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Since her TV debut on NBC’s Last Comic Standing in 2010, Fortune Feimster has become one of America’s top LGBTQ comedians.
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Stand-up comic Cameron Esposito’s comedy album Same Sex Symbol debuted at #1 on the iTunes comedy charts, she hosts her own stand-up show, Put Your Hands Together, every Tuesday night at the famed Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles, and now she brings her new comedy show Separately – about gay divorce – to the intimate Theatre Ste. The charismatic, Emmy-nominated television personality, grooming expert and podcaster really took it to the next level in 2018 when his podcast Getting Curious was ranked one of the Top Podcasts of 2018 by Time Magazine, and recently won the iHeart Radio Award for Best LGBTQ Podcast. Netflix Queer Eye breakout star Jonathan Van Ness returns to Montreal to host his very own star-studded Just For Laughs Gala on July 28. Here are some other queer comics appearing at this year’s edition of the Just For Laughs Festival: Listening to Wanda Sykes is always insightful and entertaining, and the comedy legend returns to Montreal to host her July 26 Wanda Sykes Gala at the 37th edition of the Just For Laughs Festival, which runs July 10 to 28. When they are born, kids look at people as people.
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I realize when I look around, I wonder, ‘How did all these white people end up in my house? What the hell did I do!’ Then again, my kids are so colour blind, you realize that’s how we’re supposed to be. When I asked about her biracial family – she married her wife Alex in 2008, and their twins Lucas and Olivia were born in 2009 – she said, “I talk about it a lot in my act, it’s just odd because I’m this strong black woman with historically black roots and all, I went to a historically black college and now I have a white wife and two white kids. The proudly out Sykes also doesn’t shy away from speaking her truth. The veteran star of film and television recently premiered her new comedy special Wanda Sykes: Not Normal on Netflix, and won raves for her portrayal of Louise Jefferson in a live ABC special recreating the pilot for the classic Norman Lear sitcom The Jeffersons. I’m glad I never had any work done on my vocal chords. I was an adult before I found out people liked my voice when I did stand-up or animated roles. So I was always worried I had an ugly voice. She’d say, ‘You have to do something about your voice! It doesn’t sound pretty! Listen to all the other kids, they sound nice, and then there’s you!’ I had no idea how I could change my voice. When I told Wanda Sykes during an interview some years ago that listening to her voice one-on-one is surreal, she replied, “I didn’t know I had a unique voice for many years, but I did know it sounded different when I was a kid. There is no mistaking the unique sounding voice of out superstar comedy legend Wanda Sykes.