Judy Tenuta Biography
Judy Tenuta (Full name: Judy Lynn Tenuta)was an American comedienne. She was noted for her brash onstage persona, alternating insult comedy with self-promotion as the “Love Goddess”.
Judy Tenuta’s act was primarily structured around an exaggerated, offbeat persona that is referred to primarily as “The Love Goddess”.
Other monikers include “The Petite Flower”, “Aphrodite of the Accordion”, “Fashion-Plate Saint”, “Princess of Panty Shields”, and “Empress of Elvis Impersonators”. Judy Tenuta’s persona encourages fans to convert to her own personal religion, “Judyism”.She died on October 9 2022 at the age of 72.
Judy Tenuta Age | Death
She was born on November 7 1956 in Oak Park, Illinois. Judy died on October 9 2022 at the age of 72,from stage 4 ovarian cancer,with which she had been diagnosed in 2020.
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Family |Parents |Caesar |Joann
She was born to her parents Caesar Tenuta (father) and Joann Tenuta(mother). She was born to a large Catholic family. her mother is a Polish and her dad an Italian.
Husband | Judy Tenuta married| Vern Pang
At the time of her death she had been in a long term relationship with Vern Pang.
Net Worth
Judy Tenuta was an American actress, comedian, author, and producer. Judy had an estimated net worth of $4 million dollars as of the time of her death.
She was known for her brash persona which involves insult comedy and self-promoting herself as the “Love Goddess”.
Actor | Judy Tenuta Career
Judy Tenuta achieved her popularity by involving herself to (wisecracking, accordion-wielding self-proclaimed “Petite Flower and Love Goddess) during the golden age of character comedy, alongside “Emo Philips and Bobcat Goldthwait” and also to such notable contemporaries like Sam Kinison and Steven Wright.
She had been featured in the same way as in several productions of [Weird Al” Yankovic’s, and The Weird Al Show. also, she appeared on game shows which included:
Judy Tenuta Activities
Judy involved herself in the following activities and achievements in the following years;
1986–1990: “Joan Rivers”.
1987: HBO special Women of the NightHBO special Women which made her be known the whole nation.
1988: She won Best Female Stand-Up Comic at The American Comedy Awards.
1987–1988: She toured across the country with another of her favorite comedians, comedy legend George Carlin.
1988–1995: Frequent guest on the morning radio show “Howard Stern”
988: Judy Tenuta became the “Spokes-Goddess” for a series of “Diet Dr. Pepper” commercials,
1991: She published her first book, The Power of Judyism, following up with an audio CD version in 1999.
1994: She was nominated for her first Grammy, for her comedy CD Attention Butt Pirates and Lesbetarians.
1995: Judy Tenuta was nominated for her second Grammy, for her comedy CD In Goddess We Trust.
1996: Tenuta appeared as a drill sergeant, Sam Rottweiler, training gay men.
1998: She conceived, produced, and starred in the film Desperation Boulevard.
2001: Appeared on The View, dishing.
2007: She made a guest appearance as Mrs. Holler, the librarian, on”Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide”.
2011: She played Zania, a menacing, aging actress, in the independent film Going Down in LA-LA Land, and also the “Mother Nun” in the independent horror comedy(Sister Mary).
Death |Is Judy Still Alive? |Ovarian Cancer
Judy diesdon October 2022 at the age of 72.At the time of her death she had been in a long term relationship with Vern Pang.
She was survived by Pang,six siblings and extended family.Tenuta is interred at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
Judy Tenuta Comedian
She appeared in the shows known as (TheVagina Monologues). she was featured as the national spokesperson for a series of Diet “Dr. Pepper commercials”.
Full Frontal TenudityThe as described (Love Goddess and Aphrodite Of The Accordion) had made hundreds of guest and co-hosting appearances on such popular television shows as The ViewState Night With David Letterman, Larry King Live, Entertainment Tonight and Comics Unleashed.
Judy Tenuta had been nominated twice as Grammy Award winner, as her (fb-transparentHer comedy albums) that is “Attention Butt-Pirates and Lesbetari and still In Goddess We Trust, she was the first female stand-up comic to win the”Best Female Comedian” at the American Comedy Awards.
Judy Tenuta had starred in two independent films, which include “Going Down In La-La Land” and the “Gibsonberg.” House,” and alongside Hillary Duff in “Material Girls, also she was in the shows called “TheVagina Monologues”
Judy Tenuta Judy Quotes
These are the top 13 Judy Tenuta quotes as Comedian
CROSS QUOTES
This guy says, “I’m perfect for you, ’cause I’m a cross between a macho man and a sensitive man.” I said, “Oh, a gay trucker?
