Maggie Faris, according to some, is “just a fat old lady into extreme sports.”  According to America’s lesbian Curve Magazine, she’s also one of the top 100 funniest lesbians.   I first stumbled across this extreme Maggie-ness on a wordpress blog, then I wandered across to her website and decided the most appropriate word for all of it was “offbeat.”  I like offbeat.  Offbeat doesn’t dress like society wants it too, it’s well outside of the mainstream and doesn’t care.  Offbeat does whatever it wants and doesn’t apologise afterwards.  So, if you haven’t already, meet Maggie …

I’ve never heard of a web designer/comedian before – got any funny web design stories?
Really?  Are there funny things about web design?  Nothing funny has ever happened to me while designing a website.  I was never the person whose hand slipped off the keyboard into an electric eel pond. Although I did have a loft bed while I lived in New York and my laptop committed suicide by jumping out of the loft bed. Since then I have had to carry an external keyboard around.  To me that’s more tragic than funny.

You say your eyes are hazel and phinnius … who are they? 
Julia Roberts’ twins.  My eyes are really just hazel but I’m so used to hearing phinnius after hazel I stuck him in.

You describe your dress sense as ‘old english paper boy’ – what does the discerning OEPB wear?
Oh my God I love wearing old English paper boy.  I wish I had more OEPB clothes. OEPB is really just what it says.  Like the newsies of yesteryear. It’s a lot of wool, cords, browns, generally too big because  its handed down by a brother or cousin, and a cap. Always a cap.  Nary a day I don’t wear a cap.

Your photos – especially the skydiving one on your blog – are freaking hysterically awesome.  Describe a typical “Extreme Maggie” photo-shoot?
First of all, most of the “photo shoots” you are referring to take place in front of my computer in a little program known to some as “photoshop.”  Although I did do a photo shoot with an incredible photographer named Britt Lundquist.  I was dressed as a ballerina in a jewelry box.  That was a very fun shoot because I got to kick down the set like a rock star when it was all over.  It was quite scary too as I had the most uncomfortable toe shoes on and I was on about a ten inch platform about four feet off the ground.  Oh the pain of a good photograph. I thought for sure I would end up a splat ballerina.

And the videos … you’re the queen of video – how did that happen?
As a stand-up comic you dream of what kind of show you would have if you ever made it.  I just took that show and started filming on my lil video camera and the videos are what I have come up with.  Its just a rough and loose idea of a show called Extreme Maggie.  I spent a lot of time trying to “make it”  but now I just have fun doing my own thing and in some ways these little videos are way better than if my show was watered down for the masses.  Although I wouldn’t mind the paycheck of the big production sit-com star.

The red page.  Stroke of genius.  How did you come up with it?  (Go to Maggie’s website to see what I’m talking about)
Seriously I didn’t have a lot of things I wanted to link to and I needed another link for the column to look right so I made up the red page.

Is there anything you consider absolutely not funny?
Crab cakes.  Crab cakes are not very funny.

Do you get homophobic heckles much?
Nope. Never. I used to do a joke in the beginning of my set about being mistaken for a man and I had a drunk lady yell out that yes I did look like a man.  I flashed her my boobs and told her I was no less a woman just because I didnt look like a trashy drunk whore like her. That was the ONLY show where I got a partial standing ovation.  OK it was like one table, but still. I was excited.

Should celebrities come out, or are they entitled to their privacy?
They are entitled to their privacy.  I think its good for the GLBT movement when they do come out but everyone has their own process and time frame and I think we should all be respectful of that.  Except Clay Aiken.  I mean c’mon, we all knew.

Groupies!  Got any?  And if so, what kinda stuff do they send/give you?
Ba Ha!!!  I wish!  No I have no groupies.  I know a few people who have my sticker on their car but that’s the extent of it.  If anyone wants to apply though…

Anything to declare?
A couple of melons, some t-shirts, a pineapple, and some other random souvenirs.