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May 14, 2018 · “Feminism is the worst thing that ever happened to women,” Wong said, and turned some heads, in Baby Cobra. “Our job used to be no job,” she lamented. “We had it so good!… And then all these...
Feb 25, 2022 · Wong expresses feminism in her comedy by calling out various gender disparities and sexism. At the start of “Don Wong,” Wong jokes about how when men become successful comedians, their romantic lives thrive and they start dating actresses and supermodels — just look at Colin Jost.
Oct 14, 2019 · Ali Wong broke out with a raunchy, layered take on feminism and motherhood in her Netflix specials Baby Cobra in 2016 and Hard Knock Wife two years later. She performed both while visibly...
That clip I saw of Wong was from her breakout Netflix special, Baby Cobra. In it, she voices her desire not to go to work anymore, making fun of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s famous book and its discussion of women in the workplace and feminism. “Her book is called Lean In,” says Wong. “Well, I don’t wanna lean In.
Thanks to sharp bits about gender roles, she’s on the cusp of stand-up comedy’s A-list, the rare working mother to make the cut. Every step of the way has been carefully considered. When ...
Oct 9, 2019 · Wong’s conviction that language, even more than performance, is a comedian’s greatest weapon also guided her when she was writing her first book, “Dear Girls,” a collection of essays about her...
Feb 17, 2022 · Through gritted teeth, she voiced an identifiable frustration toward modern feminism’s ethos of trying to “lean in” when, as she put it in one of her all-time-best punch lines, she’d much rather...
