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- Apr 4, 2021
Imagine my shock hearing that a comedian who as 90% of his material has “CIS people! AMIRITE?!” Might not be popular.![]()
That's what I was thinking. When he said the jokes he tells isn't for the middle class cissies I realized he has no idea why clubs in fucking Kansas aren't booking him. He might sell out in a small venue in NYC, but that's more due to NYC having a much greater population of trannies than Kansas City then the quality of his jokes.
Even before peaking I wouldn't want to go hear a comedian with such a narrow focus, no matter the subject the comedian choose. The reason Izzard has been so successful is because his jokes were universal things that people from all walks of life could understand, or at least know that what he's saying is funny because of the delivery. The fact that he's a transvestite didn't matter; that was a gimmick that did come into his jokes now and then, but it wasn't his whole thing.
And 36K followers doesn't seem like a lot for a well known comedian. Even one based in Kansas, but I don't know any comedians to look up on Twitter.