Comedian Jordan Jensen’s Netflix special “Take Me With You” debuts today,which centers her unconventional upbringing.
The upstate New York native was raised by lesbian moms and worked in construction before becoming a comedian.
Jensen hopes her Netflix platform will help her reach audiences beyond her usual fan base of “freaks.”
Jordan Jensen’s comedy is hard to categorize, just like the rest of her. And while that’s generally how we like our funny people — layered, nuanced, tortured — it tends to wreak havoc on the actual lives of the comics themselves. Not quite fitting in a box (even though she definitely knows how to build one) has basically been Jensen’s schtick since birth. She grew up in upstate New York, raised in a heavy-construction family that included three lesbian moms and