Apart from her infamous role in Star Wars movies, Carrie Fisher is also known for her dark sense of humor. Previously making headlines for her funny “Elizabeth Taylor’s stepdaughter” voicemail, Fisher became an icon for her bestselling mémoire and award-winning stage show, Wishful Drinking.
While the late actress often shocked her audiences with her delightful story about finding a dead man in her bed, she ended up turning the situation into hilarious crowd work. Thus, the best part of her show became her reaction to the situation, where she blatantly defied dark humor at its best.
Carrie Fisher Once Found A Dead Man In Her Bed
Be it her voicemail saying, “You’ve reached Elizabeth Taylor’s stepdaughter” or her infamous comedic stage show, no one can get enough of Carrie Fisher’s sense of humor. Rising to fame with her appearance as Princess Leia Organa in the Star Wars trilogy, Fisher began kicking off her show by entertaining her audience.
While performing, the actress usually began her show with her dark story about a dead guy; which she certainly considered delightful. Proceeding further, Carrie Fisher pleaded with her audience to gather themselves and ask if they had any questions. And most of the time people did ask questions since it rarely happens that they wake up to a dead guy in their bed and make a comedic performance out of it.
During her stage show, most questions appeared as, “How did you know he was dead? Have you ever seen a dead body?”. And Carrie Fisher had the best reply to those questions, as she stated, “They’re blue and yellow — which are the international colors of death”. After explaining her method of identifying a dead body, Fisher used to deliver her dark humor, “They’re [dead people] really bad conversationalists”.
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Carrie Fisher Turned Her Stage Show Into A Mémoire
It seems only Carrie Fisher can turn the grave situation hilarious with her humor. While most people appear nervous and anxious, not knowing if they should laugh at a dead guy joke, Fisher had the power to deliver dark jokes with ease. Having such a humorous persona, the actress purposefully turned her stage show into her mémoire, to expand her audience base.
Turning her Wishful Drinking show into a mémoire by the same name, Carrie Fisher further added certain information about her life into the book. Although Fisher wasn’t exactly comfortable with revealing secrets from her life, the actress often tried to filter the information during her show. However, with her mémoire, the Star Wars actress slowly opened up her life.
Beginning with her father proposing a divorce to her mother, to marry Elizabeth Taylor, Carrie Fisher opened up about every detail of her “Leia-laden life”. Further, discussing her friendship with Taylor and how she hid her painkillers from Fisher, since “a junkie knows a junkie”, the actress ventured into her divorce, and drug and alcohol addiction. Ending her mémoire with finding peace through therapy, the late actress published her mémoire in 2008.
Source: Herald Tribune
