“I Nonetheless Haven’t Cried, And I Know I Want To” – Deadline

Ariel Elias says she nonetheless hasn’t absolutely processed the incident at Uncle Vinnie’s Comedy Membership Saturday night time in Level Nice Seashore, NJ, a second that’s since gone viral.

“I nonetheless haven’t cried, and I do know I must,” she mentioned right now on Gianmarco Soresi’s podcast The Draw back.

“I believe I’m feeling irritated at a few of the consideration,” continued Elias. Deadline revealed yesterday that, along with shops like Rolling Stone and CNN reaching out, producers for Jimmy Kimmel Dwell! want to ebook the comic.

The incident in query concerned a seemingly drunk girl within the viewers asking Elias who she voted for the the final election earlier than insisting, “I can inform by your jokes that you just voted for Biden.”

That led Elias to take (the verbal) gloves off.

“I can inform by the truth that you’re nonetheless speaking when no one needs you to that you just voted for Trump,” the comic replied to huge cheers from the viewers.

Only a few seconds later, a beer can sailed throughout the room and splattered in opposition to the wall behind Elias, whose jaw dropped. However with out lacking a beat she got here up with the prefect rejoinder.

“As quickly as I picked up the beer and felt liquid nonetheless in it,” Elias advised Newsweek on Monday, “I knew to chug it. It felt like the one approach to get better. Additionally out of the blue I actually wanted a drink, so it actually labored out.”

However in some methods, Elias nonetheless hasn’t recovered saying, “I haven’t slept in just a few days.”

She continued, “Saturday night time once I acquired house, I watched the video and I used to be like, ‘Oh…that was thrown actually, actually onerous.’ I don’t suppose I had processed how onerous that was thrown and what would have occurred if it had hit me: It misses me, [and] it’s nice for my profession [and] it’s like a enjoyable viral clip; It hit’s me, [and] it’s proof.”

Soresi, who was the headliner that night time, mentioned the lady in query was there with about 20 associates and that they have been on the membership “about two hours early, consuming” and that they have been “rowdy.”

After the beer was thrown and he took the stage, Soresi mentioned he was jittery, at one level seeing a flash of sunshine someplace within the membership — possible somebody vaping — and thought it may be a gun shot.

Elias mentioned she had related ideas.

“My opening joke that Saturday night time was, ‘So glad to be right here in South Jersey the place it’s simpler to get a gun than to make a left flip,” the comic recalled, earlier than reflecting, “It’s not out of the realm [of possibility] to suppose that somebody had a gun there.”