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A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid.
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As you can imagine I'm disappointed as anything that I was not selected to be the presidential running mate. And I find it continually appalling that it would be a radical thing to have a woman on the ticket.
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I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.
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I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ.
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I really feel that in many ways we've gone past what Paul Monette used to call homo-ignorance. I mean, people know that there are gay people in the world now.
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I think I've changed as the gay movement has changed. I came out at the end of the flowering of the women's music scene, the end of lesbian-separatism.
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I try something new every night. It's an hour show; if it works I maybe try it a few more times and then move that off and try something new. It's a great workshop for me.
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I want to host a religious show. I'm sure nobody will be wanting the 11 o'clock spot on Sunday morning. I think we should really get some of our own preachers and preach that gay is good. And we'd have a great choir.
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I worry that somewhere, some late-blooming lesbian will postpone coming out because she doesn't think she can do well on Larry King.
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I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times.
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I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material.
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In most queer-comedy lineups, gay men are outnumbered by lesbians - and not because of any rule about gender parity. The entertainment industry affords many more opportunities for funny gay men to make a living.
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It's no accident that so many funny gay men are drawn to cabaret, piano bar, and drag-oriented, bitchy, campy, big-outfit, big-show formats. The rejection of male power is serious business.
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Last year, at a college Pride celebration, I was introduced by the co-chair as a Stonehenge lesbian. In an odd way the label fit.
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Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything, it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a lesbian onstage is still a very political act; if it weren't, more women would do it.
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Lesbians are likely to be drawn to stand-up, if only because it's cheaper to produce and therefore more accessible for women. But the very form of stand-up is masculine.
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My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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Straight audiences are less homo-ignorant than the impresarios. But while straight sexual humor skews from family vanilla to swinger blue, it will be a long period before lesbians can crack a dirty joke on network TV.
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They didn't even like Margaret Thatcher but at least there was Margaret Thatcher. There have been women, you know, Sonia Gandhi for heaven's sakes in India.
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We perform at summer women's festivals and on Olivia cruises. Provincetown in summer is the Branson of lesbian comedy - ask anyone who has been subjected to the daily beach leafleting.
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We really got a lot of very conservative gay people. You could look at the figures from the last election and realize that a third of the gay movement voted Republican.
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We signed up for Showtime, which I think put us on a Homeland Security list somewhere.
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What goes for sex goes double for politics.
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When my brother-in-law, BIll Clinton, was elected, he had gay friends. That was a coming out.
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