Project Woo Woo

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  • Elton John à la Jason Stuart

    Who is Jason Stuart:

    When you think one of the most prolific character actors, who's also an outrageous openly gay stand-up comedian, one name comes to mind…. Jason Stuart. He currently has a major role in The Birth Of A Nation, starring Army Hammer by filmmaker Nate Parker and stars in the drama Hank. Jason also has appeared in the award-winning films Tangerine, Love Is Strange, Gia with Kindergarten Cop and Vegas Vacation among his fan favorites. He has wowed TV audiences with guest roles on such shows as Swedish Dicks, Love, Sleepy Hollow, Real Rob, Entourage, The Closer, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, House, Everybody Hates Chris, George Lopez, Will & Grace, Charmed and as "Dr. Thomas" on My Wife and Kids. As a stand up comic you have laughed with him on Gotham Comedy Live, Red Eye, One Night Stand Up, Wisecrack, Comics Unleashed and his own comedy special Making It To The Middle.

    http://www/JasonStuart.com http://www.imdb.me/jasonstuart

    Who is Sir Elton John:

    A Grammy-winning legend and Swashbuckling FancyPants Superstar, Elton is the most successful singer/songwriter of his and my generation.

    Elton John AIDS Foundation, which has raised over $450 million and funded programs across four continents in the 24 years it has existed. Truly my favorite singer/songwriter of all time!

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    30 min
  • Abby Schachner à la Billy Barty

    Who is Abby Schachner:

    Abby is an artist, performer, children's book writer... (that's got a lion's tigers and bears oh my kind of feel) and an amazing artist.

    You can see her work her prolific Instagram and go follow- Your Friend Abby

    Who is Billy Barty:

    Billy Barty was an American actor and activist. In adult life, he stood 3 ft 9 in tall, due to cartilage–hair hypoplasia dwarfism.

    Billy's had an amazing career in Showbiz that spanned nearly three-quarters of a century.

    Billy also started The Little of America a nonprofit organization providing support and information to people of short stature and their families.

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    30 min
  • Ganesha à la Jeff Dorchen
    Who is Jeff Dorchen: Jeff Dorchen is an award-winning, playwright, fiction writer, literary editor, visual artist, actor, essayist, songwriter, and radio contributor (The Samantha Clemens Show, This American Life, The Experience with LaFern Cusack). He is also, since 1998, a weekly on-air contributor to the current affairs radio program and podcast, This Is Hell, which airs on WNUR FM 89.3 at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. He's co-founder of the Chicago fringe theater troupe, Theater Oobleck, now in its 37th year of staging original work, and has written, produced and performed in Chicago in numerous productions for various companies. His plays have been produced in Los Angeles by The Actor's Gang, Zoo District, and Sacred Fools. He was co-writer and co-producer of the feature film Basmati Blues and is currently developing several screens and TV projects for Red Baron Films. Who is Ganesha: Ganesha is the elephant-headed Hindu god of beginnings, who is traditionally worshipped before any major enterprise and is the patron of intellectuals, bankers, scribes, and authors. Ganesha is potbellied and generally depicted as holding in his hand a few round Indian sweets, of which he is inordinately fond. He has a large Indian bandicoot rat, which symbolizes Ganesha's ability to overcome anything to get what he wants. Ganesha is a remover of obstacles.

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    39 min
  • Neil deGrasse Tyson à la Karl T. Wright
    Who is Karl T. Wright:

    Karl is an actor and former journalist who's worked for NPR and Marketplace radio. He started his acting career in Chicago at Player's Workshop of Second City and hosted Morning Edition and the award-winning entertainment magazine he created called Backstage Pass both on WBEZ. After moving to LA, Karl made a career playing doctors, lawyers, teachers (pretty much anyone in a suit) on TV shows and movies. He played an astrophysicist on "Castle" (possibly the bad guy?) and appeared on TV's longest-running comedy about astrophysics, "The Big Bang Theory." cha-ching! Catch him in his recurring role as Chuck on the hit Netflix show "Atypical" or narrating the audiobook, "Arcade & the Triple T Token" from New York Times best-selling author, Rashad Jennings. Karl also produces the popular podcast "Sex Ed: The Musical" hosted by his wife, Wendy Miller. IMDB imdb.me/karltwright; Instagram instagram.com/karltwright/; Facebook facebook.com/KarlTWright1/; or karltwright.com.

    Who is Neil deGrasse Tyson:

    Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, author, podcaster and science communicator. Since 1996, he has been the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York City. After you are done with this episode go check out Neil's podcast Star Talk.

    And here is the link to listen to Carl Sagan & God

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    34 min
  • A Very Woo Woo New Year

    A very Happy Holiday to all of you. We will be back with Neil Degrasse Tyson for New Year's Eve.

    Until then I suggest listening to any of the Biblical of Holiday episodes,

    We have Jesus, Moses, Mary or Rudolph for your listening pleasure.

    2 min
  • Her Majesty Elizabeth the Second à la Harry Murphy

    Who is Harry Murphy:

    Harry S. Murphy is an actor and improviser who loves to play "let's pretend". Actual fun fact: Paula Abdul once taught me how to pole-dance.

    Who is Her Majesty Elizabeth the Second:

    Her Majesty Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith.

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    This episode was also supported by Amazon.

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    31 min
  • Ms. Clause aka Santa's better half à la Sheryl Bernstein

    Who is Sheryl Bernstein:

    Sheryl Bernstein is a Moon Child, aka Cancer, with a Moon in the House of Pancakes. Sheryl is The Creative Muse, Clarity Coach, and Performance Director. Also called a Visionary Strategist, Sheryl can see and bring out all the ' possibility' of you, to help you shine in life and on camera. She helps people (who help people) to be authentically, entertainingly them, wherever they show up, (video, stage, in person); to be clear and confident about who they are and what they're doing.

