Hannah Vaughan shouldn’t have been driving on July 1, 2021. She had run to her car crying inconsolably, and her brother pleaded with her to pull over. It was a miracle she didn’t wreck the car.
Luck kept her safe that night when emotion overcame her. She had just walked away from her passion. She had finally quit comedy.
“When I started doing stand-up, it was this feeling like I'm being heard for the first time, like I just learned to speak for the first time, and I'm finally speaking the language and the art that I was meant to speak,” Vaughan says. “It felt really good to find a creative outlet.”s Melissa Villaseñor at the Addison Improv, but her euphoria was short-lived. The pandemic forced comedy clubs to close temporarily, and when shows returned, so did sexism.
For Vaughan, these behaviors were instant confirmation that a person belonged on her “not-safe list.” This wasn’t a list of people she would never work with, but people with whom she would never be alone. If another female comic were to ask her about these people, she'd let them know she didn't trust them.
Davis, whose TV credentials include appearances on Fox, Hulu, Viceland and FuseTV, has navigated the profession since 2012. She’s lived and worked as a comedian in Dallas, Los Angeles and New York. While she's found no city’s comedy scene to be flawless, she believes Dallas’ is the most oppressive. Others' opinions differ.
Locally, the Dallas Comedy Club, Hyena’s Comedy Nightclub and the Addison Improv are the most notable comedy stages. A headlining weekend at these clubs is the ultimate achievement. Comics spend years attending open mics, building rapport with bookers and “looking the other way” while vying for the opportunity, Davis says. For women, the opportunity may never come.
the 2021 Comedy Album of the Year. Yet, she continues to face the same hurdles that keep women from headlining slots.Hyena’s Dallas and Fort Worth locations will headline only three women between now and April 2023, according to their online events calendar. The headliners are nationally acclaimed comedians Katherine Blanford, Jenny Zigrino and Helen Hong.
“Stand-up comedy as a whole, usually, is majority men so the percentage of people that are performing are men,” Daniel says. “With that said, it kind of puts women at a disadvantage already, because of the sheer numbers in visibility. There are women here in the D/FW area that I think are super, super talented, and they probably will have no problem moving up throughout the ranks.”
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