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Provincetown :: Wednesday, March 17th 2010
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Big Girls Don't Cry - They Laugh!
Jen Kober at the Art House
By Steve Desroches of Provincetown Magazine
June 25th, 2009
A big girl who loves Southern fried food falls in love with a woman who thinks exercise is fun and is a health nut. Sounds like a new lesbian sitcom, but it is actually the life of comedian Jen Kober.
| “My comedy is really high energy,” says Kober, with the sound of cars whizzing by in the background. “I talk a lot about food. I’m from the South. It’s part of me. We love food. The show is definitely Southern-style fun.” |
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“My wife is a skinny bean pole who adores health food, exercise and reads every label for nutritional value and crap like that,” says Kober. “Me, I’m like, is it hot? Then I’ll eat it. She’s always trying to get me to do physical challenges, which she call ‘activities.’ This forms much of my comedy.”
Kober’s size-based comedy “Delicious Tour” hits the Art House this week for three shows. As the tour crisscrosses the country she is garnering reviews like the Chicago Reader’s “Kober is the caustic cupcake of comedy - Quick, biting and sweet all at the same time!”
Rolling down the highway after two sold-out shows at the Alabama Theater in Birmingham on her way to New Orleans, Kober tries to explain what her hometown of Lake Charles, La., is like to those who have never visited.
“It’s not a real Mecca of culture,” says Kober.
The latest additions to the college town are several riverboat casinos.
“I mean we have what other towns have, it’s just not as good,” says Kober. “We have an Olive Garden, but the food is worse and the service crappy. And we have new American Airlines direct service, but the flights are always delayed because they don’t schedule a crew.”
Sneaking into New Orleans bars and comedy clubs as a teenager was all it took for Kober to get bitten by the comedy bug. At 16 Kober lied about her age and entered open mic nights and other shows in the Big Easy, and was well on her way to a comedic career.
“My comedy is really high energy,” says Kober, with the sound of cars whizzing by in the background. “I talk a lot about food. I’m from the South. It’s part of me. We love food. The show is definitely Southern-style fun.”
Classically trained at The Theatre School of DePaul University in Chicago, Kober is also an accomplished actress. Kober’s original one-woman show sUbcIty was the winner of The Director’s Choice Award at The Kennedy Center Theatre Festival. Kober toured with her one-woman shows Junk In My Trunk and My Big Fat Comedy Show and in 2006 was the runner-up in the “MySpace Stand Up/Sit Down Comedy Challenge” which aired on both TBS and as part of Comic Relief 2006 on HBO. In 2007 Jen appeared on Showtime’s White Boyz in the Hood, Lifetime’s improvised sitcom Love Spring International and Comics Unleashed.
In 2008 Kober appeared in Jamie Kennedy’s new comedy documentary Heckler and most recently, she taped a half hour special for the LOGO Network that will also air this summer. Kober also just finished a 180-date college tour, which took her all over the country, and she is also filming a movie in New Orleans, which is where she was driving to when she pulled over on the highway to chat for a few moments.
“All I can tell you is that it’s a movie, it’s being film in New Orleans, and I play a lesbian,” laughs Kober.
While she’s been everywhere from Orlando to Omaha this is this daughter of Dixie’s Provincetown debut.
“Everyone has described it to me as ‘gay heaven’,” says Kober. “I am so excited. The last time I was in Massachusetts I felt like all I did was hop from one Dunkin’ Donuts to another. There’s one on every freakin’ corner.”
While there are no Dunkin’ Donuts in Provincetown, Kober was excited to hear about Portuguese fried dough and foot-long hot dogs in Lopes Square.
“Ah, yeah,” says Kober. “Now you’re speaking my language.”
Jen Kober is performing at the Art House, 214 Commercial St., Provincetown, Monday, June 29 through Wednesday, July 1 at 9 p.m. Tickets are $20. For tickets or more information call 508.487.9222 or visit www.ptownarthouse.com. Also visit Provincetownmagazine.net for more articles.
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