We love Alok
by Laughed and screamed so hard! on 2024-10-27The Danforth Music Hall - TorontoRating: 5 out of 5So lucky to have gotten to see Alok live!! Touching and hilarious, Alok never fails to give me insight into flourishing in a wack world
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ALOK (they/them) is an internationally acclaimed poet, comedian, public speaker, and actor. They currently hold a first look deal in Comedy with Sony Pictures Television. ALOK's literary works "Beyond the Gender Binary," "Femme in Public," and "Your Wound, My Garden," have garnered global recognition. Their dynamic presence has captivated audiences in over 40 countries, with sold-out shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Netflix is a Joke Festival, and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. ALOK's first comedy special BIOLOGY! executive produced by Christopher Guest comes out Dec 18. They are the subject of the docu-short "ALOK" executive produced by Jodie Foster and directed by Alex Hedison, which made its debut at the Sundance Film Festival in 2024. On screen, they can also be seen in Complicated Order, The Trans List, and Absolute Dominion (forthcoming). On television, they can be seen on HBO's Sex Lives of College Girls, Sort Of and Random Acts of Flyness, Hulu's Planet Sex with Cara Delevingne, and Netflix's Gender Agenda Comedy Special and Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness. For their contributions to culture and entertainment, they have been honored with the ACLU of Southern California Bill of Rights Award, Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment Trailblazer Award, and were selected as the inaugural LGBTQ Scholar in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania.
So lucky to have gotten to see Alok live!! Touching and hilarious, Alok never fails to give me insight into flourishing in a wack world
A thought provoking spotlight on man’s inhumanity to man given with humour and compassion.
Alok was hilarious and brilliant. I feel like a better person after seeing their set. I laughed And cried the whole time. They have managed to find a way to do comedy that fuels and uplifts instead of numbing and tearing down. I’m so glad Alok exists.
A great thinker and poet, weaving together words—spoke about living joyfully through daily grief, the ongoingness of the colonial gender-binary, and comedy as a space of freedom (of sorts). Such a 🌟
THIS SHOW WAS EVERYTHING!!! Weaving between emotive spoken word pieces to stand-up comedy that was as high concept as it was playful. I laughed, I cried, I laughed again - and I'm talking deep belly, laughter that bubbled up from the well-spring of your soul. This show was SO. FUCKING. GOOD! Do yourself a favour and get yourself a ticket the next time this absolute gem of a human being performs.