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Judy Tenota, a stand-up comic who rose to fame during the 1980s by performing her frenetic, off-kilter comedy while dressed in exotic clothing, playing the accordion and anointing herself the "goddess of love," died Thursday. She died at her home in Las Vegas. Angeles She was 72 years old.
Her longtime manager Roger Paul said it was due to ovarian cancer.
Judy TenutaThe stand-up scene was largely male when Ms. Tenotta and other women, such as Paula Poundstone and Rita Rodner, began to break through comedy's upper ranks in the 1980s. The 1988 American Comedy Awards named her "Comedy Club Female Comic of the Year". (Jerry Seinfeld won the equivalent award for men that year.) Two of his comedy albums, "Attention Butt Pirates & Lesbetarians" in 1995 and "In Goddess We Trust" in 1996, won Grammy Awards for best spoken word comedy album. was nominated for
Ms. Tenuta began taking notices in Chicago in the mid-1980s. In 1985, she was one of the opening acts for Yakov Smirnoff at Zanies, a Chicago comedy club, and caught the attention of Larry Cartw, who reviewed the show for the Chicago Tribune.
Judy Tenota"A cross between Elsa Lanchester" — who played the title role in the 1935 film "Bride of Frankenstein" — and Godzilla, Tenuta strolls across the stage with an accordion in her chest and a sickly smile on her face. Trying her best to impersonate. Temperamentally paranoid schizophrenic," Mr. Cartw wrote.
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