Pump and Dump: Moms, comedy and cocktails

Three funny Denver moms (from left, Karen Slack, Shayna Ferm and Tracey Tee) host a monthly comedy show by moms for moms called "Pump and Dump" at the bar Local 46. (Photo by Cyrus McCrimmon, The Denver Post)
Three funny Denver moms (from left, Karen Slack, Shayna Ferm and Tracey Tee) host a monthly comedy show by moms for moms called "Pump and Dump" at the bar Local 46. (Photo by Cyrus McCrimmon, The Denver Post)
Three funny Denver moms (from left, Karen Slack, Shayna Ferm and Tracey Tee) host a monthly comedy show for moms called the “Pump and Dump” at the bar Local 46 in northwest Denver. (Photo by Cyrus McCrimmon, The Denver Post)

By John Moore
Feb. 22, 2013

The Pump and Dump is a new monthly “parentally incorrect” live comedy talk show where moms dish the diaper-doo … and the men? Well, the lady with the mic playfully refers to the few outnumbered guys hanging awkwardly near the back as “the mother (bleepers). She’s not so much being cruel as … literal. After all, if it weren’t for these (and other) husbands and fathers, none of the women here would even be mothers. And almost all of them are.

This is a freelance story I wrote to lead Friday’s Denver Post entertainment section. Click here to read the whole thing, and to find information about Wednesday’s next gathering of the Pump and Dump.

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By John Moore

Award-winning arts journalist John Moore was named one of the 12 most influential theater critics in the United States by American Theatre Magazine during has 12 years at The Denver Post. Hen then created a groundbreaking new media outlet covering Colorado arts an culture as an in-house, multimedia journalist for the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. He also founded The Denver Actors Fund, a nonprofit that has raised more than $600,000 for theatre artists in medical need. He is now a journalist for hire as the founder of Moore Media Colorado. You can find samples of his work at MooreJohn.Com. Contact him at culturewestjohn@gmail.com