“ 'Sugar Daddy' is a kind of group therapy...Turning his tragedy into comedy doesn’t mean it makes any more sense. But if joking can make grief less sacred and more profane, what’s a bit of laughter between tears?"
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“The show is packed with detours, non-sequiturs, unprintable references to sex, and an in-your-face blood-glucose level check...Laughter may be the best medicine, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy.”
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“The anxiousness surfaces in Morrison’s occasionally stumbling delivery, but his openness and wit more than offset it, and ultimately his catharsis and the audience’s laughter draw everyone together in tragedy and comedy’s borderland, more commonly known as life.”
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“While there is much to admire in the writing, the comedy tends to supersede the grief...Perhaps with time and more perspective, he will embrace the audience into the narrative more fully. How sweet that would be.”
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“I was almost always amused by what he [Morrison] had to say and how he said or, um, unabashedly demonstrated it... he succeeds at broadening the concept of grief — of convincing holdouts that death may be no laughing matter, but finding a way to see it in an alleviating light can be.”
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"Sugar Daddy" is so many things. It is an off-beat love story; it is an expression of love as much as it is an expression of grief. Most importantly, it is an intensely personal story that he has chosen to share with total strangers, yet we don’t feel like strangers when he’s done.
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“Morrison’s sharp wit and zingy one-liners balance the gravitas as he processes grief associated with the unexpected death, medical diagnosis, and a gunpoint robbery that challenges his values of both past and present.”
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“ ‘Sugar Daddy’ is an impressive achievement, and you can imagine some streaming service recording it for posterity and giving this young comic a well-deserved bigger platform...It’s a pity that we all don’t have a similar outlet, or skill set, to work out our own issues.”
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