![]() "Seventy percent of the people who raised me, who loved me, who I trusted, believed that homosexuality was a sin, that homosexuals were heinous, subhuman, pedophiles. "I don’t want to unite you with laughter or anger. I think part of my problem is that comedy has suspended me in a perpetual state of adolescence." "I looked at my mom in that moment and thought, how did that happen? How did my mom get to be the hero of my story? She evolved. I made it worse because I wanted you to change, because I knew that the world wouldn’t.’ I knew that, and I wanted, more than anything in the world, for that not to be the case. I knew well before you did, that your life was going to be so hard. She said to me, ‘The thing I regret is that I raised you as if you were straight. "What my mom eventually said to me was pretty much at the core of why I’m questioning comedy. "There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself.” "I have a right to be angry, but not to spread it." You learn from the part of the story you focus on. ![]() Not intellectually, but right here, I still have shame. I didn’t come out to my grandmother last year because I’m still ashamed of who I am. "Punchlines need trauma, because punchlines need tension and tension feeds trauma. "I’ve been mastering the art of tension since childhood.
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