Ariel Elias says she still hasn’t fully processed the incident at Uncle Vinnie’s Comedy Club Saturday night in Point Pleasant Beach, NJ, a moment that’s since gone viral.
“I still haven’t cried, and I know I need to,” she said today on Gianmarco Soresi’s podcast The Downside.
“I think I’m feeling irritated at some of the attention,” continued Elias. Deadline reported yesterday that producers were also reaching out to outlets such as CNN and Rolling Stone. Jimmy Kimmel Live!Are looking to hire the comedian.
A woman, who looked drunk, asked Elias about her vote for the last election. “I can tell by your jokes that you voted for Biden.”
Elias was able to let go of the verbal gloves.
“I can tell by the fact that you’re still talking when nobody wants you to that you voted for Trump,”The comedian retorted to the cheers of the crowd.
A few seconds later, Elias’ jaw dropped as a beer bottle flew across the room. She came up with the perfect rejoinder, and she didn’t miss a beat.
“As soon as I picked up the beer and felt liquid still in it,” Elias toldNewsweekMonday “I knew to chug it. It felt like the only way to recover. Also suddenly I really needed a drink, so it really worked out.”
But in some ways, Elias still hasn’t recovered saying, “I haven’t slept in a few days.”
She continued: “Saturday night when I got home, I watched the video and I was like, ‘Oh…that was thrown really, really hard.’ I don’t think I had processed how hard that was thrown and what would have happened if it had hit me: It misses me, [and] it’s great for my career [and] it’s like a fun viral clip; It hit’s me, [and] it’s evidence.”
Soresi, the headliner on that night, stated that the woman in question was there along with around 20 friends, and that they were at that club. “about two hours early, drinking”They were. “rowdy.”
After the beer was thrown and he took the stage, Soresi said he was jittery, at one point seeing a flash of light somewhere in the club — likely someone vaping — and thought it might be a gun shot.
Elias shared similar thoughts.
“My opening joke that Saturday night was, ‘So glad to be here in South Jersey where it’s easier to get a gun than to make a left turn,”The comedian recalled the incident before reflecting. “It’s not out of the realm [of possibility] to think that someone had a gun there.”