Lizzy the Lezzy

{{Infobox television

| genre = Animation
Stand-up comedy

| creator = Ruth Selwyn

| language = English, German, Spanish and Hebrew

}}

Lizzy the Lezzy is an animated stand-up comedy series about a woman called Lizzy who talks mostly about lesbian interests.{{cite web |last1=Farber |first1=Alona |title='The Mideast's Biggest Lesbian' Battles the Homophobes, One Facebook Like at a Time |website=Haaretz |url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/travel/the-mideasts-biggest-lesbian-1.5250829 |access-date=July 10, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200710132614/https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/travel/the-mideasts-biggest-lesbian-1.5250829 |archive-date=July 10, 2020 |date=October 4, 2018 |url-status=live}} The sketches contain graphical sexual material but not graphic imagery.

Lizzy the Lezzy was created in October 2006 by the Israeli cartoonist Ruth Selwyn. This is the first animated stand-up material of its kind,Raphael Ahren, [http://www.haaretz.com/lizzy-the-lezzy-invites-you-to-sing-with-her-1.252884 "Lizzy the Lezzy invites you to sing with her"], Haaretz, August 29, 2008 and the videos have had over 4 million views online.[http://www.tubemogul.com/marketplace/profile/Lizzy%20the%20Lezzy "Lizzy the Lezzy - Lesbian Stand up Comedy Animation"], TubeMogul statistics {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100507045529/http://www.tubemogul.com/marketplace/profile/Lizzy%20the%20Lezzy |date=2010-05-07 }} The first episode was uploaded to Myspace and was soon spotted by Arlan Hamilton[http://yourdailylesbianmoment.blogspot.com/ Your Daily Lesbian Moment website] who writes one of the most popular lesbian blogs on the internet. The publicity from Hamilton's article led to The L Word Online suggesting to Selwyn that she make a funny stand-up video about The L Word. Lizzy then made fun of other lesbians and the resulting video was posted on AfterEllen.{{Cite web |url=http://www.afterellen.com/node/4373?page=0%2C2 |title=Best. Lesbian. Week. Ever.|website=AfterEllen|date=January 12, 2007|access-date=March 26, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100325013913/http://www.afterellen.com/node/4373?page=0%2C2 |archive-date=March 25, 2010 |url-status=dead }}

In 2007, Logo TV acquired the first ten Lizzy stand-up comedy videos and broadcast them on its gay/lesbian animation show, Alien Boot Camp. Curve magazine included Lizzy in an article entitled "Networking Lesbians", and Lesbians on the Loose International featured Selwyn and Lizzy as well. Lizzy's stand-up "comedy" videos were also covered on The Bilerico Project's "Sunday Funnies" and on Jewcy where she was described as "the funniest lesbian on Myspace".{{Cite web|url=http://jewcy.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/lizzy_lezzy_funniest_lesbian_myspace|title=Lizzy the Lezzy Is The Funniest Lesbian on MySpace|date=February 28, 2008|website=Jewcy|access-date=April 19, 2019}}

Lizzy videos were shown in many gay-themed film festivals, such as the 2008 Israeli Gay and Lesbian Film Festival,[https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=iw&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ynet.co.il%2Farticles%2F0%2C7340%2CL-3559196%2C00.html Ynet] (in Hebrew) and the 2008 Lethal Lesbian 3 film event.[https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=iw&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mouse.co.il%2FCM.articles_item%2C704%2C209%2C26103%2C.aspx "Blossoms the cultural wasteland"], Mouse (in Hebrew) {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130121162527/http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=iw&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mouse.co.il%2FCM.articles_item%2C704%2C209%2C26103%2C.aspx |date=2013-01-21 }}