COMIX GRAND OPENING

Last Thursday, I dj'ed at at the after-party for Comix, a new comedy club in the meat-packing district last week. This slick, new venue is set to blow other comedy clubs out of the water. It's beautifully layed out with a perfect size of about 250 seats, and a dressing room so fancy that it has a flat screen TV as a backstage monitor so that you can watch who's on before you, and hear their digs to determine how hateful your set will be! They pulled out all of the stops with the sold-out opening night cast, including Kathy Griffin, Triumph the Insult Dog, Sarah Silverman and David Spade.

DAVID SPADE SPOTTED NEAR LARGE OPENING (MINE), PROBABLY THINKING "HEATHER WHO?"



David and I were among the first ones there and chatted briefly before the show. I'm not sure he's hung...out with too many drag queens so he seemed a bit nervous with me. What? Don't real women pluck their nose hairs and shave their backs in the dressing room mirror before they go on? But he did ask me about the line-up saying "And there's that insult dog, what's it's name?" "You mean Kathy Griffin?", I replied, coquettishly. Just shoot me! It's a comedy club opening and look out: I was on fire!

The theme was Laughter is the best medicine, so waitressess as nurses passed out jello shots in white pill cups.



A sexy Dr. Feelgood was also on hand, seen here boogieing down. Of course I must have told him 15 times "No, I don't want no scrubs!" Whew! The comedic gems just keep on coming! But I'm just warming up! Hey, is this thing on?



WE LOVE A BEAMING TALENT COORDINATOR IN A BOUFFANT WITH A HEADSET WALKIE TALKIE!



The dressy affair felt very uptown but some notable downtowners showed up.

MAN ABOUT TOWN MR. MURRAY HILL AND BURLESQUE QUEEN DIRTY MARTINI



SIRIUS RADIO'S FRANK DECARO WITH HUBBY JIM COLUCCI, AUTHOR OF A NEW GOLDEN GIRLS TRIVIA BOOK



UNIDENTIFIED QT'S FLANKING BEIGE PROMOTER ERICH CONRAD AND IN THE REAR, MY WIGSTOCK PARTNER SCOTT LIFSHUTZ



ALEX BORSTEIN, THE GENIUS BEHIND MAD TV'S MRS. SWAN



I missed her set, but got to meet funny lady Kathy Griffin, who was very sweet. I'm not really a stand-up fan, so when I like a stand-up act, they must be pretty fucking funny. She was on a tight schedule and leaving at 5:00 AM for Florida the next day, but she didn't mind posing for a few pix. The girl knows her audience and the other comic ribbed her about her gay following.



TRIUMPH WAS SLEEPING WITH SESAME STREET'S ERNIE BACKSTAGE!



Triumph the Insult Dog ripped the (formerly?) gay neighborhood with lines like "Not that fists inside asses are anything new in this neighborhood." Also enjoyed his "Kathy Griffin's had more lifts than David Spade's shoes." The stand-up world has a very straight guy feeling to it, but one guy who has a totally different take is Josh Blue. His take? I'm a crippled stand-up, which leads to all kinds of comic possibilities. One bit I loved was "I voted Republican." Crowd boos. Pause. "I didn't mean to. I was like".....Josh's gnarled hand mimics attempting to pull a voting booth lever...."Oh fuck!" A hoot! He also flirts with mild discomfort by coming on to female members of the audience, which forces us to realize that most people don't wan't to fuck someone handicapped. A really odd feeling to be enjoying someone so much but having a bit of the sad truth creep in, but I'm glad he is using it to his advantage. Everyone backstage was complimenting Josh on winning NBC's LAST COMIC STANDING recently and he's back at Comix 9/28-8/1.

THE HILARIOUS JOSH BLUE



Also hysterical was Sarah Silverman. She's SO pretty (without even a stitch of make-up=I'm SO jealous) that she just kills with her vulgar, edgy humor because you just don't expect it to come out of that sweet, nice Jewish girl's mouth. But does it ever! She walked out to some rock tune and says "Great song, right? As a child I was raped to that song." (Huge laugh for child rape.) Sarah on having kids. "It's a little too late for me. Statistics prove that the best time to get pregnant is when you're a black teenager."



Varla Jean Merman played Maggie in a Theater Tweed adaptation of CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, for a one-night gig on Monday night. To check out their schedule, check out COMIXNY

I hope they book that bawdy battle-axe Lisa Lampanelli from the Comedy Central roasts. A friend just caught her act in Nashville and was gasping at her barrage of un-PC filth. Sample: She approached a fag with "You look like you've seen more discarded fluids than an airport transit screener!"