{"id":91327,"date":"2023-04-09T23:31:17","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T06:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=91327"},"modified":"2023-04-10T08:28:36","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T15:28:36","slug":"judy-strikes-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2023\/04\/09\/judy-strikes-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Judy Strikes Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever I have the opportunity, I love to hang out with funny people \u2013 particularly funny gay people.&nbsp; Last week I was having fun in the sun in Fort Lauderdale with funnymen <strong>Frank DeCaro <\/strong>and <strong>Jim Colucci<\/strong>.&nbsp; I had to cut our time short to zip up to NYC and see <strong>Judy Gold <\/strong><em>off-Broadway <\/em>in <strong><em>Yes, I Can Say That!<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;at <em>Primary Stages <\/em>(closing April 16<sup>th<\/sup>).&nbsp; Comedians doing one-person theatrical shows can be a tricky venture.&nbsp; Quite often, the conceit is basically a transplant of a stand-up set.&nbsp; Not so with this show, cleverly staged by <strong>BD Wong <\/strong>and effortlessly (and breathlessly) performed by Gold.&nbsp; Using her best-selling book of the same name as a jumping-off point, this is a cross between history lesson, confessional, and cautionary tale \u2013 with plenty of laughs.&nbsp; If history has taught us anything, it\u2019s that it can be repeated.&nbsp; Judy draws a compelling line between the rise of Nazi Germany and today\u2019s political climate.&nbsp; She also reminds us that the most effective weapon against hate speech is more speech.&nbsp; Whenever times are bleak, it is comedians that not only speak truth to power, but also provide us with the courage to face anything and everything.&nbsp; Judy\u2019s not only one of the funniest people I know \u2013 she\u2019s one of the smartest.&nbsp; Catch her whenever you can!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll be sitting down with Judy Gold for a special episode of <strong><em>Billy Masters LIVE<\/em><\/strong> on Wednesday, April 12<sup>th<\/sup> at 2:30PM Eastern.&nbsp; Check us out on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/BillyMastersTV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>YouTube <\/em><\/a>channel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/BillyMastersTV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>Billy Masters TV<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, or on <a href=\"http:\/\/BillyMasters.com\/TV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>BillyMasters.com\/TV<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever I have the opportunity, I love to hang out with funny people \u2013 particularly funny gay people.&nbsp; Last week I was having fun in the sun in Fort Lauderdale with funnymen Frank DeCaro and Jim Colucci.&nbsp; I had to cut our time short to zip up to NYC and see Judy Gold off-Broadway in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91327"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91334,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91327\/revisions\/91334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}