Tenuta's stage persona is as colorful as the garb she wears on stage (Goddess outfits) while attacking audience members in a fun and feminist fashion.
During her act, JudyTenuta can be seen mesmerizing the audience with her accordion and singing wacky songs while attempting to convert all to a religion of her own persuasion: "Judyism." She collects canned goods from the audience, as "offerings for the Goddess," and demands nothing less from her devotees/pigs/stud puppets than complete adoration.
JudyTenuta was still traveling the nightclubs through the late '90s and branched out to include a film credit as a dominatrix in the movie Butch Camp to her repertoire.
When Tenuta speaks to BTL from her home in California she is naked, having just stepped out of the shower, and waiting for a Fed Ex package ("I love Fed Ex packages," she says) containing some new songs she mixed in Chicago.
Tenuta once asked her mother, a strict Catholic in her 70's, what she thought about the push to ban marriage for gays, and her mother's responded, "'They're stupid because it doesn't affect them anyway.
Tenuta admits she doesn't know who they'd vote for instead, as the Bush Administration is pretty much their only option.
JudyTenuta has starred in her own HBO, Showtime, and Lifetime Specials and has been seen on every major talk show.
Most recently Tenuta was a special correspondent for "American Journal", and "Entertainment Tonight," where she conducted interviews with such celebrated public figures as Donald Trump and Reverend Jesse Jackson.
JudyTenuta has also had two smash comedy CD's and nominated twice for Grammy Awards for her "Attention Butt-Pirates and Lesbetarians", and "In Goddess We Trust".
JudyTenuta is the most famous person that ever lived.
Her fans ranging from fetuses to fossils, gays to geishas, all beg to chew her gum and kiss her feet because she is the only fun-feminist who preaches that all women should be worshipped as "Love Goddesses", and all men have an equal opportunity to become her furniture.....
Judy has also had two smash comedy CD's and has been nominated twice for Grammy Awards for her Attention Butt-Pirates and Lesbetarians, and In Goddess We Trust.
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In addition to being one of the funniest comedians alive, JudyTenuta has a unique and completely distinctive prose style.
To spread the word of Judyism we must bring you forward in time...the Darva Congers and larva-eaters of Survivor demand to be skewered on the spit of your sarcasm.
Tenuta is a one-act comedian whose one act cannot carry an entire book.
JudyTenuta's fans ranging from fetuses to fossils, gays to geishas, all beg to chew her gum and kiss her feet because she is the only "fun-feminist of the 90's." Tenuta preaches that all women should be worshipped as "Love Goddesses", and all men have an equal opportunity to become her furniture.....It could happen!
JudyTenuta was the very first stand-up comedienne to win "Best Female Comedian" at the American Comedy Awards.
Tenuta is also the author of "The Power of Judyism" (Harper-Collins).
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Judy was the hit of the recent Chicago Comedy festival.
omg im inlove with judytenuta lol all because she is amazingly funny as hell and not to mention she has this unique voice thats just plain ol’ funny lol..
Judy dahling, I own all of your albums on CD except for your very first album, "Buy This Pigs!", which for some dildonic reason has never been released on CD.
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Her plan for Augusta, Tenuta says, is to “just talk about a lot of fun things and convert everybody to Judyism.”
Tenuta certainly has material that a lot of people can relate to such as romantic relationships and what people go through to keep themselves romantically viable.
She was interested in hearing about which group of Baptists were the most hard-core, and so this writer thought she might like to hear a little about the Pentecostal Holiness denomination, a south Georgia phenomenon famous for some adherents’ love of proving their faith by handling poisonous snakes.
Self-proclaimed goddess of the galaxy JudyTenuta and Space Ghost decide to visit the Elvis Chapel in Las Vegas.
JudyTenuta: Oh, Space Ghost, I love it that you are invisible, and that you don't eat my food, because you're a cartoon character, you know, like my big fat roommate Blowsanne!
JudyTenuta: Space Ghost, you must remember one thing: friends are just enemies who don't have the guts to kill you!
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JudyTenuta is a lot of things to a lot of people.
To others, she is simply “The Healer of Hermaphrodites.” Yet throughout her career, and even life, she is best known as “The Love Goddess.” For me, I grew to know JudyTenuta as “The Seamstress of the Stomach” — for throughout the entirety of this interview she kept my sides in stitches.
Judy: Yes, but don’t tell Meryl Streep I was in it — she thinks it was her!
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Tenuta's fans ranging from fetuses to fossils, gays to geishas, all beg to chew her gum and kiss her feet because she is the only "fun-feminist of the 90's." Tenuta preaches that all women should be worshipped as "Love Goddesses", and all men have an equal opportunity to become her furniture.....It could happen!
Tenuta has also had two smash comedy CD's and nominated twice for Grammy Awards for her "Attention Butt-Pirates and Lesbetarians", and "In Goddess We Trust".
JudyTenuta is available for dates throughout 2006!
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But take that same raving lunatic off the streets and put her onstage, and suddenly she’s a nutty comedienne who has built her entire career on treading the thin line between humor and clinical insanity.
Still, ignoring the fact that she likely suffers from a deep and troubling psychosis, it’s hard not to be taken in by JudyTenuta’s wacky charm.
No, no, they know it’s Judyism with a Y. Many ask how they can belong to my religion, and I just say they have to pray to the goddess, and when they come to see me live, they need to bring me an offering.
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Stand-up comedienne JudyTenuta is the goddess of her own religion, Judyism, and she encourages the "pigs" in her audience to worship her.
Her performances may include accordion music, sadomasochistic play with audience members, and stories of dating the Pope punctuated by her catch-phrase, "It could happen!" In 1997, she hosted an Internet talk show, The Princess of Pop Culture.
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JudyTenuta Featured on That's Kentertainment!, Feb. 16 (baltimore.broadwayworld.com)
JudyTenuta, the first woman to win the American Comedy Award, will appear on tonight's edition of That's Kentertainment!
Tenuta will "offer her 'Love Goddess' advice, sing a few songs, wax about all things relevant (including a new musical she is working on) and even feed her love-slave host Ken Kleiber potted weiners," according to press notes. The show will air tonight at midnight, Channels 34 and/or 83 in NYC, online at
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The world's first late-night talk show hosted by a cartoon superhero rockets onto the Cartoon Network Friday, April 29, with comedienne JudyTenuta, counterculture hero Dr. Timothy Leary and actress Ashley Judd.
In addition to segments with Tenuta and Leary, the fl-hooded, yellow-caped host of SPACE GHOST COAST TO COAST must also squelch a walkout attempt by the show's director, Moltar, and band leader, Zorak.
Susan Powter, Kevin Meaney and the Bee Gees are guests on the premiere SPACE GHOST COAST TO COAST.
Guest: THE Love Goddess herself, JudyTenuta joins us, with accordion in tow, to talk about her upcoming show at the McAninch Arts Center in Glen Ellyn, IL on September 30th.
You can also catch Judy on HBO Comedy with her show “One Night Stand” playing September 5,9,11,18,24,27,28, and 29.
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BOB RUMBA'S STAND UP COMIX, with JUDY TENUTA and EMO (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Bob Rumba is a Midwest-based professional ventriloquist, comic and Hollywood-lookalike (Groucho, Charlie Chaplin, Barney Fife, Stan Laurel, Peter Sellers), in addition to a host of other talents.
You can order a copy of our comic book, BOB RUMBA'S STAND UP COMIX (featuring JUDYTENUTA and EMO).
You can also order from a limited stockpile of the same books signed by JUDYTENUTA, EMO and BOB.