Excerpt from Comedy Review

by Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle
25 December 1996

Chinese food, Jewish humor on 'Kung Pao Kosher' menu

Christmas has a way of casting a glow on all activity this time of year. This "Silver Bells" sensation even wraps itself around "An Evening of Kung Pao Kosher Comedy," which began a six-show run Monday night and concludes with two shows this evening.

The Christmassy feel is ironic, considering that the show was designed as an alternative Christmas event -- to provide a little Chinese food and Jewish humor for an audience of anyone who might otherwise feel left out during the holiday and pass the time at a movie. But then "Kung Pao Kosher Comedy," in its fourth year, is on its way to becoming, of all things, a Christmas tradition.

This year's show, at the enormous Hunan Restaurant on Sansome Street, features solo performance artists Josh Kornbluth and Sherry Glaser and the drag ensemble Kinsey Sicks -- four men in garish dresses and wigs, singing a capella and telling Jewish jokes.

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Kinsey Sicks follows with a set of song parodies and jokes. Its first number, a group theme song, got things off to a shaky start, but then, suddenly, the ensemble became quite funny. Its best bit is a song parody of "Don't Worry, Be Happy," which is given a fatalistic Jewish mother spin: "Don't Be Happy -- Worry." They finish with a parody of the "Macarena," singing about holiday overeating: "Oy Macaroona!"

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