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 The
former massage therapist, fashion designer and model seems to have
found a niche in comedy, and something of a mission as well. "I
need to educate the hearing world about deaf culture," she
explains. "There’s a great deal of alienation between the two."
"It’s such a gift to be
able to get up on that stage and take people’s problems away from them
for the time being. Laughter is the best medicine, it always was
for me."
"My specialty, and my
favorite, is working with parents of children with disabilities.
There isn't anything in the world more rewarding than seeing the fear
and doubt leave a parent's eyes and be replaced with hope and faith.
Do you know why? That tells me that kid has a chance."
Kathy's fondest wish
is to have an entertainment name big enough that people will listen
when she speaks as an advocate of the deaf.
"I cannot imagine why
Nintendo would encourage our children to play it loud. If
children already have their hearing, by all means let them keep it."
Better Hearing News
(September, 1994)
 "When you grow up and people
make fun of you, and you realize you can make them smile before they can say something
crude, you learn to do that. But people are only cruel because they don't
understand."
"They don't know how to ask
'How did you get like that?' so they make fun instead."
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