![]() ![]() A college education is meant to broaden one’s exposure. It’s very foreign to me that young people would be able to tell their lecturers what they can and cannot hear. Q: How do you feel about trigger warnings on college campuses?Ī: I mention trigger warnings in the show. Q: Do you spend a lot of time on politics in your show?Ī: I do more gender politics than politics, but I do have one joke: Thanks to Trump I finally went on a diet! You know, when he killed the Meals on Wheels program. It makes me miss Joan Rivers, who was so out there with her humor. Q: Have you received any criticism for the title “Trans-Jester?”Ī: My last show was called “Clowns Syndrome,” which was a play on Down’s syndrome I got a little flak for that. Now, I’m not going to say “I love that faggot” or “I love that tranny” at someone’s memorial service. The word police is forcing us to walk on eggshells over words we’ve used for ages in our community, like “faggot” or “tranny.” Words are a tool for comedians. If this election did one thing, it showed us we need to have lots of discussion. This new show is the kind of raunchy humor I’m known for, but what makes it different from people like Trump who dismiss political correctness to mask misogyny and anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant sentiments or radical people on the far left is that I just want to make people laugh. What a terrible time to have a new show - are you struggling to find material with so little going on in the news?Ī: (Laughter.) Quite the opposite, we need to laugh now more than ever! The people I know are horrified by the news and glued to it. “Someone tweeted at her that she was offensive to people with celiac disease, and she apologized! We’ve become so politically correct culturally that I fear we’re about to make poor Dick Van Dyke change his name to Penis Von Lesbian.” “The comic Judy Gold was on TV recently and made a joke about gluten,” Lady Bunny related on a recent call from her home in New York. But for anyone expecting family-friendly entertainment a la “Drag Queen Story Hour,” be warned: The back-teased, liquid-eyelined-to-there queen hasn’t changed her brand of low-down humor and dirty song parodies for sensitive new audiences. The “Wigstock” founder is bringing her new show, “Trans-Jester!,” to San Francisco on April 13-14, presented by Peaches Christ and Fudgie Frottage at the Verdi Club. ![]()
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