The Story

Let’s face it: There is nothing funny about divorce.

But at some point, Kay Ballard became convinced that it would be funny to produce a comedy CD about her divorce and to put it up for sale on iTunes.

Kay tells the story this way: “You see, I had a whacked-out idea that soon became my whacked-out dream. 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.”

So Kay wrote a little comedy riff about her divorce.  She performed it, live and in person, alone in her living room, and recorded it on her beloved Edirol R-09 digital recorder. She sent the recording off to a sound engineer, and then…

The rest of the story is told in great depth with great bravado in “The Making of Kay Kay’s Divorce.”