Kathleen
Turner (from left),
Ms. Foundation executive director
Sara K. Gould,
Ms. president
Marie C. Wilson and Amy Irving. |
MS. FOUNDATION
Comedians Dish Laughs
To Get Us Back on Track
By Tim Boxer
 ATHLEEN
TURNER, Amy Irving and tennis ace Martina
Navratilova laughed heartily with the rest of us at the
Women’s 13th Annual Comedy Hour at Carolines on
Broadway. A fine lineup of great comediennes helped unburden our
anxieties for a spell in these dark days of homeland terror.
“I spent 39 years mad at my country,”
declared Janeane Garofalo. “Now I’m mad on behalf of my
country.”
Marie C. Wilson, president of the Ms.
Foundation that sponsors this annual laugh fest, said this was the
largest audience they’ve had. “Maybe we need something to laugh
about.” Indeed, we do.
Sara
K. Gould, Martina Navratilova,
Marie C. Wilson and Gloria Steinem. |
On that note, comedienne Vickie Shaw, a
self-proclaimed “lesbian from Texas,” tells her two sons and
daughter that if some guy at school says, “So your mom’s gay?”
they should ask him, “Why? Does your mom want to date her?”
She said a man asked her why she hates men.
Actually she doesn’t hate men. “Divorced heterosexual women hate
men.”
With all this hate and terror fomenting from
foreign shores, we certainly don’t need a dose of danger from
homegrown terrorists.
As Wilson observed, poisoned mail in this
country is nothing new. Planned Parenthood has long been a target,
dealing with anthrax attacks for a decade. They even sent out a
mailing declaring, “You can open your letters, we can’t.”
I’m at an age
when
remembering something
right away is as good
as an orgasm.
Gloria
Steinem
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Nostalgic for former days of relative normalcy,
Gloria Steinem told about a cartoon of a woman at an airline
counter. “Where do you want to go?” the clerk asks. “September
10,” she says.
Comedienne Robin Montague, who emceed the
program and at times seemed to upstage the talent with her own
hilarious comments, also urged everyone to get on with their lives
and not let the terrorists win.
She said she goes to rehab centers and tells
them, “Go back to whatever you were doing on September 10 – get
high!”
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