I think the only thing with the special is that I had to take a break from doing stand-up for that full year of lockdown. So there are definitely parallels as I was developing both pieces. I was writing this special in 2018, 2019 and pretty concurrently with the earliest drafts of Fire Island. There’s a lot of topical overlap between the jokes in Fire Island and Psychosexual. Seemingly a declaration that the comedian is no longer concerned with others’ concerns, Psychosexual offers a hilariously biting deconstruction and reconstruction of Booster’s identity onstage a repudiation not only of himself as a representative or “role model” for his various communities, but an affirmation that as a comedian, his only job is to tell jokes - regardless of whether that speaks to any community at all.Īhead of Psychosexual’s Netflix debut, The Hollywood Reporter chatted with Booster about how his two current projects overlap, the frustration of representing an audience, the one topic he’d never touched on stage before, finding his Nanette moment and the “weird” experience of being the center of a Twitter news cycle where cartoonist Alison Bechdel made his work an exception to her rule. Jurnee Smollett Discusses 'Spiderhead' Secrets and the Future of Black Canary
