“I Nonetheless Haven’t Cried, And I Know I Want To” – Deadline

Ariel Elias says she nonetheless hasn’t totally processed the incident at Uncle Vinnie’s Comedy Membership Saturday night time in Level Nice Seaside, NJ, a second that’s since gone viral.

“I believe I’m feeling irritated at a number of the consideration,” she stated at this time on Gianmarco Soresi’s podcast The Draw back. “I nonetheless haven’t cried, and I do know I have to.”

The incident in question concerned a seemingly drunk girl within the viewers asking Elias who she voted for the the final election earlier than insisting, “I can inform by your jokes that you simply voted for Biden.”

That led Elias to take (the verbal) gloves off.

“I can inform by the truth that you’re nonetheless speaking when no person needs you to that you simply voted for Trump,” the comic replied to huge cheers from the viewers.

Only a few seconds later, a beer can sailed throughout the room and splattered in opposition to the wall behind Elias, whose jaw dropped. However with out lacking a beat she got here up with the prefect rejoinder.

“As quickly as I picked up the beer and felt liquid nonetheless in it,” Elias informed Newsweek on Monday, “I knew to chug it. It felt like the one strategy to get well. Additionally out of the blue I actually wanted a drink, so it actually labored out.”

However in some methods, Elias nonetheless hasn’t recovered saying, “I haven’t slept in just a few days.”

She continued, “Saturday night time once I obtained dwelling, I watched the video and I used to be like, ‘Oh…that was thrown actually, actually arduous.’ I don’t suppose I had processed how arduous that was thrown and what would have occurred if it had hit me: It misses me, [and] it’s nice for my profession [and] it’s like a enjoyable viral clip; It hit’s me, [and] it’s proof.”

Soresi, who was the headliner that night time, stated the lady in query was there with about 20 buddies and that they have been on the membership “about two hours early, ingesting” and that they have been “rowdy.”

After the beer was thrown and he took the stage, Soresi stated he was jittery, at one level seeing a flash of sunshine someplace within the membership — seemingly somebody vaping — and thought it may be a gun shot.

Elias stated she had comparable ideas.

“My opening joke that Saturday night time was, ‘So glad to be right here in South Jersey the place it’s simpler to get a gun than to make a left flip,” the comic recalled, earlier than reflecting, “It’s not out of the realm [of possibility] to suppose that somebody had a gun there.”