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40 Hot Queer Women in Comedy

Last year we listed 50 Hot Women in Comedy. There are a number of definitions of the word hot: having a high temperature, spiciness that produces a burning sensation or that which is passionately enthusiastic, involving much activity or intense feelings. Hot is synonymous with being titillating, fierce, ruthless, fresh and in demand, so as much as I hate the word “hottie,” I can honestly say that it is a term of endearment that very much applies to all of the following women.

In the last few years the popularity of live comedy has been growing in no small part to this group of women who continue to transform the landscape of a scene that can often times remain unchanged. They are charismatic and talented women who just happen to be super attractive. Or maybe it’s the former that defines the latter. Either way, I can’t actually imagine anything hotter. So we’re doing it again: Another list of sexy women who make us laugh. This time, they’re all queer.

Kim Diaz brought her show, “One Ruggedly-Handsome-Woman Show,” to this year’s Chicago Women’s Funny Festival and the Hollywood Fringe. In it, she jokes about things like growing up in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean and her masculine energy.

The Fruit Flies (Molly McCormick and Danni Parpan) are a comedic indie folk-rock band from Chicago. They’re the perfect mixture of musical talent, sass and inappropriate behavior. (@FruitFliesMusic)

Combining an art history degree with an enigmatic personality, Hannah Gadsby takes every opportunity to present her incredibly popular comedic art lectures at festivals around the world alongside her stand up comedy shows. In 2013, her show “Happiness is a Bedside Table” was nominated for Best Show in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Her latest art-based offering, a three-part documentary series titled Hannah Gadsby’s Oz, will air on ABC in 2014 and she can currently be seen in the second season of Please Like Me which is airing on ABC2 in Australia and on pivot.tv in the US. She is also writing her first book based on her mildly alarming medical history. (@hannahgadsby)

A “bi-coastal black lesbian and socio-political performer,” Micia Mosely considers herself an educator as well as a performer. She wrote and starred in her one-woman show, “Where My Girls At?,” an off-Broadway comedy about black lesbians, debuted her latest project “Survivor Hampshire: The Social Justice edition” in the fall, and is currently working on her new play, “X-Marks the Spot.” (@micia_mosley)

Originally from Maine, Emma Willmann has since exploded onto the Boston comedy scene and continued to tour the entire East Coast, appearing at The 2014 New York Comedy Festival and hosting at The 2013 Hoboken Comedy Festival. Now living in NYC, she made her national TV debut on Axis TV’s Live at Gotham in 2014. (@emmawillmann)

Rye Silverman is a Los Angeles-based comedian, writer and “gender rebel” who’s writing has been featured on The Huffington Post, JibJab.com and at the New York Underground Comedy Festival. (@ryesilverman)

A self-proclaimed boob-whisperer, Nina Manni is the warm-up comic for Joan Rivers’ Fashion Police. She performed at this year’s SF Sketchfest, wrote for MTV’s Disaster Date and co-hosted the popular podcast “She Said What?!?” (@ninamanni)

Dina Nina Martinez is a standup comedian and actor from LA who currently resides in Madison, Wisconsin. She is the creator and host of Madison’s first and only queer comedy show Alphabet Soup, “The D Word” podcast, and the forthcoming “The Dina Martinez Show.” Currently she is on the road with the Rainbow Connection Comedy Tour. (@dinamartinez)

Boston-based comic Sam Jay was a semifinalist at both the second annual ABFF Comedy Wings and the Stand-Up NBC competitions in 2014 and won the Funny Or Die’s Road To Oddball regional contest. Next up she’ll be performing at the Comedy Central Comics to Watch show in Boston, a showcase of the hottest up-and-coming comedians. (@samjaycomic)

Since getting into comedy in mid-2013, Caitlin Weierhauser has already won The Moth StorySLAM, performed all over Portland and Seattle and was accepted to perform at All Jane, No Dick Comedy Festival. She is a member of Portland comedy troupe, Lez Stand Up and produces and hosts Comedy Debate Club and the monthly pop-up show, “Blow Me! A Sex Positive Comedy Showcase!” (@grapetheist)

Dana Eagle‘s awkward approach to comedy has landed her on The Late, Late Show With Craig Ferguson, Comedy Central and Comics Unleashed, where she became a contributing writer. She recently made it to the semi-finals on Last Comic Standing. (@danaeagletweets)

