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he trouble with Harry (Miers). Quagmire
in Iraq. Tsunami devastates Southeast
Asia. Earthquake demolishes Pakistan.
Hurricane floods New Orleans. And here
comes Wilma.
There really isn’t much to smile about these
days.
In fact, the only person who seems to be
blissful is the ignorant Tom “The Hammer”
DeLay. The former House majority leader
turned himself in on state conspiracy and
money laundering charges Oct. 20, sporting a
shit-eating grin for his booking photo.
Thankfully, some of the funniest women
alive are coming to Oregon to cheer us up.
T
argaret Cho
made history
in 1994 with
All-American Girl,
the first television
show to star an
Asian-American
tfoman. Although
the series didn’t sur
vive past its second
season, the behind-
the-scenes drama led
to her first one-
woman show, I’m the
One That 1 Want, which became the basis of a
best-selling book and hit film of the same
name.
Last year she made headlines when the
Human Rights Campaign “uninvited” her to a
benefit performance that was intended to “cel
ebrate GLBT strength and unity” during the
Democratic National Convention. The queers
feared “a potential media firestorm” from her
“incendiary and controversial” material.
Fortunately for us, Cho isn’t letting the bas
tards get her down. She has penned I Have
Chosen to Stay and Fight (Riverhead Bœks,
2005; $23.95 hardcover), a survival guide to
make it through four more years of Dubya.
“The only way to push forward instead of
wasting away in the purgatorial procrastination
of worry is to just not care what the outcome
is,” she writes. “I need to just start running
downhill with my eyes shut.”
M
World Beat
#1
Queer queens of comedy
give us something to laugh about
•
uzanne
Westenhoefer
was one of the
first openly gay
comedians to per
form to straight
audiences in
mainstream clubs.
In 1991 she
appeared on a
groundbreaking
episode of Sally
Jessy Raphael
called “Breaking
the Lesbian Stereotype: Lesbians Who Don’t
Look Like Lesbians.”
“I still get mail from people who tell me
how that show changed their lives,” she says.
“It changed mine, too."
A blond femme often mistaken for child
actress Susan Olsen of The Brady Bunch (inspir
ing her to release 2000’s I’m Not Cindy Brady),
Westenhoefer performs more than 100 live ,
concerts a year. Her latest DVD, Live from the
Village (Image Entertainment), contains a
funny rant about her trip to Provincetown on a
small plane ("they ask your weight...like it
matters...I’m getting on a plane with seven gay
guys who you know are lying!”), but she wastes
too much time on petty spats with her closeted
girlfriend of 11 years—including a disturbing
riff about the time she masked over rainbow
bumper stickers with duct tape (“apparently, it
was easier to be thought of as white trash than
homosexual”).
ate Clinton
has performed
nationally
since 1981, work
ing her way up
from Unitarian
Church basements
to appearances on
Good Morning
America and
Nightline. In 1996
she served as a
writer for fellow
dyke comic Rosie
O’Donnell’s talk show.
Clinton writes monthly columns for The
Progressive and The Advocate in which she
waxes comical and philosophical about the
state of our nation—and those who have put
us in such a state. In 1999 the National Gay
and Lesbian Task Force presented her with a
Lifetime Achievement Award, and in May
she received Lambda Legal’s highest honor,
The Liberty Award.
What the L? (Carroll & Graf Publishers,
2005; $14.95 softcover) is her second book, fol
lowing 1998’s Don’t Get Me Started. Some of
the essays are dated—written back in the glory
days of that other famous Clinton—but she has
a delicious way with words, taking on every
thing from same-sex marriage (“mad vow dis
ease”) to the vice president’s wife (“Lon
Cheney”).
“I believe humor will get us through,”
Clinton writes. “In addition to the frivolous,
salutatory pleasure of laughing, 1 believe in the
power of laughter to subvert authority and
promote democracy. Laughter takes the tyran
ny of the lies we are told and told and told
and it blows them apart. I espouse humor
activism.” jm
K
M argaret C ho reads from her new book,
I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight, 7:30 p.m.
Nov. 3 at Powell’s, 1005 W. Bumside St. Her
new film, Margaret Cho: Assassin, plays through
Oct. 27 at Cinema 21.
S uzanne W estenhoefer performs 8 p.m.
Oct. 28 at Aladdin Theater, 3017 S.E. Milwaukie
Ave. Tickets are $28 at the door err $25 in advance
from the box office or Ticketmaster. She'll be back
8 p.m. Nov. 18 at McDonald Theatre,
1010 Willamette St. in Eugene. Tickets are $27 at
the door or $25 in advance from TicketsWest.
K ate C unton performs 8 p.m. Oct. 27 at
Eugene’s McDonald Theatre. Tickets are $25 at
the door or $22 in advance from TicketsWest.
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