Midwest Existentialism - Brendon Lemon Official
Brendon LemonSometimes funny, sometimes intellectual, sometimes a rolling midwestern existential crisis - your inbox will get a dose of something that'll help you think, and feel comforted knowing you're not the only one screaming into the void.
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The Dark Night of The Soul
So, the following was written during a VERY stressful few days in London, just before leaving to come to Edinburgh. I’m now in Edinburgh, at the Fringe, and preparing… in much better spririts.
It’s strange, because I feel oddly guilty abou...
An Ontology of Tiredness
Something about life today is just tiring.
We’re all tired of it, life. We don’t have enough rest. We don’t have enough time to get rest, to have rest, to be rested.
Midwest Existentialism - Brendon Lemon Official is a reader-supported pu...
Artists are Rolling Stones
In Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedian, a 2002 documentary that followed Jerry Seinfeld as he got back into doing standup comedy from his hiatus after Seinfeld ended, there’s a great moment that has stuck with me in the more than 20 years since I’ve...
Telling Myself Whatever I Want To Believe In Myself
I turned 40 only five months ago, and one of the strange things about getting older is the realization that your past does in fact shape who you are. Sitting by the East River in Williamsburg and staring out at the water recently, bits of m...
Going Insane For The Fringe
The process of creating a Fringe show starts almost an entire year before, and in my case it started exactly as year before, at the previous Fringe.
In 2025 I didn’t have a show, in 2024 I didn’t have a show, in 2023 I didn’t have a show....
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Comedian and writer from Detroit, living in New York. I write about The Midwest, Existentialism, life under late stage capitalism, and I write dick jokes.
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