Cat Cohen: Broad Strokes

Exactly how in earnest we’re supposed to treat Cat Cohen has always been pleasingly ambiguous: her hilarious Streisand-scale diva shtick has always been intentionally out of whack with playing small comedy clubs (though they’re not so small anymore), but it was clear that at least some of the stories she was telling in her last show Come for Me were entirely true. Broad Strokes takes its name from the fact Cohen – then in her early thirties – randomly had a stroke in 2023. While it seems likely that this show about the incident will be full of showtune style piano numbers, overbearing crowd patter and faux unselfawareness, it will also very likely actually be about how she had a stroke because it would be an insane thing to make up. Whatever the case, Cohen is simply gloriously entertaining company off vibes alone.