They tickled their funny bone, and everyone else’s

Abigail Renée Barr and Jed Ronner Feiman are intensely supportive of each other in a fun way. Both are comedy writers.

“That’s our relationship,” he said. “Building jokes”. That and her mutual love of television and pop culture.

When Ms Barr first came across his Bumble profile in July 2016, she was delighted that “he was a native New Yorker with an interest in comedy and theater.” (She In the vows she quipped, “How could this work? You’re from the Upper East Side. I’m from the Upper West Side.”)

She saw a screenshot on her dating profile of one of the many humor pieces she wrote for The New Yorker magazine with her writing partner. So, she googled and found her full name (only names appear on Bumble where women make the first move).

“It was fun and awesome,” said Ms. Barr, 29, who graduated from Oberlin with a degree in theater. She is the social media manager for “Switched on Pop,” a pop music podcast on Vulture, a New York Magazine website.

She read other pieces he co-wrote and, on his Facebook page, enjoyed his parody as a basketball student at Georgetown, where he actually graduated cum laude with a degree in English and government. Mr. Feiman, 33, an actor and comedy performer, is part of never sad with Nehemiah Markos, a sketch comedy writer/performer duo.

Feiman especially liked a photo of Barr standing inside a Casper mattress box on her dating profile.

“She looked very cute and fun,” he said.

That same night, after Ms. Barr’s performance as a cat in an experimental comedy show at the Peoples Improv Theater in New York, they met at the Raines Law Room, a speakeasy in the Chelsea neighborhood.

“I knew there was a level of fun to it,” said Ms Barr, who initially found him a bit self-conscious until they were teamed up with Stephen Sondheim, reciting one favorite musical after another. “He’s a comedian without a cheeky personality, I knew he really had to beat him”

So, he left her speechless.

“He said I had a Jenny Slate vibe,” she said. “She’s a curly-haired little Jewish comedian that I adore.”

Later, he surprised even himself.

“I’m going to kiss you now,” he said. “I’m a short Jewish guy from New York and that’s the best I could do to sound soft.” And it worked. “She said yes.'”

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They kissed goodnight before she returned to the Upper West Side, where she lived with her parents, and she was surprised that he didn’t run the other way when she mentioned that she still lived at home.

“We skip all the boring games,” said Feiman, who had a studio in the Hudson Yards neighborhood. “It felt so natural right away.”

A week later, they went to the now-demolished Sunshine Cinema on the Lower East Side to see “Don’t Think Twice,” about a Mike Birbiglia improv band. They walked all the way back to Hudson Yards, talking about the movie, and soon began seeing each other regularly.

In the fall of 2016, he attended all three of his presidential debate pizza parties.

“We had to put ‘Family Guy’ on because we were so stressed about the country,” he said, referring to the animated sitcom. “You wouldn’t do that with someone you’re casually dating.”

In the summer of 2017, after moving to Greenpoint, Brooklyn, she spent more time at home, and in August 2019, she officially moved in.

When the pandemic hit, “Hudson Yards became an abandoned Disneyland,” Barr said, and in October 2021 they moved to the busier Lower East Side, near where her maternal grandparents once lived.

“Jed became a part of my life,” she said. “He became the biggest part of my life. He then he became my whole life ”.

In March 2022, Mr. Feiman planned to propose to her at a restaurant in Rome, but the service and food were so bad that he opted for Plan B.

In May, during the Montreal Sketchfest in Canada, he asked Ms. Barr to film him and his partner rehearsing an intentionally bad comedy skit in Mount Royal Park. Mr. Feiman rambled on about typical licenses, and when he got to marriage licenses, (Ms. Barr was still filming) got down on his knees. At the end of the year, they adopted a Cavapoo, the Muppet.

“Our wedding was fun but it wasn’t a joke,” Feiman said.

The wedding coincided with the series finale of “Succession,” her favorite TV show. “We chose the end of our bachelorhood instead of saying goodbye to Kendall Roy,” they said in unison. They watched the final program the next day.

On May 28, Rabbi Dr. Elliot Cosgrove of Park Avenue Synagogue officiated before 120 guests on the garden terrace of the Wythe Hotel in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where guests wore designer skullcaps that read: “Ralph Lifschitz “(the Ralph Lauren original). name). The two groomsmen, also serving as ring bearers, pulled a lot of paper out of a giant box from Manhattan Mini Storage until they came to two small velvet ring boxes.

During the cocktail hour, a string quartet from the Diller-Quaile School of Music performed theme songs from TV shows and video game tunes like “Legend of Zelda.” the couple’s ketubaTitled Chicken Soup for Kindred Souls, it featured cans of Manischewitz chicken soup in the spirit of Andy Warhol.

“Humour, love and joy,” Feiman said. “Why not? This is how life should be.”