How a Comedian With a One-Woman Show Spends Her Sundays

August  19, 2023 • Alix Strauss • NY Times

Judy Gold owes her comedy career to a dare. One night while she was attending Rutgers University, a classmate challenged her to do stand-up in a student lounge, Ms. Gold recalled. “That was the first laugh I got,” she said. “It was the most amazing feeling, like an out-of-body experience.”

Forty years — and two books, three albums, three solo shows, a slew of comedy specials and a podcast later — Ms. Gold, 60, is still making people laugh. She now does it three times a week in a one-woman show, “Everything Hurts Everywhere All at Once,” running through Sept. 3 at the Post Office Cafe and Cabaret in Provincetown, Mass.

Though Ms. Gold has lived in a rental apartment on the Upper West Side for decades, she purchased a three-bedroom condo in Provincetown in 1994. During the summer, she lives there with her fiancée, Elysa Halpern, 61, a therapist, whom she met on a blind date arranged by Time Out New York in 2007. They’re sometimes joined by Ms. Gold’s two children, Henry, 26, and Ben, 22.

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