Not so long ago John Roberts was just another aspiring downtown comedic performer, making ends meet through various odd jobs.
Now he’s touring with Margaret Cho and starring at big-time comedy clubs! His latest gig is providing the voice for Linda(!) Belcher, the faithful wife on FOX’s funny new animated show, Bob’s Burgers.
Roberts also uses a similar voice in his hysterical series of videos inspired by his mom!
Is John Roberts the new Marge Simpson?
GLAAD (The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) has just announced the nominees for its annual media awards ceremony on March 19th.
Among those vying for the Off-Off Broadway award is my longtime pal Vaginal Davis for her conceptual talk show, Vaginal Davis is Speaking from the Diaphragm, presented at PS 122.
Talk about sweet irony! Just weeks before the show opened last June, Vaginal informed PS 122 that her artistic temperament had been offended and she was backing out. The show would not go on! But after some intense negotiations, she agreed to take to the stage. And now she’s up for a big homosexual award!
Chinese fortune cookie moral of the story: Drag queen path often bumpy, but at end is gay reward.
Haven’t met her yet, but I’ve been a fan for a while of Kitty Hiccup‘s good grooming. Girl got it going on!
Her new title: Miss’d America. She was crowned on Sunday in Atlantic City at Boardwalk Hall, former home of the iconic Miss America pageant. If that runway could talk!
Congratulations, Kitty! I can’t wait to rub your crown.
Sylvia London was all smiles yesterday on her birthday. But I could sense her inner turmoil about me not devoting a special blog post to her. Especially since I had just given a birthday shout out to her Bitches in the Sky co-star Angela Di Carlo.
To ease my guilt, here’s a belated pictorial salute to Sylvia and her many looks. Damn, do I have to do this for everyone I know on their stupid birthdays?
Here’s to another year of colorful outfits!
Inflammatory rhetoric that tears at the fabric of our great nation has infested our news, Congress and even the streets of New York! What’s a gal to do?
Lady Bunny steals the show in this 2004 video (by Bernhard Blythe) of her, me and Miss Understood ridiculously disrupting a group of Black Israelites preaching in Times Square against “devil gays.” (We were coming from a protest against the Republican Convention, thus our signs.)
I was laughing so hard at Bunny’s hilarity that all I could do was bounce around like a fool!
The gathered crowd cheered us on as we vanquished our venomous foes!
Damn, that felt good!
Did you catch the Golden Globes? I watched with lively friends, and of course we had choice comments for some of the showbiz attire.
But being well-mannered gentlepeople, none of us opted to post or tweet or carrier-pigeon our hilarious put-downs. If there’s anything the world doesn’t need is more “fashion commentators” insulting famous women.
It’s become a very lowbrow sport that often reeks of misogyny.
Writer Judy Berman really hit the nail on the head in Bitch Magazine (“The Feminist Response to Pop Culture”) with a short article, “Web Spite.” Published in 2006, it’s still very relevant. ( I can’t find it online, but luckily I saved the print version in my “Interesting Articles” file!)
Berman focuses on the plethora of websites that mercilessly “reduce female stars’ worth to their physical appearance and fashion choices.”
Her summary: “Offering rigid daily scrutiny of celebrities’ fashion choices—as well as their weight, acne, or bad weaves—can be good, schadenfreudelicious fun, but in the end it only serves to reinforce what fashion magazines have been telling us for decades: A country full of size-2 women in little black dresses is preferable to a world where ladies of all sizes can feel comfortable wearing whatever they damn well like.”
Hear that, fashion bullies? Back off! And if you really wanna see a tacky outfit, look in the mirror! Oh, burn!
