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Pick of the Day: Kelly Bachman & Dylan Adler: Rape Victims Are Horny Too @ Joe’s Pub (in NYC) 5/16

April 27, 2023

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Last year, Kelly Bachman and Dylan Adler put one of the best works of musical comedy in recent memory with their live album Rape Victims Are Horny Too. It’s a truly astounding and groundbreaking work that is simultaneously so damn funny, but honest and powerful and respective to their own truths as sexual assault survivors. You can read our thoughts about how moving and groundbreaking it is here.

With that in mind, getting to see Kelly and Dylan put the show up live is a must-see experience. Lucky for New Yorkers, Adler is back in NYC for all of May and will be putting on an exclusive evening of Rape Victims Are Horny Too up at one of NYC’s most venerable venues, Joe’s Pub on Tues. May 16th at 9:30PM. Tickets are only $15 (plus 2 drink or 1 food item min.) for this very special, exclusive, who-knows-when-this-will-happen-again night and you best go get them here.

The Comedy Bureau Field Report Ep. 131: Dylan Adler and Kelly Bachman & Making Their Own Comedy Gold from Trauma

September 28, 2022

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Born from the roughs of a chance meeting at an open mic, NYC comedy darlings Dylan Adler and Kelly Bachman found both peace and an indelible comedy partner. Together, they made, for our money, one of the best hours of comedy this year and certainly one of the best albums/specials about trauma, Rape Victims Are Horny Too. This week’s TCB Field Report talks to the freewheeling duo of survivor comedians and how they managed to make such a fantastic, rollicking hour of story and song about surviving rape and trauma.

Follow Dylan @dylanadler6 on Twitter, @dylanadler_ on IG, and @dylanadler7 on Tik Tok and Kelly @bellykachman on Twitter and TikTok and @kellybachman on IG. Follow their weekly Brooklyn show I Made You a Playlist @playlistcomedy.

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Produced by Jake Kroeger
Music by Brian Granillo
Artwork by Andrew Delman and KT

As Survivors, Dylan Adler and Kelly Bachman’s “Rape Victims Are Horny Too” Might Just Have One of the Best Hours of Comedy on Trauma

September 26, 2022

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Sourcing comedy from trauma isn’t anything new within the art form of comedy. Yet, it feels as though, after centuries of the art evolving, joking about one’s scars, both physical and emotional, is a precarious endeavor. More specifically, the ever sharp topic of rape has been delicately been the catalyst for captivating and moving comedy specials by survivors and esteemed comedians Hannah Gadsby and Cameron Esposito with Nanette and Rape Jokes, respectively.

Dylan Adler and Kelly Bachman have broken new ground by doing an entire album of simultaneously cheeky and as-starkly-vulnerable-as-can-be comedy songs and stories about being rape survivors. The title itself Rape Victims Are Horny Too is, in of itself, both a trigger warning and the perfect spark for an almost unbelievably trailblazing hour of comedy. As both Dylan and Kelly are rape survivors, they take back agency over their lives and their truths with such gleeful abandon with songs such as “Tell Me I’m Hot (Don’t Touch Me)” that you’ll be flabbergasted from both the lyrics and that you’re laughing heartily at them.

Rape Victims Are Horny Too dances so playfully and also so masterfully with taking power back from victimhood, but without going over-the-top in a way that diminishes the gravity of trauma. Adler and Bachman speak so specifically (as well as sing sassy lyrics over hit pop songs) of their experiences of being mansplained to about rape culture or about the unchecked advances at gay clubs while focusing on how they kept their humanity as intact as possible. Though one hopefully hasn’t been subject to rape/sexual assault/harassment/etc., there is undeniable relatability in their extremely human truths, especially when done up with some show tunes.

The power of narratives, specifically the overarching mainstream ones already in place that people just assume are truth, get rightfully dismantled here too. Woven into the themes of rape culture in Rape Victims Are Horny Too are plenty of imagery of sexual abusers that aren’t straight, cis white men. The inner workings of rape as perpetrated by queer people and women are pointedly detailed on several tracks. Their inclusion highlights why having conversations about rape, on all levels, needs to happen if we’re to address it meaningfully as a civilization.

As far as we’re concerned, Rape Victims Are Horny Too is as much of a tour de force of comedy as 2022 will bring thanks to the audacity, courage, and deftness of Kelly Bachman and Dylan Adler. If you’re pondering about comedy supposed power to affect change in such dark times, this hour of joke songs about rape might end up being irrefutable proof.

Rape Victims Are Horny Too is now streaming across platforms. Please listen and enjoy, knowing full well what the contents of the album are, here.

a song about being a r*** victim who’s also horny af @DylanAdler6 pic.twitter.com/J6WMkmCgE1

— Kelly Bachman (@bellykachman) September 24, 2022

Pick of the Day: Rape Victims Are Horny Too Album Taping (in NYC) 6/24 & 6/25

June 7, 2022

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It’s pretty clear at this point that Kelly Bachman and Dylan Adler have carved out their place in the NYC comedy scene for their hilarity through daring vulnerability (also, you might know/have seen Dylan do a standing backflip and Kelly call out monster Harvey Weinstein to his face). They carry on the torch of truth in comedy to new frontiers, especially with the show they wrote and perform together, Rape Victims Are Horny Too.

There is no subterfuge to that title. Kelly and Dylan are both rape survivors and have, as an act of healing and holding up a beacon for other survivors to not feel alone, have written a very, very funny musical about that part of their lives. They’ve honed the show over the years and are going to put the show officially on wax with a live album taping this month. Undoubtedly, this will be a great addition to bold comedy specials cut from similar cloth including Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette and Cameron Esposito’s Rape Jokes.

There are two tapings of Rape Victims Are Horny Too at the Lower East Side’s Caveat on Fri. Jun. 24th & Sat. Jun. 25th at 9:30PM ET. Tickets are $15 and you best go get them now.