Saturday, March 29, 2008

Gays and Dolls/Marga's Funny Tuesdays


Come and see me this month -

Thursday, April 3, 8 pm at the Clubhouse, 414 Mason Street, 7th Floor, SF - Gays and Dolls, the most fabulously funny comedy showcase in town, featuring female and gay male comics. Thursday's host is Ryan Kasmier, headliner is Beth Schumann, and you'll also get to see Dana Lovecchio, Nick Leonard, Lisa Meyers, Bev Owen, and ME! $8. www.brownpapertickets.com/event/25984


Tuesday, April 8, 9 pm at Harvey's, 500 Castro Street, SF - Marga's Funny Tuesdays, with Marga Gomez, host Candy Churilla, Dana Corey, headliner Ali Mafi, and ME! Free - no cover.

Thanks for supporting live comedy, come out and have some laughs on me! And enjoy some rock and roll from two of the greatest voices of all time - Ronnie Spector and Joey Ramone -

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Top 10 Reasons to Visit NYC - the greatest City in the world!

Here's #s 1 - 4 - Sterling Sulieman, Brandon Buddy, David Chisum, and Colin Egglesfield from All My Children and One Life To Live perform "Let It Go" from "The Full Monty" at ABC Daytime Salutes Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS at Town Hall, NYC, March 2 2008. I love New York!

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Worst Film Performance Of All Time


John Travolta as "Edna Turnblad" in Hairspray - I've been watching it for the past few nights. Travolta totally missed the point of what that role was about, and I am pissed at the producers and directors for letting it go through.

Edna is supposed to be played as a trashy drag queen, or at the very least by a trashy, brassy blond female who ends up getting a hair and fashion makeover but never completely leaves the trash and the brass behind. That was the appeal from the beginning, from Divine in the 1988 movie version and Harvey Fierstein in the original cast of the Broadway musical, and I am sure that that is the way John Waters envisioned it - that Tracy's mother was really a drag queen, not just played by one. Travolta isn't comfortable enough in his own skin to play it that way. In short, John Travolta does not have the balls it takes to be a drag queen. What a drag, but in this case not the right kind of drag. If Travolta was going to play it "straight" they might as well have found a woman to do the role. Jennifer Aniston could have done an amazing job in that role, as a wise-cracking, gum-smacking suburban housewife. (Yes, Jennifer Aniston.) Katherine Keener could have done it. Maggie Gyllenhaal would have ROCKED in that part. And, back to men, JAKE Gyllenhaal could have nailed it, too. THAT'S an actor not afraid to bite into a role and take it for all it's worth. Travolta and Christopher Walken (as Wilbur Turnblad) should have switched roles, because I am confident that Walken could have nailed it, as well. But Travolta? Bah. Pure trash, but not the fun kind of trash at all; in short, the kind of trash you want to throw out, not take out! :)

I'm about halfway through watching and although I'll finish the entire movie I'm just fast-forwarding through the scenes that feature Travolta. What a waste of my time, and what an insult to drag queens and trashy women everywhere.

I'm ashamed that Travolta and I come from the same state, much less the same county. Jersey boys should know better, and we usually do!

Thanks for listening, have a good day.

Friday, March 07, 2008

A Staggering Loss - Sarah Horowitz



My dear friend Sarah Horowitz passed away this past week. She was just 44 years old. Ironically, this interview with Sarah, which has her sharing her own feelings about faith and loss, was published yesterday at Nextbook, an online Jewish publication. The author has since learned that Sarah passed away at around the same time that the article was being posted and has asked people who knew Sarah, or who are moved to do so, to share their thoughts in the article's "comments" section.

Sarah battled health problems throughout her entire life but she refused to let them stop her from pursuing her dreams and her passions. To paraphrase my rabbi, Micah Hyman, "her spirit was stronger than her body." She was a pure soul, and an amazingly accomplished person - among other things she was a poet, a Jewish scholar, a teacher of autistic children, and she made the best damn pumpkin Challah I have ever tasted in my life!

Sarah was loved, and she will be missed. Zichrona l'vracha - may her memory be for a blessing.

Shabbat shalom,

Kenny

Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Rooster's Comedy Competition, Wednesday March 5!



Wednesday, March 5, 8 pm, Rooster T. Feather's, 157 W. El Camino Real, Sunnyvale. Please come out and see me and support me in the 6th Annual Rooster's Comedy Competition. Last year I made it to the semi-finals. With a little more experience under my belt, and your votes, perhaps I'll take it all the way this year! I have some free tickets available so contact me if you'd like one or two. Other than that, get your tix here or call Rooster's at 408/736-0921. Cock-a-doodle-doo!