FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA
New York had Cole Escola down and out. Now they’re part of comedy’s queer new wave [Los Angeles Times :: BC-VID-ESCOLA:LA]
While isolated in a one-bedroom Brooklyn apartment this spring, Cole Escola decided to do what no network or streaming service had, to that point, been willing to do: turn the sold-out stage show “Help! I’m Stuck!” into a TV special.
The forced solitude of the pandemic presented an opportunity: “That’s exactly the low bar that this show needs,” Escola recalls thinking.
Working from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. each night to avoid noisy neighbors and honking cars, the actor-writer-comedian donned an array of wigs to play film noir vixen and furniture magnate Jennifer Convertibles; Jessup Collins, a fashion expert with a grotesque filler face; and Laura Jean, a starry-eyed Southern belle who dreams of being a circus tuba player.