I wanna be an unfucker!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Magda Hassan]

[Peter Lemkin]

Un

F _ U _ C _ K

ing Unbelievable....! You almost can't go wrong watching any of her other videos....she was takin' in (briefly) by Obama....but I'd be willing to bet she also knows that, by now. Here and there are the sane aside the bleating masses of the insane. Real talent, chutzpah, and an honest search for truth....political and personal.

[Magda Hassan]

They probably fucked it up and Obama is clearly one of them. I saw later that she has a web site dedicated to Un-Fuckers http://www.unfuckitup.com/

[Dawn Meredith]

Ya this is cute...I saw it before somewhere.. so true. And yes Obama is one of them

[Keith Millea]

That's so unfucking rude!!!!

[Peter Lemkin]

Katie Goodman pretty much defies all reasonable expectations. She lives in the foothills of the mountains above Bozeman, Montana, a small town boasting a vast number of not-for-profit ecological organisations and Montana's biggest medicinal marijuana clinic, in a three-storey house she built herself. She is the daughter of Ellen Goodman, the crusading feminist and Pulitzer prize-winning columnist for the Boston Globe, and is married to Soren, her university sweetheart (she majored in philosophy), who is an award-winning playwright, a second degree black belt in Taekwondo and has recently been ordained in the Zen Buddhist tradition. Her parents-in-law were Baptists when Katie and Soren married, but have more recently become Lakota Water Bearers and now have weekly "sweats" in their lodge. In the summer, Katie and Soren run highly successful children's camps with the emphasis on creativity and performance arts.

The rest of the year Katie runs women's spiritual retreats. She is, in terms of feminist politics, very much her mother's daughter, and sees what she does as "giving women a voice". However Soren is, she says, "much more of a feminist than me. He even did women's studies at university." Now here, as Susan Calman would say, is "the thing". Look Goodman up online and you will get a series of videos of songs she has written and performed - songs with titles such as I Didn't F*** It Up, Soccer Mom Ho, and Saving My Hymen For Jesus.

I have to say, by the time she picks me up at the tiny airport in her 4x4 ("I know, I know, we got a Prius but it just couldn't make the roads in winter," she apologises), I am suspecting multiple personality disorder.

As it turns out, Katie Goodman is one of the most ordered personalities I have met. She says she has been ordered by both her PR guy and her producer not to use the F-word - "feminist". She is puzzled, but I explain that putting the word "feminist" on a show in the comedy section of the Fringe brochure has much the effect of putting the word "soy" on an otherwise delicious-looking chocolate bar.

It is July, a few weeks before the Fringe starts, and suddenly the car is filled with a scent not unlike that of rich baccy of the wacky variety. I sniff appreciatively. "Skunk," says Katie. I look out of the car at fields of green leafy stuff as far as the eye can see. I suddenly realise why Katie and almost all the other women who have been part of her show, Broad Comedy, over the years have been "city transplants" as Katie calls them. It turns out it is an actual skunk, of the furry variety. I feel like such a townie.

We drop by the camp where clear-up is still going on after the previous day's shower of tennis-ball-sized hailstones. "Snowballs were attacking our house," explains one cherub. Today's camp dilemma is watermelon-based. This afternoon there is a watermelon seed spitting contest, but Soren cannot find seeded watermelon any more. I mutter darkly about genetic modification and Katie and I go off for a meal while Soren goes out to buy sunflower seeds. We drive past a restaurant called Heebs. "No one thinks it's offensive," says Katie. "I'm the only Jew in this village."

Over a portion of bison potstickers, a pint of Moose Drool (true) for me and a Water Nymph for her, Katie explains that now Broad Comedy has become so well known across America, and so many of their hot hits are available on YouTube as well as their own website, before each summer camp she now sends an email around all the mums and dads suggesting that their little darlings do not Google that nice Ms Goodman. Of course, many of them do. And very many of the parents are fans. In fact, some of the kids who were participants in the first summer camps now come to help out - and know all the words to all the songs.

Broad Comedy has spread - from much anticipated yearly shows in Bozeman - across the States and taken up residencies in New York and LA as well as being a huge hit at the Vancouver Festival, which is where producer Michael Blaha found them. They count among their biggest fans the actor, comic and filmmaker Paul Provenza, who gave Katie, at one and the same time, her first big break and her first big heartbreak on TV. She was one of the music acts booked for his show The Green Room. The recording was blindingly good. Everyone loved it. Then the producers decided to cut all the music acts from the series. But she still has the recording.

Their Edinburgh show, I discover on this trip, was not rehearsed. Normally Katie writes with Soren, then she rehearses the Broads in the sketches and songs and, when the show is finally put together, Soren takes over as director because "I'm in it, so I can't see it any more". The Edinburgh show is a hot hits show and the performers are being flown in from all over the US to Edinburgh (a quarter of a million airmiles brings Broad Comedy to you!). Post Edinburgh, the Broads will be a "Diana Ross and the Supremes" moment. Katie will be taking more centre stage and more focus. And doing more solo performing. Meanwhile, catch her Extreme RightWing Cheerleading Squad while the whole squad is here. Feminists welcome.

[Magda Hassan]

[Magda Hassan]

[Magda Hassan]

They probably fucked it up and Obama is clearly one of them. I saw later that she has a web site dedicated to Un-Fuckers http://www.unfuckitup.com/

They had to call it Un-fuck it up as they couldn't call it iwanttobeanunfucker.com.