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Unstuck and Unflinching: Olivia Levine on Comedy, Control, and Coming Clean

October 19, 2025

For Levine, the crowd isn’t a backdrop—it’s a living collaborator. Her show is intimate, often exposing the kind of stories most people bury: intrusive thoughts, shame, and the messy intersections of sex and control. She relies on the audience to meet her there. “Sometimes people’s reactions change what happens in the moment,” she says. “When my mom’s friends came, they’d whisper or gasp or laugh in surprise—and I can feel that energy. It changes how I tell a story.” [more]

Unstuck

October 17, 2025

Olivia Levine’s "Unstuck" begins like a comedy set and ends like a cleansing. She steps into the light holding a fake candle and an orange, instantly setting the tone: part ritual, part bit. “I hope my parents are always happy and that they live forever — of course they will, but just in case,” she intones, before muttering “Done done done done done GUN — goddammit.” It’s funny, until it isn’t. You laugh, then realize you’re inside the mechanics of OCD — the panic disguised as precision, the desperate repetition hiding inside a joke. [more]