Vanessa Gonzalez has used comedy as a coping mechanism since she was a kid growing up in Laredo. “I’m the only girl in a Mexican family, and I’m also the middle child, so it was just like the most . . . neglect,” she jokes. “I learned quickly that the way I got attention was by being funny. My parents’ generation, they don’t want to talk about feelings, so if I cried, it was like, ‘Stop that. Go to your room.’ What got me attention was being funny at school and at home. So I learned quickly that I like this, I like how this feels.”Her material borrows heavily from her experiences growing up on the border. In the tradition of Margaret Cho and others, her mother, Esther, figures…
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