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Jenny Yang, Brian Simpson and More Comics Talk Frustrating Hecklers, Social Media Judgement, and Making Money ‘Being a Goofball’


A roundtable conversation with Jenny Yang, Brian Simpson, Matteo Lane, Zarna Garg, Jay Jurden, Hannah Berner and more Variety 10 to Watch Comic alumni

We were joined by comics Hannah Berner, Zarna Garg, Jay Jurden, Matteo Lane, Brian Simpson and Jenny Yang. Lane: My therapy was usually after school — you’d watch Jenny Jones, Sally Jesse Raphaël, Ricki Lake and be like, “You know, things aren’t so bad.” So they hired me for a show for like their sister sorority but it was Founders Week so it was several generations, and half the crowd is older, church-going Black women holding fans who didn’t want foul language.

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