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Jump to viral comedy videos. Anyone else get their Zillow Wrapped yet? Wtf pic.twitter.com/SoJA3qS7Ee. — Alex Dobrenko (@Dobrenkz) December 2, 2021. Remember the “this is fine” dog? He died last night. He wasn’t fine at all he was in a fire. — Alex Dobrenko (@Dobrenkz) October 20, 2021. the itsy bitsy spider is sisyphus for children.
Both Are True is a 2022 and 2023 Substack Featured Publication, and one of the top 10 humor newsletters on Substack. I’ve always wanted to do standup comedy, but before 2022, I’d always been one of those ‘brain full, self-esteem empty” kind of artists. Then we had our son.
1,951 Followers, 709 Following, 775 Posts - Alex Dobrenko (@alexdobrenko) on Instagram: "Writer of Both Are True, a top 10 humor newsletter on @substackinc. If you’re a BAT reader or fellow writer or just like silly things, let’s party."
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Actor: Distance. Alex Dobrenko is known for Distance (2018), Here We Are (2019) and Kimi (2022).
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Both Are Trueis where I explore my background (immigrant from Ukraine, Jewish, loottttaa mental health stuff) and how it affects the person I am today (father, artist, just a lil guy). I share my shame, analyze my anxiety, make the jokey jokes, and hope it’ll all help me feel less bad. Or, as one subscriber wrote,
People with messy ass spaces. People who have trouble being happywhen things go well, and people who cannot handle their son’s crying. People with ADHD, OCD, or any other Disorder that just means you’re probably a really cool lil weirdo who enjoys this typeof fever dream comedy with a beating, sometimes bleeding, and even at times bleating heart. P...
BATheads are a ragtag bunch with HEART! (Or mental illness or whatever you have when you don’t have the regular thing other people have.) Anyway, come hang out with us. You’ll get twice-a-week-ish essays that are free, on the house, zero total dollars. OR, as a paid subscriber, you’ll get free essays, PLUS: 1. Deeply hilarious,personal essaysthat I...
👶 I think my son hates me PLUS: I am not handling it well 🇺🇦 I was born in Odesa Ukraine How it feels when your homeland is attacked 🤖 Can everyone kindly shut the fuck up about AI The robots aren't coming, but the people who can't shut the fuck up about them are already here 📈 How I grew this newsletter from 56 to 2,177 subscribers in less th...
(I wrote this part in the third person to sound more professional, lmk if you think it’s working.) Alex was born in Odesa, Ukraine and moved to America when he was 7 years old. He studied screenwriting and psychology at Brown University and began making comedy videos on Twitter during the pandemic. Some have gone low-key viral (like this one about ...
My brain runs on binary - zero or one, this or that. Logic reigns supreme. In the therapy, we’d call this ‘black and white thinking’ and lemme tell you what: sure it might have been good for the SAT, but it sucks in life! Time and time again, I find myself locked in this sort of thinking: 1. either I’ve gotten negative feedback and am the worst wri...
Absurd, honest comedy delivered twice a weekish through the vulnerable personal essays of Alex Dobrenko: tv actor+writer to some, father to o̶n̶e̶ two, and friend to all. Click to read Both Are True, by Alex Dobrenko`, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
Absurd, honest comedy delivered twice a weekish through the vulnerable personal essays of Alex Dobrenko: tv actor+writer to some, father to o̶n̶e̶ two, and friend to all.
