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f after shaking off
Saturday night’s
libations, applying
aloe to your sun
burned shoulders and
popping a few aspirin
you find you’ve
missed Portland’s
Pride parade, you
can still haul your
pride back down to
Waterfront Park on
Sunday aftemcxin,
when Elvira Kurt
and Jim David, two
of the brightest
comedians working today, will have
their way with your funny bone.
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.
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