they say women aren't funny. okay, i'm gonna do standup. i did standup for a year and a half, went up in all the rooms, i was the only woman. forget latina, i was the only woman. there's all these white guys and me, that was it. - that's gonna be your biography. - that's the name of my-- [laughs] both: "all these white guys and me." - "the gloria story." - that's really true. and then i was doing monologues, i was writing for women of color. 'cause we're nowhere, right? - right. - i'll do that, and i'll put up a show in hollywood, and i'll book a theater. - boom. - "la weekly." they will review your show if you have a six-week run. i get tuesdays for six weeks. - ooh! - pay 150 bucks, get my actors, write the stuff, workshop it, put it up. and i would invite all of the assistants that i knew. - wow. - "assistants, come, come." and then if the assistants like it, they tell their boss. - right, right. both: and then the boss comes. - creating your own opportunities, creating your own workshop. - couldn't wait. then i become an assistant. i was cameron crowe's second assistant. - wow. - that was my first big break. and he was lovely, lovely, lovely to me. and i was like, "i gotta infiltrate in television." - yeah, yeah. - so i met with showrunners. i was like, "i just wanna ask them a million questions."