RIGHT WING LENNY BRUCE

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on June 5th, 2004

From “Right-Wing Lenny Bruce” by Alicia Colon, writing for the New York Sun (June 4, 2004):

…the idea of conservative standup is a rarity, and when I met Julia Gorin, a conservative comedienne, last month at the Ball for Life, I was intrigued by her choice of profession. What was even more surprising to learn is that there are more where she came from.

Because New York is not necessarily the breeding ground for conservatives, I first thought that Ms. Gorin was from the Midwest or some other red state. Surprise, surprise, as Gomer Pyle used to say. Ms. Gorin was born in Moscow.

Her father, Edward Gorin, a violinist with the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, was expelled as a dissident when she was only a few months old.

Ms. Gorin goes on tour with a group of comics called Right Stuff Comedy. Other members of the group are Chris Warren, who recently entertained the troops in Iraq, Steve Eblin, and Jeff Jena.

Her comedy is edgy and thought-provoking and she’s been described as a right-wing Lenny Bruce. She usually performs with the group at private corporate functions, and while she usually gets a hearty response from her audience, sometimes they can be programmed to laugh only at safe jokes. She’s found that JFK is one of those offlimits targets.

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