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Cameron Esposito

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357 total appearances

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We Can Do Hard Things
Cameron Esposito: How to Save Your Damn Self (Best Of)

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.

We Can Do Hard Things
Cameron Esposito: How to Save Your Damn Self (Best Of)

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.

We Can Do Hard Things
Cameron Esposito: How to Save Your Damn Self (Best Of)

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.

We Can Do Hard Things
Cameron Esposito: How to Save Your Damn Self (Best Of)

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.

We Can Do Hard Things
Cameron Esposito: How to Save Your Damn Self (Best Of)

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.

We Can Do Hard Things
Cameron Esposito: How to Save Your Damn Self (Best Of)

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.

We Can Do Hard Things
Cameron Esposito: How to Save Your Damn Self (Best Of)

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.

We Can Do Hard Things
Cameron Esposito: How to Save Your Damn Self (Best Of)

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.

We Can Do Hard Things
Cameron Esposito: How to Save Your Damn Self (Best Of)

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.

We Can Do Hard Things
Cameron Esposito: How to Save Your Damn Self (Best Of)

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.

We Can Do Hard Things
Cameron Esposito: How to Save Your Damn Self (Best Of)

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.

We Can Do Hard Things
Cameron Esposito: How to Save Your Damn Self (Best Of)

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.

We Can Do Hard Things
Cameron Esposito: How to Save Your Damn Self (Best Of)

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.

We Can Do Hard Things
Cameron Esposito: How to Save Your Damn Self (Best Of)

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.

We Can Do Hard Things
Cameron Esposito: How to Save Your Damn Self (Best Of)

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.

We Can Do Hard Things
Cameron Esposito: How to Save Your Damn Self (Best Of)

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.

We Can Do Hard Things
Cameron Esposito: How to Save Your Damn Self (Best Of)

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.

We Can Do Hard Things
Cameron Esposito: How to Save Your Damn Self (Best Of)

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.

We Can Do Hard Things
Cameron Esposito: How to Save Your Damn Self (Best Of)

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.

We Can Do Hard Things
Cameron Esposito: How to Save Your Damn Self (Best Of)

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.