My favorite scene in the Emmy-award winning, female, and intergenerationally-centered Hacks is when the very real, flawed, and brave comedienne Deborah Vance (played brilliantly by Jean Smart) goes on the road to do stand-up. Without offering a complete spoiler, she ends up offering a boorish, sexist, objectifying white male, who thinks he’s funny, more money than he’s ever seen to never, ever get up on stage again to spew his misogynist, homophobic drivel. Women in the audience are visibly ecstatic at the thought of publicly silencing even one such man. Without divulging the outcome, let’s just say I cheered.

This comedian was pretty monolithic; your one-dimensional, basic jerk. We’ve all been trained over the last few years not to be like him—not to say anything blatantly biased.........

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