This Review is from August 2025

Comedian and scientist, Alex Berr, spent her adolescence studying a rare form of brain cancer. Cancer research, even in this enlightened age, seems to involve torturing and killing mice.

We learn that medical breakthroughs happen with animals all the time. Alex herself actually cured a form of cancer in mice, a massive achievement, but as the comedian explains, any resultant human treatment, if any, is decades away.

Despite the title, this is not a critique of animal testing. This is a show about women in science, growing up and relationships. It’s about family and how cancer affected her own mother. Alex isn’t a scientist cosplaying as a comedian. This is not a witty Ted Talk. This is an accomplished stand-up set, professionally delivered and full of laughs.

And yes, she tells us exactly How to Kill a Mouse, if not how she feels about the ethics of it.