Don’t miss this year’s Comedy Night at The Dinah featuring some seriously funny folks (including me!)

More info below – see you there!

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PAULA POUNDSTONE HEADLINES THE DINAH‘S COMEDY NIGHT IN “AN EVENING WITH PAULA POUNDSTONE AND FRIENDS” FEATURING SUZANNE WESTENHOEFER & FORTUNE FEIMSTER

Get ready for some ridiculously funny, gut-buster, riotous comedy that will have you laugh t’il your ribs hurt!

Join the legendary award-winning Paula Poundtsone and her accomplices, iconic lesbian comic Suzanne Westenhoefer and stand-up’s fastest breakthrough rising star Fortune Feimster as they parade their comedic skills and talent in this very unique, guaranteed side-splitting laughter, comedy show dubbed “An Evening with Paula Poundstone & Friends”.

An exceptional night of comedy galore presented by The Dinah, this comic tour de force will set the house on fire Thursday, March 31 at The Riviera Spa & Resort for what promises to be the hottest comedy ticket in town!

As one of the nation’s most outrageous and successful female stand-ups, Paula Poundstone has performed to sold-out audiences at venues and events across the country. Paula was the first woman to win an ACE Award for Best Standup Comedy performance and the first woman to be invited to perform at the distinguished White House Correspondents dinner.

Armed with nothing but a stool, a microphone and a can of Diet Pepsi, Paula’s ability to create humor on the spot has become the stuff of legend. A woman of many hats, Paula is also a regular panelist for NPR’s Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me where she gets to match wits with some of our nation’s leading pundits.  The show is the recipient of the prestigious Peabody Award for Broadcasting excellence. She has starred in solo specials on HBO and BRAVO and made frequent TV appearances on Letterman, Leno, Craig Ferguson, and Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion.

Sharing the microphone for the evening are two equally fine ladies of comedy, the Dinah’s very own staple act – a pioneer on the lesbian comedy scene – the talented, Suzanne Westenhoefer, and the up-and-coming loveable Southern comedian with the great hair, an even better personality, and a devout fan base that continues to grow exponentially, Fortune Feimster  -  also slated to make her TV debut on NBC’s “Last Comic Standing.”

A triple-threat of comedy that makes for the perfect explosive stand-up cocktail-mix! Blending fearless honesty, ironic riffs, spontaneity and intelligent humor with an abundance of always fresh material, this creatively dynamic, hysterical triplet delivers a wide range of topics, styles and flavors that will appeal to all ages and everyone’s sense of humor!

Guaranteeing a laugh-fest, “An Evening with Paula Poundstone and friends” is certainly a MUST SEE show as it brings together on the same bill and the same stage – for the very first – three of the most hilarious female comics … and that’s no joke!

For more information about the show and/or to purchase tickets visit:  www.TheDinah.com

It’s finally here – Suzanne’s brand new website,- complete with new photos, videos, tour information, updated blog and more! We’ve been keeping it under wraps, but we’re excited to finally be able to show it to all of her fans.

Be sure to sign up for Suzanne’s newsletter so you can keep up with her as she tours the country entertaining audiences, both gay and straight alike.   And check back here often for news and updates from Suzanne herself.

Suzanne’s ground-breaking career as the first openly gay comedian ever, includes appearances on Letterman, HBO, Bravo, Logo and GSN as well as performances across the US in popular theaters, clubs, and fundraisers. Soon, her talents will be showcased regularly on board a cruise for Sweet, a new lesbian travel company.

Welcome once again to Suzanne’s new site.  Let us know what you think!

Yesterday I hung out with a new lesbian comic who has her own “Vlog”. Not that I haven’t heard about them before, or tried very hard to watch them (why are they so long?) it’s just that it seems like “blogging” and “vlogging” are an historically amazing way for anyone at anytime to say anything about anyone. It’s completely unprecedented in our human past. A town crier could only be heard by a those in ear shot and a few too many smokes the night before and he could be done. His opinions left un-screamed, unnoticed. Op Ed writers had to answer to their newspaper owners and could be silenced by any advertiser who wasn’t in love with his/her ideas on whatever theme was exciting people that day. Guerrilla activists, cranking out their screeds underground have actually been put to death, or worse, been ignored by the masses.

And now we have the V/Blog. A day doesn’t go by when I am not asked to ‘guestblog”, ‘co-vlog”, or even “unclog a blog” (okay I made that one up.) It is, more than a wave, the entire ocean of the future. So I must blog. I cannot run from it, this task that actually makes me more stressed than doing 90 minutes alone on stage. I guess I knew I really was letting it get to me two nights ago, when I woke suddenly in the middle of half an ambien sleep, thinking that “oh thank god, my blog is done” only to realize I had DREAMED it was finished.

I guess next I will dream I vlogged in my underwear at high school.

Go Obama!
yep, I am a democrat.
XO

Dear Friends,

This is a story about me sitting in my house attempting to blog. First, I spend a great deal of time NOT writing. Instead, I clean my office, do laundry, play with the dog and the cat (not at the same time), walk outside to see what that noise was, remake the guest bed, line up the DVDs, eat a peppermint patty, check to see where the smell is coming from, rearrange my medicine chest, rearrange Jenn’s medicine chest, wash toothbrushes, floss, pick, stare, lie down, read, stare some more, text, eat another peppermint patty, change the dog water, change the cat water, scoop poop, pick up poop, chant, stare even harder this time, watch out the window, eat a third peppermint patty, pack, unpack, pack it up again, empty the dishwasher, dust the photos, stare at photos, judge hair in photos, change photos, realize I am not having dinner, I eat one more teeny peppermint patty. And there you have it.

I never know what to say when people ask me what I do all day. This was just the last hour in my house as I get ready to leave for gigs this weekend. Total glamour. Now, you know.

Big Xs and Os,
Suzanne Westenhoefer

P.S. Still holding out hope for a woman president. Go Hillary!
P.P.S. Cheers for queers in California! We can get married now!

- Have a “gay orphan” dinner with the people in your hood who don’t go home to family. Get take out. Talk about nothing except gay stuff all afternoon. Send everyone home early and eat the leftovers for breakfast. Do NOT go to the mall.

- Go to a soup kitchen and help feed the homeless. Make it gay by choosing one sponsored by a Fundamentalist church, then be very out. “Hi, I am gay….enjoy your yams!!” Make a great impression. Change the world through gravy.

- Go home to HER family and spend the entire day talking about how wonderful and amazing your partner is. Holidays are a good time to suck up….set a goal…get yourself in their will by New Years.

- Take her to YOUR family. Let her see where it all began. Encourage your family to be totally themselves, so she can see the origin of your neurosis, OCD and mother issues. Stay more than four nights, so she really feels your pain. Go to the mall the next day with everyone.

- Watch the big game with at least one little non-sporty lezzie, so you can explain the game to her. Be patient. Speak slowly. Remember not everyone grew up with sports. Some of us never heard of Brett Farve until a year ago. We are still good people.

- Above all, remember to be thankful for something. This year, I am thankful I didn’t buy any toys from China.

Happy turkey day,
Suzanne