Jen Kirkman - comedian

May 05

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May 04

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YES PEOPLE UNDER 21 CAN GET INTO MY SHOWS AT HIDEOUT CHICAGO

I hope everyone sees this!

I have tweeted it a bunch but word just isn’t getting out - if you are under 21 years old, as long as you arrive with a 21 year old guardian (aka friend) - I am told YOU CAN get into my shows tonight at THE HIDEOUT CHICAGO!!

Tonight! Saturday May 4th at 7pm and 10pm!

Tickets at the door or:

http://www.hideoutchicago.com/

May 03

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A Woman is Sad That I am Not “Fun” :)

I was reading your blog reply to a woman who said something you did not like. You corrected her spelling. That’s just lame and makes no point other than you have control issues and need to learn to deal with dingdongs like that in a not so sensitive way.I saw you on Jay Leno and thought you’d be fun. - Hope (last name redacted)

I wrote her back explaining comedians love misspelled insults and who has control issues - the comedian using her personal blog to joke around or someone who saw me on TV, got excited that I was fun, then read a blog and got upset and then wrote me saying that I should do things differently?
Oh, people amuse me.

Of course I AM FUN!

Apr 30

The A.V. Club is presenting my shows in Chicago at the Hideout!  They are even giving away a few tickets to some lucky folks. Be a lucky folk! All info here:

http://www.avclub.com/articles/chicago-join-the-av-club-and-jen-kirkman-to-celebr,96694/

Apr 27

fuckyeahkidsinthehall asked: Jen, are you going to record your new book as an audiobook? I love your voice and your delivery and would be happy to have it in that format.

Yes I did record one! It’s available for sale now on Tantor.com and Amazon.com

Excerpt from an essay Joan Rivers wrote in Hollywood Reporter

“When I started out, a pretty girl did not go into comedy. If you saw a pretty girl walk into a nightclub, she was automatically a singer. Comedy was all white, older men. It was Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Bob Hope, Shelley Berman, Red Skelton … even Amos and Andy were white men, which is hilarious if you think about it. I had no idea what I was doing.

The white men were doing “mother-in-law” and “my wife’s so fat …” jokes. It was all interchangeable. Bob Hope would walk into a town and say, “The traffic lights in this town are so slow that …” and it could be any town.

When I went onstage, that just didn’t feel right. So I just said, “Let me talk about my life.

I don’t want to hear that male comics want someone to match wits with. No, they don’t. They want someone to sit there and gaze at them adoringly. That’s still what they want. The upside is, they don’t get to wear the pretty clothes. They don’t get to have the pretty dressing room. Women comedians get the private bathroom first.” - Joan Rivers

Apr 23

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Anonymous asked: I see why your divorced and childless selfish self cenered loser

You spelled “your” wrong. If you have kids and this is the way you treat people, they should be taken away from you.