Tasty Words Comedy Storytelling

Question: What happens when you gather seasoned comedy writers, actors, and other entertainment veterans Wendy Hammers, Jeff Lesser, Rena Strober, Arlene Malinowski, Charles Freericks,
Linda Shaffer and Carlos Kotkin?  Answer: You can this episode of Tasty Words, MY CAT IS SMARTER THAN YOURS. Stories about beloved furry friends. Hosted by Wendy Hammers,  an evening of genuine cat-tales. You will be - pardon the terrible pun - whiskered away.

Tasty Words host Wendy Hammers presents The When Harry Met Sally Show: four real-life couples tell their love stories; how they got together and how they happily stay together.

Tellers are Amy Friedman and Dennis Danziger, Christopher and Jesse Brune Horan, Ann Hearn Tobolowsky and Stephen Tobolowsky, and Mattilyn Rochester Kravitz and Josh Kravitz.

Two spectacular writer/performers, Christopher Brune - Horan and C. Brian Smith,
as they present their hilarious and horrifying coming to terms and coming out stories.

Christopher tells his story “My Last Ditch Effort” and Brian shares “I Think This Will Probably Work Better if You Eat Me Out First”

More celebrating Mothers with another series of stories including SNL veteran and comedian Laraine Newman goes to Coachella with her daughter! The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel's favorite Mother-In-Law, Actress/Writer Caroline Aaron, who plays Shirley Maisel, tells the tale of "Mom being in Playboy Magazine" as a primer for talking about sex with your son!

Celebrating Mothers with a series of stories including The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel's favorite Mother-In-Law, Actress/Writer Caroline Aaron, who plays Shirley Maisel, prays that her pregnancy will end with the birth of a son, but when the new baby turns out to be a beautiful baby girl, she is thrown into self-doubt. "Oh my god, I have a daughter and now she will copy me."

Wendy gathered together all the actors, comedians, and writers she knew who adopted or had been adopted to meet each other and share their stories with each other and a broader audience.

Alec Mapa stand-up comedian and actor in TV series Ugly Betty and on Broadway in M. Butterfly tells he journey of adopting a young boy from Compton

I became aware of several really great writers who had either adopted or been adopted. So she gathered them together get them to meet each other and share their stories with each other and then, with a broader audience.

You will hear Annie Korzen Moth storyteller and Seinfeld's Doris Klumpus tell her tale of being a reluctant grandmother . . . and not wanting to be in an interracial family. And then, life happens.

I’m Still Here is a collection of extremely moving, perspective-shifting, often funny, and truly inspired stories about survival.
We are all survivors. Suicide, Cancer, Divorce, Drug Addiction-
They survived it all and lived to tell the tale. Tune in for Claire Berger,
Anthony J.W. Benson, Vicki Juditz Jonna Tamases, and Wendy Hammers.

I’m Still Here is a collection of extremely moving, perspective-shifting, often funny, and truly inspired stories about survival. Starring Actors Tim Bagley and Stephen Tobolowsky with Author/Disrupter Kelly Carlin.

We are all survivors. We are all still standing in the face of some challenges. These pieces will move you to laughter, tears, compassion, and consciousness. Believe it or not, despite the subjects tackled above, or perhaps because of it, the evening also contains a huge dose of humor. Truth is, without it, we wouldn’t still be here.