Daniel Sloss has ended at least 34,000 relationships and 93 marriages with his special Netflix comedy "Jigsaw". Yet the 28-year-old comedian points to even bigger numbers;
"If I were realistic, I would say about 50,000 shares. I still get emails every day."
However, Sloss points out that "Jigsaw" was by no means a show of separation.
"It was a love letter to singles. I just said a few things that people needed to hear, in short: You don't have to ask for a bit (the expression used by Sloss was, 'You don't have to settle'). "There is nothing wrong with being single."
In the stand-up comedy of 2018, Sloss shows an analogy that his father once told him as a small child: A comparison of life with the union of parts and figures, where love is at the center. The sequel takes a sudden turn. Sloss uses his memory to criticize society for promoting an unrealistic ideology of romance, to make young children believe that every Disney princess needs a charming prince and vice versa.
With the help of social media, this often forces us to insert the wrong person into our puzzle, people who do not really fit into our lives, according to Sloss. "Because it is better to have someone in life than to go against the norms set by society," he says.
"Some people are more in love with the idea of ??love than with the person they are with," he says. "My generation has romanticized the idea of ??romance and that's cancerous."
The comedian then encourages the people in his audience to re-evaluate their relationship. Does your partner really fit into the puzzle of your life? Do you fit into his puzzle? If not, accept that the last years of your life have been a waste and just keep going, he suggests. And, apparently, many really did.
Sloss uses comedy as a tool, not only to make people laugh, but also to raise critical and why not philosophical questions about the way we think.
In another show, "X", the comedian talks about "toxic manhood". His material is obviously unfiltered, vulgar and brutally honest.
This bold approach by Sloss has helped him make the audience his own since he was 17 years old. Today, Sloss is an international star in the world of comedy.
Source: News Week
