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Project Woo Woo
by Lisa Orkin
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. Lisa has chatted with the likes Jesus, Dr. Ruth, Eddie Van Halen, Eckhart Tolle, and Ann Frank to name a few.Real conversations with imaginary people.
Episodes
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Between The Bushes (Episode 1)
Project Woo Woo is interrupted this week with the first episode of my scripted comedy Lisa Upside Down Episode 1 Meet Lisa. A mom, a wife, and a daughter whose life is on the precipice of turning completely upside down. We follow Lisa as she embarrasses her son, spies on her husband, buys bathing...
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Jimmy Stewart à la Jim Coughlin
Who is Jim Coughlin: Jim Coughlin's religion is comedy. His philosophy is comedy. And his ethnicity is comedy. He's been performing comedy since he was 13 and identified as Jim the Juggler. Where to Find Jim: Jim Coughlin Twitter, instagram, TikTok all @mrjimcoughlinFavorite Career Highlight: My...
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Mike Tyson à la Andrew Engel
Who is Andrew Engel: Andrew Engel has been producing comedy shows for 27 years. Helping countless young comics jumpstart their careers. His website www.manhattancomedyschool.com is his story, with all the chapters of his life. Andrew's Career Highlights: Andrews's career highlight being the…
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Eddie Van Halen à la Henry Phillips (Encore)
This is an encore Project Woo Woo to honor the one and only Eddie Van Halen. Who is Henry Phillips: You may know Henry from his recurring role as "John the server guy" on HBO's Silicon Valley, or as the star of the movie Punching Henry, currently running on Showtime. You can check out his popular...
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Ruth Bader Ginsberg à la Madonna Magee (Encore)
Today in honor of the great RBG I am rerunning the fabulous Project Woo Woo interview with the brilliant Madonna Magee "My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent." Ruth Bader Ginsberg
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Jane Fonda à la Dana Lyn Baron
Who is Dana Lyn Baron: Dana is a film, tv, radio, and stage actor — both live-action & voice-over. In April 2020 she guest-starred in the Season 6 premiere of Amazon's BOSCH and will be seen this Fall in David Fincher's Netflix feature film, Mank, starring Gary Oldman. She currently resides in…
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Warner Munroe à la Covid 19
Who is Warner Munroe: Warner is a Virgo with a Scorpio rising. Warner has worn many hats and performed many things. And right now is simply " I Am." And this is where you find Warner's online Home --> Warnervo.com Favorite Career Highlight: Warner performed a play based on the last few years of...
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Dracula à la Barry Pearl
Who is Barry Pearl: Best known for his role as "Doody" in Paramount's iconic hit film, GREASE. Teaches film arts to the special needs community all across the country with Joey Travolta's Inclusion Film Company. Barry's Rising Sign: Taurus What is your most favorite Career Highlight: Playing the...
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Krishnamurti à la Gary Schwartz
Project Woo Woo: Real Conversations with Imaginary People Who is Gary Schwartz: Gary Schwartz is an actor, writer, and improv coach. He is the protégé of Viola Spolin, considered to be the Mother of the American Improvisation. He is the founder of Improv Odyssey, an exciting approach to changing...
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Kathy Nagler à la Elon Musk
Who is Kathy Nagler: Kathy began her career after being told again and again that her voice could make anything sound funny. With her ultra-dry delivery, she was billed as the female Ben Stein. But over the years, she has expanded her repertoire to include the not-so-funny, and the deep-breathed...
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Jeff Harry à la Liz Gilbert
Who is Jeff Harry: Jeff Harry shows individuals and companies how to tap into their true selves, to feel their happiest and most fulfilled — all by playing. While we spend most of our time pretending to be important, serious grownups, it's when we let go of that facade and just play, that the…
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Arianna Huffington À La Jessica Kupferman
Who is Jessica Kupferman: Jessica Kupferman wants to live in a world where women's voices are not only heard but readily spoken. She'd also like to teach the world how to connect more – in small ways. Jessica's Rising Sign: Capricorn What is your most favorite Career Highlight: Producing a show...
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Dustin Hoffman 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...
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Hilary Clinton à la Kathy Christopherson
Who is Kathy Christopherson: Kathy, native Chicagoan, is an actress, writer, and rabble-rouser. Kathy has had the opportunity to work across some wildly creative talent, including Grace Zabriskie, Michael Madsen, Sean Young, James Russo, and the late Roy Scheider. She most recently guest-starred…
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Madame Zoltair Part Two à la Sea Glassman
Who is Sea Glassman: Sea Glassman is an LA-based improvisational character actor whose forte is historical & literary figures, ie Steinbeck's Ma Joad, James Joyce's Molly Bloom, & E.A. Poe's Murderer in Telltale Heart. She is currently performing the first iteration of her solo original Rocktopus...
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Joe Namath à la Darry Logan
Who is Darry Logan: Darry Logan began his television career in the 1970s but hasn't seen a new show since 2004. Raised in an alcoholic family, he was introduced to mockery at a very early age. Darry currently resides in West Hollywood, the birthplace of child actor Drew Barrymore. Who is Joe...
