 | Yeah. That seems like a well- caught COVID-19. Yeah. |
| 0:57.0 | That seems like a well-deserved one star. |
| 0:57.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:03.0 | I was just notified that since my mom is a Trump supporter who died from COVID, her death has been ruled a suicide. |
| 1:05.5 | Oh, wow. |
| 1:06.1 | Okay. |
| 1:08.3 | It's that super dark sense of humor that is so brilliantly on display in Lori's new stand-up special, |
| 1:15.4 | cis-woke grief slut, in which she shares even more jokes about watching her Trump-loving mother die of COVID through an iPad screen. |
| 1:23.9 | There are also very funny bits about raising a teenage son, the experience of getting |
| 1:28.5 | death threats from Fox News viewers after making an abortion joke on MSNBC, and so much more. |
| 1:34.3 | Before we get into our conversation in which Lori looks back in terror at her first writing |
| 1:39.1 | gig on Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn and the pure joy of her 10 years writing for Conan, let's listen to a clip |
| 1:45.1 | from the special about men who suddenly become feminists after having a daughter. |
| 1:51.3 | My favorite men are guys who were like douchebags in their 20s. |
| 1:59.1 | You know, like real sexist, like treated women, you know, up on down the spectrum, not great. |
| 2:06.0 | And then they get married and they have a daughter. |
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