“For some reason, it’s dirty to talk about a vagina, but a dick joke is par for the course,” says Seattle comedian Erin Ingle. “So it’s like we’ve kept women’s bodies and women’s issues under wraps for so long that people have a really hard time accepting that as just normal shit that we should know about.”
That sentiment bleeds into one of Ingle’s goals: to provide more space for women’s voices in the male-dominated comedy ecosystem. She is the executive producer of Comedy on Broadway, which happens four nights a week at Jai Thai, and cohost (with Alyssa Yeoman) of the woman-centric Unladylike, a gender-stereotype-shredding monthly that happens every last Tuesday at Comedy Underground.
A vastly respected figure in Seattle comedy, this Oregon native now ranks among the region’s most important gatekeepers. She’s a funny comedian in her own right, but Ingle is foremost a fierce advocate for other women and nonbinary comics. She believes that representation is paramount.
