Jena Friedman
@JenaFriedman
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Stand Up Comic, Daily Show with Jon Stewart alum, Letterman alum, creator of Soft Focus on Adult Swim and Indefensible on AMC Plus. Don’t quote me 🤡
Joined March 2009
2016: Will America vote for a female president?. 2022: Should women have healthcare?.
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Can we please stop calling them “pro-life”, we’re pro-life, they’re forced-birth.
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Did any of you breastfeed exclusively? And if so, HOW? Did you just suck up the pain of bloody, cracked nipples until they acclimated? I don’t want to relegate these questions to a mom blog, I want men who follow me on here to get that this shit is so incredibly hard.
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JUST IN: Oklahoma just passed law to kill women before they get pregnant to protect the sanctity of life.
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Would it help if we called mass shootings “late term abortions” ?.
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I think “postpartum depression” is a convenient label that allows policy makers to skirt responsibility for their role in creating an environment in our country that makes it impossible for new moms to thrive.
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How are parents freaking out about obscene books in libraries when there’s the internet. Do they know that there’s the internet?.
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It should be illegal to make someone who just had a major surgery care for a newborn but hospitals do it to c section patients every day.
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It’s not MURDER if you claim STAND YOUR GROUND, Lisa!.
@JenaFriedman Abortion is MURDER at conception a baby starts growing at conception anything that is growing is alive so killing is MURDER.
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I’ve been masking indoors and I feel like such a nerd but I don’t want my 6 week old to get rsv… or covid. or flu.
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Men, it would be cool if each of you donated at least $500 to your local abortion clinic. That’s about the price of an abortion without anesthesia. It’s the least you can do, since you get paid more than us and your salary only increases when you become dads. Thanks in advance.
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@morninggloria The part where you can’t get any work done unless you have a full time nanny kind of threw me….
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Why isn’t every breastfeeding person considered a small business owner?.
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I spent 2 days reading her my whole book about my 15 years in comedy, while so pregnant, masked and trying not to cry and when I finished, she goes “Are you gonna do a book on tape?” I said “Yep.” Then she wryly quipped “You should hire someone to help you on the performance.” 🥴.
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This is her… she was honestly the funniest person I have ever met. I got to read her a galleys copy of my book that’s coming out in April a few weeks before she died. 1/2
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If we can get cigarettes out of bars, anything is possible….
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Why is everyone downplaying the fact that flight cancellations are mostly due to unmasked crews getting covid? Is that not what’s causing all the cancellations?.
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Does anyone know how many serial killers and current House Republicans were breastfed exclusively? This information will help so many new moms.
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The “baby friendly” hospital trend is bullshit. Hospitals are privatizing and getting rid of nurseries to cut costs, not to benefit babies or moms. When I was recovering from a c section, I couldn’t physically sit up on my own, let alone care for the newborn they put in my room.
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Can we please change “pro-life” to “anti-woman”? The branding is partly why they’ve been so successful and we can no longer afford to let them have it.
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The silence from so many mainstream media outlets on Highland Park being a largely Jewish community is deafening….
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Please keep voting blue. The midterms are critical. Anyone who tells you the Dems are as bad as the GOP is a liar, a bot, a paid propagandist or an idiot.
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Their hypocrisy is jaw dropping.
Asking people with a “choose adoption” sign if they chose to adopt.
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And guess what ladies, it works!!! 💍💍💍💍💍.
Marge Greene says when women get abortions, it’s because Satan has whispered in their ears and promised them that if they do it, the guy they are with will marry them.
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Homicide is one of the leading causes of death for pregnant women. Women will be killed for not getting an abortion.
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Postpartum depression is real but I’m sure a lot of people diagnosed with it would be less depressed if they had paid family leave.
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It feels like only yesterday, when I was a field producer at @TheDailyShow and paparazzi confused me for Trevor’s girlfriend, congrats on your successful run @Trevornoah, can’t wait to see what female employee gets confused for the girlfriend next!
