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And the George Award Goes to … George Civeris!
“I will not be made complicit in creating a caricature of myself.”
However, if I can be earnest for exactly one second, what I’ve been most proud of recently is writing a new hour of stand-up last year during an especially bleak period personally and professionally and successfully touring it around the country this summer, which would not have been possible without the listenership of my friend Sam Taggart, and I have developed on our podcast for illiterate gays with graduate degrees, StraightioLab. In general, “building an audience” (oh God) outside the purview of “traditional gatekeepers” (they’re wheeling me out) has been “incredibly rewarding and empowering” (the ambulance hits a pothole and the EMT’s scalding-hot coffee explodes on my crotch). So you had to try to make everyone laugh after some sweet, underpaid nonprofit intern talked for ten minutes about how we need to find a cure for a flesh-eating disease that had just taken the life of a little boy named Buster who loved Wicked.
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