Much of last year, while working on my producing debut, Helluva Cabaret , which parodied the Amazon Prime shows Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss, I had a small but persistent fear that I might get a cease and desist order that could shut the whole thing down. I was pretty sure we were safe under parody law, but if that didn’t save us, I also knew much of the cast and crew of both animated shows had been to similar variety shows based on their work, which I took as approval to riff. Thankfully, I never received a scary email in my inbox. But I wasn’t the first to be a little nervous about pulling off a parody.

Most of what I do in drag and burlesque is pop cultural referential work, and I’m not alone in that. There are a ton of nerds who do drag and burlesque. Just this past weekend

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