# Can anybody I.D. this standup comic (female, country singer persona)?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 10, 2011, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anybody-i-d-this-standup-comic-female-country-singer-persona/581370 "2011-05-10T03:29:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2011, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anybody-i-d-this-standup-comic-female-country-singer-persona/581370/1 "2011-05-10T03:29:30Z")

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She was at her most popular (at least most TV appearances) in the 1990s. She was almost a drag act in that she performed as an alter-ego who was a washed up once-big country singer, whose name I also don’t remember. One of her songs was about her husband’s death in an accident at a Christian petting zoo (it involved the audience making animal noises) and another was about her IRS problems. I can’t remember her name though- anybody familiar with her?

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**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2011, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anybody-i-d-this-standup-comic-female-country-singer-persona/581370/2 "2011-05-10T04:13:36Z")

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[Judy Tenuta](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa3j1qIVito&playnext=1&list=PL973EDED2C715E724)?

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**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2011, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anybody-i-d-this-standup-comic-female-country-singer-persona/581370/3 "2011-05-10T07:13:49Z")

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Susan Norfleet

[http://www.susannorfleet.com/](http://www.susannorfleet.com/)

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**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2011, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anybody-i-d-this-standup-comic-female-country-singer-persona/581370/4 "2011-05-10T08:02:13Z")

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I remember her, very funny. I remember as she singing the audience chimed in with the chorus and she stopped and shouted, “Now I did NOT ask you people to say a WORD!”

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**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2011, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anybody-i-d-this-standup-comic-female-country-singer-persona/581370/5 "2011-05-10T08:09:33Z")

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It was the petting zoo song, and the chorus went something like, “Thumpity thump, pittery pat / I never thought death would sound like that.”

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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2011, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anybody-i-d-this-standup-comic-female-country-singer-persona/581370/6 "2011-05-10T16:43:18Z")

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Major thanks. Hard to believe there’s no video of that song.