Mucca sacra! I have really let my Italian-Heritage column/tradition go to shit. I haven’t really written about anyone worth a damn in four years. Damn. The divorce and all set me back in 2019, the pandemic for 2020 to some extent yet I can’t explain why I sat on my ass in 2018, maybe I was sick.
No matter now, I’m back and back with a vengeance for 2021! Since I’m still giddy and fired up over having a great time at Moontower, the first “week” will be all the comedians who have contributed to making the world a better place through their humor.
Blair Socci is a hilarious up-and-coming writer/comic who I recently saw this Summer with Ron Funches and Carmen Morales. In Italian, her surname is pronounced “SO-chee” in the same way everyone knows how to say Gucci correctly but Blair goes by “SOCK-ee” and that’s her right. We of Italian ancestry don’t always have the time to teach the mostly Anglo-Irish Americans how the language works. Meanwhile, you may have seen Blair on The Trevor Moore Show via Comedy Central, her various shorts or through the cable network’s stand-up showcases (a YouTube clip is below). I’m most excited for her in getting to be a voice on the upcoming Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie. After more than a decade, Master Shake, Meatwad and Frylocke return to the big screen!
Blair’s material tends to push toward the absurd which I love (mocking oat milk is a great bit), dating, how dumb men can be around a woman who’s also a professional comic and her life growing up in Orange County (aka The Orange Curtain). I look forward to Blair landing newer things and hoping to meet her the next time she comes to Austin. I didn’t have any luck this Summer due to my girlfriend’s “nurse hours,” as Jennifer has trouble staying awake after 10 PM, even on weekends. Given the expansion of Moontower in 2022 with some assistance from Montreal’s Just For Laughs, maybe’s there a good chance Blair will visit again.