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

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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. 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. In 2019, Martin released the YA book Can Everyone Please Calm Down? A Guide to 21st Century Sexuality. [22] And it's interesting, you mentioned catharsis – obviously Mae the character mirrors a lot of yourself in loads of different ways. Is writing about this and some really complex themes cathartic? Is it helpful, or is it...

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There’s an interesting tension going on because how the audience interprets certain scenes depends how they feel about millennial culture. When you’re used to being mainstream, as George certainly is, sometimes you can’t be arsed with all that earnestness. Other viewers will totally identify with it. With everything run by algorithms nowadays, we’re all aware of what demographic we are. That can make you self-conscious. Every time I walk around London wearing a scarf with a flat white in my hand, I find myself thinking, “I’m such a cliche but I can’t escape it”. The show gently sends that up. Mae Martin is an award-winning Canadian comedian, writer and presenter of podcast G rownUp Land. In these two collected BBC Radio 4 series, she explores her generation's views on addiction and sexuality. And being so confused, because I don’t feel like I want to go to the men’s changing room, and I don’t feel like I’m safe in the girl’s changing room. a b Milton, Josh (14 April 2021). "Feel Good comedian Mae Martin comes out as non-binary". PinkNews . Retrieved 14 April 2021. At what point did you realise the relationship had been abusive? “It was a pretty recent revelation. It was around 2016 when everyone was talking about reframing relationships, and there was that zeitgeisty moment about assault. That made me examine relationships in a way I hadn’t understood before.”It’s so frustrating that so much of identity is about comparison. I just feel like myself. I don’t even feel non-binary. I just wake up, have a coffee and go to work,” Martin explained.

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

CBC leads Comedy Award Nominations". The Globe and Mail. 22 April 2009. Archived from the original on 2 November 2016 . Retrieved 2 November 2016. MM: It’s worth saving! I just oscillate between whether it’s saveable [or not]. Hopefully people can relate to being inundated by bad news this year and trying to stay afloat. At the age of 16, Martin was the youngest-ever nominee for the Tim Sims Encouragement Fund Award. [10] Martin's work in Canada includes writing for the sketch comedy series Baroness von Sketch Show, [11] for which they are a two-time Canadian Screen Award winner for Best Writing in a Variety or Sketch Comedy Series. [12]BAFTA TV 2021: The Winners and Nominations for the Virgin Media British Academy Television Awards and British Academy Television Craft Awards". BAFTA. 28 April 2021 . Retrieved 28 April 2021.

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There’s been increasing attention recently to on-set behaviour towards women. Have you had disquieting experiences?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. Like Eugene Levy’s masterfully crafted character Dr Allan Pearl, I also suddenly felt like I had “found my people”. A local dentist, in the film Dr Pearl has just discovered amateur dramatics, and I had just discovered the world of professional comedy. There’s a scene in Waiting for Guffman where Dr Pearl has just had his first rehearsal for the production and he reflects to the camera, quivering with emotion: “I’m … I’m walking on air. You know, this is a sensation which is … forget it. When I became a dentist I thought I was happy, but this … ” I. Felt. So. Seen. To me, discovering the comedy community – where people were permitted to say on stage the things that were weird/different about them and be applauded for it, the complete inverse of the high school experience – was a similarly emotional revelation. That kid in the Spice Girls music video for Viva Forever

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The TV series, yes. We are here to discuss Feel Good, a new Channel 4 comedy, co-written by and starring Martin as a comedian called Mae, navigating the sensitive dynamics of her NA group, a relationship with a straight girl (played by Charlotte Ritchie), and a strained bond with her mother, performed magnificently by Lisa Kudrow. My sexuality is not a huge part of who I am. It’s not even a particularly interesting partComedy has defined most of Martin’s life. It was a means of escape as a child, a catalyst for chaos as a teenager, and has ultimately provided a path to redemption. After 14 years clean, how has Martin changed? “I’m less manic, more aware of my addictive behaviour. That enables me to write about it with a bit of perspective.” Does that addictive behaviour express itself in safer ways now? Martin smiles, more with relief than anything else. “Yes, I think I’m a workaholic these days.” In 2017 they debuted Dope, a show about addiction in all forms, at Edinburgh, which was shortlisted for the Edinburgh Comedy award. [19] The show refers to both recreational drugs as well as to dopamine, the brain chemical associated with compulsive behaviour, and drew on the work of Dr Gabor Maté, among other researchers. [20] Dope was modified into a half-hour Netflix comedy special, released in January 2019 as part of the Comedians of the World collection. [21]