LOS ANGELES (AP) — Judy Tenuta, a brash standup who
cheekily styled herself because of the “Love
Goddess” and toured with George Carlin as she
built her profession in the Eighties golden age of comedy
died Thursday. She became seventy two.
Tenuta died Thursday afternoon at home in Los Angeles
with her family around her, publicist Roger Neal
advised The Associated Press. The motive of demise was
She was a very funny, remarkable performer,"
Neal said, and it was continually a “glad ti
me to be around her."
Tenuta had claimed her birthdate as Nov. 7, 1965,
but she was born in 1949, Neal said. “She was
an antique faculty so she would never inform us of
her actual age, but now that she’s gone we can inform
Her heart-formed face, crowned by way of bouffant
hair with a flower accent, conveyed an effect of
candy innocence that became quickly shattered by
means of her loud, gravelly shipping and acidic
humour, expletives covered. The accordion
she made a part of her act became “an tool of love
love and submission,” as she fondly called it.
She turned into a technology of performers who
drove the recognition of stay comedy in golf
equipment nationwide including the Comedy Store in
Los Angeles, Laff Stop in Houston and Caroline’s in New