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In a sea of white-guy-does-stand-up shows, Rhea Butcher and Cameron Esposito’s SeeSo series Take My Wife has been a welcome deviation—and the best depiction of gender in comedy I’ve ever seen. For the comedy power couple, that’s by design.
“Rhea and I had the chance to design our show so that it reflects our real life,” says Esposito. “Because we were writing a show that centered on two characters who were both women and both queer, we felt that there was enough diversity between just different women’s experiences.”
So Butcher and Esposito, who perform together at Revolution Hall this week, committed to filling their writers’ room with women—only women. In season two, 43 percent of those writers were also women of color.