The Bastion got to chat with comedian and writer Elvira Kurt, who will be performing at the Annoyance Theatre Thursday (tomorrow). She takes the stage with her stand-em-ups at 7:30 and 9 p.m. with special guest Ben Lerman, then will play with an all-star cast of Messing with a Friend at 10:30 p.m.

Kurt is a Second City alum, originally from Toronto, Canada. She took over hosting duties from Scott Thompson on Logo's First Comes Love 2, a reality show about gay and lesbian couples having the wedding of their dreams. The network has decided not to continue the series, however, which leaves Kurt opportunity to pursue other writing and television opportunities. Kurt gave us the lowdown: "A TV show about comic books is in the works for the SPACE network in Canada and I'm soooooooooo excited about that because I am a huge comic book geek. There's other stuff for TV in various stages of development and live shows in the U.S. and Canada, but did I mention I'll be doing a TV show about comic books?"

Asked about her comedic inspirations, Kurt summed it up for us with a description of her personality and relationship: ""I tend to see the worst in a situation, not the best. I blame it on being Eastern European, even our happy is just a variation of sad. It sucks for my girlfriend because she's the exact opposite of me, she always sees the good in everything and I'm such a drag, all negative all the time. But we have an excellent relationship. Her self esteem is so low she has no idea that she can do way better than me. So as long as I keep chipping away at it, a little bit every day... we'll be together forever!"

Kristy Mangel