Bridget everett lesbian5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() In a way, I’ve grown up with the queer community and they’ve allowed me to be who I want to be.”Įverett said despite her core audience identifying as sexual or gender diverse, her comedy isn’t constructed specifically appease them – though it often happens incidentally. “It’s a language and a common ground where we both feel safe… I need them as much as they need me. “As a community they embrace that and love it, and also just in my own personal life most of my friends are gay, or lesbians, or trans, and they’re the people I feel most comfortable with. “I’ve never been able to put my finger on it, but I think they appreciate someone who’s willing to take risks and go off the rails, live dangerously,” she said. She mostly attributes it to her brazen and confronting style of comedy. “It’s always largely been an LGBTI audience coming to my shows and even though I get more and more straight people, for me my family will always be queer in some sense.”ĭespite the omnipresence of queer fans throughout Everett’s career, she said she’s never been sure why that is. “I can’t remember who said this but they told me the gay community always finds you, they’re always the first to discover the newest thing, and that was the case for me,” she said. While her longstanding career has blossomed and progressed in many ways, Everett said her LGBTI fan base has remained stagnant. She will also feature in two upcoming films this year: as the mother of an unlikely aspiring rapper in Patti Cake$ and in Fun Mom Dinner to engage in wine-soaked hijinks. However, over time her craft has developed and seen her become a favourite of fellow brazen comic Amy Schumer who featured Everett in both her film Trainwreck and television series Inside Amy Schumer. Initially she began telling stories onstage that were neither refined nor finessed and performed cover songs.
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