Can Everyone Please Calm Down?: A Guide to 21st Century Sexuality

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But surely these clubs, besides being the sexiest, were also pretty sexist? “Comedy is such a good microcosm of society,” Martin says. “Especially touring, you sense where people are at with cultural ideas. So when I started, I’d be following guys who would… go up and be homophobic or whatever and get a laugh – and then you’d go up after that. But now I think things really have changed where I don’t think you would get a laugh anymore in your average comedy club for being homophobic.” a b c d Dessau, Bruce (8 August 2017). "Mae Martin: 'I like to do shows that open a dialogue' ". www.standard.co.uk . Retrieved 17 April 2021. MM: Oh interesting! Interesting. I’m trying to think who would be who. Mae to me would be Paul, because Paul’s the romantic. But then John’s got the edge… no, I can’t. I feel too invested in that analogy to think about it. CR: I read a good book recently, part of a book. A headline about a book. No, I did the modern thing of reading a book and reading a bit of an article about a book. And it was about how history actually is a good example of humans continuously working on their cohabitation in a positive way, and I’m not sure I agree but I like the thought that maybe there are more examples of goodness than bad acts in the world. I don’t know if that’s true, but I’m hoping that will be the case as we move forward and try to work a bit harder at being more inclusive and better people. I devoured all six episodes of Feel Good (Netflix) in one evening, and much like the remarkable first season, it did not make me feel good, all the time, but it did make me feel as if I had been given a crash course in empathy and kindness. Co-created and co-written by comedian Mae Martin and the writer Joe Hampson, this is the semi-autobiographical story of Mae, a standup comedian who falls for the previously straight George (Charlotte Ritchie), replacing their other addictions with keen, occasionally obsessive love.

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a b Mangan, Lucy (18 March 2020). "Feel Good – Mae Martin's immaculate romcom will have you head over heels". The Guardian . Retrieved 24 August 2020. It was a slow process of getting closer and closer to my actual personality on stage. And now there’s very little separation. I definitely find the more open and vulnerable I am, the more people enjoy it,” she grins in understatement.

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It seems almost silly to single out the sex when “Feel Good” is navigating so many other issues. In fact, there are so many things “Feel Good” gets right it’s a wonder how seamlessly it all comes together, without a single issue outweighing another. Yes, it’s a dark comedy about one person dealing (or not dealing) with trauma and addiction, but it’s also a tender love story about two people learning how to be together in a healthy way. Martin is too aware of their own anxiety to be alarmed by all this, and it’s not all horror. “There are lighthearted ones, too. This is the happiest one I’ve got.” Again, Martin scrolls forwards. “ Oh boy, I’ve got a puppeee. Wheeeeeeee!” I’m sure these snippets will make it into a future standup routine.

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Martin left school at 15. Their parents were distraught. At 16, Martin was full-time at the Second City comedy club in Toronto – in the box office by day to make ends meet; doing standup by night. In the end Martin’s parents threw their troublesome teen out of the home. By then Martin had developed close friendships with comics in their late 20s and early 30s. They offered the prodigy a place to stay and things went from there. Ambiguity is a big theme this series, and the idea that things not being one thing or another, or defined as one thing or another, is okay. MM: Charlotte and I were saying – there are these themes, these buzzwords and things that journalists hit, and want to tap into the heavier themes and it’s so crucial to remind people that this is a comedy about a relationship and it’s a world that you want to be in, I hope. Logan, Brian (24 August 2017). "Mae Martin: Dope review – hair-raising comedy about romance and rehab". the Guardian . Retrieved 5 July 2021. This bit starts with a deceptively flimsy premise that necessitates a preface of “Stay with me.” “Don’t you think it’s kind of embarrassing that we’re adults and we still have rooms?” Martin asks, an observation sparked by spending an excess of time indoors during the pandemic. “We’re like, ‘This is my room,’” they say, affecting a voice that’s a cross between a child and an alien. But then Martin twists this into something more profound. “I think what I find so embarrassing about it is the way we decorate our rooms to reflect our individuality. We’re like, ‘I’m me,’” they continue, returning to the child-alien voice. “‘I’m myself in my room.’ It’s so embarrassing. ‘I have one Himalayan salt lamp. Yes I do, and I’m me. I have my picture on the wall …’ And when you finish reading a book, you never get rid of the book. You’re like, ‘I put it on the shelf. That is my personality on display for all to see. No one else is me.’”MM: Mostly, I think Joe [Hampson, co-creator and co-writer of 'Feel Good'] and I both drew from personal experience and relationships. I know Joe really identifies with George at times and so do I [in] some of it. And relationships our friends have had. So yeah, I think it's a combination of things and the main objective is just to be realistic. MM: Definitely. I think if I was trying to write just a drama, it’d feel like I had conspicuously and consciously omitted all the natural humour that there is in life.

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CR: Obviously the archangel Gabriel is incredible. ‘Kidney bean’ feels extremely complimentary, even though I think for a lot of people it could be extremely insulting. They make me laugh so much. As you’re a gigantic Beatles fan I had a running theory that there was a bit of the John-Paul relationship in there. Martin’s comedy is self-deprecating and gently philosophical, a far cry from the long-reigning standard of ranty monologues spewed by disaffected dudes. Martin allows earnestness in, as opposed to, as they put it, performing in sunglasses. In the noughties, one of Martin’s heroes, Sarah Silverman, adopted an ironic persona – a squeamish, ignorant proto-Karen – as a way to smuggle in a social critique, but still fit in with the bilious stand-up culture of the moment. Martin admires how Silverman has more recently stated that comedy is not evergreen: “As society evolves and changes there’s things you just wouldn’t say now, and you just have to keep listening and evolving. It’s not that hard to not be offensive.”This is very much an aside, but Charlotte: do you recall very much your time as an uncredited extra on Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire? I wonder whether researching her own life for a show has brought up any surprising realisations. “Well, one thing I found interesting is this false impression that gender fluidity or ‘dismantling the gender binary’ is a recent millennial fad, when, for centuries of human civilisation, there have been variances in gender. It’s actually quite a recent western thing to have such a strict gender binary. In 2018, India decriminalised homosexuality, and we celebrated it over here. But, England went into India and criminalised homosexuality in 1856! It’s the gaslighting that gets me. It’s like setting somebody’s house on fire and then going, ‘Argh, it’s taking me so long to put the fire out, like, it’s sooo hard.” Martin says when strangers approach, they act as if they are friends, asking the most intimate questions. “They feel like they really know me. And the mad thing is they kind of do. So we have deep conversations. They get right into it asking about addiction, relationships and gender.” Epic. I’m so proud of her. Promising Young Woman has absolutely blown up and I’m desperate to see what she does next. She’s very bold. And such a lovely person, not that she necessarily has to be. But she is.