Someone who has already graced both those spaces is Gina Yashere. I hadn’t realised that ‘our Gina’ now lives in LA and has done for the past couple of years, presumably in the wake of her appearance in the Last Comic Standing, the X-Factor style talent show that mixed US and UK comics of varying levels of experience. Life in California appears to have left her leaner (colonic irrigation it turns out) and meaner if the evidence of her stewardship of the ‘Nasty Girls’ gig at the atmospheric Club Soda was anything to go by. ‘Nasty Girls’ is one of the themed nights at Just for Laughs along with The Ethnic Heroes of Comedy and an example of how TV scouts can be conveniently steered to fill any quotas they may happen to be looking to fill. The title always puts me in mind of the strip club scene in Beverley Hills Cop where the song ‘Nasty Girl’ by Vanity plays, and I guess that’s the risqu vibe that it aspires to.

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