Sam Nicoresti launches Wokeflake special on YouTube
Sam Nicoresti has launched a comedy special on YouTube.
Nicoresti's performance in Wokeflake is described as blending "stand-up, satire and cinematic surreality to come out swinging for trans rights in an uncompromising and fiery debut".
A show about the culture war on trans people, the special incorporates a live stand-up taping with to-camera satirical character comedy, hand-drawn animated dream sequences, 3D body horror, and vérité clips of leading culture war figures cut up into uncomfortable new contexts.
Working with producer Georgia House, show director Siân Docksey and film director Benjamin Sutton of boutique production house Daddy's SuperYacht, Nicoresti's performance is described as an "unflinching vivisection of the cultural climate around trans identity that pulls no punches and packs in the punchlines".
The producers say: "In a time when the 'comedy special' feels increasingly weaponised against trans people, Wokeflake pushes the boundaries of the emergent artform and aims to beat the bigots at their own game. A portrait of transition in close-up, pores and all."
The special can be watched below: