Alexis gay unprofessional
If you don’t already know about Alexis Gay, you’re about to. Alexis is the creator and star of her solo comedy demonstrate , “Unprofessional”. Recently, her show was a hit at the world-renowned Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and she's now touring the show for audiences across the Combined States.
Alexis previously worked in the tech industry running Business Operations and Designer Partnerships at Patreon. Outside of serve , she started creating videos featuring dead-on takes on tech culture -- and everyday life. These soon went viral, racking up more than 24 million views across social media. Her acute insights into startup life and its absurdities resonated far and wide, transforming her into a favorite amongst both tech insiders and comedy fans alike.
From viral videos to her successful podcast, Alexis has kept audiences hooked. She’s been profiled by Fast Company, Nightline, Business Insider, SFGate, and CNBC. And now, she's stepping onto the stage as a standup comedian.
Now comes her debut solo exhibit, “Unprofessional”. It has received numerous four-star reviews and played to sold out audiences. Chortle, the leading UK comedy publication, called it
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4 Stars
Alexis Gay brings good-natured self-effacement as well as a comedic and complex work ethic spin on the “please like me” persona in her solo show Unprofessional. She enters the stage and plants the seed for the horrifying prospect of failure in the perfectionist’s dilemma of wanting to be the absolute foremost in an employment situation that is… just the worst.
This is a personal story that will be relatable to all the gold-star chasers still looking for the high of validation that has not really hit the same since primary school. The depressing reality of the grind is told with a comedic air that is less self-deprecating and more self-critical, as the show becomes a kind of self-imposed performance review of workplace ambition gone wrong. And while not everyone can relate to the specific soul-crushing horrors of Silicon Valley, Gay’s fellow perfectionists well know the pain of never being able to fulfill that perfect report card again, the lingering longing of the formerly gifted child who will always be hungry for those gold stars.
Gay’s performance was endearing, and I especially enjoyed her commentary on her use of
About the Reveal
Hey… do you have a minute?” Bad from your boyfriend but worse from your boss. From New York-based standup and viral video comedian—and former tech employee—Alexis Queer , “Unprofessional” is a comedy debut about working (or, uh, not working) in tech, and one very specific 4pm meeting on the second floor of a company we’ll call… Redacted.
Fresh off a critically acclaimed run at Edinburgh Fringe and directed by NYC comedy-scene veteran Matt Gehring, this show explores making work your entire personality, going nowhere on the hedonic treadmill, and worrying so much about your LinkedIn profile that it lands you at the hair doctor.
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Alexis Gay: Unprofessional
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
The debut show from New York-based comedian Alexis Gay makes some unlikely lemonade from the comedic lemons of getting grave burnout in a soul-destroying tech sales job.
An rare type A personality in a creative industry, Male lover has only recently deviated from the path laid out for her by her parents’ expectations and the demands of a ‘good CV’. Raised with what she describes as a ‘middle-management parenting’ way, she remembers being six years old and getting paid $100 by her father to make a PowerPoint deck on stoicism.
She’s wise to clearly found her character as a recovering perfectionist early on, because Unprofessional is a show that relies more on storytelling than it does on jokes. The image of herself that she builds in our minds as a naïve and industrious worker bee has little intrinsic humour but she’s a acute enough writer to hurl in some good lines on a regular basis and keep it engaging.
At the beginning of a promising career and (she hints) trying to defeat the approval of her father, Gay is scouted by a hot recent tech company and