Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Bring Eric Balfour, Get In Free!


Sundays just got a whole lot funnier and a whole lot more fabulous as well.

Gays and Dolls, a weekly comedy open mic/pro showcase featuring female and gay male comics, premieres Sunday, November 4, at 7 pm at the San Francisco Comedy College Clubhouse, 414 Mason Street, 7th Floor (between Geary and Post), San Francisco. Tix are a mere $8. $8?! Wow! That is 21st century comedy at 20th century prices! For advance ticket sales or to make reservations, call The Clubhouse at 415/921-2051 or purchase online at http://brownpapertickets.com/event/22403/.

CREATIVE MARKETING PLOY: BRING ERIC BALFOUR TO THE NOVEMBER 4 SHOW OR ANY SUBSEQUENT GAYS AND DOLLS SHOW, AND PAY NO ADMISSION FEE - EVER!

I will be hosting the first show, and then alternating hosting duties each week with the very funny and freakingly fabulous Ryan Kasmier.

Our first show features Dhaya Lakshminarayanan, Loren Kraut, and headliner Sandy Stec. Coming up November 11 - headliner Debbie Campo!

Come on out on Sunday nights - we're starting early so we can get you home early - and get some laughs in before the start of your workweek. You'll be glad you did.

Oy! What a Gal!

Sunday, October 28, 2007

Gays and Dolls Premieres One Week from Tonight!

Gays and Dolls, a weekly comedy open mic/pro showcase featuring female and gay male comics, premieres Sunday, November 4, at 7 pm at the San Francisco Comedy College Clubhouse, 414 Mason Street, 7th Floor (between Geary and Post), San Francisco. Tix are a mere $8. $8?! Wow! That is 21st century comedy at 20th century prices! For advance ticket sales or to make reservations, call The Clubhouse at 415/921-2051 or purchase online at http://brownpapertickets.com/event/22403/.

I will be hosting the first show, and then alternating hosting duties each week with the very funny and freakingly fabulous Ryan Kasmier.

Our first show features Dhaya Lakshminarayanan, Loren Kraut, and headliner Sandy Stec. Coming up November 11 - headliner Debbie Campo!

Sundays just got a whole lot funnier and a whole lot more fabulous as well. Come on out on Sunday nights - we're starting early so we can get you home early - and get some laughs in before the start of your workweek. You won't be sorry.


Monday, October 22, 2007

Gays and Dolls - It's HOT, HOT, HOT!



Hey, Comedy Friends and Lovers!

“Gays and Dolls,” a weekly combination open mic/showcase featuring female and gay male comics, will debut on Sunday, November 4 at the SFCC Clubhouse, 414 Mason Street, 7th Floor, SF (between Geary and Post). Show time is at 7 pm and we don’t expect to run much longer than 90 minutes, 2 hours at most, so you’ll still be home at a reasonable hour to rest up for your upcoming work week. Tix are $8, available at http://brownpapertickets.com/event/22403/. Yes, that’s right, only $8. That’s 21st century comedy at 20th century prices!

I will be alternating hosting duties with my good friend and fellow fab-man Ryan Kasmier.

Our first show will feature the comedy stylings of Bev Owen, Veronica Porras, Amy Klaas, Ryan Kasmier, Loren Kraut, Dhaya Lak, and headliner Sandy Stec.

THIS IS EXCITING! The Clubhouse will now be operating four nights a week. Tell your friends and come on down and support this freakingly fabulous new show!

Keep well, stay funny, and thanks for your support!

Kenny A.

Sunday, October 21, 2007

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

"Gays and Dolls" Premieres Sunday, November 4 at the SFCC Clubhouse!

Hey, Comedy Friends and Lovers!

“Gays and Dolls,” a weekly combination open mic/showcase featuring female and gay male comics, will debut on Sunday, November 4 at the SFCC Clubhouse, 414 Mason Street, 7th Floor, SF (between Geary and Post). Show time is at 7 pm and we don’t expect to run much longer than 90 minutes, 2 hours at most, so you’ll still be home at a reasonable hour to rest up for your upcoming work week. Tix are $8, available at http://brownpapertickets.com/event/22403/. Yes, that’s right, only $8. That’s 21st century comedy at 20th century prices!

