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Hell Trap Nightmare and the Chicago DIY Scene
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Sarah Sherman's first Hell Trap Nightmare show was held in a friend's Chicago basement. The lineup included a noise musician who flashed the crowd with chorizo taped to his genitals while smashing light bulbs. Sarah performed ten minutes of bad stand-up and chugged a can of room-temperature clam chowder. A career was born.
Sarah's first Hell Trap Nightmare show was held in a friend's Chicago basement and featured a performer with chorizo taped to his genitals smashing light bulbs.
After Sarah performed an animal character on SNL, Lorne Michaels pulled her aside and said, 'When you did that, I could tell you were loved as a child.' Sarah called it being completely 'clocked.' Parental scaffolding, it turns out, is visible from the stage.
