Kate Clinton
Kate Clinton
Kate Clintonis an American comedian specializing in political commentary from a gay/lesbian point of view...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth9 November 1947
CountryUnited States of America
brother gay law
When my brother-in-law, BIll Clinton, was elected, he had gay friends. That was a coming out.
lines comedy one-liner
I've always felt that a really good joke, a really good one-liner, is a really good line of poetry. It's imagistic, it's compact, there is a rhythm to it.
men together congress
When women go off together we call it separatism. When men go off together we call it Congress.
people election activist
So few people voted in the elections [of 1996] that the ones who did were called activists.
laughter lying blow
Laughter takes the tyranny of the lies we are told and told and told and it blows them apart.
president speech matter
Once he became president, George [H.] Bush revealed a vein of Styrofoam and no matter how deep he tried to go, he always ended up bobbing on the surface. His inaugural speech was like being present at the death of language ...
religious strong military
In his second term, [Ronald] Reagan completed the work of his first term - the rich got really rich, everything was deregulated, advocacy programs were quashed, the Savings and Loan program was trashed, the deficit was tripled, unions were busted, Housing and Urban Developing was in shambles, banks were closing, the military got lots of new toys, the religious right was strong, and AIDS was ignored.
military gay men
Gays have always been in the military. Alexander the Great was originally Alexander the Fabulous. A gay man invented C-rations. He claims he could never talk anyone into the cilantro garnish. Obviously, gays were not allowed to design the outfits, because we never would have stayed with the earth tones for so long.
dad moving sexuality
[On being lesbian:] One pointer: don't come out to your dad in a moving vehicle.
sports football struggle
Of all sports, football seems to be the most sanctioned homosocial opportunity for straight men to be with each other, pat butts, struggle, strive, and take showers together. All that talk of tight ends and penetration. The reason there are face masks on those helmets is so that can't kiss each other.
house drug cracks
[On Nancy Reagan:] At one photo op press conference, she toured a crack house and decried how awful it was, yet one suspected that for our Drug Czarina it had something to do with a plaid couch.
art teaching performance-art
Teaching is performance art.
feminist feminism arcs
Whenever a woman describes herself as a 'post-feminist' I picture women lashed to posts. Joan of Arc was an early post-feminist.
eye writing order
Each time we had a visiting writer, I asked what she thought of women and humor. By the end of the year, I had perfected my question and asked Adrienne Rich why there was so little written about women and humor. She looked at me right in the eye and said, 'You write it.' I took that as an order.