Lizz Winstead
Lizz Winstead
Lizz Winsteadis an American comedian, radio, and television personality, and blogger. A native of Minnesota, Winstead is co-creator of The Daily Show along with Madeleine Smithberg, and served as head writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth5 January 1961
CityMinneapolis, MN
CountryUnited States of America
baby thinking abortion
I think the craziest thing I heard, and this guy's not even nominated, he's from Texas...he said there's no reason that women shouldn't carry a stillborn baby to term, and that it's an excuse to have an abortion if she doesn't want to. She should just let nature take its course from start to finish. Literally forcing birth of a fetus that died in the womb.
baby religious winning
If you are very religious, and your religion teaches you that conception equals a baby, I don't know how I'm ever going to win you over to my side.
baby differences people
I suppose the difference between baby people and me is that I do not consider smiling while farting 'holding up your end of a conversation.
baby school catholic
One of the first things Catholic school taught me is that babies were born sinners. You sucked before you took your first breath.
bargaining ok seems throw women
It just seems OK these days to throw women under the bus. Like we're a bargaining chip.
Whoever's president I'm not going to be short on material.
hypocrisy news point reading tv watching
I do a lot of reading of news so I can be smarter, and I do a lot of watching TV news so I can know why Americans aren't very smart. Then I can point out the hypocrisy of politicians or the media.
bring conversation focus good issues liberties structure within
If you have a focus and a structure and then within it you can play and have some liberties and have good conversation and bring issues to the forefront, then I think it can work.
people listening way
There's plenty of ways you can go and encourage people. And you should do that. But don't demonize what you do, I do, what other comics are doing, when you see people showing up and listening and responding because they've heard the messaging in the new kind of way.
tolerance public-opinion negative
Unless you can point to something that I have done or said that has changed the course of the public opinion in a negative way, you've got to check yourself sometimes and say, "Maybe I don't like the way that this thing is said, but it's expanding tolerance." If I said something that was shutting down something that was positive, call me out, but I don't really see me doing that.
thinking-about-you people way
Really life is about narcissism; no one is ever thinking about you much. You always think people are thinking about you way more than they are.
mean gay color
It is easier to talk about issues; it is easier to say you're a feminist because it's actually awesome to be one. The panopoly of people identifying as feminists is really excellent now that we've come to a point where all these really interesting voices are rising up and saying they're feminists - women of color, trans people, gay folks, everybody. It's an exciting time to actually define as that because it means that people are really feeling like their voice is what's the most important thing in the movement, and I love that.
careers truth-is clown
Truth be told, when you start your career out as a clown, you don't consider yourself a writer.
believe people important
There are people that say you should never use humor to talk about anything that's important or hard, and since I don't believe that, at some point there has to be a level of "agree to disagree."