BayWindows.com – Ethan Jacobs – photo: Marilyn Humphries
Hedda Lettuce blows her top at Pride festival
If you weren’t at Pride on Saturday, here’s what you missed. (And if you were there for the festival, here’s what you heard – no, you weren’t imagining things.) This year’s emcee Hedda Lettuce went above and beyond the call of duty when headliner Shannon was late. As in really late, and Hedda was forced to improvise. The six-time Drag Queen of the Year Award-winner from New York’s HX magazine reached into her bag of tricks and pulled out what could only have been her nightclub act, which features jokes about stretched anal orifices, gay couples adopting Filipino babies and pop singer Jewel giving oral sex with a chipped tooth.
The normally PG-rated festival quickly turned otherwise. Although those listening up at the stage clearly enjoyed her act, most of the jokes fell flat. It’s one thing to compare Jewel’s chipped tooth with a cheese grater in a club setting. It’s quite another to do it from a large stage on the Boston Common where most of the people in range of your mic aren’t really listening to you. After Hedda had dropped more f-bombs than we could count, someone from backstage asked her to tone things down. And that’s when Hedda blew her top and things got, well, entertaining. Click here to read Hedda’s x-rated act. Read on to hear her temper tantrum: