Genre: Comedy, Women's Styles: Standup Comedy, Gay Comedy, Political Comedy Biography: Kate Clinton began performing her political comedy in 1981, the same year as Ronald Reagan. Like Reagan, Kate Clinton has built her success upon breaking the rules. Her fast- paced, cutting edge performance skewers political egos and shreds taboos. Kate Clinton, always an authority on Bush, sees comedy as a bawdy politic. The laughter she evokes is less a machinegun staccato outburst and more a rolling, building blend of fading fears and connections made. Read more on Last.fm