"In Sugar Daddy, Jonathan is described as a bear. In the gay male community, there are different categories. There are twinks, twunks, bears and otters. Then you have the muscle daddies and the muscle bears. In the show, I have a joke: I'm into bears and I'm diabetic. My type is type 1, and my type is type 2. It's a roundabout way of saying: I like a big boy and a belly."
"This is a show about love, and it's about what you do after you lose that love. For better or for worse, I process life through comedy and I make jokes. After Jonathan died, I started doing standup again and, at a certain point, it felt crazy not to talk about it. I've always been into talking about my life and what I'm thinking about."
Sugar Daddy is a one-man autobiographical show by 31-year-old standup Sam Morrison that blends comedy with personal tragedy. Morrison met Jonathan, a 24-year-older bear, at a gay bear festival in Provincetown, Massachusetts. After two and a half years together, Jonathan died from Covid in 2021. Morrison has spent the last four years performing this show worldwide, with an updated version coming to London's West End. Emmy-winning artist Billy Porter co-produces the show. Morrison processes grief through comedy and standup, turning his relationship and loss into material that explores love, what remains after loss, and healing through laughter.
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