Giulia Rozzi: True Love

Stand-up comedian, actress and writer Giulia Rozzi is the smart friend everyone needs in their lives. An intelligent, perceptive mind that’s almost painfully aware of the foibles bound up in modern day living, Rozzi spins that awareness into an amusing perspective.
Her topics range from romance, her immigrant parents, living in New York City and Internet trolls (among others), which might feel well trodden within the world of stand-up comedy. Rozzi, however, approaches them with a wry take that breathes new life into each one.
The first half of her comedy album True Love deals largely with Rozzi’s many romantic failings, from her first oral sex experience to her marriage and subsequent divorce. Lucky for listeners, those failings are hilariously relatable in a way that other comics don’t always achieve.
Although she can venture into female comic shock jock territory like Amy Schumer and others who aim to be brassy in order to convey their coolness, Rozzi’s jokes never feel crass or egregious. For her, it’s a quick dip into dirtier thinking before she’s off to make her point. For every joke detailing her sex life, she offers an observation keenly conscious of how relationships work nowadays. When discussing her ex-husband, she readily quips, “If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it was probably co-dependent.”