Joan Rivers At Cutting Room

Last night Dr. Jeff, George, Damian, and I attended Joan Rivers' workshop at Chris Noth's Cutting Room, where she tried out some new material on a packed house. As usual, no topic or group is safe from Joan's jokes as she riffed on gays, Jews, 9/11 widows, PWA's, stroke victims, her plastic surgeries and the usual plethora of celebrities. We were seated at the lip of the stage, but mercifully Joan only picked on us a couple of times after pointing us out as big table of queers. Big thanks to Joan's producer, Chip, for the invite.

Manhattan socialite Blaine Trump was seated next to us, but the big find in the audience was Margarita Pracatan, the wacky lounge singer whose fractured Charo-cum-Googie Gomez accent and nutty musical takes on ABBA and Lionel Richie made her a star of British chat shows and gay clubs. (Check her out singing New Jork, New Jork to Liza.) Margarita bragged to us that she is a "beeg, beeg star of dee gays" and bid us farewell with her trademark "I loves joo!" I believe she currently has a cable access show here in NYC. Pracataaaaan!