NIKKI CARR
Nikki Carr started doing professional stand-up at 34 and has been on the rise ever since. Her appearances on BET´s Comic View and Starz´s Martin Lawrence Presents 1st Amendment Stand-Up have fueled her ascension, but her biggest exposure was on last year´s Last Comic Standing. Though she didn´t win, she made it to the final round-the last female comic standing-so it´s surprising she wasn´t even going to try out for it until a friend convinced her to send in a clip. “They saw it, liked it, and the rest is history,” she told Windy City Times. Like other successful comics, Carr is not afraid to be controversial, but, as she revealed to WCT, being out hasn´t been easy. “I always wanted to, however, there are a lot of homophobes out there. … Throughout my career I tried a little bit every now [and] then. Sometimes it would go over well, and sometimes the audience would shut down; then I [would] have to go get them back. Even now, it is still difficult because I don´t like to be disliked by anyone. At this point, it doesn´t really matter. My kids are fine with me; my mother was fine before she left; God is fine-he created me. I can´t hide anymore.” -GH
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