Emerging from Belleville, Illinois, and raised in a Catholic home with a jazz-pianist father, she launched her stand-up career in San Francisco’s Mission District in the early 1980s, blending raunchy comedy with bebop jazz. Breaking ground as the first openly gay comic on a late-night talk show in 1993, she later hosted the pioneering all-gay Comedy Central special “Out There” and earned a Golden… Read more
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
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Molly Yarnchopper (voice) Series ★ 8.2 Shameless 2011
Barb Series ★ 8 Clarence 2014
EJ / Gale / Betty (voice) Series ★ 8 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit 1999
Frankie Series ★ 7.6 Orange Is the New Black 2013
Big Boo Series ★ 7.6 The Blacklist 2013
Nurse Binstock Series ★ 7.6 Californication 2007
Debbie Series ★ 7.6 The Oblongs 2001
Helga Phugly (voice) Series ★ 7.4 Awkward. 2011
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Miss Fritter (voice) Series ★ 6.9 Will & Grace 1998
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Jocelyn Series ★ 6.7 The Job 2001
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Elise's Fan ★ 6.5 Dear Dumb Diary 2013
Ms. Bruntford ★ 6.5 Edge of Seventeen 1999
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Jewel ★ 6.4 Potato Dreams of America 2021
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