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Kate Clinton
Kate Clinton is a political humorist, entertainer, and essayist.

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An Afternoon with Kate Clinton: The GLEE Party

May.11.2011

An Afternoon with Kate Clinton: The GLEE Party

Join Kate for her 2011 Glee Party Tour. A celebration of her 30-year career. A rolling Restore-to-Sanity rally. Join the Glee Party! Problems are solved in less than an hour. Break into flash mobs of song and dance for no apparent reason. Kate preaches way beyond the choir. She is the original Nostra Dame. Get some PTSG – Post-Traumatic Stress Glee. If the whole world’s going down, we might as well be gleeful and gay.

Presented by Spectrum LGBT Center, proceeds from this event will benefit Spectrum's LGBTQ Support Programs.

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PUBLISHED: May.01.2009

I Told You So

I Told You So is a hilarious, bittersweet, and politically acute survival guide. In collected columns and routines, Kate Clinton gleefully details personal coping techniques tested over a lifetime. They're perfectly suited for political and cultural upheaval: wildcatting for democracy, curbing your cynicism, and changing the climate. Read them and you'll never be voted off the...

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PUBLISHED: May.12.1998

Don't Get Me Started

Let's get one thing straight. I'm not. I'm out and proud. When I'm out and it's raining I carry an umbrella. I used to be in but I hate the smell of mothballs. My closet was huge, complete with a foyer, turnstile, a few dead bolts, and a burglar alarm that had to be deactivated before I could even touch the door handle. And then there was the storm door. It wasn't until I had lived...

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PUBLISHED: May.01.2009

I Told You So - Audiobook

A laugh-till-you-cry abridged audio from Kate Clinton's I Told You So with added bonus tracks. For nearly thirty years Kate Clinton has performed her no-holds-barred, idiosyncratic, side-splitting comedy routines with flair and a pinch of sass in venues across America and beyond. In this new audio compact disc-her ninth comedy collection-Clinton reads personal selections from her...

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PUBLISHED: Apr.22.2008

Climate Change - The CD

In a climate when most truth is inconvenient, trusted veteran weathergirl/comic Kate Clinton tracks the rapidly changing affronts of homophobia, the high atmosphere clashing of religious and secular systems, the aftermath of hurricanes of government neglect and the low pressure of despair. Unlike other reporters, content to report from the comfortable studio of complacency, she...

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PUBLISHED: Jan.22.2008

It's Come To This! Kate Clinton's 25th Anniversary DVD

It's Come To This! 25th Anniversary Tour"Kate, You're Not Showbiz - You're Show Art!" - Lily Tomlin Making us laugh, encouraging us to think, and inspiring us to be out and proud, Kate Clinton isn't slowing down, she's revving up. Celebrating a quarter of a century of being queer and cheering about it on stage, Kate's Silver...

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PUBLISHED: Jan.16.2007

here! Comedy Presents Kate Clinton

Beloved political humorist, Kate Clinton, cuts loose and runs with the burning issues of the day - same and same old sex marriage, pop and pope culture, good and bad Bush fatigue - in this one-funny woman, standup performance. You'll laugh til you think!

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PUBLISHED: Jun.01.2005

What the L?

What the L? is a new collection of published and unpublished writings that showcases Kate Clinton's gifts as one of the all-time favorite lesbian comics. Like Ellen DeGeneres and Rosie O'Donnell, Clinton is a nationally acclaimed quick-witted, laugh-out-loud funny comic whose hilarious takes on everything from gay marriage ("mad vow disease") and Queer Eye for the...

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PUBLISHED: Aug.03.2004

The Marrying Kind

Fast, fun and free-wheeling, and live from Los Angeles -- no, its not a sporty hybrid -- it's Kate Clinton's hysterical new CD, The Marrying Kind. Kate's much-anticipated 7th comedy collection, is a wild, free-associating, dot-connecting romp through presidential selections, stem and terrorist cells, The Fox of War, Patriot action, Homeland Insecurity, the Axis of Medievals, Mad...

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PUBLISHED: Apr.03.2001

Read These Lips

Kate Clinton strikes again in this 2001 release in which no one is spared. In this brilliant piece of comedy, Kate attacks AOL and computers in general, describes her adventures while 'slogging,' discusses her interactions with cell-phone users, and shares her opinion of the Pope's apologies and the Ten Commandments. Of course, no Kate Clinton album would be complete without her...

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PUBLISHED: Jul.21.1998

Comdey You Can Dance To

Self-proclaimed fumerist (feminist humorist) Kate Clinton returns with another classic live recording. Comprised of almost all new material, mixed in with little snippets of some of the old favorites, this 1998 release includes political material as fresh as the daily news, savvy send-ups of modern family relationships and illuminating perspectives on life as a lesbian American....

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PUBLISHED: Jul.23.1991

Babes In Joyland

Recorded live in Boston (dead doesn't record well), Kate draws on her recovering Catholic roots, years of high school English teaching, and her authority on Bush and bawdy politic to build laughter of fading fears and connections made. It's hard to be a dominatrix in a kinder, gentler nation, so her comedy is more stand-with than stand-up! Join her as she gallops through the...

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Mar.09.2012 - 12:04 pm

The Electoral Dysfunction (ED) Show

It has been twenty years since that Year of the Woman thing. No one would ever tell who she was. And they announced it in late June, so it wasn’t even a full year. At...

Feb.09.2012 - 1:10 pm

It’s Half-Wit Time in America!

It’s Half-Time in America! Let’s bring to the field our half-time show! It’s not the Madonna. It’s the Whore and her Marching Taliband led by that aspermative action...

Jan.17.2012 - 1:22 pm

Is that a Super-PAC?

Used to be if you were a comic one of the guaran-dam-teed high-larious things you could do was run for president. Pat Paulsen, Lily Tomlin of the “Stop It Party” and...

Dec.06.2011 - 12:09 pm

Debt Schmedt

One Saturday afternoon when I was maybe five or six, my Dad was reading the paper and I was watching some grim Dickens-ish movie on little our black and white GE console. A...

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About Kate

Kate Clinton is a faith-based, tax-paying, America-loving political humorist and family entertainer. With a career spanning almost thirty years, Kate Clinton has worked through economic booms and busts, Disneyfication and Walmartization, gay movements and gay...

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Alison Bechdel - Fun Home. Amy Hoffman - Hospital Time. Steven McCauley - Alternatives to Sex. Jared Diamond - Collapse. Muriel Rukeyser- Collected Works One...

Kate ClintonKate Clinton is a political humorist, entertainer, and essayist.

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Kate Clinton
Kate Clinton is a political humorist, entertainer, and essayist.