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Masculinity is back! The lesbian comics rediscovering their butch side

By wp10047
Posted On January 24, 2020
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Hannah Gadsby made butchness cool again. Now a crop of queer comics are getting back to boots, quiffs and taches Sarah Keyworth has, she says, a weird kind of relationship with masculinity. She appears confident in her dapper, boyish looks, with her short quiffed hair, but behind that handsome veneer are insecurities. I almost have...

Michelle Wolf: the unstoppable rise of America’s provocative political comic

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Posted On May 22, 2018
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Her caustic White House correspondents dinner speech will be no shock for fans of the former Daily Show contributor When Michelle Wolf arrived at the Edinburgh festival in 2016 she was the latest in a long line of bubbling-under US standups to use the fringe to hone their craft and build an international audience. She...