Stephanie Miller's Sexy Liberal Tour Rolls On

Funny people: Lily Tomlin, Edie McClurg, Stephanie Miller,
John Fugelsang and Hal Sparks. Image from LA Times

Years ago, my sister would tell me how much she loved The Stephanie Miller Show. When I'd visit her in Ohio, I'd catch the odd snippet, and it just seemed noisy. Here in Las Vegas, we don't have--and never have had--a liberally-oriented radio station. And TSMS airs at 6:00 here in Pacific Time, a bit earlier than I get up. But about four years ago or so, I started tuning in to the last 1 or 1-1/2 hours of the show. I was a nearly instant fan. The show is politically liberal, but it is also very funny, with improvisational humor by voice artist Jim Ward, Stephanie herself, and her producer Chris LaVoie.

The show features numerous guests, from Senators and Congresspersons, to comedians and actors. The comedy ranges from the high-brow to the basest humor allowed by the FCC. Regular guests like Edie McClurg, Aisha Tyler, Hal Sparks and John Fugelsang provide "must hear" appearances almost every day of the week. In the last year, TSMS has birthed a traveling stage show, called The Sexy Liberal Comedy Tour, featuring Sparks, Tyler (sometimes), Miller and Fugelsang. It's been selling out all over the country, and getting rave reviews. It's doing so well, Bill O'Reilly and Dennis Miller are attempting to rival them with their own tour. Except O'Reilly and Miller aren't funny.

This weekend, Sexy Liberal was in Los Angeles, which is the radio show's home base. And since they're in Hollywood, they got some liberal friends to join them: Lily Tomlin, McClurg and Rob Reiner. Even LaVoie and Ward got to get in on the act. I'm jealous. Hey, Steph! I live in Vegas, the entertainment capital of the world! Come entertain us! Please?


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Can a comedy tour be 'sexy and liberal?'

At each stop on Stephanie Miller’s nationwide "Sexy Liberal Comedy Tour" -– launched at Madison, Wis.'  Barrymore Theatre in April -- a surprise comic guest shows up onstage. At the tour’s Southern California debut Friday night at the Wadsworth Theatre, the surprise guest was Lily Tomlin, who joined talk show host Miller and comedians John Fugelsang and Hal Sparks for a panel discussion at the end of the show. . .

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