Shopping at Target Back to School Funny Lady
If you didn't guffaw at Dena Blizzard when a video of her back-to-school shopping at Target first went viral last year, you probably did when it made the rounds again this year.
If not, you'll probably see it next season, right around the time your supply list calls for a yellow binder or 48 sharpened No. 2 pencils.
In the video, Blizzard walks through the store, whispering to the camera and chucking school supplies, a rug and even a microwave into her shopping cart. She will give the teachers whatever they want if they're willing to teach and care for her kids for a year.
Dena Blizzard brings her off-Broadway show "One Funny Mother" to the Playhouse @ Westport Plaza. Photo courtesy of the artist
"I said to somebody, we're basically like the new 'It's a Wonderful Life,'" Blizzard says. "You know how people watch that every Christmas. I have a feeling it's going to be a classic for back-to-school."
The comedian and married mom of three teenagers from Morristown, N.J., brings her off-Broadway show, "One Funny Mother," to St. Louis.
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The former Miss New Jersey, who represented her home state in 1995, proudly wears a crooked crown of motherhood, celebrating her imperfections while getting others to laugh at themselves.
The one-woman show is a culmination of her first years of stand-up comedy and includes a bit of audience participation and videos of people telling stories about their most mortifying parenting moments.
And yes, her show attracts busloads of teachers.
"I always say if you think you're not doing a great job at parenting, come to my show. It's amazing. Because you'll say, 'Dena is a trainwreck.' Your face will hurt. Maybe you will pee your pants a little bit."
Blizzard takes her show on the road in spurts, and her corporate meeting space with her small staff is her kitchen table. When she's not performing in theaters, she's at wine festivals, hawking her board game, "Chardonnay Go!," promoted as "the perfect combination of the classic board game and dirty charades."
It's based on another viral video she made, a spoof of Pokemon Go, where she roams her neighborhood and uses a Chardonnay Go smartphone app to find glasses of wine lurking behind trees and bushes.
Her weekly Facebook Live show, "Tipsy Tuesday," regularly gets more than 30,000 views and more than 2,000 comments. She says it attracts a lot of moms with special-needs children and women looking for community time. One mother she met told her that her husband is deployed in the military, and every Tuesday after putting her kids to bed she curls up with a glass of wine to watch the show.
"We take a little breath out of their day, have a little glass of wine and some funny," she says. "It's really lovely."
Blizzard also hosts corporate events and started a nonprofit, called Ladies OUT LOUD, which is a curriculum to teach teenage girls to be confident public speakers and performers. Blizzard was a shy kid growing up, so she's happy to pass along what she's learned: that there's value in messing up and laughing about it.
Her son is now 18 and away at college, and her daughters, 16 and 14, are good sports about her humor. She's been talking about them onstage their whole lives, and when they mess up or when life doesn't go as planned, she tells them it's OK.
"To me it's more important that my kids know that life isn't perfect and to celebrate the imperfectness of it all," she says. "Put your crazy into the universe."
What "One Funny Mother" • When 8 p.m. Wednesday through Oct. 5, 4 and 8 p.m. Oct. 6, 2 p.m. Oct. 7 • Where Playhouse @ Westport Plaza, 635 West Port Plaza • How much $60 • More info 314-534-1111; metrotix.com
Source: https://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/dena-blizzard-mom-from-viral-back-to-school-shopping-video-celebrates-lifes-imperfections/article_23668372-ed81-5f53-af66-45f890a29f8a.html
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