i know that i didn't say yes. >> reporter: this is cameron esposito.'s been a stand-ucomic for more than a decade. it's a profession where almost nothing is o limits. >> i'm just saying, as an outsider, i am unsure whether straight people talk to each other. >> reporter: but recently, she decided to do something unueiq in her new set, she shares her own story of sexual assault. she does so in a new comedy special. it's called "rape jokes." >> we've had rape jokes forever but it's just like, those jokes have usually been, like, "rape." that's the full joke. that's always been a concept that was shorthand for a certain type of joke. so it always meant a joke that is told by somebody who's not a survivor that's generally like dismissive of the concept of rape, it usually was brought up as sort of a taboo, punchy word that would just get a laughhe based onomic being brave enough to speak it. >> reporter: esposito wants to make sure the national conversation around sexual assault includes the voices of survivors. >> there were certain folks, high profile fo