She certainly wasn’t the first horror hostess. Vampyra and Tarantula Ghoul have her beat out by about a decade. But the combination of camp and comedy she brought were definitely her own. The camp coming from the time she worked with drag queens. And the comedy she developed in the Groundlings with Paul Reubens.
The only thing remotely close I can remember in the decades that followed would be Svengoolie? But that’s more goofy than anything else.
She certainly wasn’t the first horror hostess. Vampyra and Tarantula Ghoul have her beat out by about a decade. But the combination of camp and comedy she brought were definitely her own. The camp coming from the time she worked with drag queens. And the comedy she developed in the Groundlings with Paul Reubens.
The only thing remotely close I can remember in the decades that followed would be Svengoolie? But that’s more goofy than anything else.