3 Blonde Moms say the darndest things

0 Comments | Oakland Tribune, Sep 22, 2006 | by Laura Casey, STAFF WRITER

COMEDY comes easy to a dream team trio of moms with a funny bone already implanted within.

First day of kindergarten? Funny. A colicky baby? Laughable. Listening in on your neighbors' conversations through your baby monitor? Hilarious.

"We don't even have to write material," says mom Joanie Fagan of the 3 Blonde Moms comedy troupe, which returns to Pleasanton's Tommy T's this week.

Fagan, Maryellen Hooper and Helen Keaney are the 3 Blonde Moms. With dozens of film and television credits between them, the women in the stand-up trio poke fun at themselves, their families, motherhood and just about everything else they can think of.

"We sort of make everyday things that happen to us funny," Fagan says.

Fagan, who has been seen on "The Drew Carey Show," dreamed up the idea for the 3 Blonde Moms show three years ago. She wanted to present moms that were haughty, perky and nasty. The current PG-13 show presents three moms who are perky, quirky and sassy.

Fagan, the perky one, describes herself as the pearl-wearing Martha Stewart mom on speed. She attends the PTA meetings, takes care of the house, shops for the kids' first day of school and on and on.

"I try to be perfect but I think anyone who really admits to trying to be perfect is one inch away from snapping," she says.

Hooper, whose credits including two appearances on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," is the quirky, earth mother mom whose idea of a facial is her baby throwing oatmeal on her face.

Keaney, the current host of "You're Invited" on the Style Network, is the sassy mom. Married to a felon, she sends her step- daughter home to her mother with tattoos and piercings.

Despite their differences, the 3 Blonde Moms are flaxen-haired friends whose kids enjoy playing with one another backstage at the shows.

When the 3 Blonde Moms first appeared in Pleasanton for a two- day engagement in mid-August, all shows sold out.

"Pleasanton loved them and we wanted to make sure to bring them back so we could see more," says Tommy T's Michelle Coler.

That's been the case with many 3 Blonde Moms engagements, among them the Montreal Just for Laughs Festival. The ladies have been picked up as spokesmoms for Suave hair products and will be commentators on Country Music Television's "20 Sexiest Videos of 2006" special premiering in November.

With all this work, one has to wonder if the 3 Blonde Moms have time to be, well, moms.

"We're really lucky," Fagan says. "We only work a few hours a night in a week."

Contact Laura Casey at lcasey@angnewspapers.com.