Jessica Delfino

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Jessica Delfino (born September 28, 1976 in Damariscotta, Maine) is a singer, songwriter, and stand-up comic based in New York City. Her songs tend to ridicule taboos and are best known for being bathroom humour oriented and include jokes about vaginas and other related topics. In her act, she plays an assortment of instruments including guitar, flying V ukelele and a rape whistle. She's also an illustrator and attended Philadelphia's Art Institute, as well as the University of Maine. She has won numerous awards, and appeared on Good Morning America [1] as a finalist in a national comedy competition. She's also won many competitions, many of them unusual, such as the Stoned Spelling Bee in Brooklyn, the Madagascar Institute's Catholic high school talent competition [2] and the Arlene's Grocery "Gong Show". [3]

Her first CD, Dirty Folk Rock came out in 2004 on the Soundcakes International label, and received excellent reviews all across the USA, including Jane Magazine, High Times (Best "unsigned" Act of The Month)[4], Arthur Magazine (in a fawning review by Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore)[5] and The Onion described her as "Redd Foxx meets Jewel". She also wrote for MTV's game show called "I Bet You Will"[6] along with Morgan Spurlock[7], who hired her to write songs for his upcoming film investigating Christmas. She's appeared on Opie & Anthony's radio show[8], UK comedian and "Big Brother" star Russell Brand's radio show, the Sundance Channel, the Montreal Comedy Festival [9], the (Scotland) Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Galway (Ireland) Comedy Festival, the Bud Light Comedy Festival (Dublin, Ireland), the NY International Children's Film Festival [10] and toured the USA with Lisa "Suckdog" Crystal Carver and Dame Darcy and The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players and Corn Mo as their opening act[11].

She is also known for managing the record-breaking mayoral campaign of Christopher X. Brodeur, as well as for performing as various unusual characters, including "Bilge Baron" in her histrionic fear-metal band Haunted Pussy[12] and "T-Top Trans-Am"[13] (her white-trash burlesque act) amongst many others.

She writes a blog[14] that Wil Wheaton called "the funniest thing I've ever read,"[15] and on December 19, 2006, Catholic League president William A. Donohue publicly attacked Delfino's act, asserting that it "provides ammunition" to Muslim terrorists by "harboring a depraved understanding of liberty."[16]