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Winnipeg Free Press
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Winnipeg Free Press
Matt Good, I Mother Earth togther at casino
It's a Canadian '90s-rock two-fer when singer-songwriter Matt Good joins alt-rock band I Mother Earth at the Club Regent Event Centre on Nov. 6. Each act will play a full electric set of their own material and then a combined acoustic set. Tickets start at $49 and go on sale May 15 at New York comedian Sam Morril brings The Errors Tour to the venue on Oct. 5. The popular standup is a staple on late-night talk shows and has appeared on such shows as Last Comic Standing, America's Got Talent and Inside Amy Schumer. He can be heard on the We Might Be Drunk podcast with Mark Norman; his new special, Sam Morril: You've Changed, is streaming on Prime Video. Tickets start at $44 and go on sale May 16 at
New York Times
28-02-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
An Engagement Fib That Came True
On her first date with Clarke Daniel Adams, Carrie Kelly Seim intentionally wore a shiny bracelet. 'It was a really unusual studded silver bracelet that I'd purchased at a bazaar in Oman,' she said. 'It sounds silly,' she added. 'But I swear many men are drawn to shiny things.' What she didn't intend on was losing it. Mr. Adams and Ms. Seim had matched on the League dating app in May 2017. After they messaged one another, he suggested a first date at the Library Bar at the NoMad Hotel, now known as the Ned NoMad, in Manhattan's NoMad neighborhood. 'He didn't know it was one of my favorites,' Ms. Seim said. 'I remember her walking in the door looking exactly like her pictures — always a plus when you meet people online,' he said. 'She was dressed to the nines.' 'He looked so handsome,' she said. 'He had this James Bond look, and he had this really warm smile. I was worried he might be dull. But he was instantly funny. He has this very dry wit.' It was clear from the start that there was a connection. Ms. Seim appreciated that Mr. Adams was asking her questions, 'which doesn't always happen,' she said. 'He is genuinely interested in women's thoughts and ideas and likes interesting, strong women.' The ease of conversation struck Mr. Adams, too. 'We were able to talk instantly about a variety of subjects effortlessly for two hours,' he said. At the end of the evening, as Mr. Adams was walking Ms. Seim out of the restaurant, she realized that the shiny bracelet she had worn — which, alas, he doesn't recall noticing — was gone. When she told Mr. Adams it was missing, he 'crawled under the tables and found it,' she said. The two went on several more dates in the early summer months of 2017 when their work and travel schedules allowed. But they kept up 'quite the texting rapport,' Ms. Seim said. Three months into dating, their relationship took a turn. 'We had been on four or five dates and everything seemed to be going well,' Ms. Seim said. Then she received a text from him in mid-August: He said he was dealing with some family issues and couldn't date anyone. 'I was really shocked and disappointed,' she said, but added that she earnestly wished him well. Ms. Seim, 47, who is from Bellevue, Neb., has written children's novels like 'Horse Girl' (Penguin Random House), which is currently being developed for television with producing partner Zosia Mamet, the Audible Original series 'The Flying Flamingo Sisters' and the upcoming 'Horse Camp: A Horse Girl Mystery.' She is also a freelance television writer; a freelance journalist (who has written for The New York Times); and an actor who has appeared on 'Inside Amy Schumer' and many TV commercials. She holds a bachelor's degree from Iowa State University and a master's degree from Northwestern University, both in journalism. Mr. Adams, 54, is a managing director and head of high yield capital for the Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation. He has a bachelor's degree in economics from Franklin & Marshall College and a graduate degree in finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He grew up in South Plainfield, N.J., and Chadds Ford, Pa. Binge more Vows columns here and read all our wedding, relationship and divorce coverage here. In October, Ms. Seim was planning a charity auction event for the NYC Autism Charter Schools, where she served on the junior board. 'We needed a big guest list to raise as much money as possible for the school,' she said. On a whim, she invited a few men she had dated. The only one who came to the event was Mr. Adams, and Ms. Seim said she was 'absolutely giddy' to see him. 'I was in a better spot,' Mr. Adams said. 'She was very gracious and hung out with me all night. Plus, I accidentally won a bunch of auction items.' One of his winnings was two tickets to see the musical 'Hello, Dolly!' on Broadway. 