I will be alternating hosting duties with my good friend and fellow fab-man Ryan Kasmier.

THIS IS EXCITING! The Clubhouse will now be operating four nights a week. Tell your friends and come on down and support this freakingly fabulous new show!

Keep well, stay funny, and thanks for your support!

Kenny A.

Monday, October 15, 2007

Schmuck

Schmuck - noun - One deficient in judgment and good sense: ass, fool, idiot, imbecile, jackass, mooncalf, moron, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, simple, simpleton, softhead, tomfool. Informal dope, gander, goose. Slang cretin, ding-dong, dip, goof, jerk, nerd, schmo, turkey.




(10-12) 19:02 PDT SACRAMENTO, (AP) --


Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday carried out his promise to continue to veto gay marriage bills.


The Republican governor turned down a measure by Assemblyman Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, that would have lifted the state's ban on same-sex marriages by defining marriage as a union between two persons, not just a man and a woman.


Schwarzenegger vetoed a similar Leno bill in 2005.


The governor announced in February that he would veto this year's version if it reached his desk and said last month that he would keep turning down such bills as long as lawmakers kept sending them to him.


"It would be wrong for the people to vote for something and for me to then overturn it," Schwarzenegger said in September, referring to voters' approval of Proposition 22 in 2000. "So they can send this bill down as many times as they want, I won't do it."


Proposition 22 was intended to prevent California from recognizing gay marriages performed in other states or countries.


In his veto message, Schwarzenegger said voters and the state Supreme Court should decide the issue. The high court is likely to rule next year on whether California's ban on gay marriages violates the constitution.


The governor said voters "should then determine what, if any, statutory changes are needed in response to the court's ruling."


Geoff Kors, executive director of Equality California, a gay rights group, said the veto was "hypocrisy at its worst."


"We find it shocking for the governor to say he opposes discrimination based on sexual orientation and then veto a bill that would have ended discrimination based on sexual orientation," Kors said.


Schwarzenegger said in his veto message that all Californians are entitled to full protection under the law "and should not be discriminated against based upon their sexual orientation."


He said he supports state laws that give domestic partners many of the rights and responsibilities of marriage.


Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, D-Los Angeles, said the bill was a basic extension of fairness and that he was disappointed the governor had vetoed it.


"I firmly believe the day will come soon when California law is on the right side of this issue and the right side of history," he said. "The California Assembly will continue working to make that happen."

Sunday, October 14, 2007

Kenny Altman, Clubhouse, 10/13/07

My first time on stage in almost two weeks, and it was fun. Thanks for watching, enjoy!

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Thank You, Dear Abby - and thanks to the press for not printing the opinion of an anti-gay wack-job in the interest of so-called "balanced reporting"


'Dear Abby' says she's for gay marriage

By LISA LEFF, Associated Press WriterWed Oct 10, 7:53 AM ET

For years, rumblings have surfaced on the Internet, conjecture about her casual references to "sexual orientation" and "respect."

Now, Dear Abby is ready to say it flatly: She supports same-sex marriage.

"I believe if two people want to commit to each other, God bless 'em," the syndicated advice columnist told The Associated Press. "That is the highest form of commitment, for heaven's sake."

What Jeanne Phillips, aka Abigail Van Buren, finds offensive and misguided are homophobic jokes, phrases like "That's so gay," and parents who reject or try to reform their children when they come out of the closet.

Her views are the reason she's being honored this week by Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, a national advocacy group that provides support for gay people and their families. The original Abby, Phillips' 89-year-old mother, Pauline, helped put PFLAG on the map in 1984 when she first referred a distraught parent to the organization.

Jeanne Phillips, who formally took over the column when her mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease five years ago, has continued plugging the group, as well as its affiliate for parents with children who identify as transgender, and a suicide hot line aimed at gay teenagers.

"I'm trying to tell kids if they are gay, it's OK to be gay. I've tried to tell families if they have a gay family member to accept them and love them as they always have," she said Friday.

PFLAG director Jody Huckaby said Abby is the perfect choice for the first "Straight for Equality" award, part of the group's new campaign to engage more heterosexuals as allies.

"She is such a mainstream voice," Huckaby said. "If Dear Abby is talking about it, it gives other people permission to talk about it."

