Best and Worst: What were the highlights and lowlights of your week?

Hello my darlings, it has been too long. How the bloody hell are you all? I have had the magical honour of Best and Worst bestowed upon me. Let’s go.

BEST – My Melbourne International Comedy Festival show “Divorce: The Musical” kicked off this week. I am doing 22 stand-up shows in a row with my dad and it is all ridiculously exciting.

The show has allowed me to express my darkest times, thoughts and feelings over the past year (since my separation) in a humorous fashion. It has been wonderful therapy. It may seem extreme to write an entire show and then enter it into the largest comedy festival in the world but hey, whatever it takes, right?!

I am proud of this show, I am proud of myself for getting through this past year and I am so happy that it has helped other ladies get through their tough times too. If you don’t laugh, you’ll cry, eh? If you are in Melbourne and have ever read my words and thought “I’d like to see that woman in real life in full drag queen wedding gown regalia”, then please come along.

WORST – I’ll keep this short as it may make some of you a bit cross with me. I feel the way that producer Adam Boland was treated on his old show Sunrise this week was atrocious. I found the four hosts sitting on the couch, like some sort of smug tribunal obviously mocking his mental illness – nauseating. It really troubled me.

To use the phrase “saner heads prevailed” in relation to a person who has had a public struggle with mental illness is professional negligence and just plain unkind. I know a lot of you feel protective of Sunrise, but in this instance it is my opinion that they were deeply wrong.

If you have no idea what I am talking about, I’ll have the MM girls pop a link to Kate Leaver’s magnificent post about it here.

WHAT’S BEEN ON MY MIND – I have been reading a book called “The Untethered Soul”. It talks a lot about our inner voice. In one chapter, it asked why we give so much power to our inner voice when we are the only one who hears it. The author Michael A. Singer says, “To truly find out who you are, you have to first discover who the person is that listens to the voice. That is the true essence of you.”

Does that make sense? It did to me; I realised how shit I am to myself sometimes. Always doubting, accusing, belittling – I can never win with that thing! So I ask that you all be mindful of the way you speak to yourself this week. Seriously.

Now, over to you. I will sit with my morning coffee and read all your bests and worsts as you write them below.

Do you best… And worst!

Em.

Catch Em’s hilarious new show, Divorce: The Musical, at the 2014 Melbourne International Comedy Festival. It’s playing in the Trades Hall from 27 March-20 April.

You can buy tickets here (go on, you know you want to!)