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Podcast: Finding Founders
Episode: From Being Blacklisted to an Emmy Nomination- #140: Flame Monroe | Comedian
Description: Broke, blacklisted, and betrayed by other jealous comedians, Flame Monroe was left struggling to provide for herself and her family. But that was then… now, more than a decade later, Flame is back in the spotlight, appearing on HBO’s ‘Def Comedy Jam’ and the emmy-nominated Netflix comedy series ‘Tiffany Haddish Presents: They Ready’. As her story above hints , life as a stand up comedian was not always sunshine and roses. Breaking into the 90s comedy circuit is hard enough, but doing it as a black a trans-woman seems near impossible. But Flame’s willingness to consistently show up, be funny, and...