The female or non-binary counterpart to standup king — a comedian or extraordinarily funny person who commands the room, earns the laughs, and does it with an authority that makes everyone else's material feel slightly inadequate. Standup queen is used both as genuine critical praise for performing comedians and as an affectionate label for the funniest person in a friend group. Online it often appears in threads celebrating women in comedy who get less cultural credit than their talent deserves.
Wanda Sykes is a standup queen and I'll fight anyone who disagrees.
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Viral internet speak — memes, ratios, main-character moments, and the algospeak of every platform from Twitter to Reddit to TikTok comment sections.
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