Tea, Crumpets and Queens!
GENRE August 1993 Hungry Man Tea, Crumpets and Queens! Despite the bad rap English food takes, here’s a mouth-watering surprise. “Pint of best bitter and kidney pie,” Christopher recites again for me. “It’s a safe…
Who’s Out Where?
The Stand-Up Comedy Experience Newsletter Summer 1993 Who’s Out Where? Prior to his great showing at the Industry Night, Sam Brown had been emceeing shows at Stand-Up New York and raking in the laughs in…
Stand-Up Comedy Experience
In the late 1980s/early 1990s, I participated in a workshop comedy group called The Stand-Up Comedy Experience, under the direction of the inestimable Steve Rosenfield. That workshop has grown and morphed and is now the…
Heard the One About…?
GENRE November 1992 Parting Glances Heard the One About…? Heading Straight for the Funny Farm Between June 7th and October 4th, 1995, 27-year old aspiring comedian Benny Goldschmidt received major yawns and was booed off…
Greek Active
GENRE September 1992 Parting Glances Greek Active The Alphabet, Not a Position Liberty, Equality, Fraternity! The cry of the French Revolution. Except, of course, it was Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité! The first two make perfect sense…
Dating Daze
GENRE August 1992 Parting Glances Dating Daze Did You Know You Can’t Tickle Yourself? A NEW NOTEBOOK in hand, a small case filled with Dixon Ticonderoga No. 2 pencils, my Buster Browns polished to a…
Do Two Sins Make a Virtue?
GENRE July 1992 Parting Glances Do Two Sins Make a Virtue? Being Gay and Having Pride There was this priest, a minister and a rabbi. One of them said (and it really doesn’t matter which…
Just How Married Are You?
GENRE June 1992 Pop Quiz Just How Married Are You? A condo of our own, a fence of iron bar, hibachi on the fire escape, washer hooked up to the sink. The gay male couple…