Asperger's Are Us
Asperger's Are Us is an American comedy troupe. They are the first comedy troupe consisting entirely of people with Asperger syndrome,[1] though their shows do not reference autism at all.[2] BiographyAsperger's Are Us formed on the North Shore of Massachusetts in the summer of 2010 after New Michael Ingemi, Jack Hanke, and Ethan Finlan graduated from a summer camp where Noah Britton was their counselor.[3] They have performed over 150 original sketch comedy shows in ten countries[4][5] and have been interviewed many times by press around the world.[6][7][8] They state that their name reflects their "Aspie style of humor, which focuses on dark absurdism and wordplay, which Aspies seem to enjoy a lot".[2] Examples of their humor include selling death certificates as tour merch "with blank spaces where we filled in the buyer's name, birthday, and cause of death", onstage haircuts from a randomly chosen audience member during several shows, hiring a real CPR demonstration as an opening act at the Kennedy Center, reading all of Dink Johnson's Wikipedia article out loud for a sketch, performing a puppet show explaining complex economic theory, calling Hawaiian hotels (via speakerphone onstage) to ask detailed questions about valet parking options, hiding perennial presidential candidate Vermin Supreme under a tablecloth onstage for 4 minutes before he walked out to silently wave at the audience and exit, and having the audience vote for a specific stranger's artwork in an online children's art competition.[9] A Duplass Brothers Productions documentary about the troupe was released on Netflix in late 2016.[10] A follow-up, On Tour with Asperger's Are Us, debuted on HBO on 30 April 2019.[11][12] Asperger's Are Us disbanded in 2018, but reunited and continued to tour in 2019.[citation needed] References
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