Margaret Smith, winner of the 9th Annual American Comedy award for “Best Stand-Up Comic – Female” in 1994, makes dysfunctional family life the backbone of her act. Dead pan delivery, blank-faced and funny sums up her dark humor. She is a child out of six in a demented, dysfunctional Middle American family. However, she contends that all families are dysfunctional in some way or another.

She then went away to college, and eventually needed money. Since she was from Chicago, she tried to get a job at Second City as would pay half of the tuition for classes. Second City lasted three-and-a-half years. Writing many of the sketches for the group. She gravitated to New York City, where she began her stand-up career.

Stand Up Comedian, Actor, Writer and Producer, Margaret Smith does it all! A Six-time Emmy Award winner, Margaret recently left her gig as a writer and producer for the Ellen Degeneres Show to work on her own projects. She is currently in negotiations on a pilot she has developed.

She also recently published her first book. A hilarious yet poignant, partial memoir about becoming a single mother. It’s titled, “What Was I Thinking”.

Additionally, she has won the American Comedy Award for Best Female Stand Up Comedian. She starred in her own special for Comedy Central and has produced and starred in her own independent projects. Her incredibly funny CD, titled “As It Should Be” has a liner note on the cover from Jay Leno. Jay writes, “, “The best comedians are the ones that write and perform their own material and Margaret Smith is at the top of that list”,

She played the standout record store owner in the hilarious, yet short-lived, spin off of “That 70’s Show” aptly titled “The 80’s Show”.

Her list of roles in Television and Film include parts in Martin Scorsese’s “Goodfellas”, the remake of “The Blob”, the Wachowski brother’s hit thriller “Bound” with Gina Gershon and Meg Tilly, and a guest starring role in the Pamela Anderson series, “VIP”, to name a few.

You may have also seen one of her many performances on both The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as well as Late Show with David Letterman.

Margaret has toured the comedy circuit doing live performances throughout the United States and beyond including Britain, Ireland and Australia, not to mention a one-nighter in Tasmania. “Have you ever seen a Tasmanian Devil? They’re so cute. You want to pet them, ‘till they yawn.”

She’s worked with everyone from Rosie O’Donnell to the late Bob Hope. She says, “Phyllis Diller told me the dirtiest joke I’ve ever heard,” and claims to have had an emotional bottom on The Oprah Winfrey Show.

You might want to keep your eyes open for Margaret during her summer hiatus when she hits the road and tours. She may be coming to a theater in your area.

Originally posted 2010-06-17 15:01:14.

Kate Clinton is perhaps America’s brightest political comedian. Her agenda includes political material, savvy send-ups of modern family relationships and illuminating perspectives on life as a gay American.

Kate has worked with some of the great writers and performers of our time. She participated in a staged reading of Tony Kushner’s play, SLAVS with Olympia Dukakis, Tracey Ullman and Madeline Kahn at the Walter Kerr Theatre in New York. Kate hosted an evening at The Kennedy Center when Richard Pryor received the first-ever Mark Twain Award. She emceed the AmFAR Seasons of Hope event where Clive Davis, Michael Douglas and Billy Crystal presented awards to Quincy Jones, Sharon Stone and Robin Williams.

Originally posted 2010-06-17 14:34:03.

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Originally posted 2010-06-16 16:24:43.