'I told him that I felt bad that he'd spent so much on the auction,' she said. 'He said I could make it up to him by being his date for the show.' She wasn't sure if he was just inviting her to be polite. But once at the theater in mid-October 2017, he reached over to hold her hand. By January, Mr. Adams asked Ms. Seim to be his girlfriend, and, the next month, he introduced her to his two sons at his home in Darien, Conn. She met his daughter, who was away at college, a few months later. Mr. Adams's his first wife, Lisa Bonchek Adams, died of metastatic cancer in 2015. She had written extensively about her medical journey. He has three children from that marriage — Paige, 26, Colin, 22, and Tristan, 18. The couple continue to live in both Mr. Adams's home in Connecticut and Ms. Seim's apartment in Manhattan's Stuyvesant Town development. They became engaged in June 2023 when Mr. Adams was in Los Angeles visiting Ms. Seim, who was there for meetings about the 'Horse Girl' TV adaptation. Ms. Seim had arranged a dinner for them with friends and actually fibbed about celebrating her engagement in order to get a reservation at Nobu Malibu. 'It can be impossible to get a table there,' she said, adding that she 'knew we would be getting engaged in some months.' Ms. Seim slipped a costume ring on her left ring finger to complete the ruse. When Mr. Adams noticed the ring, he seemed flustered, she said, and their friends, who were in on Mr. Adam's secret plan to propose, could not help but laugh at the situation. While taking in the ocean view, one of their friends asked Ms. Seim if he could see the ring so that she would take it off, and Mr. Adams asked their friends to have a photo taken of him and Ms. Seim. As they posed, he proposed. 'All I remember is him saying, 'You love my children like they're your own,'' Ms. Seim said. On Feb. 15, Brian Clark, a close friend of the couple who was ordained by Universal Life Church for the event, officiated an outdoor wedding at the Palms Hotel & Spa in Miami Beach, with 101 guests in attendance. The wedding party included Ms. Seim's sister, Lindsay Seim, and Mr. Adams's three children. The bride wore three dresses: the Swan by Esteé Couture for the ceremony; a secondhand white flapper dress with heavy beading and feather trim by Nadine Merabi for the first dance; and a mini dress by Nicole + Felicia for the after-party. 'I come from a sketch-comedy background,' said Ms. Seims, who is an alumna of the Groundlings Sunday Company in Los Angeles, 'and love a costume change.' The groom wore a Michael Andrews Bespoke tuxedo with a white dinner jacket, along with vintage Chanel cuff links, with the interlocking 'C' motif representing Carrie and Clarke, a gift from the bride. 'I have a large family and we were all together in one place for the first time in many years,' Mr. Adams said. 'I can't imagine that it was easy, but from the beginning Carrie has always fit in perfectly with my rambunctious crew.' When Feb. 15, 2025 Where The Palms Hotel & Spa, Miami Beach Medical Miracle Last March, Ms. Seim's mother, Sharon Seim, had a stroke and was 'given only a 10 percent chance of survival,' said Ms. Seim, who spent several months in Florida helping with her care. 'When my mom was in a coma and on a vent and feeding tube, they put a 'recovery goal' in her room,'' Ms. Seim said. 'My sister wrote, 'Go to Carrie's wedding.'' Not only did Ms. Seim's mother make it to the wedding and walk Ms. Seim down the aisle along with her father, Donald Seim, but, the bride added, 'my mom, who has only been able to walk on her own for a few months, started grooving on the dance floor with me, my dad and my sister.' Going For the Laugh 'My ceremony gown was on the ginormous side, including an impressively long train. As I made my way down the staircase solo, I could feel the crowd palpably holding their breaths, worried I was about to trip and fall on my face in front of 100 of my loved ones,' Ms. Seim said. 'So, I faked an off-kilter wobble and got a big laugh, which I think lifted the tension and got us off to a fun start.' Love's a Puzzle Mr. Adam's older son, Colin, designs crosswords puzzles — including some for The New York Times. 'He created a custom, giant crossword with clues about us for guests to solve during cocktail hour,' Ms. Seim said. It Takes All Kinds The guest list included people with a vast array of professions. As the officiant shared during the ceremony, those in attendance included, 'writers, financiers, actors, authors, doctors, nurses, EMTs, attorneys, directors, teachers, students, volunteers, entrepreneurs, musicians, crossword puzzle constructors, beekeepers — on both sides of the family — and even a couple of puppeteers and a sea lion trainer,' Mr. Clark said. 'Please find each other during cocktail hour.'
