It hasn't been easy getting Mary Gauthier on the phone. It's been a few days of trying to connect when a call finally goes through. Even then, the connection is not fantastic. I'm on the road in the rain. My voice recorder won't work. But what's happening is well worth discussing.  In roughly six weeks - Oct. 1, to be exact - Gauthier will join Catie Curtis and "a couple of comedians" (that would…