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Men, keep criticizing this tweet, I want to hear all of your thoughts on postpartum depression. Special shout out to the new dads on here, keep posting your hot takes while your wives are crying alone in a dark room, breastfeeding your spawn 🥳.
I think “postpartum depression” is a convenient label that allows policy makers to skirt responsibility for their role in creating an environment in our country that makes it impossible for new moms to thrive.
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In 2018, I had to explain to a room full of male comedy writers that Plan B doesn’t cause abortion. It was shocking that they didn’t know but people really don’t know how it works. We have to educate them all: Plan B stops an egg from being released before fertilization happens.
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Good, the credibility of the court died when Kavanaugh said under oath that a Devil’s Triangle is a drinking game.
It’s impossible to overstate the earthquake this will cause inside the Court, in terms of the destruction of trust among the Justices and staff. This leak is the gravest, most unforgivable sin.
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Why are there no “pro-life” protests outside of gun stores?.
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I want to scream.
Hospitals and schools across Missouri and Kansas will no longer provide Plan B to rape survivors, fearing abortion prosecution. (Plan B is contraception, not abortion.) @AudraHeinrichs:
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It’s insane how close we came to a coup and how close we are to it happening again.
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In at least 30 states, if you feel that a fetus inside you is an imminent threat to your safety, you can kill it and claim STAND YOUR GROUND. Back me up @NRA, that’s how the law works, right?.
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Why do all of the men who work with sex dolls look like they fuck sex dolls?.
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Wow.
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Congrats @TheDailyShow @Trevornoah on such a successful run, it feels like only yesterday that I was mistaken for the girlfriend… #memories
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Please channel your anger and energy into the midterms. We can fix the Dems, the GOP is a lost cause.
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Forcing people to have kids is the best way to oppress them, I tweet with a 3 month old strapped to my body because he won’t sleep any other way.
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Now that there are no masks on planes during a pandemic, do we need to wear seatbelts? Why stop at masks….
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My heart goes out to pregnant people living in red states who want to carry their pregnancies to full term too. I can’t imagine how scary it must be to receive medical care in a state where your fetus has more rights than you.
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Thank you @jonstewart @mrbobodenkirk @pattonoswalt @reggiewatts @JimGaffigan and @FREDARMISEN5 for letting me interview you for my book!.
“Do you think men can be sexy AND funny?”@JenaFriedman asks her favorite male comedians—Jon Stewart, Reggie Watts, and Bob Odenkirk among them—some of the inane questions she gets as a “woman in comedy.”
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If our government is going to make no effort to keep people safe, at least let us wear our shoes as we pass through airport security.
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If only people cared about women as much as they care about not wearing fucking masks on planes….
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Best line of the night… also, where is Shelly??? #GoldenGlobes.
GOD BLESS JERROD CARMICHAEL. The audience, of course, was too cowardly to react! . Where is Shelly??? . #GoldenGlobes.#GoldenGlobes2023
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It’s wild how few people are wearing masks at airports. 10 to 30% of covid case will develop into long covid, I kind of can’t process it.
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This is so heartbreaking. .
Pearly Young, 77, was killed today in #Buffalo shopping for groceries. For 25 years she ran a pantry where every Saturday she fed people in Central Park. Every. Saturday. She loved singing, dancing, & being with family. She was mother, grandma, & missionary. Gone too soon 🕊
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LaDyKiLLeR is out on @peacock now, take a break from Dahmer and watch! . Watch Ladykiller Streaming Online | Peacock
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To men on here who think the Dems and Republicans are two sides of the same coin, please fuck off. Your bodily autonomy isn’t being legislated away by the Christo-fascist GOP. If you give a shit about anyone outside of yourself, there’s no excuse to not vote Dem in the midterms.
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What about mailing used tampons to conservative Supreme Court justices?.
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My anger comes in waves. Fuck the fascist theocrats and everyone who enables them.
