Comedy Curious: A GLBTQ Comedy Showcase
Kats and Kittens,
It’s Gay Pride time and that’s my favorite part of the year! Then there’s stand-up comedy, my other favorite thing! Then there’s fundraising, a third favorite thing! So I said “Hey you, why don’t you have a comedy show with a couple of cool comics from the far reaches of the country during Pride, and have it benefit a good cause?” and I said “Man, you’re a genius, that’s a great idea!” Then I bought myself a drink.
ENTER- Comedy Curious? (that’s OK, we all were once) at the Curious Comedy Theatre!
Kelli Dunham- New York City, Fresh Fruit award-winning stand up comic Kelli Dunham (kellidunham.com) is the also the author of four humorous non-fiction books, a frequent contributor to Curve Magazine and has appeared nationwide at colleges, clubs, women’s festivals, and pride celebrations and on both Showtime and the Discovery Network and even (once) at a livestock auction. She is the co-founder of Queer Memoir, the NYC based LGBT storysharing event, and has two comedy CDs “I am NOT a 12 Year Old Boy” and “Almost Pretty” in regular rotation on Sirius Satellite Radio’s Raw Dog station. She fills me with both inspiration, and a vague feeling of shame with the sense that I am lazy and unaccomplished.
Holly Lorka -Austin, Texas is naughty and nice, sweet and sour, and likes BBQ with her porn. and has performed for Ladies Are Funny Festival and the Out Of Bounds Comedy Festival. She has been lauded by L-style/G-style and Lez-Go Magazine. She’s also a current semi-finalist in Austin’s Funniest Person contest. Holly is also is a regular performer for Austin HRC, and has headlined the Austin GLBT Pride Festival. (She also has the best hair I’ve ever seen and is one of the funniest people I know.)
Belinda Carroll- Portland, Oregon. In a over-the-top, observational style, Belinda tackles everything from her Televangelist loving mother, her life as a teenage Lesbian Avenger, to her current incarnation as a fabulous femme lesbian who missed her calling as Rupaul. She has headlined the Austin GLBT Pride festival, has promoted and produced shows from Austin, Texas to Portland, Oregon, preformed all over the country and is a regular contributing writer for Curve Magazine, OurBigGayborhood and GAY! E-magazine.
Jessica Halem- called “BRAVE and BAWDY” by Time Out Chicago, was raised by hippie Jewish artists from the East Coast which was anything but normal – or easy – in small town Ohio. But it did help to foster this very funny “on-your-face” comic who puts her queer spin on Sudafed, sexual politics, and glory holes.
Hosted by the incomparable Whitney Streed.
