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Elvira Kurt's resumé boasts work with some of the most prestigious comedic institutions in a wide spectrum of media formats. She has worked as a standup comic, a television script writer, and a stage actor; has appeared on both large and small screen; and is a true comedic jack-of-all-trades. She got her start with the infamous Second City Theatre of Toronto and London, and after working through the ranks of their program, found work with a variety of positions in television for Comedy Central and the CBC. She has been a featured actor in the Toronto and Vancouver productions of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues, and is best-known for her solo stage work, which draws on her experiences as a homosexual and satires issues of the gay and lesbian community. Perhaps the most notable of her solo stage work is with her original production of Viva Elvira!, which has debuted in Los Angeles and Toronto. Kurt released her first comedy recording in 1999 with Kitten With a Wit, and followed it up with Live From Las Vegas.
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Elvira Kurt (Hungarian: Kürt Elvíra) (born December 9, 1961) is a Canadian comedian and was the host of the entertainment satire/talk show PopCultured with Elvira Kurt on The Comedy Network in Canada. The show's style was similar to The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and began in 2005, and was canceled due to poor ratings in early 2006. She is of Jewish Hungarian descent.
Openly lesbian, she coined the term "fellagirly" to describe herself and other queer females whose style is a blend of butch and femme, as opposed to strictly one or the other. Her comedic style relies heavily on complaints about celebrity culture, her own appearance, and the effects of aging.
In 2007, Kurt hosted the second season of the gay wedding series First Comes Love (which originated in Canada under the title My Fabulous Gay Wedding.) She is currently a judge on The Second City's Next Comedy Legend, a frequent guest on the CBC Radio show The Debaters, and a weekly guest on where she does a "Cultural Hall of Shame" segment each week.
