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Shortly after moving to Los Angeles from
Ian Harvie is a one-of-a-kind comedian
determined to show audiences they have Portland, Maine, Harvie met Cho at the East
more in common than they think. As the only L.A. queer club Akbar, where Cho sometimes
FTM comic currently on the road, however, tested out new material. The two chatted,
convincing people of this fact requires a little Harvie sent her his reel and, before he knew
it, he was spending the next three years on
edutainment.
“I’m not preachy on stage, I really just talk tour with her.
about my own personal
“She
basically just
“ I started drinking when
scooped me up and made
experience and how I feel
me go with her everywhere
about myself and my body I w as a kid and I felt like
she went. Within a couple
and my experience with
it helped quiet the voices
my body and my sexual
of weeks we were on the
life,” Harvie, 42, says. “It’s inside me that told me I w as road in the Midwest some
where,” Harvie says. “I feel
educational through nar
different. I felt like it helped
like that is the dream that
rative comedy and I think
what it does is just allow make me one of the boys in you hear about. That’s the
really esoteric version of
people to think about
the neighborhood.”
things in additional ways.”
how you hope things would
IAN HARVIE work out when you move
From Harvie’s perspec
tive—which he stresses is
to L.A. You meet some
his alone—everyone should be able to relate body who’s a huge, iconic queer comic ...just
to the experience of not feeling 100 percent tucking amazing and someone says, ‘Yeah, I
think you’re funny, come with me.’”
comfortable in his or her body.
“Everybody feels this way on some level.
Two years later, Harvie is building on other
Most people don’t feel enough in some way unexpected connections for his current tour,
and ... I just happened to choose these things Laughs Without Liquor, with two fellow
[testosterone and surgery] to make myself comics-in-recovery bringing their own unique
feel better. Some people work out, some perspectives and similarly raw approach.
people get breast augmentations. But I think
There’s Felon O ’Reilly, an Irish former
that on some level everybody feels this way. bank robber and heroin addict; Amy Dres
We’re not so different,” Harvie insists.
den, a Jewish recovering methamphetamine
It’s this unique perspective that caught the addict; and, of course, Harvie, a transgender
attention of comedy icon Margaret Cho and alcoholic from the other Portland.
helped launch Harvie’s comedic career hack
Despite their differences, O’Reilly and
in 2006.
Harvie have been triends for nine years.
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