Raunch Dressing: Four Stars for Marga Gomez

Oh man, get ready to laugh 'til your bones are sore. Not only is Marga Gomez hysterically funny, but you get a special punch in the funnybone, knowing there is no other city in the country but ours who would put up with her raunchiness. For sure, if Marga Gomez is a Salad, her dressing is Raunch.

Now that her show has been extended to Dec 31, TGP started thinking: "AHA! The Perfect Christmas Present for...Mummy Plotnik? Uh, no. Schmeckl Plotnik? Oh, God no. Better keep looking.

It's kind of sad that Marga Gomez has become renowned as a 'Gay Comedienne' because her best bits are so universally funny, like standing in line in Walgreens behind the Woman With Discrepancies (and Coupons). You won't forget her Auntie's uproarious Christmas story about the Old Country, and General Pasivo Agreso, and you won't forget Marga's cat either (actually she IS the cat).

The puppets -- ah, the puppets. They are also symbols. The characters involved are George Bush, Laura Bush, Barbara Bush, Dick Cheney, Pat Robertson and Condi Rice. Since this is a family Blog we'll just say the raunch involves Laura being, um, well, by Condi, and, ah, Pat Robertson is, you know, Doo Doo, and let's let it go at that.

And you have to love the Rhino, one of the oldest theaters in town to offer exclusively gay shows (can't remember if it's All Queer All Year or All Gay Every Day). There are some strange looking folk on the loose there, but they mostly work there -- the audience is the same mixed bag you get everywhere else in the city. Hecklina himself was introduced from the crowd -- you really do have to be from Saint Plotniko to know what a star he is.

But forget about all that. 'The Twelve Days of Cochina' isn't Anti-Christmas, it's Mega Christmas, with brightly wrapped presents on stage and falling snow and a Cochina whose outerwear keeps disappearing. The Great Plotnik Theater Awards Division gives The Twelve Days of Christmas Four Stars for audacity, writing and performance, minus maybe a quarter star because the motion goes the wrong way -- hysterical at the outset but only very, very funny by the end. Damn, the man can pick a nit. But she makes back the quarter star for her red panties. You go, Cochina!