The Guardian
05-02-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Kinda Pregnant review – Amy Schumer's Netflix comedy is kinda disappointing
Let me be clear: I am always rooting for Amy Schumer, though sometimes she makes it difficult. When she is good, she is great – and, for the most part, that was on Inside Amy Schumer, her zeitgeist-y Comedy Central sketch show that ran from 2013-2016. Schumer's brand of comedy – bawdy, self-deprecating, pointing to overarching sexism while skewering certain types of white women – was both native to and critical of the pop feminist era, your oversharing best friend during the personal essay boom. For better and, at least on the big screen, for worse, Schumer's sensibility has remained there. Kinda Pregnant, her new film at Netflix, plays the hits Schumer is known for – shameless physical comedy, frank discussion of bodies, brash refusal to play good girl – but feels stuck in the past, unable to generate new sparks. Written by Schumer and Julie Paiva and directed by Tyler Spindel, Kinda Pregnant continues a string of underwhelming Hollywood vehicles since 2015's Trainwrecked that have hamstrung Schumer's talent with sub-par writing (2018's I Feel Pretty) or plotting (2017's Snatched). This time, the issue is more existential: though it tries – there's pratfall and physical gags aplenty – there's just not that much funny to be found here. If the 2022 reboot of Inside Amy Schumer showed the limits of its topical comedy post-Trump, then Kinda Pregnant evinces the dead end of this particular style of comic fuck-up. It doesn't help that the 100-minute film has the stale flavor of Netflix content: overlit, undercooked, checking off boxes by sticking a bunch of funny people together and hoping for the best. The setup should be, um, fertile ground for Schumer, pregnancy and childbirth being states that warp the female body – the site of her most ruthless and revealing jokes – freighted with the cultural scripts she loves to flout. Schumer herself is no stranger to pregnancy fare, having documented her own arduous pregnancy in the 2020 docuseries Expecting Amy and mined its ribald absurdities for the 2019 standup special Growing. Here, she plays the other side of child-free/parent friend divide (a rich topic!) as Lainy, an uncensored and increasingly unhinged Brooklyn schoolteacher in an oddly affordable Williamsburg who has long been desperate to start a family. In her early 40s and four years deep in a relationship with Dave (Damon Wayans Jr), details unknown besides being a cad, she believes she's on the precipice of an engagement and thus her dreams. It all blows up spectacularly and, for the viewer, tiresomely – I appreciate an attempt to revive the old studio comedy but, again, pratfall too aplenty – at an inopportune time. A day after being so desperate for a ring she digs for it in a cake, Lainy learns her forever best friend Kate (Jillian Bell) is pregnant. Besieged by jealousy – Schumer, as usual, is adept at playing a woman barging through the 'I'm so excited for you' script while not really meaning it – Lainy entertains a flight of fancy: what if she just pretended she was pregnant with a fake bump? The world becomes an Elf-esque oyster, all cooing and congratulations and gifted seats on the subway. And because this movie entertains a fluid sense of magical realism and Brooklyn-as-small town, a friendship with the actually pregnant Megan (Brianne Howey), a young mom desperate to connect over the horrors and loneliness of the endeavor, whose brother just so happens to be the guy Lainy flirted with at the coffee shop (Will Forte). Hijinks ensue with a strenuous physical edge – Kinda Pregnant derives a good bulk of its humor from Schumer stuffing a variety of objects under her shirt when caught unawares, or hiding the ruse from various parties. There are intriguing nuggets here: the way society patronizes pregnant women (and now criminalizes, though that's smartly not mentioned; implication is enough), the crazy-making insecurities of falling behind one's friends, how jealousy commingles with joy. Bell is particularly good as the film's voice of reason, though still one throwing a joint baby shower with the worst parody of gen Z New Jerseyans I have seen in Shirley (Lizze Broadway) and her backwards-hat bro husband Rawn (Alex Moffat). Ironically for a comedy so bent on the outrageous, as epitomized by Kiwi comedian Urzila Carlson's vaping school counsellor, Kinda Pregnant finds its groove in the more grounded and honest. The tiptoeing around big changes in one's best friendship, the tension between joy and dread, the role of a friend when another is going through something irrevocable all get mentions that hint at something sharper and stickier. But what texture exists gets steamrolled by the loud and extreme. Schumer's style – force and exaggeration, pushing boundaries to sometimes hilarious ends – may have reached its limit. Kinda Pregnant is now available on Netflix
