So I was going to see Adam Sank host the Electro-shock Therapy Comedy Hour at Therapy and I walked in the bar with my tall and handsome friend who just happens to be straight. Little did he know - we were going "gaybarring"!

Adam Sank

Adam greeted me right away with a warm smile and handshake thanking me for coming and proudly announcing that New York Cool was here and now we could start the show. Okay! Adam has some sense of humor. He was dressed in a western style snap-button-down shirt topped by a cowboy hat, but his style screamed Manhattanite. His jeans certainly were not Wranglers and his boots were not quite the cowboy style.

My friend and I sat at a round cocktail table on the front row and started devouring $5 Cosmopolitans, the strongest I have ever had. The stage looked like it was built in front of a large white-brick fireplace. About forty candles decorated the inside of this would-be fireplace.

The line-up for the night included songs by Wendy Ho, baby and lesbian stories by Carolyn Castiglia and a set from the headliner Danny McWilliams.

Adam then trotted out to the front of the stage. He started the night off with a confessional life history, which included confessions he has had to make to his parents. There is something precocious and adorable about Adam and the guy is funny too.

Wendy Ho

Wendy Ho was totally ghetto. She sang "Bitch, I Stole your Purse" with a grimy voice. She was dressed ghetto fabulous with a white rabbit vest accented by a huge gold belt and a jewelry box full of gold accessories. The big hit of the evening was her rendition of "Get Here," which was called "Fuck me." She cleverly depicted the different times a woman wants to be fucked, contrasting them from the times she wants to be made love to. The gay men in the audience loved her set. Instead of "I don't care how you get here, just get here if you can," she made her rendition, "I don't care how you fuck me, just fuck me when you can." The crowd responded throughout the number with knowing nods, hysterics and claps.

Carolyn Castiglia

Next up was Carolyn Castiglia, whom you may have seen perform at Caroline's or Gotham. She graced the stage wearing a "tent" of a shirt, which she said she wore for easy nipple access. She explained that she had pulled her eight-month-old-baby-girl off her breast as she ran out the door to "work." She also told us that work was the place where she could cuddle a beer and her husband wouldn't know. She told us that she felt there was a certain amount of lesbianism to breast feeding. Before the birth of her baby, the only times a woman had sucked her tit, it was lesbianism. She also spoke about living in East Harlem as a white woman with a black woman's ass. Carolyn certainly does know how to throw the shit right back at anyone who wants to dish it out.

Danny McWilliams

You've probably seen Danny McWilliams on "Funny Gay Males." He has done the show since 1988 and occasionally still does. McWilliams stole the night and the love of the gay audience. The Queens-raised headliner was the only openly gay comedian as well as the comedy connoisseur for the evening. McWilliams spoke of the evolution of the homosexual community. The community has had many changes - from being an illness to being a community to being the "gay community" to being the "gay and lesbian community." McWilliams had loads of stories that illustrate what it's like to be part of the gay and lesbian community. For all you straight men who may think that this comedy show is not quite your cup of tea - when my straight male friend was asked by McWilliams to imagine for a second that his brother came to him and challenged him to use the word "hooter" in a sentence. Little Danny proclaimed: "Whoda hell decorated this room?" My handsome friend then broke from his nervous stance of clenching butt muscles and burst out in hysterical laughter. Lastly, Danny left the gay and lesbian community with some hope for 2006 saying, "Thank god we have a new pope because John Paul was against gay marriage."

Therapy has often been described as having a tough crowd to please, but all three performers had a ball and the audience loved them. The women were hysterically raunchy and McWilliams was classically and wittily gay. And I already told you I liked Adam Sank.

Therapy is a quaint, clean and dimly lit bi-level bar on 348 West 52nd street between 8th and 9th avenues. I am told that they also serve food, however, the kitchen was closed on this particular evening. There is only one bathroom facility which is Unisex. Do you dare? If you would like to attend the next Electro-Shock Therapy Comedy Hour, Adam Sank will host it on January 8th, 2006 with a whole new line-up of comedians. You can check out Danny McWilliams on www.funnygaymales.com. To get performance listings for Wendy Ho go to www.myspace.com/wendyho. If you would like to see Carolyn Castiglia perform you can find her calendar and more information at www.carolyncastiglia.com.