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Stand Up! with Pete Dominick

SUPD 971 Comedian Graham Kay and his wonderful Autistic Brother

Stand Up! with Pete Dominick

Pete Dominick

Racialjustice, Comedian, Democracy, Comedy, Environmentaljustice, Politics, News, Organizedlabor, Standupcomic, Covid, Petedominick, Trump

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Graham Kay is a headlining stand-up comedian who tours throughout North America. Born in Ottowa, Canada and now based in Brooklyn, New York, Graham has appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and The Late Show with Steven Colbert, and released a full-length comedy special, Live in a Bowling Alley, in 2022. He co-hosts the podcast Autastic: A Comedians Guide to Autism with Kirk Smith, and his stand-up comedy can be heard regularly on SiriusXM.

Pete and Me: A Non-Depressing Look At Autism And Family at Under St. Marks Theater off-off-Broadway.

In Pete and Me, produced by Amy Hawthorne, Graham uses cheerful humor and levity to talk about growing up with his autistic brother, exploring their relationship from childhood through today - how it has changed and how, in many ways, it has stayed the same. From daily calls pretending to be Bert and Ernie to Graham getting arrested and his brother hanging up on the cops to getting kicked out of restaurants as a family, Graham shares stories and memories illustrating their lives together. At times silly, others serious —we learn how these moments have changed Graham's comedy career, romantic relationships and how he interacts with friends. Graham uses the stage as catharsis to contemplate the uncertainty of his future as part-comedian, part-caretaker. Underneath heartfelt anecdotes and witty punchlines, Graham is ultimately confronting his life’s biggest fears while providing a space for the conversations we rarely get the chance to have.

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0:00.0

Stand Up.

0:04.0

Hello folks and thanks so much for pressing play on today's episode of Stand Up.

0:08.0

I think you probably know how hard I work on the show, but as we enter the fourth year of the podcast, I just want to put out a special

0:15.4

thanks to you for sticking with me for all this time.

0:19.0

All of you who have, folks who have come, folks who have gone and come back. I'm so grateful and appreciative to have you here and thinking

0:26.4

a lot about new things I may do with the show and obviously always trying to find new guests.

0:31.3

Always want to hear your insights on all of it,

0:34.1

but I think we're going to have a lot of really exciting changes

0:36.7

and hopefully growth on the program this year,

0:39.0

and I am so excited to have you along with me.

0:41.9

I realize I hadn't really acknowledged the

0:44.1

anniversary of the show. A few of you have reached out and said things and

0:48.0

congratulated me and I just wanted to say thank you. So as I get started here, I've got another first-time guest on the show.

0:56.0

Yesterday, of course, we had Osama med of the New York Times,

0:59.6

the author of this great new book,

1:01.8

and some really great feedback on that if you hadn't heard

1:04.6

that yet he's on the show for the first time yesterday and today I've got

1:09.4

Canadian American now comedian Graham K joining me for the first time I thought it would be really

1:15.7

interesting to talk with him because he is starring in his own one-man show

1:20.8

called Pete and me where he uses comedy humor, levity, to talk about growing

1:26.9

up with an autistic brother exploring their relationship from childhood through today.

1:31.8

It's in the New York comedy festivals and the Montreal

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