Recently moving from NYC to LA, Leah Dubie has performed at the Out Of Bounds Festival, Women In Comedy Festival, Ladies Are Funny Festival, Gilda’s Club and was a semi-finalist in the Boston Comedy Festival. Her television credits include truTV’s World’s Dumbest, WE’s Cinematherapy, LOGO’s Out In The City and Here! TV’s Threesome and Hot, Gay Comics. (@leahdubie)

Catherine McCormick is a queer feminist from Toronto who wants to tear the patriarchy apart, one pussy joke at a time. She can be seen locally in Toronto and across North America performing standup and storytelling, and is the host and producer of the groundbreaking LGBTQ+ comedy show Queer As Fuck and the popular podcast Box Social. (@mccormcorp)

Judy Fabjance is a founding member of GayCo Productions, a not-for-profit theatre ensemble that specializes in creating sketch-comedy revues based on gay/lesbian themes. Her one-woman show, Are You There Judy? It’s Me, Cancer, is poignant and hilarious.

Danz Altvater is a queer Canadian comic and improviser. In 2013 she was nominated for the Tim Sims Encouragement Fund Award for emerging comedic performers. She is the host of the Lesbian Road Trip Comedy Hour in Toronto. (@danzerinthedark)

Caroline Bassett performed on Bridgetown Comedy’ Fests first ever queer showcase called “The Show That Dare Not Speak Its Name” and just finished competing in the Funniest Person in Austin Contest finals this past spring. Bitch magazine included her in their Six Hilarious Female Comedians You Don’t Know Yet-But Should list and we couldn’t agree more. (@carobassett)

Natasha Muse is an award-winning comedian and the winner of the 2010 Battle of the Bay Comedy Competition. She is a favorite in the Bay Area and performed for the first time outside of California at this year’s Bridgetown Comedy Festival in Portland. In June, she performed alongside Marga Gomez at “Marga and the Babes,” a comedy showcase that is presented as a part of the Queer Arts Festival. (@natashamuse)

With innate charisma, Mae Martin started performing comedy aged 13. By 15 she had received her first Canadian Comedy Award nomination, and at 16 made her Canadian television debut on The Comedy Network’s Cream of Comedy before moving to the UK. Most recently, Mae released a comedy album, Mae Martin Live, and workshopped her new show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. (@themaemartin)

Described as “Britain’s only goth, lesbian, transsexual comedian,” Bethany Black landed on our radar back in April when we featured her on our list of comics from around the world for her inhibitionless brand of comedy. No word if her sitcom about a Swedish nurse who ends up with a Goth transsexual ever panned out, but we most certainly would watch it. (@bethanyblack)

A regular on BBC Radio 4, we should all be thankful that Susan Calman quit her day job as a lawyer to become a comedian. After bringing her new show, “Lady Like,” to this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Scottish comedian is taking her show on the road, embarking on her first ever tour through the UK. She’ll also be touring Ireland, Scotland and Wales in the spring of 2015. (@susancalman)

Zoe Lyons just returned from the Edinburgh Fringe with her stand up show, Mustard Cutter, which she plans to tour in 2015. She recently appeared in a new play based on people’s coming out stories in Edinburgh called “Outings,” and in November she’ll be a part in a charity version of Mastermind for the BBC. Her monthly comedy night in Brighton, “Bent Double,” is nearing its 10 year anniversary. (@zoelyons)

Born in Chicago, Brittani Nichols is a Los Angeles-based comedic best known for the popular webseries Words With Girls. Her writing has been featured Autostraddle, Jezebel, Huffington Post and Elixher. (@bishilarious)

Fresh from supporting some of the UK’s top comedians on their sold out tours, Suzi Ruffel is currently touring her second show, “Social Chameleon.” Her innovative style has made her a Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year nominee and Latitude New Act of the Year finalist. Up next, she’ll be hitting the road this fall with Romesh Ranganathan. (@suziruffel)

Heather Dean is a Los Angeles-based writer, improviser, and actor. She enjoys finding humor in her embarrassment, and incorporating social justice and LGBT issues into comedic art. Dean is the writer and star of Rent Controlled, a tello films webseries slated to premiere September 14. (@hdeancomedy)

Jen Brister just got back from the Edinburgh Festival where she performed her newest show, “Wishful Thinking.” Since previewing the show, it has been nominated for Best New Show at the Leicester Comedy Festival and cited as one of the top eight shows at the Melbourne Comedy Festival by The Age. You can also catch Jen on Comedy Central later this year on Live at the Comedy Store. (@jenbrister)

Lauren Flans writes and performs with her sketch/musical comedy group Lost Moon Radio, is regular on the LA comedy rap circuit, and can currently be seen on MTV2 in the new season of Nick Cannon Presents: Wild ‘N Out. Lauren has an EP entitled 6 Rap Songs That Changed History. (@laurenflans)

Mimi Gonzalez puts the lez in Gonzalez as she has performed at Pride festivals, Olivia Travel shows, Queer Queens of Comedy and Michfest. Next up, she’ll perform at Stand Out Comedy Fest Atlantic City, Women’s Week Provincetown and the Boston Comedy Fest.

