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Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution

"Listen, there's a problem." "The network has a problem with you." And so my appearancein...

"Listen, there's a problem." "The network has a problem with you." And so my appearance
in television was really rejected

Full Transcript

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"Listen, there's a problem."
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"The network has a problem with you."
00:00:08.008 --> 00:00:13.304
And so my appearance in television was really rejected.
Duration
13 seconds
Views
66
Timestamp in Movie
00:49:12
Uploaded
May 10, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Push It Productions,Union Editorial,Brian Graden Media

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Movie Summary

A feature length documentary that explores the history of LGBTQ+ stand up comedy, considering its importance as an instrument for social change over the past five decades.
{\an8}Queer people on television face this weird conundrum - Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution 00:26
{\an8}Queer people on television face this weird conundrum
Our nation's policy toward homosexuals in the military. - Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution 00:04
Our nation's policy toward homosexuals in the military.
In the country, it was the sense that things were bad and getting worse, - Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution 00:12
In the country, it was the sense that things were bad and ge...
We're here. We're queer. We're feminists. Don't mess with us. - Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution 00:06
We're here. We're queer. We're feminists. Don...
We don't have time for, like, incremental progress. - Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution 00:05
We don't have time for, like, incremental progress.
You just have to, like, throw down right now. - Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution 00:04
You just have to, like, throw down right now.
{\an8}The AIDS crisis made activists out of people, - Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution 00:12
{\an8}The AIDS crisis made activists out of people,
I think my favorite activist group was from the '80s, and they were ACT UP. - Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution 00:05
I think my favorite activist group was from the '80s, a...
And they had a great slogan, which was "silence equals death." - Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution 00:14
And they had a great slogan, which was "silence equals ...
Queer comedy is really - Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution 00:08
Queer comedy is really
Trauma in the form of homophobia, trauma in the form of racism, - Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution 00:11
Trauma in the form of homophobia, trauma in the form of raci...
So after I didn't become a television star, - Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution 00:10
So after I didn't become a television star,
I wanted to find my audience. I wanted to find my group. - Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution 00:06
I wanted to find my audience. I wanted to find my group.
I was able to create my own comedy shows - Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution 00:09
I was able to create my own comedy shows
I went through this whole thing. You know, I was like, "Am I gay?" - Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution 00:10
I went through this whole thing. You know, I was like, "...
First time I watched Margaret Cho, - Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution 00:09
First time I watched Margaret Cho,
I love the word "faggot" - Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution 00:07
I love the word "faggot"
It was like, "Oh, gay people exist, - Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution 00:10
It was like, "Oh, gay people exist,
That would be ass, Judy Garland, and Margaret Cho. - Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution 00:04
That would be ass, Judy Garland, and Margaret Cho.
{\an8}She was doing shows that were for us by us, - Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution 00:09
{\an8}She was doing shows that were for us by us,