Funny Girl
After doing standup for years as a man, Julia Scotti plots her comedy comeback
Josh Middleton
City Paper
Posted: Thu, Aug. 30, 2012, 12:00 AMhttp://www.citypaper.net/cover_story/2012-08-31-funny-girl-comedian-julia-scotti.html
Photo: Neil SantosRick Scotti was always guided by an outspoken inner voice, and it seemed to consistently have his back.... So with such timeliness, one has to wonder why that voice waited 50 years to say, "Oh, hey, by the way, you're really a woman."
To be fair, "there were signs galore that something was amiss in my DNA," but unless you were Little Richard, tapping into your inner sissy wasn't sensible for a boy growing up in the '50s...
One night [a friend] said something that put everything into perspective: "It doesn't sound like you want to love as a man; it sounds like you want to be loved as a woman." Rick was dumbfounded. He was a she. And she is Julia Scotti.
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She became the first trans person to ever perform in the Ladies of Laughter competition and one of only five finalists, a show of support that's emboldened her to set a new goal to become America's first successful transgender comic ("by next fall I want to perform on Ellen") so she can break down the stigmas that continue to set her trans brothers and sisters apart from the rest of society — even in the places you'd least expect.
