Saturday Night Lewd

Saturday Night LewdI first met stand-up comic Beth Lapides in 1992. She had been doing a joke in her act about running for first lady: "It's such an important job. And how does she get it? Sleeping with the president" Then it occurred to her that "it would be a lot better to actually run than to just keep saying this joke. To do a sort of joke in action." And she put her career on hold so she could conduct her mock campaign. It was a "full-disclosure campaign," she...