Comedian Jessica Pigeau on 'Safe Space' Performers, Progressive Mobbing, and Anxiety Overload in the World of Stand-Up

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Society & Culture, Politics, News, Science, News Commentary

4.6 • 917 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Host Jonathan Kay interviews Vancouver-based queer comedian Jessica Pigeau about her recent Quillette essay describing the clash between good comedy and strident social-justice activism Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Colette Podcast. My name is Claire Lehman and I am editor and chief of Colette.
0:08.0	Colette is where Free Thought lives. We are an independent grassroots platform for heterodox ideas and fearless commentary.
0:15.0	Our podcast is a team effort and is jointly hosted by myself, associate editor Toby Young,
0:20.0	and Canadian editor Jonathan Kay.
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0:34.0	Hello, I am indeed Jescopizio.
0:36.5	Not the Jescopizio, just A Jescopizio.
0:40.4	Because of course there is another.
0:42.2	Yes, I found this out because I spend a lot of time alone on my computer furiously googling myself.
0:48.0	And apparently there's a Jessica Pejo who works as an office assistant for a physiotherapist in
0:55.7	Burnaby.
0:56.7	Which is honestly a relief because if she was also a gender ambiguous amateur comedian, I'm pretty sure he'd have to defeat
1:05.8	her in combat.
1:06.8	Hand to hand, hungry, hungry, hungry,
1:11.6	hipos. Just for the right to the trademark.
1:16.0	As is, I've been spraying Cougar urine on the bagonias in her front yard.
1:26.0	I just amark my territory.
1:30.0	Show her who's the real Jescapiz around here.
1:36.0	Welcome to the Qualette Podcast.
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