It feels really great… It’s messy, but sometimes you’re getting the most real version of some of these stories and pulls from my life, before they’ve been shaped into, you know, a joke.”ĭuring Netflix Is a Joke: The Festival, Booster will be participating in a number of shows, including the all-LGBTQ+ Stand Out showcase on May 7th and a sold-out show called The Joy F*ck Club on May 8th.
It’s really fun - I feel like I’m 25 doing standup again. It’s a lot, and a situation which he says is a bit of a “monkey’s paw situation,” because of his dedication to stand-up right now, he’s in a “rebuilding phase” with his work on stage after filming Psychosexual: “I’m just sort of writing a lot of new material and testing out a lot of new stuff. It’s really about to be Joel Kim Booster’s time - as he tells Consequence, “June is going to be a big big month for me.” The comedian wrote and stars in the groundbreaking Hulu romantic comedy Fire Island on June 3rd, will appear in the Apple TV+ series Loot, premiering June 24th, and Netflix just announced that his first-ever hour-long comedy special, Joel Kim Booster: Psychosexual, will debut on June 21st. This article is part of our coverage of the 2022 Netflix Is a Joke: The Festival.
