Surprise, comedy fans! Jen Kirkman has announced that her new comedy album, OK, Gen-X, will drop on Friday, March 25 via 800 Pound Gorilla Records. The release, recorded at Union Hall in December of 2021, will be available everywhere comedy is streamed and sold.
Kirkman examines the old adage “boys will be boys” and how today it is still okay for men to try to expose themselves in public. Following two successful Netflix specials, Kirkman decided to commemorate this latest material with a comedy album after hearing a few times from studio execs that “men in America would not laugh at her jokes.”
“Boomers think we’re slackers and Gen-Z thinks we’re Boomers,” said Kirkman in a statement. “OK, Gen-X is an ode to the generation who grew up with indoor cigarette-smoking and only using a camera twice a year (‘if you had a camera in the 90s, you were a photographer’). It’s a darkly funny remembrance of being a little girl who experienced sexism beginning at age four with the town flasher. Throughout my life men have continued to try to show me their d*cks at inappropriate times, and society still thinks that’s not a big deal.”
Kirkman’s comedy specials, I’m Gonna Die Alone (And I Feel Fine) and Just Keep Livin’? are available on Netflix. She is the author of I Can Barely Take Care of Myself (Tales From a Happy Life Without Kids) and I Know What I’m Doing and Other Lies I Tell Myself and she hosts the Anxiety Bites podcast as well as No Fun: The Jen Kirkman Podcast.
Check out OK, Gen-X everywhere on March 25 and head over to Jenkirkman.com for more information.