Not at all funny: A conversation with Odessa Primus

Odessa Primus

Odessa Primus says she was born to be funny. Perhaps oddly enough her claim is not particularly believable, at least not when her intellect strikes you like a rumbustious gust of breeze once you engage her in conversation. Part of that has to do with the persona that we infuse into ‘funny people,’ perceiving them all too often as airheads who tell tasteless jokes.

With Odessa you discover that she is much more than a routine teller of jokes. Rather,