Using the comedy central. Please welcome JANET. Mark automatically shop thanks or not? this is a really exciting reason to have you back as well. The new show pose, which is going to be on ethics is a show. That is First, and in many ways I mean, I know why I'm excited bull. Why would you choose the biggest region you excited about post? I got a job, I like it basically, well, you know, Rhine Murphy, created at bright red, realistic, show rudder shows. I glee Nip talk, of course,

people verses, OJ, Simpson, home and a lot of Mps and all the trophies, and so when he invited me to Hollywood to have a meeting with him to talk about the show. I was excited by the fact that it would be the first of its kind to talk about the New York City ballroom scene, which a lot of people have known since Paris is burning right, but to also centre characters and people who have never been centred before trends women of color right what's really fascinating about the story- is that you have a show that is set in the eighties, but is showing you a story in the eighties that many people maybe didn't exist on many people didn't exist, but just didn't think about, and what I found fascinating about, watching pieces of the episodes was was that a lot of people will say about transgender people. Now that where did this come from? This is a new things, new thing, as it was like a trend, but you go no trends. People are as old as time, wasn't really important for you to be able to tell these stories as emphatically as possible in the eighties,

yeah. I think that there is something about the fact that when you look to the past, you can learn a lot about their present. For me, I saw that you know HIV Aids, poverty, harassment and violence are things that we know they were. With an eighty seven as well as today, and so knowing that twenty six trans people were murdered in the United States last year, almost all of them women of color I thought it was important that we memorialize the people who we learned so much from the people who contributed so much our movement. The people who have given me access to be able to be you know the first trans women of color to be your hired in a Hollywood writers room the first two right, indirect, a television series while beyond a television series in the share it with five I can brown trans women of color for the stars in the centre of our show. It's it's a pioneering shoulder. So many reasons. You know you have five trends, women of color who are centred in the story. The woods sense. It is so important in this

because you know I read a story on the Hollywood reports about how they did a study on latino characters on tv and they found that half of them were always represented as minerals. And when you look at stories of the transgender community, it's always a fringe element. You know in so many stories you know it's always going to be sex. Workers can be something that seems like it's not in the mainstream was an important for you to send to these people and showed the spectrum of life that you can be living here. I think so often too were often always insist. Gender stories, nine Trans people stories- as a side kicks at someone who's, a martyr who dies in order to teach us this person about what it means to be real and authentic. In an hour show we centre that experience and we dont show the origin stories of our characters. We show them as are fully embody, just trends, people living in New York City, and with that you have diversity. You show that trend spoke or not.

Left that we don't have the same dreams and desires that we read and shade one another that we can be villains as well, as you know, on protagonists right, and I think that that for me as someone who love television, who grew up as tv being a part of like my baby sitter in a single parent household, it showed me that I can be centre. In that I deserve to be seen and heard, and that at the end of the day the show really is an unconventional family drama right, and we see so many stories of people watching tv shows and movies and for the first time seeing themselves on screen. You know you show that with ever do it needs wrinkling time you show that. Would black Panther you see with people going I've never ever thought of how I've never seen myself. You know, I remember going to watch wonder woman of friends and my female friends like they were crying during the fighting because it like I've, never seen women just kick men's asses, which is really amazing. You take that for granted. You genuinely do when you were growing up watching tv, were there any character shows that in some way maybe did make you feel like you know that there was something that you can aspire to and was a summit that fact that really touched you listen

but seriously really was the reason why mooted York City went right was literally because they saw this white girl, curly, hair Meyer and lovelorn and wanted to be with you know, Ben! That's all I wanted it right. Then why not allow Europe. This way, you know writing, and I think you do feel that gravity of putting people on screen that identify people are Well, maybe I have never seen themselves on screen in any way, shape or form there. The fact that we have love stories on our show the fact that their we're not just merely points of trauma, writers, and so often trans bodies are usually dead in an active body in so here we have five women who have different dream to have love, who want desire who want to be desired or funny who are villains were all of these different things, and so in that way, when you centre these, People on the show you show people that number one. It's scary, that they're not that they're, not horrible people, that their not freak, shows that instead, there humans at you care about and tv being such an intimate platform. You know this people in into

every night. You know they get to know you and they love you and are invested, and I hope that it doesn't only educate- and spire and entertained, but it also moves people they to care and hopefully do something things go. Do all of those things Thank you. So much me with mock everybody. Daily show that criminal ears it wants the daily show weak nights at eleven, ten central on family, central and economic civil, watchful episodes. Videos at the daily show that not all of us on Facebook Twitter intends to Graham and subscribe to the daily show on Youtube or exclusive caused in him. This has been a comedy central podcast