Liz Feldman
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Liz Feldman is a Jewish-American comedian
Comedian
A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience, primarily by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy...

, actress, producer
Television producer
The primary role of a television Producer is to allow all aspects of video production, ranging from show idea development and cast hiring to shoot supervision and fact-checking...

 and writer.

Career

Feldman is perhaps best known for her lesbian
Lesbian
Lesbian is a term most widely used in the English language to describe sexual and romantic desire between females. The word may be used as a noun, to refer to women who identify themselves or who are characterized by others as having the primary attribute of female homosexuality, or as an...

-themed vlog
Vlog
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 on Afterellen.com, entitled This Just Out, which ran from May 2008 until July 2009. She was a writer on the Emmy Award
Emmy Award
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-winning team of television's The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Ellen DeGeneres Show, often shortened to Ellen, is an American television talk show hosted by comedian/actress Ellen DeGeneres. Debuting on September 8, 2003, it is produced by Telepictures and airs in syndication, including stations owned by NBC Universal. For its first five seasons, the show...

.

This Just Out was a vlog presented by Feldman, co-written with Jason Allen, and co-produced with Raimy Rosenduft. The show was filmed in Feldman's kitchen and featured several recurring guests such as Kate Moennig, Clea Duvall
Clea DuVall
Clea Helen D'Etienne DuVall is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Sofie on the television series Carnivàle as well as for films such as The Faculty , Girl, Interrupted and The Grudge .-Early life:DuVall was born in Los Angeles, California, the only child of Rosemary and...

, and Rachael Cantu
Rachael Cantu
Rachael Cantu is an American singer-songwriter. Born in 1981, she grew up in Orange County, California. She currently lives in Los Angeles.Cantu started her career fronting a southern Californian indie rock band called Quite Satellite while still at high school...

. All guests were either involved in or sympathetic to lesbian culture, and Feldman had hosted several of the actors from The L Word
The L Word
The L Word is an American co-production television drama series originally shown on Showtime portraying the lives of a group of lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people and their friends, family and lovers in the trendy Greater Los Angeles, California city of West Hollywood...

, as well as bands and solo artists with an LGBT
LGBT
LGBT is an initialism that collectively refers to "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender" people. In use since the 1990s, the term "LGBT" is an adaptation of the initialism "LGB", which itself started replacing the phrase "gay community" beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s, which many within the...

 connection, such as Uh Huh Her
Uh Huh Her (band)
Uh Huh Her is an indie/electropop band that was formed in January 2007 and released their first EP on July 24, 2007. The band's name came from an album by artist PJ Harvey, titled Uh Huh Her.-Band members:...

 and Tegan and Sara
Tegan and Sara
Tegan and Sara are a Canadian indie band composed of identical twin sisters Tegan Rain Quin and Sara Keirsten Quin . Both Tegan and Sara play guitar and keyboard and write songs.-History:...

. Each show featured a regular section in which Liz Feldman would bring on her friend and co-producer Raimy Rosenduft to talk about new music. Dedicated to highlighting and celebrating the work of LGB and LGB-friendly women, each show ended with Liz Feldman pointing a rainbow sword at the camera with the catchphrase, 'I'm Liz Feldman and you're so gay'. Feldman finished the second series of This Just Out in July 2009.

Feldman has been working on Shack Talk, a series on the website Funny or Die
Funny or Die
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. She released her short film "My First Time Driving", which was directed by her sister Rebecca Feldman.

Liz Feldman had a recurring role on NBC's Jay Leno Show as one of Jay's comedy correspondents.

She is a writer and producer on Hot in Cleveland
Hot in Cleveland
Hot in Cleveland is an American sitcom on TV Land starring Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves, Wendie Malick and Betty White. The series, which is TV Land's first original scripted series, premiered on June 16, 2010, and was TV Land's highest rated telecast in the cable network's 14-year history. The...

, which premiered on June 16, 2010.

Liz is also a writer and producer on 2 Broke Girls
2 Broke Girls
2 Broke Girls is an North American television comedy series that debuted on CBS during the 2011–12 television season. The first episode aired at 9:30 pm after Two and a Half Men on September 19, 2011. Later episodes followed How I Met Your Mother on Monday nights at 8:30 pm . The series was...

TV show.
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