Reece Cotton’s online comedy festival celebrates ‘Love for Humans’

By Nick A. Zaino III Globe correspondent,Updated May 3, 2021

Reece Cotton likes a good theme show. Both in person (in pre-pandemic days) and online, she has produced shows under the banners of queer comedy, Black women in comedy, and Black men in comedy. But she would say there has been a common denominator with all of them, and that’s “Love for Humans,” which also happens to be the name she has attached to the inaugural Comics Rising Comedy Festival, a four-night virtual stand-up show that kicks off Wednesday.

“We were just celebrating different areas of that overall theme” in those earlier shows, she says. “At the end of the day, it’s all about love for humans.”

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