Outstanding A Comedy Revolution New Trailer - Plot Synopsis: "The history of LGBTQ+ stand up is ultimately about queer liberation. We don't normally think of comedians when we think of social movements but the talented artists in this film helped to shift the culture in significant ways, sometimes having to make great personal sacrifices. I hope this film honors and celebrates their contributions to LGBTQ+ history and to the larger community. This film has been a true labor of love and I'm grateful to Netflix for their support." –Director Page Hurwitz
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00:00 Are you all ready to make history?
00:03 [cheering]
00:05 Can we hear it for this incredible historic cast?
00:08 Comedy's the one thing.
00:10 Getting in there saying, we can all laugh at this.
00:14 I'm snoring now.
00:16 How do I know?
00:17 Because my wife records it.
00:19 [laughter]
00:21 [music playing]
00:24 All kinds of comedy is accepted now.
00:26 I never thought it would be possible in my lifetime.
00:29 I love being in a room full of 50 people
00:31 and somebody just beelines past 49 people and is like,
00:34 hey, what are your pronouns?
00:37 [laughter]
00:39 When I was a young comic, you had
00:41 to be careful what you did and who you talked to and who knew.
00:46 It wasn't accepted to say you were gay on stage.
00:50 There was a time where comedy was
00:52 very accepting of homophobia.
00:55 [music playing]
00:57 When I first started doing comedy,
00:59 I thought that I might be a stand-up,
01:01 but I discovered very early on that that was not possible.
01:05 Many of the other comics would tell me
01:07 to stop talking about gay stuff.
01:09 Next time someone says to you, you choose to be a lesbian,
01:12 say, no, no, no.
01:13 I was chosen.
01:14 [cheering]
01:16 Every word is a bullet.
01:19 You are a loaded weapon, and everything you say
01:22 can find a target that doesn't really want to hear that.
01:26 It was scary for people.
01:28 They had to be in the closet to protect their career
01:31 and then had to make that difficult decision.
01:33 I'm going to be out.
01:34 I'm not hiding it anymore.
01:36 It was like enough already.
01:37 Things have got to change.
01:38 Things have got to evolve.
01:40 [heartbeat]
01:42 We will be free!
01:43 We shall be free!
01:45 Because we are everywhere!
01:47 [cheering]
01:48 Humor was an important part of the movement.
01:50 I was like, am I gay?
01:53 Am I straight?
01:55 And I realized, I'm just slutty.
01:59 [cheering]
02:01 Hello, my queers!
02:04 Queer people taught America to stop being scared of us
02:07 by making jokes.
02:08 It's been such a journey.
02:11 There's a lot of people who've come before us.
02:14 [music]
02:16 Queer comics, queer history, that all
02:19 deserves to be talked about.
02:22 Now is the time where people can.
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