イリザ・シュレシンガーのインスタグラム(ilizas) - 8月6日 14時37分

When I started doing stand up 12 years ago, “women aren’t funny, but you are” was a ubiquitous compliment. Interviewers would say “people say women aren’t funny, what do you say to that?” As if I wanted to spend my interview addressing ignorance and not promoting my show. Eventually more and more funny women broke through on stage and screen and that idea that women aren’t funny became hacky and a bygone sentiment. Then the “compliment” evolved to “I don’t usually like female comics but I like you.” As if letting me know your total writing off of an entire industry was somehow a sign of taste. That morphed to “you’re a funny female comic.” As if I hadn’t sharpened my skills on line ups filled with men, some better some worse, some brilliant some horrific, gone up and gotten laughs or crapped out after they crushed or ate shit almost every night of my career for over a decade. As if those nights aren’t what made me the comic I am. You think I got good by cherry picking my path? My obstacles? My hecklers? My spot on a line up? Somehow, the qualifying “female”’is meant to designate a woman, as if to say “sure you might be good for a girl but you could never think about being as good as a male comic.” As if my goal is to beat out anyone but myself. As if I wouldn’t welcome the idea of another woman with another perspective UNDERSTANDING MY LIFE AND JOB and being genuinely funny. I like to laugh too, duh. I wanted to list those women here but, I’ll be honest, I’m afraid people would focus more on who I forgot to name instead of the women I want to praise. So I’ll keep this about me because I don’t trust my words to not be taken out of context. I live to work and, in doing the work, I find my joy. It is not in answering questions to justify why I dare to try, it is not in being distracted by this guy or that girl. Being around better comics makes me a better comic and I?came?to?play.
After 12 years and 4 Netflix specials, I’ve finally earned “you’re a funny comic.” Thank you all so much for your support, the fans that have been with me since LCS and The Weakly News all the way to the ones who streamed #eldermillennial today. I love you. ??❤️

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