Female lesbian comedians

Given that anger, and that specificity, Gadsby never thought the show would become popular, and yet it has, taking her from Australia and the U. With a debutante? A coming-out party? Those who know Gadsby from her work in the Australian comedy scene, or her appearances on the Australian comedy Please Like Me , might recognize the genial, witty, self-deprecating patter that begins Nanette. The title, she explains, comes from a woman she thought would be interesting enough to build an hour of comedy around, until she realized that woman was terribly boring.

The past year has been a landmark one for women in comedy. No one talks about sex like Margret Cho does. Get ready to get hilariously real with this woman. Very British and very very funny, Rose Ellen Dix and her hilarious wife Rosie have characters and that snarky British sarcasm down to a T. One of the foremothers of comedy, Lucille Ball can do slapstick like no other. With just too many huge Hollywood hits to mention in the past couple of years alone, she kills it every.

Luckily, there are plenty of hilarious and fascinating women leading the way in comedy. Even better? So many of them are representing for the queer community! There are tons of lesbian comedians out there who are going to get you chuckling.

Despite her success across a variety of platforms, the bohemian Berhnard took a DIY approach to recording and distributing her live performances, selling homemade CD-Rs in the lobby after her shows. Both Judy Gold and Suzanne Westenhoefer tried standup for the first time on a dare. In , she became the first openly gay comic to host her own HBO comedy special and, in , her appearance on Late Night with David Letterman marked the first appearance of an out gay comic on the CBS show better late than never, Dave! Lea DeLaria a. With her appearance on The Arsenio Hall show, she made history as the first openly gay comic to appear on a late-night talk show.