People talk to me about death a lot. After they see my standup act, they feel very free to walk up to me and say things like, “My dad died, too!” or “I loved that joke about your dead mom.” It might seem inappropriate to joke about what’s arguably the most serious thing we encounter […]
Annie Russell
Annie Russell is a comedian living in Brooklyn, N.Y. She is also an editor at StoryCorps, the national oral history project. She lived in Burlington from 2013 to 2017 and was a producer at Vermont Public.
