I’ve never heard of a web designer/comedian before - got any funny web design stories?
Really?  Are there funny things about web design?  Nothing funny has ever happened to me while designing a website.  I was never the person whose hand slipped off the keyboard into an electric eel pond. Although I did have a loft bed while I lived in New York and my laptop committed suicide by jumping out of the loft bed. Since then I have had to carry an external keyboard around.  To me that’s more tragic than funny.

You say your eyes are hazel and phinnius … who are they?
Julia Roberts’ twins.  My eyes are really just hazel but I’m so used to hearing phinnius after hazel I stuck him in.

You describe your dress sense as ‘old english paper boy’ - what does the discerning OEPB wear?
Oh my God I love wearing old English paper boy.  I wish I had more OEPB clothes. OEPB is really just what it says.  Like the newsies of yesteryear. It’s a lot of wool, cords, browns, generally too big because  its handed down by a brother or cousin, and a cap. Always a cap.  Nary a day I don’t wear a cap.

Your photos - especially the skydiving one on your blog - are freaking hysterically awesome.  Describe a typical “Extreme Maggie” photo-shoot?
First of all, most of the “photo shoots” you are referring to take place in front of my computer in a little program known to some as “photoshop.”  Although I did do a photo shoot with an incredible photographer named Britt Lundquist.  I was dressed as a ballerina in a jewelry box.  That was a very fun shoot because I got to kick down the set like a rock star when it was all over.  It was quite scary too as I had the most uncomfortable toe shoes on and I was on about a ten inch platform about four feet off the ground.  Oh the pain of a good photograph. I thought for sure I would end up a splat ballerina.

And the videos … you’re the queen of video - how did that happen?
As a stand-up comic you dream of what kind of show you would have if you ever made it.  I just took that show and started filming on my lil video camera and the videos are what I have come up with.  Its just a rough and loose idea of a show called Extreme Maggie.  I spent a lot of time trying to “make it”  but now I just have fun doing my own thing and in some ways these little videos are way better than if my show was watered down for the masses.  Although I wouldn’t mind the paycheck of the big production sit-com star.

The red page.  Stroke of genius.  How did you come up with it?  (Go to Maggie’s website to see what I’m talking about)
Seriously I didn’t have a lot of things I wanted to link to and I needed another link for the column to look right so I made up the red page.

Is there anything you consider absolutely not funny?
Crab cakes.  Crab cakes are not very funny.

Do you get homophobic heckles much?
Nope. Never. I used to do a joke in the beginning of my set about being mistaken for a man and I had a drunk lady yell out that yes I did look like a man.  I flashed her my boobs and told her I was no less a woman just because I didnt look like a trashy drunk whore like her. That was the ONLY show where I got a partial standing ovation.  OK it was like one table, but still. I was excited.

Should celebrities come out, or are they entitled to their privacy?
They are entitled to their privacy.  I think its good for the GLBT movement when they do come out but everyone has their own process and time frame and I think we should all be respectful of that.  Except Clay Aiken.  I mean c’mon, we all knew.

Groupies!  Got any?  And if so, what kinda stuff do they send/give you?
Ba Ha!!!  I wish!  No I have no groupies.  I know a few people who have my sticker on their car but that’s the extent of it.  If anyone wants to apply though…

Anything to declare?
A couple of melons, some t-shirts, a pineapple, and some other random souvenirs.

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