On November 10, 2016, just two days after the election, local comedy producer Liz Maupin got a call from New York stand-up Jenn Welch. After taking a day to process the reality of a world with president-elect Donald Trump, Welch and fellow New Yorker Emily Winter reached out to connections across the country to see what they as performers could do to combat the incoming administration’s potential threat to human rights. The answer was to join forces and keep doing what they do best: comedy.
“I firmly believe that none of us should normalize anything that’s about to happen,” Maupin says. “If you’re a comedian and you have these views and these thoughts, it’s so important to speak out. Somebody has to.”
