| | |  | Comedy | Home » » » Kate Clinton: The 25th Anniversary Tour | | | | | | | Description: | | Making us laugh, encouraging us to think, and inspiring us to be out and proud, Kate Clinton isn't slowing down, she's revving up. Celebrating a quarter of a century of being queer and sheering about it on stage, Kate's Silver Anniversary Tour isn't just stellar political satire and witty one-liners, it's a chance for celebrities the likes of Lily Tomlin, Melissa Etheridge and Billie Jean King to pay cameo tributes to a pioneer of comedy. It's a chance for fellow queer comedians to honor the woman who paved the way for all gays and lesbians to come out of the comedy closet. And most importantly, it's a chance for Kate to do her incomparable comedy to screaming sell-out crowds across the country. Now, All Out Films captures clever comedic gems from Kate's ""It's Come To This!"" tour, and intersperses them with personal interviews, clips of Kate reading from her book What the L?, and Unforgettable photos of Kate's early years. Also featuring a never-before-seen interview with Kate and Urvashi Vaid, her partner of 19 years, Kate Clinton: 25th Anniversary Tour is a net-to-be-missed opportunity to get up close and personal with a legendary lesbian who has made us proud to laugh loud and out! | | | Features: | |
• SYNOPSIS: TO CELEBRATE HER 25TH YEAR OF TOURING AS A PIONEER LESBIAN STAND-UP COMEDIAN , KATE CLINTON EMBARKED ON A 50 CITY TOUR OF THE US. CAMEOS INCLUDE LILY TOMLIN, MELISSA ETHERIDGE, BILLY JEAN KING AND MORE! KATE'S HILARIOUS PERFORMANCES ARE INTERSPERSED WITH A VARIETY OF PERSONAL MOMENTS DURING THE TOUR, MAKING THIS DVD A TRUE COLLECTOR'S ITEM. Format: DVD MOVIE G
| | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| Kate Clinton, Lily Tomlin, Melissa Etheridge, Billy Jean King | | Format:
| Color, DVD, NTSC | | Language:
| English | | Number of Discs:
| 1 | | Studio:
| All Out Films | | Run Time:
| 65 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| January 22, 2008 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 6 reviews |
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 Well-Honed Comedy for a Wide AudienceJul 06, 2008
By R. Schultz
While this DVD celebrates Kate Clinton's 25-years of doing stand-up comedy from a lesbian perspective, its humor is broad-based (pun realized afterwards). Almost everyone will be able to relate to this material and will be able to laugh. That includes younger people, for whom I don't think the "Parental Permission" label on the cover is quite warranted. There is a little bit of swearing in one segment and some references to Clinton's physical relationships, but this is generally as family-friendly as stand-up comedy gets these days.
Which does not mean it isn't incisive and hip. For example, Clinton satirizes the overload of bells and whistles that now come with what should be our most straightforward utilities. She comments on how she answered her cell phone - and took a picture of her inner ear.
There's also a lot of political commentary, but its more the kind that slips its criticisms under the door rather than crashing them through. For example, Clinton exhorts the audience to be sure to look their best when they step outside. With all the Government's surveillance cameras monitoring our appearance, she reminds "no big stripes, no plaids."
This is a well-crafted, thinking person's stand-up act that Clinton apparently changes often to call to account society's latest absurdities.
Her routine is interspersed here with congratulations from celebrities and others whom her pioneering performances inspired to come out of the closet over the last 25 years. Some of these interjected kudos are not as interesting as Clinton's act itself. However, you will want to view this DVD all the way through in order to catch Lily Tomlin's clever, closing rhyming rap testimonial to Clinton's talent.
 Great comedy.Apr 20, 2012
By Emma L. Bruno
I love Kate Clinton and her humor. This is a must hace DVD for lovers of comedy. See it and you will agree.
Delightful dyke!Mar 22, 2012
By jordyn skye
This dvd is just fabulous. This woman is simply wonderful. She is a self diagnosed dyke from way back NOT a acceptable lesbian of today. I LOVED her analogies and political input and its very obvious a philosophy means lots to her to......not just anyone can be a dyke.
I have been out for 30 odd years and can remember days when it was not ok to be too.
BRAVE woman like this got us here now where its just a choice thing NOT reason for prison or firing squad or loss of job or anything tricky. It still is a firing squad offence in some of the world but some things take a while.....like liberty and freedom to just be yourself.
A huge kia kaha to this gal!
In spirit
Jordyn
Kate goes blonde, then goes on the roadAug 10, 2011
By Ed Karvoski Jr.
The first time I had the opportunity to interview Kate Clinton, I asked her when she started performing as an out lesbian comic. Her reply: "Since before lesbians were invented." Actually, it's been since 1981. So in 2006, Kate hit the road for a 50-city tour in "It's Come to This!" And fortunately for fans, it's come to DVD.
Kate even sports a new look for the occasion. "Since I've gone blonde," she says, "I don't understand half my show. But I'm having a lot more fun!"
In addition to smart political commentary, the show's topics include butch baristas, social anxiety drugs, and the clap-on, clap-off vibrator. And in addition to the live stage performance, catch Kate along with cameos of Lily Tomlin, Melissa Etheridge, Billie Jean King, Marga Gomez, and others on the L-word A-list.
FunJun 27, 2009
By Diane J. Chase
"Kobey's mom"
A nice look at her comedy and history. She haben an continues to be a major contributor to the lesbian and gay culture. An acute sense of politics and the climate. A very funny woman.
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