Jourdain Searles.
Photo: Bridget Badore
Jourdain Searles (@jourdayen) is a comedian, writer, podcaster, and cinephile who hails from Georgia and resides in Queens. She co-hosts the weekly Bad Romance Podcast with fellow comedian and writer Bronwyn Isaac. Searles’s monthly stand-up show Madams of the Universe has been at Q.E.D. in Astoria since 2016.
This week, Searles and I talked about iconic black women stand-ups, bad rom-coms, and getting paid in drink tickets.
Men don’t hit on me as much as they just act…
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