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Moshe Kasher Talks ‘Subculture Vulture’ — His Memoir About AA, Burning Man and Hasidic Judaism — and Reveals the One Joke He Wishes He Could Cut From It
Comedian Moshe Kasher talks 'Subculture Vulture,' his new memoir about the subcultures that shaped him, including AA, Hasidic Judaism and Burning Man.
“I know for sure that AA lent itself to my comedy career, because that’s where I learned to stand up in front of a crowd and use words to elicit laughter and emotion,” Kasher tells Variety via Zoom before the book’s Jan. 30 publication. [In the passage, Kasher lists valuable lessons — including “Be honest,” “Pause when agitated,” “Apologize when I hurt someone” — and, facetiously, slips in “Never admit when I cheat on my wife.”] I think that would be a really fun and cool show, about a young, newly sober person with deaf parents who’s trying to make it in the rave scene and going to early Burning Man and figuring out stand-up.
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