Modified On October 31, 2005
In “Pride Goeth Before a Sock Modeling Contract,” columnist Doug Hecox mulls killing two birds with one stone next month in Orlando, perhaps combining comedy with… sock modeling? It all makes sense if you read the whole thing—
Modeling and comedy don’t really go together. There was a belief in the 1970s and 1980s that a comedian can’t look better than the crowd. “No crowd will laugh at jokes told by someone who looks better than they do,” or so went the theory borne out by the absence of supermodels playing to packed rooms at Jimmy’s Chuckle Shack in Anytown, USA. Comedian Kim Coles is the only former model I know of who made the transition but, it must be said, she was a “plus-size” model and it’s always okay to laugh at a fat girl, even if she’s cute.