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Ten Minutes with Suzanne Westenhoefer

Author: Tracy Gilchrist  //  Category: Interviews, Lesbian, Stand Up Comedy

 

Long before Ellen and Rosie, Suzanne Westenhoefer belonged to an elite club of funny ladies who dared to be gay out of the gate. Since 1990, the riotous, openly lesbian blonde comic has made audiences—on land and water—cry from laughing. And she’s never put her sexual orientation on the back burner for an audience’s comfort level.

Before she rose to her status as a recognizable comic darling for the gay and lesbian community, she tossed her spot-on ruminations of everyday life on to straight audiences. And she’s still around to tell about it!  Read more…

Feature Profile: Margaret Smith - As It Should Be

Author: Aaron Yeagle  //  Category: Feature Profile, Lesbian, Queer Comedy on CD

 

Stand Up Comedian, Actor, Writer and Producer, Margaret Smith does it all! A Six-time Emmy Award winner, Margaret recently left her gig as a writer and producer for the Ellen Degeneres Show to work on her own projects. She is currently in negotiations on a pilot she has developed.

She also recently published her first book. A hilarious yet poignant, partial memoir about becoming a single mother. It’s titled, “What Was I Thinking”.  Read more…

Feature Profile: Paul J. Williams - Left, Out … and Not Right!

Author: Aaron Yeagle  //  Category: Feature Profile, Gay, Stand Up Comedy

 

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High School in South Texas was not kind to Paul J. Williams.  As a “creative” teenager, he was in band, choir AND drama.  Wimp.  Nerd.  Fag.  To counter the endless teasing and name-calling, Paul learned early on to always have the last word.  Eventually, this defense mechanism developed into a very quick wit, which came in handy as he endured four repressive years of Read more…

Feature Profile: Suzanne Westenhoefer - Guaranteed Fresh

Author: Aaron Yeagle  //  Category: Feature Profile, Lesbian, Queer Comedy on CD, Queer Comedy on DVD, Stand Up Comedy

 

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Before Ellen and before Cho, there was Suzanne Westenhoefer.

Fearless, bold, unapologetic, and “freaking hilarious” best describes Comedian Suzanne Westenhoefer. She’s made a career out of telling the truth. And, the truth is, life is funny and no one is off limits. From her mom’s Last Will and Testament to her dog’s embarrassing discovery (What is the discovery? Strange otherwise), Suzanne shares stories that leave audiences in stitches.

The first openly gay comedian in the U.S., Suzanne has delivered gay   Read more…

The Fag Bomb

Author: Aaron Yeagle  //  Category: Mish-Mash

 

In the world of internet debate, there’s one tactic so fearsome, so deadly, only the masters of online commenting dare wield it.

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Featured Profile: Elvira Kurt - A Kitten with a Wit

Author: Aaron Yeagle  //  Category: Feature Profile, Lesbian, Queer Comedy on CD

 

Elvira Kurt’s comedy hits a nerve! Her universal themes of the absurdity of modern life, the fractured nostalgia of our childhood and our continuous struggle against turning into our parents create humor that the Hollywood Reporter calls “acerbically hilarious.” Read more…

Robin Greenspan in Girl Play on Wolfe Video

Author: Kelly Burkhardt  //  Category: Lesbian, Queer Comedy on Film

 

When you’re an actor, sometimes it’s hard to tell when you’re playing a role.

When Gabriel (Dom Deluise) casts Robin and Lacie to play lesbian lovers in his latest production, he unwittingly sets in motion a true life lesbian drama. Robin is in a lesbian marriage of six years, while Lacie prefers to play the field. But as rehearsals progress, the two women find themselves drawing closer and closer. At the same time, they each have nagging doubts as to whether their attraction is real or just acting. After the first night ’s successful performance, their emotional dams finally burst . . . Read more…

Feature Profile: Robin Greenspan - She’s Totally Naked

Author: Aaron Yeagle  //  Category: Feature Profile, Lesbian, Queer Comedy on CD, Queer Comedy on Film

 

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You may not have to be a lesbian to laugh at Robin Greenspan, but it sure is nice to be one when Robin’s around. The comedienne was part of the first nationally-televised gay and lesbian sketch comedy shows, Showtime’s In Through the Out Door with Suzanne Westenhoefer and Lea DeLaria.

Since that breakout appearance, she’s also done her own one-woman show, “Kickin’ Hard”, at the HBO workspace in  Read more…

Social Networking Stand Up Style: iJoke.tv

Author: Aaron Yeagle  //  Category: Mish-Mash, Stand Up Comedy

 

We’ve just discovered a great new social networking website, iJoke.tv.

iJoke.tv is a new comedy web community, founded by the Improv’s Budd Friedman. They have a growing list of comedian/comedy writer/sketch troupe/performer/booker/prod co./humor zine/etc. members and, while still in its developmental stages looks like this will be a site to watch out for in the future.  However, a search for members who’ve identified themselves as “Gay” turned up zero results.  So all you homo-comedians better get over there and add some material.

Kate Clinton - Climate Change - New CD!

Author: Aaron Yeagle  //  Category: Lesbian, Queer Comedy on CD

 

In a climate when most truth is inconvenient, trusted veteran weathergirl/comic Kate Clinton tracks the rapidly changing affronts of homophobia, the high atmosphere clashing of religious and secular systems, the aftermath of hurricanes of government neglect and the low pressure of despair. Unlike other reporters, content to report from the comfortable studio of complacency, she reports in her little yellow slicker of  Read more…