Jill Kushner
Emmy-winning writer, producer and stand-up comic Jill Kushner writes jokes for other people when she’s not telling them herself. Currently the consulting producer on ABC’s game show “To Tell The Truth” (hosted by “Blackish” star Anthony Anderson), Kushner has worked with Ellen DeGeneres, Amber Rose, Michaela Watkins, Cheri Oteri, musical duo Garfunkel & Oates—and that’s just to name a few. “Making people laugh is the most rewarding part of what I do,” she says, “whether it’s at work on a TV show, or at night at a comedy club or while sitting in my eye doctor’s chair—which is a smaller audience, but still fulfilling, because that guy knows funny.” Kushner says she was lucky that when she came out, her family was both “supportive and not all that shocked.” “Now, I talk about being gay all of the time,” she says. “I should really try to come up with other things to talk about, as being gay is ever so normal. I think I’m going to switch to constant chatter about my fear of fish touching me. You’d be surprised how often that could happen to you. I’d also prefer if bees don’t touch me. But one thing at a time.” —TB
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