The character Mo B. Dick began as a comic response to the chauvinism and misogyny Fischer has encountered while living and dating in New York City. "Basically my motto has always been, 'Instead of being an angry woman, I've become a funny man,'" Fischer explains. "There are really gross guys out there, and they're not going away. So I'm trying to turn it around and have fun with it."
In 1995 Fischer launched Club Casanova, New York's biggest and best drag king party to date. Since then she has single-Dickedly elevated the visibility of women who dress in drag, appearing in John Waters's 1998 film Pecker, MTV's Sex 2K documentary on drag kings, and HBO's Sex and the City. She's also taken the "man show" on tour, first in 1998 and then again this year, accompanied by heifer-roping cowboy Cody Pendant; spiky-haired, sideburned Dante DiFranco; and eager-to-please Miss Jonona (Dick's fiancée).
Though drag kings are more satirical than their sisters in drag, the Club Casanova tour thrives on the same campy, vaudevillian gusto made famous by men in heels. "It's like a cabaret. We have a whole mélange: live singing, lip-synching, stripping, and some stand-up," describes Fischer, who then gives the last word to her alter ego. "It's a little sumphin', sumphin' for everybody," grunts the king of kings. "A little bit of tits, a little bit of ass, and a whole lotta Dick!"
