Billed as "America's First Hearing Impaired Comedienne", Kathy Buckley is also a four-time (1995-98) American Comedy Award Nominee as Best Stand-Up Female Comedienne. In June of 1998, her highly acclaimed autobiographical hit theater play "DON'T BUCK WITH ME!" A One Woman Show and Tale enjoyed a three month return Los Angeles engagement at the prestigious Tiffany Theater in West Hollywood, California.

On a dare from a friend, she entered a comedy contest called, "Stand-up Comic Take a Stand", in 1988. Winning fourth place, Kathy began touring the U.S., playing major comedy venues like Carolines (New York City), Catch a Rising Star (Las Vegas, Reno), The Improv (West Hollywood), The Ice House (Pasadena), The Comedy Store (Hollywood), The Laugh Factory (Hollywood), and many others. In record time, she became one of the most popular comediennes in the country with material based on, among others things, her hearing loss. That impairment, however, is only one of the many hurdles Kathy has encountered in her life. Her poor performance in second grade landed her in a school for retarded and physically impaired children. It took school administrators, psychologists, and audiologists nearly a year to discover it was just a hearing loss and not a lack of mental acuity that was impeding her speech and language development. Today, Kathy shakes her head as she quips to amazed audiences, "... And they called me slow?"

Kathy's popular appeal, unique persona, and refreshing sense of humor also attracted the attention of high profile comedy television shows, entertainment news programs, and talk shows. She has been a guest on The Tonight Show - Starring Jay Leno and The Howard Stern Show. She has been featured in various national magazines including People as one of their most touching stories of 1997, and profiled in depth on the Today Show, Good Morning America, Entertainment Tonight, Extra, Inside Edition and others.

In one of her many special projects, Kathy was the focus of I Can Hear the Laughter, a 1991 Emmy award-winning documentary, and although she regularly receives national media attention, Kathy Buckley is more than just a popular comic. Her humor has a higher purpose. "My comedy disarms people," says Kathy. "I love to make people laugh, but I love it even more if I can teach them something at the same time."

She backs her philosophy by tirelessly performing on behalf of nonprofit and educational organizations such as The MDA Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Telethon, Children's Hospitals, and the Children's Miracle Network Telethon, and numerous other causes.

Whether performing in a comedy club, guesting on television, speaking publicly, teaching at camps for the deaf, or appearing in any number of other settings, Kathy Buckley bears her message that anything can be achieved when the heart and the mind work together.

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