    Sheryl wants you to look good, feel great, and shine. With 4 decades in showbiz in Hollywood, as a performer & director, and Law of Attraction certified, Sheryl, helps with Clarity in your goals, and Confidence in taking the creative steps to get there. To Be Brilliantly You.

    Clarity, Authenticity, Simplicity, Visibility… with Class….. Sheryl Bernstein. sherylbernstein.com

    And sign up for Sheryl's Muse Letter!

    Get Sheryl's free download 10 Things to Know Before you Video- sherylbernstein.com/star

    sherylbernstein.com Get her Muse Letter Facebook More Facebook Instagram: @sherylbernstein

    Who is Ms. or Mrs. Claus:

    Ms or Mrs. Claus is the wife of Santa Claus, the Christmas gift-bringer in American and European Christmas tradition. She is known for making cookies with the elves, caring for the reindeer, and preparing toys with her husband. But she is so much more, a brilliant entrepreneur and life coach.

    How to show love to Project Woo Woo:

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    This episode was also supported by Amazon.

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    Go get your free be happier than all your friends morning routine over here --> Project Woo Woo

    Listen to Lisa's other podcasts at Love Bites & Honestly Lisa

    31 min
  • Andy Warhol à la Chris Bonno

    Who is Chris Bonno:

    Chris Bonno, once voted the Funniest Person in Austin, is a regular performer at the Improv in LA, with the improv troupe "The Fugitives", and at the ACME comedy theater with the improvisational forties radio comedy troupe "Liquid Radio Players" and has also done numerous shows with the "Fake Radio Players" performing in live traditional radio shows with a comic twist.

    He wrote for the VH1 pilot "Popshot" and created commercial parodies for the Disney Channel. He now is the writer and voice of Spike TV's deluded cartoon mascot named "Roger". You may also remember him as the voice of the Red Bull frog prince.

    You can find Chris on the web playing the character Ralph the Roadie, a roadie who wants to be a rock star.

    Chris is also a brilliant artist, his paintings are owned by various, show-biz industry fans of his work like Laraine Newman, Paul Provenza, Rick Overton, Kelly Carlin, Cheryl Hines, Andy Kindler and Hal Sparks to name a few. His painting of Conan O'Brien was the number one fan art piece at teamcoco.com for over a year. He's illustrated for National Lampoon Magazine, the Writer's Guild of America magazine, the LA Weekly and the Austin Chronicle and is currently a regular illustrator for The American Bystander magazine "an essential read for comedy nerds"(quote by the New York Times). He has illustrated books for "Tonight Show" writer T. Sean Shannon and comedian John Marks. Many of his recent works can be found in the article written about him called "The Art of Comedy" by publisher and editor Tony Shea.

    Chris Bonno Art

    Who is Andy Warhol:

    Andy Warhol was a successful magazine and ad illustrator who became a leading artist of the Andy Warhol was a successful magazine and ad illustrator who became a leading artist of the Pop art movements in the 60's. He ventured into a wide variety of art forms, including performance art, filmmaking, video installations, and writing, and controversially blurred the lines between fine art and mainstream aesthetics.

    How to show love to Project Woo Woo:

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    This episode was also supported by Amazon.

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    36 min
  • Simone de Beauvoir à la Brett Paesel
    Who is Brett Paesel:

    Brett Paesel is the author of the Los Angeles Times bestseller, "Mommies Who Drink: Sex, Drugs, and Other Distant Memories of an Ordinary Mom and the recently released novel, Everything Is Just Fine. Her work has been published in numerous collections and national publications including the New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and Salon.com. In Hollywood, she has been a consulting producer on Amazon's television series, "Transparent" and "I Love Dick". She has developed and written shows for HBO, ABC, Fox, Comedy Central, WB, Lifetime and Nick at Nite. As an actor, she was a cast member of "Transparent" and HBO's, "Mr. Show with Bob and David". She lives in Los Angeles, with her husband and two sons.

    Who is Simone de Beauvoir:

    Simone de Beauvoir was a French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist and social theorist. She did not consider herself a philosopher, she had a significant influence on feminist existentialism and feminist theory.

    How to show love to Project Woo Woo:

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    This episode was also supported by Amazon.

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    36 min
  • Dame Judi Dench à la Jayne Entwistle
    Who is Jayne Entwistle:

    Jayne Entwistle is an award-winning audiobook narrator known most notably for her narration of the Flavia De Luce series by Alan Bradley. AudioFile Magazine has included her narration on their list of Best Audiobooks of the year. When not immersed in fabulous books, Jayne can be found on-screen in television shows such as; The Good Place, Feud: Bette & Joan, You're the Worst and Maron. Originally from the North of England, Jayne currently lives in Los Angeles.

    Who is Dame Judi Dench: Dame Judi Dench is an Academy Award-winning British actress. Judi won an Oscar for her role as Queen Elizabeth in 'Shakespeare in Love.' made her stage debut in Hamlet in 1957. Dame Judi gained international recognition in the 90s as a character in the James Bond franchise. Dench won an Academy Award in 1999 for her role in Shakespeare in Love, and earned a bunch more nominations for her work in such films as Chocolat and Philomena.

    How to show love to Project Woo Woo:

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    This episode was also supported by Amazon.

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    Listen to Lisa's other podcasts at Love Bites & Honestly Lisa

    32 min

About Project Woo Woo

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Project Woo Woo is a podcast from comedian Lisa Orkin. Part interview, part biography, part parody. Lisa uses her Hollywood friends to play famous figures both living… and dead.