| Sunday, June 01, 2008 |
| San Francisco funnies |
This is what life is like in San Francisco: we pirouette around our luxurious living rooms drinking champagne out of fancy flutes, and then we eat gay cake. Mmm... it tastes like rainbows! Yep, SF is still being demonized in the heartland.
We all go see gay comedians, because there is no other kind of comedian in San Francisco. Everyone here is gay, gay, gay! Those are our San Francisco values!
James Judd is performing his solo show, "7 Sins," at the Exit Theater this month, following a successful run at Theatre Rhinoceros. Not only is the Bay Area native gay, but he owns a winery! So San Francisco! "7 Sins" is a hoot from start to finish. Judd tells a bunch of hilarious anecdotes about his life, from his childhood obsession with Patty Hearst to his gig as a stand-up comic at the crappiest hotel on the Vegas strip. His path to "7 Sins" has been an unconventional one: he also held down jobs as a criminal defense attorney (!) and dotcom journalist. The latter career took him on a business trip to China, which is where the show wraps up -- in a whorehouse with five Chinese billionaires, six hookers, and a bilingual birthday cake.
One of Judd's blurbs calls him "a Paul Lynde for the new millennium." Lynde gave a lot of Americans their first exposure to gay culture through his jokes on "Hollywood Squares"; he apparently felt incredibly bitter about his inability to build a career beyond "Squares" and sitcom guest appearances, and blamed homophobia (though he never officially came out). In San Francisco, gays and straights, young people and old, are all coming together to laugh at James Judd's side-splitting stories. And that's something worth valuing. |
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I was a big fan of Paul Lynde when I was a kid and had no idea he was gay.
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Thank you so much! Your support means the world to me, and I'm very, very grateful. I love the way it's written right under a martini glass and I'm going to put it right at the front of my press kit! Many, many thanks, James
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I was a big fan of Paul Lynde when I was a kid and had no idea he was gay.