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Watch: A Female Comedian’s Looks Are Torn Apart by “The Focus Group”

“The Focus Group”

Comedian Sara Benincasa has dreamed up hilarious and horrifying nightmare fodder. Imagine having your style and body mercilessly evaluated by a focus group while in a state of undress. Now witness the cringe-worthy, hilarious premise come into fruition in “The Focus Group,” a new short Benincasa wrote and stars in.

Benincasa plays an underachieving thirtysomething in the wake of personal and professional upheaval — she’s been dumped and fired. She’s getting through the days by binge-eating egg rolls and masturbating, but a concerned friend recommends a “boutique personal services agency” that she claims changed her own life. So off Benincasa goes to rehab-like program, where she’s chastised for her lower back tattoos, a FUPA, and shirt, which reads “FEMINIST.”

Check out the short, directed by Heather Fink, below. Funds for the project were raised via Kickstarter. Note: NSFW as “The Focus Group” contains some nudity.


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