Nathan Mosher Is Injured
Nathan Mosher is Injured, starring (you guessed it) @nathanmosherisgoodenough, begins like countless other stand-up sets. Breakups, childhood, a few limp Taco Bell gags š®ā all familiar, all faintly redundant. For a while, it feels like a down-on-his-luck friend retelling the same story one too many times. At best, weāre watching a man in a knee brace chasing #laughs that donāt quite arriveā¦
But then the show pivots: thereās an incomplete blackout, a piano is introduced. Suddenly, the jokes melt away & something more fragile takes their place. Breakup tales spiral into stories of breakdowns, even šØsuicide attempts. šØ Mosher sings, recites slam poetry, invites us into sterile psych-ward vignettes. At times his voice falters; itās not #BoBurnham slickness, but something messier, more personal. Jokes about kale or virginity may fall flat, but at the piano Mosher finally finds a raw clarityā¦
The piece remains uneven ā stitched together with abrupt blackouts & an ending that sputters. Some material strays into uncomfortable territoryā did he just compare #nonbinary people to dogs? š¶Yet, in its unpolished form thereās a strange sincerity. By the end, you feel youāve spent an hour not with a #comedian but with a flawed, fidgety human being willing to show you his scar tissueā¦
In the end, āNathan Mosher is Injuredā isnāt really about stand-up at all. Itās about letting us into an account of survivalā awkwardly, vulnerably & on his own terms. 3/5
*Originally produced @c_venues in 2022 as part of the C ARTS programme; presented at Edfringe 2025 as part of C Digital Performance & Film.
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