Comments on: Star Stalking Stigma Stifles Studious Stint http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2006/05/01/star-stalking-stigma-stifles-studious-stint/ The blog by and for comedy nerds. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:14:18 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kathleen Rose Winter http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2006/05/01/star-stalking-stigma-stifles-studious-stint/comment-page-1/#comment-21412 Kathleen Rose Winter Tue, 02 May 2006 00:02:58 +0000 http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2006/05/01/star-stalking-stigma-stifles-studious-stint/#comment-21412 I am a comedian with a disability. I am tired of seeing comedians doing jokes about us to make us "visible". It is like a perverted type of crippled "blackface". Let me do my own tasteless jokes about people with disabilities. Give me an audition. i am good too. Jon needs some diversity on his show. His show is the poster child for the need for affirmative action. I am of color and a female too. I can act like a professional idiot just as well as those white boys. Obviously, I think the show is funny. I watch it all the time. But if his "whitebread" approach to the news is for humor, we've got the joke. Give some equally talented diverse comics a chance. Send me a Southwest plane ticket and I'm there to audition. Video tapes don't do me justice. I got jokes and sklls. Kathleen Rose Winter I am a comedian with a disability. I am tired of seeing comedians doing jokes about us to make us "visible". It is like a perverted type of crippled "blackface". Let me do my own tasteless jokes about people with disabilities. Give me an audition. i am good too. Jon needs some diversity on his show. His show is the poster child for the need for affirmative action. I am of color and a female too. I can act like a professional idiot just as well as those white boys. Obviously, I think the show is funny. I watch it all the time. But if his "whitebread" approach to the news is for humor, we've got the joke. Give some equally talented diverse comics a chance. Send me a Southwest plane ticket and I'm there to audition. Video tapes don't do me justice. I got jokes and sklls.

Kathleen Rose Winter

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