By Joe R
After the show, Kathy sits down and talks with fellow comic Mario Cantone, who I guess was at the show too. Full disclosure: I love Mario Cantone. I know people find him abrasive and whatnot, but I think he's lovely. Anyway, they have a really genuine talk about bombing and the "gaybies" jokes and offending gay audiences and such. It's comic shop-talk, basically, with the added bonus of them both being gay icons talking about gay taboos. This could have been the whole episode. Mario's super-supportive and tells her to get back up there the night and knock 'em dead. "Take the money, go home, and buy your mother a nice encyclopedia set." Love him. Kathy interviews some self-deprecating stuff about Mario being a big Sex & the City star and pitying her, but I don't buy it.
The day, Kathy and Team Griffin head off to another island, where Kathy once again plays Happy Fun Gal to the vacationers. India, the tranny stripper who I guess I have to start calling by name, welcomes them to "Fantasy Island," and there's some fun time watching silly Americans try to hack into a coconut. This is a lunch-type outing, so Kathy goes from table to table just talking with the people. There's a lesbian who works for the company that makes Life Alert, and she offers to be Kathy's hookup so she can buy her mom one. At another table, they're all gossiping about Todd, the rich gay stalker from the night before, who apparently had been acting up all over the island. He's apparently some kind of pan-sexual pharmacology experiment gone wrong. Kathy's loving this part. She interviews that if she could just spend the whole time gossiping with the vacationers, she'd be all kinds of set.
Kathy finds this gigantically tall guy wearing a Lakers shirt and, divining that he's straight, recruits him to be Tom's sought-after straight friend.
up is an interview with a travel magazine guy, who asks Kathy some fairly pedestrian questions, though when he gets to the subject of Botox, Kathy takes the opportunity to clear the air. She says she hasn't had any plastic surgery in five years, so despite her long-standing reputation as a trailblazer for the nip and tuck, she's now one of the few people in Hollywood who can make expressions with their face. She also says the one person she'd like to be on the island with is her mom. Kathy then interviews, yet again, that she needs to find her mom some friends her own age. I get that this is probably going to come up by episode's end, but it's eight kinds of awkward shoving the build-up into these scenes all willy-nilly.
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