Dreams are famously interesting to the dreamer, both while they are happening and for a day or two afterward. The former is fine, but the latter results in a lot of painfully boring conversations. No one cares about your dreams. Catherine Cohen’s dreams? Now that is a different story. As my colleague Madeleine Aggeler wrote at the Cut last month, “Lots of things are a dream to Cohen. The Club Cumming show [she hosts weekly]: ‘a dream’; her recent, boob-baring appearance on HBO’s High Maintenance: ‘a dream’; her ex-boyfriend: ‘a dream’; her recent one-woman show at London’s Moth Club: ‘a fucking dream.’†Her actual, sleep-time dreams? Also a dream. That’s because she’s singing about them in a way that only she can — with radical vulnerability and a special mixture of self-awareness and an ironic lack of self-awareness. It’s a style that’s made her one of the most exciting up-and-coming comedians and the absolute obsession of a growing fan base, who know her from her podcast, Seek Treatment, and her aforementioned one-woman show The Twist? … She’s Gorgeous, which she’ll be performing at Joe’s Pub in May, June, and July.
“Dreams,†one of the songs she’ll likely perform in those shows, is the subject of this week’s bonus mini-episode of Good One, Vulture’s podcast about jokes and the people who tell them. Listen below or download the episode from Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.