Sabrina Matthews(I)

Actress
Writer

Laughing Matters ... More! follows on the heels of the wildly successful docu comedy Laughing Matters. The original film, featuring pioneer lesbian comics Kate Clinton, Karen Williams, Marga Gomez and Suzanne Westenhoefer, sold out theaters and won awards at gay and lesbian film festivals all over the world after word of mouth made it one of the most sought-after films of 2003.

Laughing Matters ... More! is a reality-based romp with four of the hottest lesbian comics working today Elvira Kurt (a Second City alum named Canadian female comic of the year and a writer for Ellen DeGeneres); Sabrina Matthews (the darling of Comedy Central); Rene Hicks (the first African-American woman nominated for Best Female Stand-up at the American Comedy Awards) and Vickie Shaw (the hilarious Southern Baptist lesbian mom turned crossover comic). All have extensive television and stand-up success.

The film takes a reality approach to showcasing the comics, capturing not only their hilarious on-stage performances but also their wild and witty personas off stage in behind the scenes footage, one on one interviews and at least one segment where all four converge for spontaneous and improvised discourse. The comics selected are all clever, funny lesbians with a bitingly keen view of the world, delivered in their own unique styles.

This is the second in a series of comedy films. The next film will showcase gay men. Like straight comics, gay comics find humor in everything from relationships to religions, from politics to going to the grocery store. But gay comics finally have an advantage they also delve into fresh, uncharted territory the ironic, zany, lighter side of this big fat gay world.

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Laughing Matters... More! (2006)

Sabrina Matthews is an openly lesbian comic who relates the absurd in everyday life in a witty anecdotal style. "Sabrina's brand of comedy is infectious," says afterellen.com, and she "regularly draws out big laughs from both gay and straight audiences." Sabrina appears regularly at clubs, colleges, cruises, and festivals around the world. Her credits include her own hilarious half-hour comedy special, "Comedy Central Presents Sabrina Matthews", a starring role in 2006's hit documentary, Laughing Matters...More!, an appearance on Comics Unleashed and as a semi-finalist on NBC's Last Comic Standing. After her television acting debut in "America's Most Wanted" (yes, really), she has moved on to appear with Laura Kightlinger in IFC's The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman, and in Margaret Cho's 2007 film release, Bam Bam and Celeste. She began her comedy career in the San Francisco Bay Area, and now, having survived a decade amidst the doughnut shops and dude-speak of Los Angeles, Sabrina now resides on the east coast, where she spends her days scuba diving, teaching her dog not to eat furniture, engaging in her favorite game (Point and Laugh), and generally doing anything else to avoid rifling through the heap of papers teetering on her desk in search of tiny, hastily scribbled comedy notes. All in comfortable shoes.