(At their first meeting, Deborah asked Ava if she was a lesbian because she was “dressed like Rachel Maddow’s mechanic.”) Lesbians aren’t my crowd,” she complains to Ava, who suggests it might relate to Deborah’s “hundreds of thousands of jokes made at their expense” over the years. Gay as in lesbian, Margaret Cho informs Deborah with a smirk (in a sadly brief cameo) as she disembarks after entertaining the shipful of queer women.Īfter bombing all over the Southwest, Deborah was eager to perform for a boatful of adoring gay men, as she calls them: “her people.” Deborah’s horrified. In episode four, Hacks gives Deborah a beautiful test that she fails spectacularly: a weekend aboard a lesbian cruise.ĭeborah and Ava end up here because Marcus dropped the ball (more on this later) and forgot that lesbians exist while booking Deborah on a “gay cruise” - a clever jab at lesbians’ precarious position within the cultural imagination, not to mention queer culture.
