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Comedian Daniel Sloss takes credit for helping end miserable relationships BY KIKO MARTINEZ
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ship, it’s one of the most amazing ame some of the reasons feelings in the world. When you do nearly half of U.S. marriages comedy that causes someone to break end in divorce. Adultery. up, in their head, you’re like this guru. Abuse. Irreconcilable But I’m really just a stoner alcoholic differences. Imagine receiving divorce from Scotland. papers where the section listing the grounds includes the name of a standup comedian. Do you wear it like a badge of honor? Scottish comic Daniel Sloss has I mean, again, I’ve never caused a hapseen it firsthand. No, he hasn’t been py couple to breakup. It wasn’t like two divorced himself, but he maintains 75-year-olds who have been married that he’s taken the blame for ending for 50 years holding hands and having approximately 300 marriages, 350 tea on the couch and then they watch engagements and more than 120,000 my special and are like, “Oh my, God. relationships over the past three It’s over.” years. That estimate is based on the number of Twitter messages Sloss said What was it like performing that he’s received since releasing his 2018 specific show live? Netflix comedy special Daniel Sloss: When I was doing it onstage, I could Jigsaw, which many now refer to as The see couples getting very uncomfortBreak-Up Show. The claim is that when able. Their body language would couples watch Jigsaw together, many change. They would come inside are triggered to end holding hands, and their relationship. then I would see them “I’ve seen divorce pull away from each Daniel Sloss: papers that have cited other during the Hubris my name,” Sloss, 31, show. I would think, $49.50-$72.50 told the Current during “That’s going to be a 6:30 p.m., Nov. 17 a recent interview. “I fucking awkward car Aztec Theatre didn’t write the show ride home for both 104 N. St. Mary’s St. to break people up. of them.” I enjoyed it (210) 812-4355 I fucking wrote it immensely. Whenever theaztectheatre.com because I came out of anyone tells me they my own shitty relationgot out of a relationship, and I needed to vent and cleanse ship because of [Jigsaw], the first thing I myself. It turned out that all that anger always ask is, “Are you better for it?” I’ve resonated with a lot of fucking people.” never had someone tell me no. Sloss is making his first trip to San Antonio on Wednesday, Nov. 17 to perYou travel all around the world doing form his new show Daniel Sloss: Hubris standup. Is it a challenge making at the Aztec Theatre. He also recently jokes translate across different released a new book, Everyone You Hate countries and cultures? Is Going to Die, And Other Comforting Generally, no. We all want to laugh. Thoughts on Family, Friends, Sex, Love and We’re all human beings with deep More Things That Ruin Your Life. flaws. It’s all very relatable. I basically talk about what a fucking asshole I am Can you pinpoint the reason you think and the things I hate, and people are so many people have broken up after like, “Yeah, we agree.”
watching Jigsaw?
Because they don’t want to spend the rest of their lives in a miserable fucking relationship. I didn’t cause any breakups. What I did was give everyone in a bad relationship a kick in the ass. When you get out of a bad relation-
When you perform in America, do you think the audience’s sense of humor has changed over the past few years? Is it easier to offend people these days? There’s 300 fucking million of you
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cunts. There’s no such thing as an American sense of humor. You hear all these fucking rumors about cancel culture. I don’t buy into that. You can say whatever the fuck you want about anything. People are allowed to think your opinion is shit. But being upset about comedy is the most narcissistic thing in the world. It’s like you walk into a room and sit in front of a comedian who has never met you and think they wrote a joke just to piss you off.
Could that be an example of why it seems like you hate people in general?
I get mad at people, but I get way angrier onstage and in my head than I am in real life. If you’re rude to me in public, I won’t yell back. I’ll just fucking internalize it and go home and deeply wish
bad things happen to your family. But at least I won’t say it to your face.
In your book, for legal purposes, you changed the name of one of your ex-girlfriends to “Scarlett Johansson.” Do you hope Scarlett and her boyfriend Colin Jost stream Jigsaw soon?
(Laughs.) There’s lawyers that weigh up the likelihood that a celebrity will sue you. So, we had really deep conversations about what would happen if Scarlett Johansson read the book. Would she be mad? Am I that hideous that she would take that as an insult? Is it going to damage her reputation? We all agreed that we thought she would be fine with it. But she can still turn on a dime. She can be like, “That motherfucker is going down!”
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