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Iris Benson is a comedian because no other profession will have her and that includes drug dealing and prostitution. Since her comedy debut in 2011 she's garnered such praise as ' Bleak and honest ’, 'pleasantly dark’, 'wonderfully weird’ and 'pretty good for a woman’ by no one worth mentioning. Glenn Sumi of Toronto Now described her as 'least likeable’, 'angry’ and 'misanthropic’ to which her best friend
Iris Benson is a comedian because no other profession will have her and that includes drug dealing and prostitution. Since her comedy debut in 2011 she's garnered such praise as ' Bleak and honest ’, 'pleasantly dark’, 'wonderfully weird’ and 'pretty good for a woman’ by no one worth mentioning. Glenn Sumi of Toronto Now described her as 'least likeable’, 'angry’ and 'misanthropic’ to which her best friend's husband, Clint , retorted via Facebook, 'He doesn't like angry and misanthropic comics? - so he's missing out on George Carlin, Bill Hicks, Dennis Leary, Lewis Black, Roseanne Barr......pretty much all my favorite comics.’ Fellow comic Mean Dave says of her, ' She is a very sweet person and a funny comedian who I relate to very much. And she once drove a table of Mormons away with one fell swoop of an anal sex joke simply cuz {sic} she didn't know that's how young Mormon girls preserve their virginity.’ and comic and author Steve Mix says, 'Warn your children about Iris Benson...before it is too late.’ Iris has performed all over the United States, making appearances at Comedy Festivals such as The Laughing Devil Comedy Festival (NY, NY), Trial by Laughter Competition (Indianapolis, IN), The She-Devil Festival (NY, NY), The She-Dot Festival (Toronto, ON) and the Cape Fear Comedy Festival (Wilmington, NC).
