the most important email ever sent

(I need a favor...)

Let’s cut right to the chase: I’m bringing back The Roast of Your Teenage Self live show and I need you all to come. The show is on 11/11 at 9:30pm at Littlefield in Brooklyn and is part of this year’s New York Comedy Festival, which is exciting but also scary because the competition for audiences is fierce, and Littlefield is a giant venue. This is the first time I’m bringing the show back since the pandemic and, readers, I’m gonna be honest with you…

I’m a little scared.

Hosting comedy shows used to be my thing pre-pandem, and I had no problem booking monthly lineups for the Roast and getting sizeable audiences to venues like Union Hall, Baby’s All Right, and The Annoyance (RIP). But then something happened. I’m not sure what, exactly, but the most vicious of my inner critics will say it had something to do with me becoming too old/too uncool/too unable to pull off low-rise pants. I tried to bring the Roast back for the first time in November of 2021, and despite the fact that I employed all my old tricks to drum up ticket sales, nothing worked. We ended up selling a total of three pre-sales and had to cancel the show. This was something that, in all my years of hosting shows, had never happened to me and brought on what many psychiatric professionals have referred to as a “mental health crisis.”

But now it is two years, a new prescription, and four DBT skills group modules later and I’m ready to try again. You can probably see where I’m going with this…

Please come to the show.

Please bring your friends to the show.

Please tell literally everyone you know to come to the show.

If you’re in New York and one of those people who are always telling me they’re “meaning” to come to a show…now is the time. If you’re not in New York but need an excuse to come to the city for a trip…now is the time. If you’re single, set up a Hinge date and make them take you. Or better yet, fire up the group chat and bring all your friends. Littlefield is a big venue, and I will need several group chats worth of people to fill it.

You can buy tickets here. We have already sold three so at the very least I’ve surpassed the nightmare scenario from three years ago. That said, I need to sell like…150 more so yeah…come to the show. Bring a friend to the show. Tell every single person you’ve ever met in your life that they should come to the show. Set up multiple Hinge dates and tell them to meet you at the show, then show up in a wig with your friends and pretend like you have no idea what any of them are talking about. I promise I’ll back you up from the stage if things get dicey.

xoxo

besitos

Alise

PS - I’m also bringing back my solo show next month and you should definitely come to that too. We’re facing fears here, people!