After “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” wrapped its final scenes, two-time Emmy winner Alex Borstein took center stage at the Wolford Theatre, home base of the comedy’s fictional burlesque club for a music-infused stand-up show.
The special, titled “Corsets & Clown Suits,” is now streaming on Prime Video alongside the first four episodes of “Maisel’s” fifth and final season. In conversation with Variety ahead of Maisel’s final episodes, Borstein describes the 81-minute special, produced by Amazon Studios, “as a filthy Ted talk with music.”
She explains: “You’re gonna learn some things that you may wish you could forget,” she jokes, elaborating on that it’s a “deeply personal and wildly fictitious journey I go on to figure out what perception is and how I am perceived.”
As an actor, Borstein is certainly respected. She has won two Primetime Emmys, two SAG Awards, and two Critics Choice Awards for her turn on “Maisel,...
The special, titled “Corsets & Clown Suits,” is now streaming on Prime Video alongside the first four episodes of “Maisel’s” fifth and final season. In conversation with Variety ahead of Maisel’s final episodes, Borstein describes the 81-minute special, produced by Amazon Studios, “as a filthy Ted talk with music.”
She explains: “You’re gonna learn some things that you may wish you could forget,” she jokes, elaborating on that it’s a “deeply personal and wildly fictitious journey I go on to figure out what perception is and how I am perceived.”
As an actor, Borstein is certainly respected. She has won two Primetime Emmys, two SAG Awards, and two Critics Choice Awards for her turn on “Maisel,...
- 4/21/2023
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
For those who only know Alex Borstein as the sarcastic, no-nonsense manager Susie Myerson on “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” boy, do you have a lot to learn. As proven in her new comedy special on Amazon’s Prime Video, “Alex Borstein: Corsets & Clown Suits,” she’s the kind of comedian that Susie Myerson would jump through hoops to represent.
“It’s just a real different animal. It’s not standup really. It’s like a filthy ‘Ted talk,’” Borstein told TheWrap. “You’re gonna learn something, you’re gonna hear a story and hopefully laugh … and there’s music. So I think because it’s like a strange hybrid; it hits differently, you know?”
The show is deeply personal in some places and wildly fictitious in others, all told with comedy, music and an occasional prop or two (there’s a bit about a “patch” women can wear on...
“It’s just a real different animal. It’s not standup really. It’s like a filthy ‘Ted talk,’” Borstein told TheWrap. “You’re gonna learn something, you’re gonna hear a story and hopefully laugh … and there’s music. So I think because it’s like a strange hybrid; it hits differently, you know?”
The show is deeply personal in some places and wildly fictitious in others, all told with comedy, music and an occasional prop or two (there’s a bit about a “patch” women can wear on...
- 4/21/2023
- by Rosemary Rossi
- The Wrap
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