Jarret Berenstein

Why should they stand? What were the rules? #sotu #trump

To be fair, it wouldn’t be THAT hard to rename Penn Station after Trump. You could even keep the P and E.

Lots of reasons to be healthy, but this one is mine.

Democrats never get any credit, Republicans never get any blame.

I’M WORRIED premieres on 1/31. #standup #comedy

There are a lot of negative things you can say about Trump, but we often overlook how pathetic he is. Like, posting 50 times in two hours is pathetic. Demanding praise and awards is pathetic. Referring to yourself in the third person is pathetic.

Okay

Okay. I’m not gonna fight you. You’re not my enemy.

Seems like a big stretch to define the Reform position as “increase the funding and training for ICE.”

I agree. Like you, I’m Team Abolish.

But the way you beat fascism is by forming coalitions with people who might not agree w you 100%. Excluding/scolding people is a luxury we cannot afford.

I agree. Like you, I’m Team Abolish.

But the way you beat fascism is by forming coalitions with people who might not agree w you 100%. Excluding/scolding people is a luxury we cannot afford.

If we fight w Reform ICE then we risk losing more elections to Love ICE.

Some people think we need ICE to do deportations. I’m not one of them, but they do exist, and we need them to vote with us to remove the politicians that are currently enabling ICE.

REMINDER: The Reform ICE people are not the enemy. The Abolish ICE people are not the enemy.

Reform and Abolish are a TEAM. We work and vote TOGETHER to stop what ICE is doing.

Bots will try to destroy our coalition by exploiting our differences. Do not let them.

Jarret Berenstein. Writer | Comedian | Producer Jarret Berenstein is an award winning comedian based in New York City. His work has been featured in the New York Times, TimeOut NY, Huffinton Post, and on the standup television show Laughs.

I'm happy to answer any questions you might have about how I produced this special. And if you're curious how the finished product looks, it's called I'm Worried, and it drops on YouTube on January 31st.

JarretBerenstein.com for more info.

I think the way I made my special is way better. Multiple shows edited together. Many takes of jokes to pick from. I've shown the special to a few friends, and it seems like switching venues/outfits doesn't detract from the experience at all.

Headliners usually have no trouble filling the room on the day, but it's a lot harder when you're a feature. Imagine spending a ton of money to hire a crew, rent a room, and promote the shit out of the two shows you'll be filming, only to have 50% capacity for each.

I find the current model of filming a standup special to be prohibitive and risky. You work for over a year honing your material, then you only have two shows to nail everything perfect. I know some great comedians who got screwed because something went wrong on the day.

That said, nobody is operating the camera or monitoring audio, so there was a lot of post production work that had to be done to make all the footage work and work together.

Every show that I do with Steve is video taped at high quality from multiple angles (shoutout Steve Hofstetter for giving all his openers access to that footage so we can do shit like this).

I produced my own standup special.

I've been doing standup for almost 20 years, and I recently edited a special together from my last tour opening for Steve Hofstetter.

My standup special drops Jan 31st. Jarretberenstein.com for the link.

My main takeaway from the Jack Smith testimony: we should push our presidential candidate to make him Attorney General in 2029.

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I’d pay extra to watch an edit of Marty Supreme w/o Kevin O’Leary in it.

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, saved lives. And Santiago's death, while tragic, probably saved lives. Because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want Tim on that wall, you need Tim on that wall.

We could probably get Trump to admit he blew Clinton if we tell him we heard it was mid.

“Fake news. Everybody knows it was top ten, maybe the best ever. He was always asking for it again, kept calling me for weeks, for months.”

Talking about #christians like how people talk about #zohranmamdani

Serious question: what kind of person says “Rue the day”?

Seems sus