Daniel Sloss Shows How Comedians Should Talk About Assault
This article contains spoilers through the entirety of Daniel Sloss: X.
Daniel Sloss is a 29-year-old Scotsman with the kind of malleable features that allow him to pivot, disconcertingly, between modes of earnest perplexity and diabolical evil. He commits to both in , a comedy special that recently aired on HBO. Early on, Sloss does a bit about his 2-year-old niece, Ava, whom he obviously loves to death despite the fact that she is, by his description, “a fucking moron” intent on running full speed into anything that might hurt her. He imitates himself pretending to be a funny monster to make her laugh. Then he pretends to be an actual human monster, the kind of person who really does terrorize children. It struck me, thinking about later, that the pretend space is where we first figure thingsand plain
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