Cameron Esposito
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119 appearances
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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So it's just kind of like, I feel like a confusing presence, but there's also no change or finish line that's going to unconfuse people. Right. Nothing's coming down the pike that's going to make people unconfused. I said this like Instagram recently, but it's like I'm still I feel like a centaur. You know, it's like there's like half of this, half of that. And it's just like, here you go.
Accept this.
Such a great series of questions. Definitely on, right? Like definitely on because I have been cultured as a woman. So I have a woman's experience, but then also definitely in. And that's what I think. I will say there's something like, Oh, I mean, I hope this isn't othering, but like you and I, Glennon is who I'm talking to right now. We relate to each other in one way.
And then Abby and I, we relate to each other in a different way. Yeah. Like totally across a room, Abby and I are going to clock each other and like do, there's two options. You can do like a head tilt or you can do like a bro hug where we're going to like kind of tap each other on the upper wings. The bro hug is so interesting. But I'm never going to touch Abby's ribs, you know?
But if I hug you, I'm going to like hug you in a totally different way. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Because maybe Abby and I are like the same parts of a magnet. Yeah. And you and I are on a spectrum, maybe not so similar. Also doesn't mean we're so different. I don't think of it as like... Mask and femme. I don't think of it. It's not like there's like two. Right.
You know, but I do think that there is something going on because I because I can place people who are like me. So there's something going on. I don't maybe it's limiting, but. For me, it's like I want there to be some stuff that feels like me. Otherwise, I feel too floaty in space. Like when you were asking about pictures, when I see Harry Styles or David Bowie, that looks like me to me.
Maybe the rest of the world doesn't think that looks like me. I do. I think you're correct. I think that looks like me. So what is that? That's still something, right? Like that's who I want to dress like. And in terms of pictures that I've seen that look like me – I actually like to wear makeup. I don't really know how to put it on, but I like to wear makeup.
But makeup that like I literally have a makeup artist that I've worked with for a decade because makeup is a part of my job. And she and I really know each other well. And I've asked her to refer to lipstick as men's lip tint because it just makes me feel more comfortable. Sure. Yeah. I like to have my cheekbones highlighted and, well, not highlighted, bronzed. Okay.
And I like to have my nose bronzed and it's that stuff. It makes you more angular.
And I like to have my eyebrows filled in, which again is like a... way of sort of rebalancing the face. Sure. It's odd to think that makeup might make me feel more myself because I do identify as masculine center. But it does because it's like this sort of glam... Bowie version. And then I like to have my hair all big and sort of foppish.
Um, and I like to wear suits, but I like those suits to be sort of tailored. Yes.
You know, I think that's really common, really human. I think part of the reason I figured this out is because I've been in like the pressure cooker of having it's just like part of my job to display. When I first started performing, I was just like in college and I was just doing improv kind of like to survive because I was closeted.
And I was at a school where you couldn't come out. You could be kicked out of school for being gay. Catholic school, right? You were in Catholic school.
Yeah. And that, I never saw that happen to anybody, but it was literally, you were not protected by the non-discrimination policy. There were 4,000 people in my class. My first girlfriend and I, we eventually went to like the commencement ball, the end of senior year sort of college prom ceremony. together really worried that we would not be able to graduate.
And there were two other gay dude couples that made the same choice to do that. So there were six of us in my class of 4,000. And I also didn't know anybody else in other years at that time that were out. So there were like 12,000 undergrads and there were six of us. So anyway, comedy was a place that I could be seen for something that felt true, even if all of me couldn't be true.
And, um, I didn't really know that it would eventually lead to like a job being slammed up against the wall. I didn't even know it was like a profession. Yeah.
I didn't realize this until just a few years ago, but I think I was pretty badly bullied as a child. I thought that's how everybody was treated. I had glasses and braces and a bowl cut, and I was... Something weird was going on with my gender and I was gay and I was and I had crossed eyes. This child, there was a lot going on.
And so I think I just made the joke first to sort of be like, I know what you're going to say. well, here's an even funnier spin, right? And also to sort of have value to people. When I wasn't able to play the game of being sort of a girl that might be valuable for some other stuff that women are valued for. This is all garbage, by the way. It's not like I think this should exist.
But it was another way of making myself valuable as a friend or as a student, those types of things. So yeah, it got super funny. And actually, I... have in the last couple of years, like really wondered about the long-term viability of that skillset. Cause I took it to like its end, you know, I was funny, funny, funny. And then I was funny for a living.
And then I was having success in, in that area. And then I was married and that marriage was ending. And it was the first time in my life that I was not Well, for a while it was like private. So I wasn't able to talk about it on stage. And then I, it was really sad. Like I was sadder than I was funny about it.
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