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Kurt, who hails from Canada, is making the first Portland appearance of her 17-year career. San Francisco Pride is also on her itinerary this summer before she heads home for Toronto to continue work on a tele vision show she’s developing with C anada’s Comedy Network. She describes the show, Pop Cultured, as an arts and culture version of The Daily Show. “It’s like Entertain' ment Tonight, if Mary Hart went off her meds and said everything she was think ing,’’ she tells me over the phone while on tour in Canada. Working on the show would enable Kurt to he home more, which Com edians Elvira Kurt and Jim David are tickled pink to is becoming important to her family: be coming to the Rose City partner, two cats, two dogs, two Like Kurt, David is all over the place. He Subarus. The couple are also in the blueprint appears regularly on Comedy Central’s Tough stage of having human kids. Crowd with Colin Quinn, and the network fre Kurt began her act in the closet hut came quently repeats his half-hour comedy special. out onstage nine years ago and hasn’t looked David has appeared on Broadway, off- hack. The Second City alum’s career includes Broadway and in films. His one-man show, appearances on HBO, VH1, Showtime and South Pathetic, about the worst community the Lifetime sprinkled among appearances in top ater in the South, opened in New York City in comedy clubs like Caroline’s and The Improv. January. And the comedian just released his She has also been a contributing writer to second C D , Live from Jimville. His biting wit Ellen DeGeneres and is the voice of Reality can also he found in the pages o f Us Weekly as Chick on Oxygen’s animated series. “It’s nice now— I can basically pick and choose a part-time fashion guru. But you rgay recognize David from his recent the shows I want to do,” says Kurt. The queer visi appearance on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy as a bility of late in entertainment and the media has guest comedy consultant. “I have received so had a bit <rf an impact, she adds. “There is a bigger much attention for that,” he says of his stint with turnout and a healthy mix of queer and straight the Fah Five, “probably more attention than with comedy fans. I’m getting a lot of, ‘My mother thinks you’re great,’ which is weird.” anything else I’ve done.” David says things haven’t changed that much Like queer fave Margaret Cho, Kurt’s par for him since he became an out performer, as he ents are fixlder for a lot of her material. “ I still plays for mostly straight audiences. But, he think it’s funny... 1 don’t use it out of a cathar notes, they are “much more receptive” than they tic place, it’s just real life,” says Kurt, whose used to be. “They just go with it.” parents wanted her to he a doctor hut have Althixigh he has never had any negative feed admitted after 17 years that, much like the les back from the audience concerning gay material, bianism, comedy isn’t just a phase. he has had Bush supporters wait outside stage ikxirs to speak with him after shows. (President im David is also a 17-year veteran o f the Bush and Britney Spears are favorite targets.) stage and has been delivering out material According to David, if he wasn’t a comedian for the past seven of them. Talking to me he would be tending bar in the Caribbean like while on the road at Las Vegas’ Riviera Hotel a Magnum, P.l. character, mixing drinks in a and Casino, he notes, “Vegas has been like a Hawaiian shirt and saying, “Sorry, officer, German shepherd sitting on your face; the sun I haven’t seen him in a couple of days.” J H is pure hell.” But, he admits, “Vegas is fantas tic— you have to come.” J im D avid and E lvira K urt close out the Portland David, a North Girolina transplant, will Pride stage at 3:25 and 4 p.m. June 20, respectively. bounce home to New York (and his partner of 16 years) after his Portland appearance for a John CHELSEA F ine is a southern Oregon free-lance writer Kerry fund-raiser before heading out on a tour of and photographer. Amsterdam. I ALL MNTALS-5DAYS C
