Tag: comedy

An interview with. . . Julia Scotti Transgender Comedian

| Oct 12, 2020 | Reply

Since 1980, Julia Scotti has been honing her comedy craft in clubs and theaters throughout the U.S. and Canada, performing for the first 20 years as Rick Scotti, and now, after a 10-year hiatus, as Julia Scotti for the second 20. Today she is the subject of this month’s Tell Shelley Anne.

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The Joke’s on You

| May 30, 2016 | Reply

Laughter is the best medicine but what if it’s laughter provoked by a joke that targets trans people? Is it still medicine or is it a toxic injection of pain? The Artist D knows that people tend to laugh at what they don’t understand. Remember how people laughed when someone claimed the Earth was round? So of course trans people can be the butt of “humor.” The Artist D has a way to cope.

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