![]() The new Shrill series is based on your memoir, and you were one of the writers on the show as well. ![]() When I caught up with West via video chat at her home in Seattle, WA, she was still in her pajamas, but even sleepy-eyed, her answers were pure gold. So many, in fact, that a new TV adaptation of Shrill starring SNL’s Aidy Bryant is coming to Hulu March 15, and she has two more books and an independent film she’s co-producing with her husband in the works as well. West’s work continues to be controversial, but it has also earned the 37-year-old legions of fans. And all were written by men who, ironically, were outraged by her televised assertion that comedy isn’t a safe place for women. All were saturated with promises of physical violence, fat shaming, and other revolting disparagements. Kamau Bell in 2013 to discuss rape culture in comedy, West made a video for Jezebel titled, “If Comedy Has No Lady Problem, Why Am I Getting So Many Rape Threats?” in which she read out loud-with a flat affect-the multitude of violent rape threats she received after the show aired. ![]() ![]() For example, after appearing on FX’s Totally Biased With W. ![]()
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