Cameron Esposito is visiting my alma mater this week for a performance, which is great! And as colleges tend to go, the people who invited her probably don’t really know who she is. She’s a lesbian comic, and that seems to be their main selling point on students going to see her. College students tending to be liberal and thinking, “oh that’s great! I support lesbians! I’m gonna go see that!” and going to see the show for that reason instead of just, like, just wanting to see good comedy.
I have no problem with that strategy, because Esposito also happens to be a really great comic. But, I wanted to point out that she’s not simply a lesbian with a voice, but also just damn funny. She’s really funny and she just happens to talk about how she is a lesbian sometimes.
Some people even call her the next big star of stand up. Who’s to say? She’s from Chicago originally (like me) so I’d be pretty down with that happening. Some great comics lately coming from there: Hannibal Buress, Kyle Kinane. Represent!
Typing “my alma mater” feels weird. I feel like I wouldn’t like someone who talks about “their alma mater” for some reason. Like, “Ooh, so fancy! You know Latin!” But I’m pretty sure that’s the only word for that.
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I’d offer another phrase for that, “My Old School”, but it seems Donald Fagen may have recently ruined that one for the rest of us. I guess we’ll have to keep writing “alma mater” for the time being. Chicago, eh? Cubs or Sox? If you’re from Chicago, you know it almost de rigueur to have a choice. Nice post, and I’m following Cameron Esposito from now on too! That was priceless!
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Good call. And thanks! I’m actually not huge on baseball, but when forced to go with one I root for the Cubs.
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