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Featured Profile: Kathleen Madigan

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

 

Kathleen Madigan is one of the most popular headliners in the country. An American Comedy Award winner as best female stand-up, her accessible and unpretentious style has earned her a devoted and growing following.

Unlike any other female comedian working today, Kathleen resonates Read more…

Interview: Elvira Kurt: Canuck of All Trades

Author: Emma Kat Richardson  //  Category: Interviews, Lesbian, Queer Comedy on CD, Stand Up Comedy

 

It’s hard to find a comedian quite like Elvira Kurt. Perhaps best known in the States for her painfully hilarious insights about growing up as the gay daughter of Hungarian immigrants in her native Toronto, she is also a seasoned television personality with a unique knack for bringing audiences directly into her equally unique world.

Not only is the stand-up veteran a cheeky performer with all the right resume highlights - the tours, the films, the television, the Second City stint - she’s also a vocal advocate for women’s rights, LGBTQ rights, and a seasoned performer of Eve Ensler’s iconic ode to every-women’s “down-there,” The Vagina Monologues. With a recent appearance at the Michigan Womyn’s Festival and an ongoing gig as a Canadian TV superstar, the  Read more…

Feature Profile: Karen Williams - HaHA Institute’s Leading Light

Author: Laura Post  //  Category: Feature Profile, Lesbian, Queer Comedy on CD, Stand Up Comedy

 

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Karen Williams is known as that thin Black lesbian stand-up comic with a lot to say and the gift for saying it in a screamingly funny way. Heads turn at her rapid-paced raps on single motherhood, dating, relationships, celibacy, AIDS, economic inequity, racism, codependency, and whatever topic strikes her fancy, or object from the audience catches her attention. Audiences marvel at her strong and thoughtful presence, her acute awareness, but it is her attitude — anger and angst masked behind diffidence — which brings her observations home. 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: 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…

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…

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…

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…