{"id":618,"date":"2026-04-08T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nickzainofreelance.com\/?p=618"},"modified":"2026-09-26T23:58:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T23:58:57","slug":"jenny-zigrino-on-why-a-drag-king-george-iii-is-a-great-way-to-comment-on-the-current-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickzainofreelance.com\/?p=618","title":{"rendered":"Jenny Zigrino on why a drag King George III is a great way to comment on the current moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Nick A. Zaino III Globe correspondent,Updated April 8, 2026, 11:15 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jenny Zigrino is juggling a lot of comic sensibilities these days. When she comes to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2024\/08\/09\/arts\/comedy-studio-harvard-square-reopening\/?p1=BGSearch_Overlay_Results&amp;p1=Article_Inline_Text_Link\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Comedy Studio<\/a> on April 15, she will do so dressed as King George III, hosting a historical late night talk show called \u201cHistory Tonight.\u201d Rob Crean, whose day job as a tour guide on the Freedom Trail makes him familiar with the garb, will play George\u2019s sidekick, former Prime Minister George Grenville. All the comics on the bill will also dress as historical figures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen I first moved to Boston for college,\u201d she said, speaking by Zoom, \u201cfor Halloween, [I] dressed up as Amadeus, and everybody thought I was Thomas Jefferson, which I was pretty mad about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zigrino grew up a history buff, splitting time between Minnesota and Boston before committing to MassArt pursuing comedy in the Boston club scene. She hosted a show called \u201cBadass Bitches of History\u201d on Comedy Central\u2019s digital channel in 2018, chronicling contributions of mostly unheralded women. She also loved doing character work \u2013 one of her earliest creations was a short film in which she played Liz Fang, an English rock star trying to make a new life in Boston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the clubs, her stand-up has been more personal, but she wants to get back to some of those early elements she loved so much. \u201cI\u2019m just gonna embrace it,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019ve always loved history, so why not just do it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2026\/04\/08\/arts\/jenny-zigrino\/?p1=BGSearch_Advanced_Results\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2026\/04\/08\/arts\/jenny-zigrino\/?p1=BGSearch_Advanced_Results\">Click here to read the full story on www.bostonglobe.com. <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nick A. Zaino III Globe correspondent,Updated April 8, 2026, 11:15 a.m. Jenny Zigrino is juggling a lot of comic sensibilities these days. When&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzainofreelance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzainofreelance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzainofreelance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzainofreelance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzainofreelance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nickzainofreelance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":619,"href":"https:\/\/nickzainofreelance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions\/619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzainofreelance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzainofreelance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzainofreelance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzainofreelance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}