Wolf told me, “I think trying to make it seem like women are the same as men takes away from women. “Whether you agree or disagree with anything she says, that bit was created with care while checking, in every part of the country, that it’ll get laughs,” he said.Īnd then, just at that moment in “Joke Show” when viewers might feel certain they have a handle on Wolf’s perspectives, she veers off into a routine in which she states that men are inherently stronger and faster than women, and how she expects to catch flak for saying this. “If I didn’t feel comfortable talking about it, and talking about it in such a casual way,” she said, “then I have no right to yell at people for disagreeing with me.”įreid, who toured with Wolf as she worked on the set for “Joke Show,” said her abortion material was not recklessly provocative. Wolf told me that “as someone who is very, very much pro-choice,” she would have been a hypocrite if she hadn’t addressed this in her act. Not a big deal and I also think a pretty good advertisement for LaCroix.” I drank half a LaCroix and then I went back to work. In “Joke Show,” she says she believes women “should be able to get an abortion for any reason you want” and recounts how simple and uneventful the experience was for her.Īs she says in the bit, “I left work.
Wolf said she also wanted to feel that she could talk onstage about any of her opinions or experiences, no matter how potentially polarizing.
“She’s become a folk hero to Burlington, Vt., and Portland, Ore., but she doesn’t want to be told that you’re my hero,” Morril said. Netflix declined to respond to Wolf’s comments on “The Break,” but Robbie Praw, the streaming service’s director of original stand-up comedy programming, said that he and his colleagues were committed to “making sure that our stand-up slate has the world’s most important voices and the world’s funniest people.” Wolf, he said, is “both of those things.” “But also, so what? Now I just go back to doing stand-up? My favorite thing in the world? Too bad.” “A lot of great people have had shows canceled,” she said.
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Even so, she said the end of the series was hardly a death sentence for her career. “It really gave people a lot of ammunition to be like, ‘Look at you, you’ll never work again,’” Wolf said. Still, the abrupt cancellation of “The Break” generated headlines - some of them arriving before Wolf could share the announcement with staff members - and seemed to leave the impression that Netflix was siding with critics of her correspondents’ dinner performance. “After the first two,” she said, “I was pretty sure they weren’t going to give us more, because we didn’t get any sort of pop.” Wolf said she sensed early on in the 10-episode run of her show that Netflix wouldn’t extend its order. “I don’t think I had a clear enough idea of what I really wanted to do.” It’s fine.”īut she also said the controversy took some of her focus off “The Break,” a mix of stand-up and sketches, and that the show had suffered as a result. “It’s made me a lot less scared of opinions,” she said. Looking back on that set, Wolf said she had only one regret - “I would maybe go harder” - and felt that the firestorm of reaction had given her a new boldness. “I genuinely think they were like, ‘We’ll hire a woman, there’s no way this can go terribly - she’ll be soft.’ And I’m like, ‘Oh, you hired the wrong woman.’” “What did they think I was going to do?” she said. If her scorched-earth approach to the correspondents’ dinner irritated so many of its attendees, Wolf wondered why she had been asked to address them in the first place. “People have such strong beliefs, and you’re like, ‘All right, but. The president and first lady traditionally attend the annual event, alongside members of the press and other senior government officials.“It’s been making comedy really fun to do that,” she said with no evident sarcasm. The White House has not said whether Trump will attend this year's dinner, after skipping last year's. Her Pennsylvania roots, stints on Wall Street and in science and self-made, feminist edge make her the right voice now.” “Our dinner honors the First Amendment and strong, independent journalism," Margaret Talev, WHCA president and reporter at Bloomberg, said. "Her embrace of these values and her truth-to-power style make her a great friend to the WHCA. She is also an alum of Late Night with Seth Meyers. Wolf's hour-long HBO special, Michelle Wolf: Nice Lady premiered in December, and she will star in a Netflix half-hour comedy show later this year. Comedian Michelle Wolf, known for her stand-up comedy and work on the Daily Show With Trevor Noah, will be the featured entertainer at this year's White House Correspondents' Association dinner on April 28.
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