Bob The Drag Queen and Suzy Eddie Izzard will characteristic in Netflix’s new comic documentary, Outsanding. (Getty)
Drag Race winners Bob The Drag Queen and Trixie Mattel will characteristic alongside Suzy Eddie Izzard in Excellent, a brand new Netflix documentary about stand-up comedy.
Excellent: A Comedy Revolution will “look at the historical past of queer stand-up comedy”, utilizing archival footage and interviews with among the world’s high LGBTQ+ comedians, together with Rosie O’Donnell, Margaret Cho, Lily Tomlin and Hannah Gadsby.
Based on the official synopsis, Oustanding will discover how queer artists have used comedy as “an instrument for social change over the previous 5 a long time, actively reflecting and difficult cultural norms and values”.
A brand new trailer for the feature-length documentary reveals various queer comedy superstars discussing the “adversities” they’ve needed to face of their careers.
“If you happen to see a queer slapstick comedian, I don’t assume you perceive the adversities they’ve overcome,” says Bob The Drag Queen.
Lesbian comedian O’Donnell, who started her profession within the Nineteen Eighties, factors out that when she began out, “there weren’t actually very many queer comics”, including: “It’s been such a journey that we’ve taken. Queer comics, queer historical past, that each one deserves to be talked about. Now could be the time the place folks can.”
The trailer additionally options Oscar nominee Tomlin, who says that when she began out even earlier, folks within the viewers “can be shaking their heads” on the dialogue of something homosexual.
“It was scary for folks,” provides lesbian comedian Fortune Feimster. “They needed to be within the closet to guard their profession.”
Sandra Bernhard, Wanda Sykes, Billy Eichner, Suzy Eddie Izzard, Joel Kim Boster, Mae Martin and Todd Glass additionally seem within the documentary.
Excellent, directed by Web page Hurwitz, who began her personal stand-up profession in San Francisco’s Castro district, is about to be out there for streaming on Netflix throughout Satisfaction month, on 18 June.
Whereas Netflix is thought for celebrating queer comedians, with acts together with Martin and Gadsby having their very own specials, it has additionally been criticised for giving a platform to comedians who goal trans folks with their jokes, most notably Dave Chappelle and Ricky Gervais.