BRING QUOTES
Nothing makes my day more than when someone comes up to me and says I bring them joy. That’s why I do it, to make people laugh their butts off and forget about their problems.
COMMIT QUOTES
How many of you have ever started dating because you were too lazy to commit suicide?
MATTRESSES QUOTES
What do men want? Men want a mattress that cooks.
BOTTLES QUOTES
You can’t get a body like mine in a bottle unless you push real hard.
PROFESSORS QUOTES
I got an A in philosophy because I proved my professor didn’t exist.
LITTLES QUOTES
I turned down a date once because I was looking for someone a little closer to the top of the food chain.
GOD LOVE QUOTES
Love Goddess in training. It could happen.
SUICIDAL QUOTES
How many of you have ever started dating because you were too lazy to commit suicide?
MEMORABLE QUOTES
This guy says, “I’m perfect for you, ’cause I’m a cross between a macho man and a sensitive man.” I said, “Oh, a gay trucker?”
FRIENDSHIP QUOTES
Friends are just enemies who don’t have enough guts to kill you…
ITALIAN QUOTES
I’m half-Italian and half-Polish. So I’m always putting a hit out on myself.
PROCRASTINATION QUOTES
My mother always told me I wouldn’t amount to anything because I procrastinate. I said, “Just wait.”
Judy Tenuta Talk after Visting Las Vegas
Judy Tenuta had much to share after visiting Las Vegas, s anyone else does.
“My very first time was when I was not known very well but I was working with Mitzi [Shore] at The Comedy Store and, oh my God, this was back before all the TV stuff and even before my first HBO special,” says the “Love Goddess” comedian and actress known to incorporate the accordion into her stand-up act. “I was there for Thanksgiving and Mitzi had all these comics together for Thanksgiving dinner.
“And then when I returned in the summer of 1987 I opened for George Carlin at Bally’s and that was really great because my parents got to meet him.
I grew up Catholic listening to him say all these wild things about priests and whatever, because he grew up Catholic, too.
When I was on tour with him we would talk to each other in these odd voices, he’d do it and I’d talk back in a different voice, all the way to the show.
His manager would finally say, ‘Will you guys shut up?’ And George would tell him, ‘No, we get to have fun, too.’”
Tenuta, for 61 years, has been around all sorts of stars through nearly four decades in comedy,
“I’m very excited because I might be sandwiched between Mr. Las Vegas and who knows, maybe Siegfried and Roy? That could be exciting,” she says.
“I was invited to see Siegfried and Roy back when I had all those specials and then Siegfried made a reference to me during the show. I’m just glad he didn’t make me come onstage with the tiger. That’s where I draw the line.”
Tenuta has done countless comedy specials for “HBO”, Showtime and Lifetime and appeared dozens of times on late-night talk shows, more recently appeared in The Vagina Monologues and Menopause the Musical.
Grammy Awards
Judy Tenuta’s been nominated twice for Grammy Awards was the first winner of the Best Female Comedian prize at the American Comedy Awards and is easily recognized for wild and wacky commercial campaigns with MTV and Dr. Pepper.
Tenuta headlines the Palm Springs International Comedy Festival later this month. She’s still doing stand-up these days, although a bit more selectively at a pace that fits her lifestyle, while working on independent films and maintaining an active YouTube channel.
“It’s nice to choose the shows I would like to do and that’s what I prefer when I do the live show. At my age, you don’t always want to go to towns with names like Padacki or Bullhonk,” she jokes.
Desperat
“And I’m sorry to say I’m not yet one of those people, an ex-wife of some guy so I can be on Desperate Housewives of Beverly Hills or something.”
Judy Tenuta has been characterized as one of the pillars of so-called “character comedy” in the 1980s and 1990s stand-up scene, because of the over-the-top “Petite Flower” persona she embodied.
But she says every comedian is enlarging and extrapolating his or her or their personality during a performance.
“When you talk to people like Jay Leno or Jerry Seinfeld, even they have to magnify whatever their basic essence is. It’s still a character but not as exaggerated as someone like Sam Kinison or Steven Wright,” she says. “I’ve certainly done movies where that’s different.
I did one called ‘Desperation Boulevard’ where I play a former child star who will do anything to make a comeback, and I have to tell my crazy manager I’m not going to rob a convenience store.
“So what I’m saying is, would I ever stray from my formula? Yeah. I will. I’ll be a guest cadaver on ‘Gray’s Anatomy’ but only if they’ll let me come to life.”