Chaunte Wayans has made a name for herself starring on Nick Cannon Presents: Wild ‘N Out. Aside from her improv prowess, Wayans has been doing stand-up for eight years, touring comedy clubs across the U.S. She just finished her solo show tour, the UnknownWayansTour. (@cwayans)

Rebecca V. O’Neal‘s writing has appeared in Vanity Fair magazine, on Gawker.tv and Sidespliter.com. She’s a former member of Chicago’s famed The Lincoln Lodge and currently co-produces a monthly comedy showcase called “Congrats on Your Success” along side fellow Chicago comedian Sonia Denis. (@becca_oneal)

South African born Urzila Carlson sold out five solo seasons at the New Zealand International Comedy Festival. She was invited to Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2013 by Live Nation and has another season in Melbourne, Perth and Sydney on the way. She has also appeared in the Canberra Comedy Gala and the ABC’s Spick’s and Specks and Dirty Laundry Live. (@urzilacarlson)

Named one of the “Top 10 Comedians” by the Montreal Mirror, Robby Hoffman has had two best-selling one-woman shows at the Montreal Fringe Festival. Most recently she has opened for Judy Gold, made the semi-finals of SiriusXM’s Canada’s Next Top Comic and created a hit web-series with Just For Laughs called Comedy in Biblical Proportions where she comedically interprets bible passages. (@iamrobbyhoffman)

Besides working as AfterEllen’s red carpet correspondent, Lianna Carrera has performed in Africa, Ireland and around the U.S. Most recently, she’s written for Huffington Post Comedy and SheWired, and has been working on Lady Parts Justice with Daily Show co-creator Lizz Winstead, including an upcoming Detroit show as part of their V To Shining V nationwide event with Holly Miranda. (@liannac)

Los Angeles based comedian Gloria Bigelow was a featured performer on Wanda Sykes Presents Herlarious. She also hosted the pre and post show for the first ever NewNowNext awards for MTV networks Logo Channel and was nominated the following year for their “Brink of Fame Comic” award. Most recently she competed for the title of Last Comic Standing on NBC. (@gloriabigelow)

Dannielle-Owens Reid co-founded EveryoneIsGay.com, co-created The Parents Project and co- wrote This is a Book For Parents of Gay Kids with the equally hilarious Kristin Russo. In her copious amounts of free time she co-wrote and starred in tello films Plus One along side Mo Welch and, on occasion, performs stand up around the LA area. (@danielleor, @everyoneisgay)

Sure, Rebecca Drysdale has toured with the Second City Touring Company, been featured in TIME magazine as a comedy innovator, in Variety as one of 10 comics to watch, and on LOGO’s The Big Gay Sketch Show. But what’s most impressive was her stint as Mazall on the second season of Orange is the New Black, right? She wins. (@beckdrys)

Janine Brito won the SF Women’s Comedy Competition in 2009 and was named the 2011 “Best Comedian with a Message” by the East Bay Express. Until recently, she was a writer and on-air correspondent for the television program Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, to which the AV Club wrote in one review, “Also: more Janine Brito, please.” Agreed, MORE! (@janinebrito)

Having appeared on both BET’s Comic View and It’s Showtime at the Apollo, Nikki Carr was well known for her comedic national anthem “Fat Girls.” That was until she recently made it to the finals of Last Comic Standing, making her the first openly gay woman to make it to the top three. (@nikkicarrtqs)

Sabrina Jalees joined the cast of VH1s iconic Best Week Ever, was a contestant on the revamped Last Comic Standing, and performed at this year’s Just For Laughs festival in Montreal. If that’s not enough, her podcast, “My Sexy Podcast”, continues to impress and, along with Liza Treyger, she launched a new web-series taped at JFL called “How Many Questions.” Spoiler alert, it’s hilarious. (@sabrinajalees)

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