Comics To Watch: Chloe Radcliffe Expands Dialogue On Infidelity With One-Woman Confessional ‘Cheat’

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When comedian Chloe Radcliffe cheated on a boyfriend for the first time, as a sophomore at Minnesota’s Gustavus Adolphus College in 2009, she had an epiphany. “You realize you don’t burst into flames.

The person that you’re cheating on doesn’t find out,” Radcliffe explains. “You can still care about them; you can care about multiple people at once.” Eventually, when Radcliffe resolved to end this relationship, she was surprised to learn that the request could be shut down out of hand. “I think I learned very early that it would be easier to cheat and get away with it than it would be to end a relationship when it was ready to be ended,” she says, “and so I developed this pattern of staying in relationships too long and just cheating, rather than getting out of them.” So began a years-long pattern of infidelity that Radcliffe chronicles in Cheat, a hilarious and sharply crafted one-woman show that she’s been developing over the last two years.

An eight-year veteran of the stand-up scene, who just landed her first WGA Award nomination for her writing on Command Z, a sci-fi comedy web series from Steven Soderbergh in which she also stars alongside Michael Cera, Roy Wood Jr.

and more, Radcliffe began exploring the idea of an onstage deep-dive into her “maladaptive” patterns a few years ago, when she began discussing cheating onstage.