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Fortune Feimster Talks Family, Coming Out and ‘Last Comic Standing’

Posted by: Natasia Rose on August 10, 2010.

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08/10/2010- by Natasia Langfelder

Fortune Feimster is generating a lot of buzz. The out lesbian who has a vlog on Afterellen.com made it to the semi-finals of the popuar NBC show, ‘Last Comic Standing.’ Fortune opened up to me in the August Issue of GAY e-magazine. She shared some of her thoughts on the show:

GAY: Hi Fortune. Congratulations on appearing on Last Comic Standing! Being on the show has made you very visible, very quickly. How has that affected you?

FF:     Well, I don’t want to brag or anything but my You Tube page went from 190 subscribers to 230. I kid. The biggest change is that I am starting to get recognized every now and then. I’ll be walking down the street and someone will randomly yell out, “Hey comic!” (True story, by the way). I also got hundreds of emails from people all over the US so it’s been great to have that support.

GAY: There is always a ton of criticism about reality TV shows not being “real” enough. How real is Last Comic Standing?

FF:     I don’t know how real it was in past seasons because they focused more on the reality TV part than they did the comedy, but this year they really revamped the show.   Now it’s about being a good comic and telling solid jokes, which is nice, because you sign up hoping that people will get to see an accurate portrayal of your comedy. The only thing they do editing-wise is shorten your sets but that’s just because they have to show so many comedians.

GAY: Is judge Natasha Leggero as hot in person as she is on television?

FF:    Haha! I should have known there would be a question about the lady judge. Yes, Natasha is just as hot in person so ladies be sure to check out one of her shows because she’s funny too.