Beauty is Imperfection

(Originally posted Saturday, August 23, 2008 )

I love my wife, actress Stephanie Scott, first and foremost, of course. But I also have what you might call a “professional crush” on actress and comedienne Rachael Harris. Though she has racked up many credits since the mid-1990s, Stephanie and I first encountered her as the deadpan hairdresser with the androgynous name Kevyn on Kirstie Alley’s brief Showtime series Fat Actress. She and her co-stars were so funny on that show that I might have been a regular watcher if it had run past six episodes, but it didn’t. In any case, we’ve been fans ever since.

Though she seems to have pinned down steady commercial and TV work, she’s still got enough time to be doing a lot of work over at one of our fave sites, Funnyordie.com. I’ve attached one of her latest clips, in which she plays the eponymous Cougar in an advertisement for old women seeking younger men: