new york
Comedy

Emotionally Unreasonable

Name: Emotionally Unreasonable
Start: 2025-08-05T21:30:00-04:00
End: 2025-08-05T23:00:00-04:00
Location: The Public Theater

: August 5, 2025, 9:30 pm – 11 pm.

: $24

During its wildly successful Edinburgh Fringe run, it was featured in Playbill and The Scotsman said, “DeCotis is the best new American stand-up I’ve seen since Michelle Wolf. Do whatever you can to see her because the next chance you get she’ll be starring in her own Netflix special.” Emotionally Unreasonable was named one of the top Edinburgh Fringe Shows by EuroNews, nominated for the Off West End Award and received a number of outstanding reviews! EPK

Show description:

Following her critically acclaimed run in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, NYC-based comedian and viral sensation Maria DeCotis brings her darkly funny, musically-driven solo comedy show, Emotionally Unreasonable to Joe’s Pub. Have you ever felt threatened when someone shows you their engagement ring? Have you ever been to a wedding and thought, “these people should NOT be getting married?!” Maria DeCotis has too, except she’s the one marrying them. Emotionally Unreasonable is an hour of stand-up and musical comedy about her experience as a professional wedding officiant. Expect powerful storytelling, original music, and punchlines you never see coming. She explores power imbalances, femme robots, turning 30, and her unique perspective on legalizing love.

Emotionally Unreasonable is a comedic reckoning with survival, told from inside the most romanticized institution we have. The Diddy verdict has proven, once again, that we live in a culture where power and patriarchy shield abusers and silence survivors. This show uses stand-up as collective catharsis, daring to speak the unbearable with humor, clarity, and defiance. But it “never ever forgets to be funny” as The Scotsman said.