I left Rock The Block and hit Helium Comedy Club to catch Faizon Love. I was feeling a type of way that he replaced Deon Cole, but Faizon was funnier than I remember him. But even before he took the stage, I was hollering at his opening act Vanessa Fraction. Trust and believe I was over the moon when she said that she was straight outta STL! Her bit about considering becoming a bereavement stripper named Sympathy was absolutely everything. And when she said she decided to date herself after a series of failed relationships, only to learn that she couldn’t afford herself…I all but died. I was like “Girl, that’s the same thing that happened to me.” Okay, now back to Faizon. He’s still riding for Bill Cosby. I’m just thankful he said his two cents and skated right off of that into something that would give me a cackle. When he started talking about folks discriminate with all of the body shaming and proclaimed, “Fat Lives Matter,” I was able to giggle and regroup.
