Asperger's Are Us | |
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![]() From left, Ethan Finlan, Noah Britton, New Michael Ingemi, and Jack Hanke | |
Years active | 2010-2018, 2019-present |
Genres | Satire, surreal humor, puns |
Members | Tripp Carey (former member) Ethan Finlan Jack Hanke Noah Britton New Michael Ingemi |
Website | www |
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]
Asperger'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 ]