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My seven year old neighbor just asked me how babies are made and I told her “Science” 🤷♀️.
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Abortion only became a wedge issue because right-wing strategists in the 1970s were mad Carter wanted to take away their tax-exempt status for not integrating private Christian schools and they felt that “anti-abortion” was a more palatable rallying cry to woo voters than racism.
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Kavanaugh CHoSE to be a Supreme Court justice, he should have to deal with the consequences of his actions.
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I love @ewarren.
A visibly shaken and angry Senator Elizabeth Warren just spoke in-front of #SCOTUS. @TheNationalNews
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@jasonselvig , I thought you were going to spend 10 more minutes listing off mass shootings… we heard it after Gilroy, we heard it after Thousand Oaks, we heard it after Tree of Life, we heard it after Charleston, we heard it after….
We spoke directly to Wayne LaPierre at the NRA Convention and thanked him for all his thoughts and prayers.
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SAVE THE DATE: Sept 30, my stand up special airs on @peacockTV… I’m still in shock they green lit something so dark. Ladykiller | Official Trailer | Peacock Original - YouTube
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We need more women in late night. Love all the funny, feminist late night men but their political takes on the end of Roe aren’t anything female comics haven’t been screaming for years.
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TUNE IN TO @colbertlateshow TONIGHT! . Photo by @skpnyc . @ColbertLateShow and @StephenAtHome #Colbert, I can’t thank you enough for your continued support ❤️. And props to my dear friend and incredible stylist @kattypaldos!
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Tucker Carlson followers out there, please fry your testicles, you’ll be doing everyone a favor!.
In his new special on how to raise testosterone levels in men, Tucker Carlson’s guest suggests “testicle tanning” using infrared light as a “bromeopathic” therapy.
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I don’t know what else to say at this point. I kind of hope @ewarren runs for President. we need progressives with a backbone to fight against the fascists.
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Male hosts, maybe sub in a female comic friend and let her deliver your angry feminist monologue. The lack of women in late night is part of the problem. If we were reflected on screen and in all positions of power at the rate we exist, our autonomy wouldn’t be up for debate.
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Wow. @StephenAtHome, this is incredible. @RudyGiuliani have you seen this?.
Rudy Giuliani told Eminem to leave this country if he wants to kneel. Eminem responds on Stephen Colbert. 🤣
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We’re living in a simulation.
Former President George W. Bush: “The decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq. I mean of Ukraine.”
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New episodes of InDeFeNsiBLe premiering tonight at 10 pm ET on @AMCPlus and @SundanceTV, check it out!. Jena Friedman, Comedy’s Nancy Grace, Takes on Casey Anthony’s Murder Case
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Come at me you sleep deprived wenches! I’m just on here documenting a lived experience and advocating for paid leave 🧌.
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A good guy with a gun will stop him.
Man with weapon detained near Brett Kavanaugh's home. He allegedly told police he wanted to kill the Supreme Court justice.
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The weirdest thing about having a child is that there’s someone in the world now who I actually make feel calm 🫢.
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Please just fucking vote Dem in the midterms. No excuses.
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The @GOP doesn’t give a fuck about life, they just want women (who aren’t their mistresses) to be forced into reproductive slavery.
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@VomitingLarry Being responsible for caring for an infant when you are completely incapacitated is a form of torture.
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Can someone explain how a party that wants to get rid of government can be entrusted to make sure government functions?.
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My heart goes out to any comics who inadvertently ended up in this.
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I love you @StephenAtHome @colbertlateshow and I can’t believe you didn’t cut the Epstein bit! 💀💀💀. The Surprising Person Who Jena Friedman Wanted to Write the Forward for “Not Funny” - YouTube
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We shot this when I was 9 months pregnant and in the presence of Hestrin’s angry armed guard… even the McAfee interview was less stressful 🥴.
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IT'S A BOOK!. You can pre-order now. in the UK? And probably in the US too.
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