Female comedian who opened for Louis CK in Paris "felt a duty to speak up"

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https://www.theguardian.com/stage/20...s-female-comic

Sarah Donnelly, an American doing standup comedy in France, felt conflicted when she was asked earlier this week to be one of three comedians to open for Louis CK at a Paris theater. “As a woman I felt an enormous responsibility to speak up," says Donnelly. "But of course it’s my job to be funny without committing career suicide. Ultimately I took the gig because if it wasn’t me it was going to be another man, and that didn’t seem fair either.” She did manage to reference CK's misconduct by not saying a word during her set, but by pantomiming the acknowledgement that she was the only female on the bill.