Sometimes I look [ on trolls on Twitter], but even one ignorant comment can make me go, "Oh god."
Jen KirkmanIt [sex-ed] was such a slow rollout for me. I just didn't know what the hell was happening.
Jen KirkmanI used to make albums because I wasn't touring, and so I thought, "This is the best way for people to find out about me.
Jen KirkmanIn terms of what happened to Amy [Schumer], if that happened to me I would be like, "Yes, please leave." But I toured a lot. I started as an opening feature act touring a lot during the [George W.] Bush years, like around 2007. I was touring during the [Barack] Obama election - the first one with [Sarah] Palin and [John] McCain - and I talked to crowds about that and they were always split down the middle.
Jen KirkmanI made a career goals list for 2017 and it's so funny. I have low self-esteem or something, so I put both wishes and goals. The goals were things I'm going to do anyway, because I have no choice because my job is to do stand-up comedy so I have to tour and I have to write stuff. The wishes were all things that could be goals. As in, I bet people who have achieved these things called them goals at one point. But I haven't looked at that piece of paper since.
Jen Kirkman