Alert "Dear Abby" readers may have noticed that the youthful attitude Phillips promised to bring to the column includes a decidedly gay-friendly take on most matters.

In a March 2005 column that touched a nerve with some readers, for instance, Phillips came down unequivocally on the side of scientists who say sexual orientation is a matter of genetics, not personal choice. She advised a mother who had cautioned her 14-year-old daughter to keep her feelings for other girls secret to "come to terms with your own feelings about homosexuality."

Last year, addressing a groom whose gay brother refused to serve as best man or even attend the wedding because he did not have the right to marry, she made it clear her sympathies lay with the boycotting brother.

"Accepting the status quo is not always the best thing to do," she wrote. "Women were once considered chattel, and slavery was regarded as sanctioned in the Bible. However, western society grew to recognize that neither was just. Canada, Belgium, the Netherlands and Spain have recognized gay marriage, and one day, perhaps, our country will, too."

Phillips, who lives in Los Angeles, said she isn't worried that aligning herself with gay rights advocates will cause newspapers to censor or cancel the column, which appears in about 1,400 newspapers.

Her outspokenness on gay rights issues has never caused a strong backlash, said Kathie Kerr, a spokeswoman for Universal Press Syndicate, which distributes the column. It's possible some editors choose not to run the segments dealing with homosexuality, but if so they have not complained to the syndicate, Kerr said.

"We get brouhahas all the time, and they haven't been about Dear Abby," Kerr said.

Phillips realizes not everyone agrees with her on gay rights; she and her husband "argue about this continually," she said. He thinks civil unions and domestic partnerships "would be less threatening to people who feel marriage is just a religious rite." She thinks anything less than full marriage amounts to second-class citizenship.

"If gay Americans are not allowed to get married and have all the benefits that American citizens are entitled to by the Bill of Rights, they should get one hell of a tax break. That is my opinion," said Phillips, who speaks with the no-nonsense tone of someone who is used to settling debates.

Right now, Abby, as Phillips prefers to be called, is working on a reply to a woman who wanted to know whether she should include childhood photographs of her transgender brother-in-law in a family album. The woman is worried what she will tell her children when they see pictures of their uncle as a little girl.

Phillips' guidance to Worried Reader will be simple, she said: Include the photos, of course. Silence is the enemy. Answer any questions the kids have honestly — Uncle John was born with a body of the wrong sex, so even when he was called Jane he was really John inside.

Phillips said that while it might be tempting to devote an entire column to why she thinks jokes invoking homosexual slurs are in poor taste, she does not plan to spell out her views on gay marriage in print any more directly than she has already.

"If they are my readers, they know how I feel on the subject," she said. "I don't think I'm a flaming radical. I'm for civility in life. I'm for treating each other with respect, trying to do the best you can."

Monday, October 08, 2007

Women Who Could Turn Me, Part 3 of 3


Gena Rowlands.

Thanks to those of you who sent in your guesses. Some really good guesses there, among them Diane Keaton (probably in my top 10) and Goldie Hawn (too much cosmetic surgery).

Really, really bad guesses and I may never speak with you again - Bea Arthur (sorry, I like my men manly and my women womanly), and Barbara Bush (holy crap hasn't that bitch brought this world enough trouble already through her sexual proclivities?!)

All in fun, have a great day, keep laughing.

Kenny A.

Saturday, October 06, 2007

David Letterman-Paris Hilton-Sept-28-2007-txtshirt.com

Only David Letterman could make this this good. Enjoy!

Monday, October 01, 2007

Test Your Gaydar With The Five Stairsteps


This is a picture of The Five Stairsteps, an American Chicago soul group made up five of Betty and Clarence Burke Sr.'s six children: Alohe, Jean, Clarence Jr., James, Dennis, and Kenneth "Keni", and briefly, Cubie. They are best known for the 1970 song "Ooh Child," listed #392 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

According to their biography, Chicago Soul by Robert Pruter, published in 1992, one of the Stairsteps turned out gay. Using this picture as your guide, can you guess which Stairstep it might have been?

I swear you were born a weaver's lover...


...born for the loom's desire.

This is what happens when Kennedys grow old...


Eunice Kennedy Shriver (1921- )