Dec 11 2008
Feature Profile: Kate Clinton - Queer Politics Never Hurt So Good
Kate Clinton is a faith-based, tax-paying, America-loving political humorist and family entertainer. With a career spanning over 25 years, Kate Clinton has worked through economic booms and busts, Disneyfication and Walmartization, gay movements and gay markets, lesbian chic and queer eyes, and ten presidential inaugurals. She still believes that humor gets us through peacetime, wartime and scoundrel time.
This presidential year, Kate brings her new show HILARITY CLINTON ‘08 nationwide. It follows her 2007 show, CLIMATE CHANGE, a CD of which will be released in March, 2008. In 2006, Kate Clinton celebrated her 25th
Michele Balan was one of the four finalists on NBC’s 2006 “Last Comic Standing,” and she is “The Last Woman Comic . . .. ”
Hyper, irreverent, and downright fabulous, ANT (spelled in caps) has steadily climbed the comedy hill to become one of the most successful comedians of our time. A regular guest on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and The Tyra Banks show, ANT is the only comedian to appear on all five seasons of NBC’s hit series Last Comic Standing. Currently he can be seen as the host of VH1’s juggernaut smash
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.
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.
Jason Wood is carving out a niche for himself in the comedy world with his effervescent personality , hilarious comedy, and spine-tinglingly good singing. You may have seen him on BBC1’s primetime show ‘29 Minutes Of Fame’ and before then on BBC1’s first series of ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ as one of the eight dancefloor hopefuls. He also showed his presenting and acting skills in BBC1’s hidden camera show, ‘Spy TV’.
The Wet Spots, Cass and John met in 2001 and married in 2003. Before becoming a Wet Spot, John was s singer-songwriter from Winnipeg who performed with pop and punk bands across Canada and England. Cass was an award-winning spoken word artist and sex columnist from Toronto, who managed a pioneering women’s sexuality store. They currently live in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
