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JO: You’ve talked about your admiration
for Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. Why
do you think it is always men in their posi
tions and not women?
Clinton: I had a theory once that estrogen
is only on during the daytime and then after
9 o’clock you can have this raging testoster
one, and only testosterone. It mirrors pretty
much what’s happening in the comedy clubs.
And I’m glad they’re there. I think they’re
great and very funny and I don’t buy some
thing about “women don’t have a sense of
humor.” We do. We just don’t have the power
to get it on the air. If we had the power we
could flood the channels every night and it
would be a women’s point of view.
teresting and I’ve always talked about it. You
know originally it was a great gimmick and
nobody stole my material. After 30 years of
doing it and 30 years of really great organiz
ing and courageous people coming out, it’s a
changed audience.
JO: What are the themes that come up in
your show?
Clinton: I’ve noticed this summer that
there’s, in the context of so many liberatory
movements in the Mideast or Midwest,
people just standing up. In that context of
liberation, I’ve been talking about how the
LG Iff movement is proudly in that con
text... A lot of really great radical LGBT
people kicked the doors open and a lot of
JO: How has the show gone over in Prov- conservative people came through and
incetown and how do you expect it will go started yelling at the people who kicked the
over in less gay parts of the country?
doors down: “You kicked those doors down,
Clinton: It’s very weird. I sometimes look damn it!" We have to guard against losing
at my show and I think, oh my god, I haven’t that radical energy and the part of liberation
talked about anything gay. I remember per and the movement that works, [which] is
forming in L.A. at The Improv in the early really hooking up with other movements.
’80s and the manager saying to me after,
“You can’t talk about gay stuff here. It just
JO: W hat’s your muse?
doesn’t go over,” and going, “Well, all right.”
Clinton: I do think anger is a big part of
And then 20 years later doing a show there it... You say things that people are thinking
and, not the same guy, but a guy saying to and there’s—I felt it certainly after 9/11 and
me, “I thought you were going to do more after invading Iraq—there’s a way this sum
gay stuff.” lh a t changed... I think straight mer I feel like you can’t release it, it’s really
people are not as—what [writer] Paul Mon- deep. People are afraid. They’re freaked.
ette used to say was—homo-ignorant, they Their freaking freak is on. J0!
just know. I think that’s great. I have always
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