Judy Gold Comes To Joe's Pub 5/2, Lea DeLaria and Jackie Hoffman Guest

In a new LIVE TALK SHOW, the hilarious Judy Gold brings her larger-than-life comedy to Joe's Pub with special guests Lea DeLaria and Jackie Hoffman. Judy takes the audience on a wild ride, dishing about the entertainment industry, religion, sexuality and current events.

Judy Gold, Emmy Award winning actress and comedian, is best known as the star of the critically acclaimed long-running Off-Broadway hit 25 QUESTIONS FOR A JEWISH MOTHER, for which she was nominated for a 2006 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance. In addition the show won the 2007 GLAAD Award for "Outstanding New York Theater." The New York Times called this one-woman show "Fiercely Funny, Honest and Moving."A book based on the show launched in 2007 and was nominated for the prestigious Quill award.

She has appeared as a regular on Tru TV's "The Smoking Gun Presents," She has guest-hosted ABC's The View- where she has appeared numerous times and appears regularly on The Joy Behar Show on HLN. Judy recently appeared on Ugly Betty and The Wendy Williams Show. She recently finished an appearance in Nora and Delia Ephron's LOVE, LOSS AND WHAT I WORE off-Broadway.

She was the host of HBO's At the Multiplex with Judy Gold from 1999-2009, hosted Comedy Central's 100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time and the GLAAD MEDIA AWARDS which aired on LOGO and VH1. Her TV specials include a half-hour comedy special for LOGO and she is featured in the HBO documentary, All Aboard. Her Stand-up specials include Comedy Central Presents: Judy Gold, Comedy Central's Tough Crowd Stands Up and Judy's HBO half-hour special, which received a Cable Ace Award. Gold was seen in the smash hit film The Aristocrats and the documentary Making Trouble.

Gold won two Emmy Awards for writing and producing "The Rosie O'Donnell Show". She was nominated twice for The American Comedy Award's funniest female stand-up.

She has also appeared on Law & Order, Law & Order SVU, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and The Conan O'Brien Show to name a few.

Judy Gold will be bring her new show "It's Jewdy's Show: My Life as a Sitcom," which debuted in Washington DC to rave reviews, to Williamstown Theatre Festival this summer June 23rd-July 4th.

Tickets for Judy Gold: IT'S JEWDY'S TALK SHOW! are $18 and are available by visiting www.joespub.com or calling 212-967-7555.

Joe's Pub is located at 425 Lafayette Street in New York City.

Additional Bios

Jackie Hoffman: B'way: Addams Family, Xanadu, Hairspray (Theatre World Award). Off-B'way: Regrets Only, Pride & Joy, Book of Liz (Obie), Straightjacket, Incident at Cobbler's Knob, One Woman Shoe. Regional: Second City(Jeff Award), Sisters Rosensweig(Old Globe). Film: Extra Man, A Dirty Shame, Garden State, Legally Blonde II, Kissing Jessica Stein, Mo' Money, Robots, Queer Duck. TV: "30 Rock," "One Life to Live", "Starved," "Curb Your Enthusiasm," "Strangers with Candy," "TV Funhouse," "Conan," "Soulman," "Cosby." Numerous solo shows: MAC award, Bistro award. CD: Jackie Hoffman: Live at Joe's Pub.
Lea DeLaria: Broadway: Rocky Horror, On The Town. Lea is an Obie, Drama Desk, Theater World, Fanny Award Winner.

Concerts: Carnegie Hall, Hollywood Bowl, Lincoln Center, Town Hall, Chicago Symphony, Royal Albert Hall, among many others. Lea has recorded two live comedy albums (Bulldyke In A China Shop and Box Lunch) and developed specials for HBO, Showtime, Comedy Central, CBC, and WNBC 4, including work for which she received a 1994 regional Emmy Award ("The World According To Us, Lifetime). TV: One Life To Live, Law & Order, Will & Grace, The Oblongs, Friends, Matlock.