Hi, I'm Anasimone George. I'm a comedian, the producer of Shade,
Super Gay Saturday and a bunch of other shows that I make up after a breakup.
Today I'm going to be answering some hard questions and some soft questions.
What that means is I'm gonna answer important questions and silly questions
and I'm bad at quizzes, so we'll see how this goes.
Okay it's like I don't even
read these. Let's go hard first. That says hard right?
Okay. What's one of the most memorable things
someone has said to you after a show? Oh my gosh. I did a show – I did a Shade show
in Ottawa and this young comedian came up to me and she was like, 'I've never
seen a woman of colour who's also closeted talk about being queer and
being brown and stuff,' and then I almost cried but I was like, I have to
show these people that I'm badass. So that was a really important moment after
a show – that somebody was able to relate to my stuff that I thought only I
was going through. Okay. What's your most memorable first date? A
really fun first date that I went on was with my now friend. We went to this
jazz bar and then we went to some party. I don't know. I just remember being
drunk for most of the night and it was so much fun and the music was
amazing and there was this – the emcee of the night was stripped down and in
underwear and a fur coat and he was like ad-libbing his rap the whole – it
was great. Cool. It was at this bar in Kensington Market. You should go. I don't
know what's going on. Who was the hardest person you had to come out to and why? I
haven't come out to my parents yet, but that's a story for another day.
So I feel like they're probably gonna be the hardest but everyone else – my friends
were like, 'Yeah, we know.' So it's pretty simple amongst my friends. Also if you
can't accept me, I don't care. We just won't be friends.
Mix it up, we'll do a soft one again. Who's your favourite Insta thirst trap? Me.
It's me.
What have you learned about yourself through comedy. Oh my goodness.
The person that I am today, I think, is because of comedy. When I first started I
didn't really know myself and I was doing a lot of material that was
self-hating and then along the lines I realized, the more I tapped into myself
and who I was, my comedy became stronger and more relatable. So what
have I specifically learned about myself? That I have anxiety. What is my biggest
fear? Spiders. Like, disgusting. They have too many legs and too many eyes and
it's just not okay. And they run so fast and they jump. They shouldn't be
jumping. Anyway now I'm yelling at the camera. That's how much I hate – I'm
sorry, if you're watching this and you're a spider, no shade, but figure
your shit out. What do you want to see more of in comedy? I want to see more of
us. More queer people. More women. More trans people. More people of colour.
Especially more people of colour of all genders. I feel like right now,
as a producer when it comes to booking my shows, when it comes to
the 10 queer people of colour in Toronto – at this point, I'm just like, 'And they're
on again! And they're on next month! And guess who it is – the same 10 people!' because
where are we?
Who do you want to collaborate with? Beyoncé, if she ever
needs a comedian to open for her. If you're watching this, I want to
collaborate with you. When was the first time you had your heart broken?
Buckle up. Okay, so it was the fourth grade and I had a crush on this dude who
was an asshole. Top to bottom, nothing about him was appealing and
I was like, I think he's mean because he likes me, because it's a lie that people
tell you when you're a kid. And I wrote him a love letter and I used up all my
stickers – especially my Thanksgiving fuzzy turkey stickers – important
information – and he read it in front of the whole class and ever since then I
have vowed to hate men. But also, the silver lining of this story is that we
ended up going to high school together and then I got hot all of the sudden, and he
was all up my business and I was like,
no, because you rejected me in the fourth grade. So –
What are you working on right
now? What am I not working on right now? I'm working on trying to maintain health,
because I've been sick for two months but professionally I'm just trying to build
Shade to be so big so that no one can say anything to me. Like, no one can
say anything to me anyway, but this is next – like, Beyoncé level Shade. You
know? Oh, the only thing that's left is fun questions. Good.
Who was your first queer crush? Oh my God.
Probably like Kim Possible or her evil twin. My first queer crush was for
sure a cartoon. What was your first queer kiss like? This was in kindergarten. A
girl came up to me and she was like, 'You're not allowed to be my friend unless
you kiss me,' and I was like, 'Okay.' So I kissed her and then everyone was like, 'Ew,
that's disgusting,' and I was like, 'Is it?' So that's probably my first queer kiss. I
was gay from the jump. So there you go.
What's the thirstiest DM you've gotten?
Oh my God. I have a folder of just dick pics. I don't know why
people send them. I don't know what their endgame is, but I would say that's
the thirstiest.
What's the deal with men? I wish I knew. I wish I knew. I don't know.
I have been trying to figure this out. You ever look at a man's pantry and
there are rarely ever spices – there's like, salt, pepper and turmeric and you're
like, 'That's it? That's all you've got?' And they just live with that. I don't
know. When I figure it out I will report back, but at the moment, I have no idea.
Last question. What's your 'in-your-feelings' song? Literally any Adele
tracks. Just straight-up Adele on repeat. Like the same one album. None of the
other ones. Just the saddest one. Which is all of them, so I play all of them. Yeah.
And that's the end of that. Thank you so much.