Fortune Feimster learned a few things during the pandemic – including discovering she’s not a butch lesbian. She talks about that revelation and much more in her Netflix stand-up special Good Fortune.

“It’s surprising and it does not fit how I look on the outside, but I did discover that,” she told uInterview founder Erik Meers. “My inability to fix anything, screaming a little too loud when I saw a spider … it really was my partner Jax that was fixing everything and holding down the fort. Just seeing her so in charge and me just a blubbering mess on the couch drinking wine and crying at documentaries … I really did realize wow, I am not butch at all. This is not how I pictured quarantine. Like I said, it’s who I am and that’s it. I guess I’m a dainty, delicate flower!”

She also revealed how she finds material for her stand-up set.

“It’s stuff that’s coming from my own personal life, things that I’ve been through,” Feimster said. “I’ve really been trying to lean into storytelling more and less observational. I’m not really doing that as much. I’m not talking about pop culture or what’s going on in the world as much. It’s more of these are things I’ve been through. I find them to be funny and hopefully you do, too. The hope is that there are things about my life that resonate with people. They’ve been through this or that. They’re in a relationship. They’ve gotten engaged or had to do the asking and you know, things that people can see themselves in and celebrate in the humor of that and how sometimes that stuff doesn’t go as planned. I’m always mining my own life and my own past and childhood and parents and wife and sort of talking about what I know best.”

Good Fortune is streaming on Netflix now.

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