People can dislike you for any number of reasons and I’ve seen people hired or fired for all sorts of stupid, random things. I’m sure it has, because everything affects your career to some extent: whether you’re too outspoken or not outspoken enough. I can pretend whatever is convenient in that moment. TR: The good news is that if it’s ever affected me negatively, I won’t hear about it so that’s nice. PB: You have never been accused of being demure, but do you think your outspoken political beliefs have impacted your career negatively in any way? Or has it been a positive thing? Heidi Heitkamp might have won were it not for the egregious suppression of the Native American vote. It was stolen from her by her Republican opponent. But then you think, how many more seats did we actually win, like Stacy Abrams’ gubernatorial race. And sometimes there is a nice surprise, like with this year’s mid-terms. And yet I keep trying to do something because to do nothing seems unthinkable. I don’t really know how to make Republican men and women think a man touching our bodies against our will is wrong. It’s like we’re living in fucking Groundhog Day. I thought, “I don’t want us all to be here a year from now, sharing the same stories.” And then this year Kavanaugh happened. And once again women were compelled to share their most vulnerable stories and once again it felt like a watershed moment. But a year later the Weinstein story broke.

Women were compelled to share their stories of sexual assault online.

I started the march because exactly a year before the Weinstein story broke, the Trump/Grab ’em By the Pussy story did. TR: I’m mostly terrified and part of that is that it all seems so futile. Not only have you put out a series of videos/political rants, but also you organized a “take back the workplace” march! Why have you stepped up to lead the charge and are you optimistic or terrified? PB: It almost feels like comedians are our last line of defense these days.

Recipes for Disaster by Tess Rafferty