I think that looking at it for an hour of work isn’t right, though. She may be performing for an hour, but the work that it takes to create that hour of comedy gold counts as many more hours of unpaid work. Writing, rehearsing, promoting, those things don’t pay on their own, and they take a ton of time. Say she makes…

Agreed! Down with the the culture where everyone stays in their own box and cannot compare to make sure they are getting fairly compensated.

I’m enough of a geek to want to figure out what she really gets to take home from that $20,000 a night, if she has to pay two other performers and her agent and manager out of it. So she gets $20,000, then her manager and her agent each get 10% ($4,000). And she gives her friend a third, and that’s ... let’s say…

Ding ding ding.

Yeah, I’ve said elsewhere, but I’ve had personal experience with this. Some deeply unfair compensations were being made and talking about our salaries amongst ourselves was the only way it changed.

It’s really great she is sharing and educating the rookies.

What? Why? Being paid huge amounts for speaking engagments is hardly rare among politicians. Hillary Clinton has been paid thousands for speaking engagements, as has Trump (http://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-donald-trump-makes-speaking-fees-compared-everyone-else-2015-8). Also, what on earth makes you think Maria…

I don’t have anything super articulate to add here, just wanted to say that Bamford is the best and that everyone needs to watch Lady Dynamite on Netflix.

awesome. i love taking away the stigma around talking about money, especially for women

...and then kick them when they’re down.

No, you have to smugly accuse someone else of being smug, then scorn their help to feel like a real conservative.

Did she get voted in? Still trying to use her to deflect all the horrible things Trump is doing. Try again idiot.

Does he expect people to forget things they’ve read?

Black is my favorite color. Why can’t the sky be black 24/7? Why can’t my lungs and teeth look the same?

Technological gaslighting.

I guess we’ll find out once Trump sends the Firefighters to burn the books in the Library of Congress.

this is all really weird. I mean who goes through all this trouble to try to hide “false” information and how is anyone convinced by him?

Erasing electronic data seems like the modern equivalent of the bookburning that occurred in a prior era...somewhere in Europe...

I have never wanted to dance on someone’s grave before.