In a summer filled with harrowing headlines, Dad’s Garage improv performer and writer Mark Kendall’s brand-new YouTube comedy sketch, “If MARTA Came to Cobb County” has become a welcome respite in Atlanta social media news feeds this week. The hilarious sketch, set in an alternate reality Cobb County (one where residents finally voted to approve […]
“You’re not afraid being in a bar where two men took one of our own, beat him and left him for dead?” I remember the young University of Wyoming student who was sitting next to me smiling at me and saying, “Nope.” It was such a confident response. “After Matthew’s death, we kind of made this place our own. Our LGBT campus group hangs out here all the time.”
There’s a moment in writer-performer Mark Kendall’s one-man sketch comedy show “The Magic Negro and Other Blackity Blackness As Told By An African-American Man Who Also Happens To Be Black” that brilliantly illustrates the gravitas of the entire 75-minute show. In the sketch, Kendall’s fictional future Cobb County (the one where residents finally vote to […]