Kay Kay’s Divorce: I’d Fall in Love with Anyone

Kay Ballard does not suffer fools gladly. Despite her adorable and modest ways (about which she is happy to tell you), and despite the Twitter avatar that produces in me an unquenchable desire to refer to her as “Dollface”, Kay is a force to be reckoned with. Which is why, when she asked me if I was interested in being a part of her team that would help with her spoken-word comedy CD about her divorce, I said yes, of course.

It’s okay. Take a minute.

Yep. A spoken-word comedy CD about her divorce. It’s called Kay Kay’s Divorce: I’d Fall in Love with Anyone. She explains it this way: “I imagined myself telling people that I had a comedy CD about my divorce on iTunes. And in my imagination, people understood the joke and laughed uproariously. They were charmed by it. In fact, the imaginary people in my imagination were so delighted by the very idea of my divorce CD, that the only way they could have found me more charming was if I had told them I owned a potato chip factory.”

Well, even after toiling on the project, I was pretty charmed by it myself, and I’m mostly not imaginary. Kay is hilarious in a sort of shocking way I have a hard time explaining. She makes me scream a little when I laugh at what she’s saying. So I suggested to Kay that we do a bit of a Q&A here. She liked the idea, and so I send my questions over to her. What follows is her response, complete with commentary.

I am a lawyer.  You must forgive me for what can only be considered a youthful indiscretion.  But since I am a lawyer, I must, from time to time, do what I am compelled to do by my training and experience, which is be annoying in a lawyerly fashion.

That is why I am prepared to say that your questions assume facts not in evidence.  Lots.  Cut that out!  The annoying Ann Curry does the very same thing and we must try not to be like her, even though we are.

So having kindly pointed out that your questions are, well, stupid, here goes with the answers.

1. Most people simply suffer through a divorce and then try to get on with their lives. But you’ve taken this unfortunate event and turned it into an offbeat comedy! What gives? Where did you find the gumption for it?

My divorce was not an unfortunate event, although, like most divorces, in the beginning, it disguised itself as an unfortunate event.  As time progressed, it revealed itself for what it really was, a fortunate event—an opportunity.  My divorce provided me with the freedom to love another, to open my heart to the possibility of love.  My divorce also developed a personality, a life of its own.  In fact, my divorce became highly desirable and worthy of attention—not unlike the attention it is receiving today, here on this very blog.

2. Have you always been so full of the aforementioned gumption?

Gumption is an old fashioned word.  I like it just fine.  But I think a better description of me is that I am bold.  I have the ability to be bold.  Have I always had that ability?  Probably, but I simply can’t remember all the way back to always.  Please ask Daniel Thurston.  He has me memorized.

3. Did you know anything about recording before you embarked on this project?

I have known about recording since I was a child and my father permitted me to screw up his expensive reel to reel recorder, just for the fun of it.  However, perhaps your question is meant to elicit information about whether Kay Kay’s Divorce: I’d Fall In Love With Anyone is my company’s first foray into the commercial production of comedy CD’s.  Obviously we knew something about it or we wouldn’t have proceeded. We knew enough to establish a record label and to hire a producer and other professionals to help us get it done.  And the things we have learned and continue to learn as we go through the process of bring our divorce comedy CD to market have great value to us going forward.

4. Given that Kay Kay’s Divorce was almost completely a virtual project, how did you go about finding people to work with you?

I wouldn’t describe Kay Kay’s Divorce: I’d Fall In Love With Anyone as a virtual project.  It is true that most of the people who are involved in the project are people who we met online and that we are using online vendors and online distributors in the promotion and distribution of the CD.  So perhaps I should describe it as a virtual project.  As far as the people involved, with a few notable exceptions—you being one of them—we hired people we have worked with before, like our producer, the fabulous Paula Kelley and our graphic designer, the fabulous Kate Carpenter.  We have an entire team of talented professionals who really know how to play the A-game.

5. What would be the ultimate, dreamy, ideal goal for Kay Kay’s Divorce? A Grammy? To have an Andrew Lloyd Weber musical based upon it? The sky’s the limit.

Honestly, I just want people to have fun with it and to be captured, as I was, by the idea that my divorce, Kay Kay’s Divorce, belongs on Itunes.

And, oh yes, I hope we sell a boatload.

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Buy Kay Kay’s Divorce: I’d Fall in Love with Anyone here!