Julio Bonilla’s Reviews > You Can't Joke About That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred and We’re All in This Together―Finding Healing through Humor on Sensitive Topics > Status Update

Tragedies, especially weird ones, can be so isolating. For that reason, the friends I found myself wanting to spend the most time around during my ostomy experience were not the ones with the most conscientiously chosen words.

Dee uses brownface for her Martinez impression and yellowface (think big, fake buck teeth) for Taiwan Tammy. The over-the-top, blatant racism of the impressions, though, was clearly intended to demonstrate that such a lazy excuse for comedy was....

Then, during the final weeks of the internship, after my housing stipend ran out, I would live with my college boyfriend of three years, who had gotten a job in Los Angeles in his studio apartment. Then we would break up, and I would move to New York City alone and go to Columbia.