Results for: comics
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“Hannah Gadsby’s Gender Agenda” Brings Brilliant Trans Comics to the Famously Transphobic Netflix
Give jobs to trans comics not because it’ll end the protests at your executive offices but because they’re really fucking funny and good at what they do.
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Peppermint on Her New Comedy Special, Trans Dating, and the Best of New York Drag
“Audiences need more trans comics. There certainly are a handful of well-known trans comics, but we need more.”
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6 Queer Comedy Specials That Will Restore Your Faith in the Craft
Still, there remains a discrepancy between the public’s perception of modern comedy and the comedy that gives me child-like joy to consume. The difference, I have concluded, is the lack of visibility for diverse comics, and specifically queer and trans comics of color.
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Mo Welch’s Hybrid Documentary/Comedy Special “Dad Jokes” Contextualizes Humor in Real Time
A camera crew follows Mo around Illinois as she prepares to meet up with her estranged father for the first time in 20 years.
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As a Trans Woman Getting Into Stand-Up Comedy, Can I Avoid Jokes About My Identity?
My greatest fear in doing comedy is being a hack.
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Rachel Scanlon Is Here To Fulfill Your Butch ‘Gay Fantasy’
Rachel Scanlon’s new comedy special is a gay fantasy in and of itself.
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Cameron Esposito and Rhea Butcher are Building a New World: The Autostraddle Interview
Heather Hogan chatted with Cameron and Rhea about touring as a married couple, their #1 selling comedy album, and what’s next in their plan for global domination.
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Every Hotel Breakfast I Ate On My Cross-Country Road Trip, Ranked
This isn’t the Saturday Morning Cartoon you were expecting, but it’ll probably be better than drinking a $5 cup of coffee with powdered creamer, you know?
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The Transformative Comedy of Hannah Gadsby’s “Nanette”: An Autostraddle Roundtable
Lex Smithers, Brittani Nichols, El Sanchez, Gaby Dunn and I all talk about Hannah Gadsby’s new Netflix special, “Nanette.”
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Brittani’s Team Pick: Depressed Lesbian Comic, “Live from Lombard”
“Live from Lombard” is a one panel comic about a depressed lesbian named Blair by comedian Mo Welch.
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Comedy Crush: Phoebe Robinson Loves Comedy, Captain Planet, Turkey Jerky
Phoebe Robison is a “comic, writer, and connoisseur of all things brignorant.” (That’s a combination of brilliant and ignorant). Phoebe has appeared on Last Comic Standing, Broad City, Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, and Late Night with Seth Meyers.
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Coming Out To 50 People At Once Was So Much Easier Than Doing It One-on-One
“That’s right!” I shouted, feeding off their energy. “Clap because I’m gay!”
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Party of Five: Nikki Levy of “Don’t Tell My Mother!”
“If I was too much for certain places, I was going to create a place where it was wonderful to be exactly me. And for you to be 100% you — weird, honest, joyful, strange, excited, vulnerable and real. All the time.”
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Female Comics: You Can Be A Douchebag, Just Don’t Talk About Douche Bags
A TV columnist is attacking Sarah Silverman for “trying to be as dirty as the guys” in her stand-up routine. Seriously, when are men going to stop telling women what we can and can’t tell jokes about?
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Cameron Esposito’s “Same Sex Symbol” is Optimistic, Specific, and Fantastic
At one point Cameron characterizes Chicago as optimistic and Portland as specific and “Same Sex Symbol” perfectly embodies both of those things.
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Comedy Crush: On the Mountain with Elicia Sanchez
Elicia Sanchez is a stand-up comedian living and joking in Seattle though this week she has temporarily relocated to Angelus Oaks as part of the talent line-up for A-Camp.
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Kate McKinnon, Super Funny Queer Comedian, Wins American Comedy Award
Guess who won an American Comedy Award!
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Comedy Crush: Aparna Nancherla, Joke Entrepreneur
Aparna Nancherla is this week’s comedy crush and her worst nickname is for sure worse than yours.
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Comedy Crush: DeAnne Smith is Coming to Your TV
“Are we doing this? Is this real?”
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100 Things That Are Orange, Ranked
Orange is the new orange is the new orange is the new orange is the new orange you gonna say banana? So, this is what we did today.