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Our mission is to provide the CONTRIBUTORS DAVID BRIERLEY details so you can check everything off your like to do list, PETER LINDBLAD TODD HAEFER not just the list of tasks you must do. ART GRAPHIC DESIGNERS KELLY ANDERSON NICOLE MACMARTIN IN THIS ISSUE… Supper Club Guy David Brierley ADVERTISING First up is Contributor Peter dons his cheesehead and takes us to NORMA JEAN FOCHS [email protected] Lindblad’s interview with stand-up Green Bay to Wally’s Spot, an old- comedian and star of MTV’s “Girl school and classy supper club with ADMINISTRATIVE CONTACT SPECIALIST Code” Jessimae Peluso. She brings over seven decades of ownership by AUDREY FOCHS her delightfully improvisational the same family. Out & About Wisconsin is published monthly by Foxx Interactive and infectious brand of humor Finally, our events calendar Services. All rights reserved. No duplication of any editorial or photography is allowed without written permission from Foxx to the Skyline Comedy Club in includes more than 100 listings Interactive Services. Copyright 2019. Appleton in early December. of things to do in Wisconsin this Lindblad’s second contribution month with live links so details are Printable PDF version of this issue available at: https://outandaboutwisconsin.com/digital-magazine/ is our cover story interview with just a click away. reality TV star Theresa Caputo So, read this issue and make of TLC’s hit show “Long Island your like to do list. Then turn off Medium.” Her live act “Theresa your device, get out, and start For those of you who are part of a group that is planning an Caputo Live!” comes to Appleton checking things off. Mission upcoming event, we want to hear from you. and Milwaukee in November. accomplished. O&AW Make sure to send information Contributor Todd Haefer shares about that event to editor@ outandaboutwisconsin.com, and we’ll his in-depth and spirited knowledge get it listed on our calendar. Not sure what to include? Check out this month’s of barley, hops and all things calendar, where we explain exactly what kind of information we need. Just adult-beverage as he provides gift Norma Jean Fochs remember, if your event is in December we need to know about it in the recommendations for the adult- NORma JEAN FOCHS PUBLISHER beginning of November. beverage buffs on your holiday gift list. 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So does not forgetting a certain piece of clothing. “I have a travel list of things I bring every single time,” Peluso, a native of Syracuse, New York, who is now living in Los Angeles. “Always bring a bathing suit. It doesn’t matter if it’s winter in Minnesota. There’s a pool somewhere. So, you just have to pack your tea and your bathing suit, and that’s all you need … a nice chamomile.” Tea is the frugal Peluso’s beverage of choice while going from town to town and staying in different hotels every night. It’s part her own austerity program, which Peluso employs, in part, to entertain herself while on tour. “You find ways to like [touring],” said Peluso. “You find ways to make it home. I find ways to keep it economic. I bring my own tea. Hot water … free. I love budgeting. I bring my own honey, I’ve got my own tea. I ask people for hot water … boom! I saved myself $5. If I drink tea every day, that’s $25 a week. That’s a couple thousand dollars a year. I can’t do math, but that’s like a million dollars a year I’m getting. Financial freedom … 4 www.DoWhatYouLikeToDo.com JESSIMAE PELUSO that’s going to be my new TED talk.” doing,” said Peluso. “So I just sort of got The jokes come a mile a minute rid of the toxicity in my life after my with the freewheeling, unfiltered father passed, and this freedom, a new Peluso, who brings her delightfully freedom, came about after losing him.” improvisational and infectious brand Peluso is still getting over the loss. of humor to the Skyline Comedy Club “I think when you go through in Appleton Dec. 5-7. something like that, like grief, there’s a “I just kind of go out there and open relief to it almost,” said Peluso. “I think my mouth (laughs),” said Peluso. “What our whole lives we’re worried about stuff. is the saying? The art is in the creation We’re worried about losing people or and the craft is in the consistency. So, the losing jobs, or whatever. And when it discipline is in the consistency, and for finally happens, you’re like, ‘This sucks, me, my biggest struggle is maintaining but at least I don’t have to worry about that consistency because that’s what really this happening anymore.’ (laughs) So, differentiates good comedians from great it’s almost a relief of [how] not having to comedians, being able to bring it every worry frees you up, and so I’m learning to single time.” sit with that and allow that to invent some Sex, dating and relationships are creative adjustments within my standup. usually the topics of Peluso’s quick-witted, So, my subject matter has shifted from no-holds-barred standup performances, farts to loss. Really, it’s just a loss of air. It’s along with funny observations on popular all the same thing.” culture and current events. But, her style Her father was diagnosed with of comedy is evolving. Alzheimer’s Disease in 2017. Every “Well, I’m 37, so I’m a grown-ass Wednesday, Peluso hosts her Instagram woman now. So, I guess I have different and Facebook show “Weedsday,” where things that are important to me, as she mingles with fans and takes their opposed to when I was 20, 23, 24,” said questions. It’s also an avenue she’s utilized Peluso, a cast member of the hit MTV to raise money for Alzheimer’s prevention show “Girl Code” for the first two seasons. and awareness of the illness. “My father passed away last year … that In talking about her family, Peluso sees changed everything for me.” herself as a combination of her dad and In a strange way, despite the gut- mom, two very different people with very wrenching grief, his death led to a sort of different senses of humor. emancipation for Peluso. “I had a very unique upbringing,” said “It’s amazing how when you go Peluso. “My dad was really goofy. My through something traumatic, like losing dad was all about fart humor and ‘pull someone like that, how much it shifts my finger,’ and swearing and very dark your perspective immediately, how you humor, and my mother is very witty and immediately look at your inner circle and sardonic and very sarcastic, so I have realize that life is too short to continue a blend of a little bit of darkness and to exist in a toxic environment – whether goofiness and wit because of them. My that is people, whether that’s a place dad was all fart humor.