ESKIMO COMEDIENNE WARMS UP TO SHOW BIZ

ESKIMO COMEDIENNE WARMS UP TO SHOW BIZ

LOS ANGELES (Wireless Flash) -- An Eskimo woman hopes to warm up Hollywood producers to the possibility of an Alaskan TV comedy series. 31-year-old Barbara Lonsdale calls herself the world's only Eskimo comedienne and has been performing "igloo jokes" for the last two years in L.A. comedy clubs. At first she feared jokes about whale-hunting and igloo building would leave non-Alaskans cold, but she says the response has been great -- especially her joke about the problems of having a one-night stand where the sun only shines six months a year. Lonsdale says she now wants to turn her Eskimo experiences into a sitcom about a fishing boat tentatively titled "Net Working," but says the real test will be if her fellow Eskimos like her jokes.