{"id":106743,"date":"2019-08-20T15:33:22","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T13:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/08\/20\/i-want-everyone-to-pay-attention-to-me-meet-catherine-cohen-comedys-peak-millennial\/"},"modified":"2019-08-20T15:33:22","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T13:33:22","slug":"i-want-everyone-to-pay-attention-to-me-meet-catherine-cohen-comedys-peak-millennial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=106743","title":{"rendered":"&#039;I want everyone to pay attention to me!&#039; Meet Catherine Cohen, comedy&#039;s peak millennial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caught between self-love and neurosis, Cohen has taken Edinburgh by storm with a musical show that plays up to her generation\u2019s stereotypes. She\u2019s even got a song called Look At Me &#8230; \u2018The other day I woke up, I was like, \u2018This is the most magical place on Earth!\u2019\u201d The New York cabaret and comedy performer Catherine Cohen is rhapsodising about her maiden Edinburgh experience. \u201cThis was me: \u2018I\u2019m in the exact right place!\u2019 I was gonna cry.\u201d But the rhapsodies don\u2019t last long. \u201cLast night I was sobbing, I was like, \u2018Why would anyone do this to themselves?!\u2019 After this, nothing else will ever be as hard.\u201dThat\u2019s a spot-on precis of the fringe rollercoaster, and it gives a vivid flavour of Cohen\u2019s show The Twist\u2026 ? She\u2019s Gorgeous, which may be the most eye-catching comedy hour on the fringe. Houston native Cohen, 27 \u2013 who performs a weekly cabaret at Alan Cumming\u2019s club in Manhattan \u2013 is the millennial paradox made flesh, and set to music. She is a dazzling, ravening ego on legs: her signature song is called Look at Me and repeats the phrase ad absurdum. Her act is a dance of death between self-love and neurosis, sequinned and staged because, hey, make your downward spiral sexy enough and you might get enough likes to spin back up again. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2019\/aug\/20\/catherine-cohen-edinburgh-star-millennial-comic-fringe\" target=\"_blank\">&#039;I want everyone to pay attention to me!&#039; Meet Catherine Cohen, comedy&#039;s peak millennial<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caught between self-love and neurosis, Cohen has taken Edinburgh by storm with a musical show that plays up to her generation\u2019s stereotypes. She\u2019s even got a song called Look At Me &#8230; \u2018The other day I woke up, I was like, \u2018This is the most magical place on Earth!\u2019\u201d The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}