In her stand-up act and on “The Daily Show,” Dulcé (pronounced “duel-say”) Sloan sometimes says things that rattle people. But she’d like you to know, outrage is not her objective. Case in point: a routine from her 2019 Comedy Central half-hour special, in which she said she hated living in New York City, calling it a “Yankee trash heap.”
Sloan says she was just trying to educate. “It’s not about getting under people’s skin or creating a rise out of people,” she says. “I’m not that kind of comic. I don’t sensationalize. I talk about my experience, and in my experience, the city is trash and should be burned down immediately.”
Sloan started out as an actor in Atlanta before finding her calling as a stand-up comedian in 2009. In the beginning, her material was more observational, more outward facing, but she found her comic voice by looking inward. “A year and a half in when I started talking about myself, that’s when everything kind of changed,” she says. “When you talk about yourself you always have material. You’re not saying what other people are saying because no one else knows your life.”
Success came quickly onstage and on TV. Sloan went full time into stand-up in 2015 and landed her job at “The Daily Show” in 2017. As a comedian, she sees herself as a storyteller about her own life, whether the subject is dating, white women wanting to touch her hair, or where she’s living.
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