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Cupid à la Rick Overton
Who is Rick Overton: Rick is a double Leo and has been show-folk for over 45 years. He is an Emmy Award Winner, Actor, Comedian, activist. And you may have just seen him on DRUNK HISTORY. Honestly, Rick was a little modest in his bio so I am going to add a little bit more. Rick made his first...
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Pythagoras à la Jim Staahl
Who is Jim Staahl: Jim began his comedy career as a resident member of Chicago's Second City Theater and wrote for SCTV. Staahl performed and wrote for an array of Variety shows starring Martin Mull, Steve Allen, Sid Caesar, Steve Martin and Marty Short. He was also a co-head writer for shows…
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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…
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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...
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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…
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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…
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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...
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Danielle LaPorte à la Donna Jo Thorndale
Who is Donna Jo Thorndale: Donna Jo Thorndale is a Los Angeles-based actress and writer. Originally from Lexington, Kentucky, she hails from a long line of sassy joke-tellers. Her love of improvisation, food, music, and social justice led her to create Chef Jewell Rae Jeffers, a Southern…
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Erica Jong à Wendy Miller
Who is Wendy Miller: Wendy Miller is an Emmy winning TV producer and comedy writer who has produced and/or written for The Oprah Show, Lifetime, Oxygen, NBC, TV Land, The Wayne Brady Show, The Tonight Show, VH1, ABC, Travel Channel, Walmart, Telepictures, and Paramount to name a few. In 2010,...
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Bill Clinton à la Don Frankel
Who is Don Frankel: Don Frankel is an Actor and Musician. Don grew up in Brooklyn New York. He played his first professional music gig at his own Bar Mitzvah on the Accordion. Don is a multi-instrumentalist on Keyboards, Banjo, Guitar and sing Tenor and Baritone vocals. He's been a recording…
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Ann Boleyn à la Kathy Nagler
Who is Kathy Nagler: Kathy began her career after being told again and again that her voice could make anything sound funny. With her ultra-dry delivery, she was billed as the female Ben Stein. But over the years, she has expanded her repertoire to include the not-so-funny, and the deep-breathed...
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Dr Phil à la Karly Nimmo
Who is Karly Nimmo: With five iTunes hit podcasts under her belt, including Karlosophies and Rock Your Mic Right, Karly Nimmo uses her voice and wisdom to guide us back to the truth of who we are so that we can show up and speak up as our fully expressed, most rad selves. A faithful student of…
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Pema Chodron à la Mari Weiss
Who is Mary Weiss: Mari Weiss is a native of Chicago where, after receiving an M.F.A. in Theatre, she worked with such companies as Steppenwolf, Court Theatre, and The Annoyance where she originated the role of Alice in the cult hit "The Real Live Brady Bunch", performing it in New York and Los...
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Bruce Lee à la Anil Desai
Who Is Anil Desai: Anil Desai started in comedy with the sketch group The Giant Pineapple Boys, who performed at the Edinburgh festivals from 2001 to 2004. He then went on to host The Late Show Spank! On the fringe and created comedy characters Rajesh: Bollywood Lounge singer and Candice the...
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Jeff Mishalski À La The Real Deal
Who is Jeff Michalski: JEFF MICHALSKI Improv practitioner, teacher, and actor, he is featured in over thirty films, most recently The Laundromat playing opposite Meryl Streep. He has taught all forms of improvisation for over twenty years, as well as developed his own long-form techniques. He has...
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President John F. Kennedy à la Terry Evans
Who is Terry Evans: Terry is a Pisces born in Texas, lives in California. Enjoys acting, building things, fishing from the beach and letting them go. And maybe a little humble. Terry has been a fixture in the LA theatre scene for over 25 years and a member of the premier classical Los Angeles...
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Amelia Earhart à la Karianne Flaathen
Who is Karianne Flaathen: Karianne is an actor and photographer who finally landed in Los Angeles via Oslo, Seattle, New York, and London.... and is a company member of the brilliant world-class Antaeus Theatre Company in Los Angeles... where she was seen in Top Girls. Who is Amelia Earhart…
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Stevie Nicks à la Christine Blackburn
Who is Christine Blackburn: As a producer, host and skilled interviewer, Christine Blackburn and her production company, Story Worthy Media, have produced over 540 episodes of her weekly show Story Worthy and dozens of live performances of her gameshow, Story Smash The Storytelling Gameshow! Her...
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Madame Zoltair à la Sea Glassman
Who is Sea Glassman: Sea Glassman voices infamous fortune-teller Madame Zoltair, who has recently shattered her glass box and is heading to Davenport, Ohio for a dalliance with a man in a kayak. Glassman is an LA based improvisational character actor whose forte is historical & literary figures…
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Zappa à la Jon Huck
Who is John Huck: Jon is a comedian and actor whose humor can best be described as honest, observational and maybe slightly self-deprecating. Jon performs all over the country and has appeared on Comedy Central's Live at Gotham & This Is Not Happening as well as Comedy From SXSW on Showtime and...
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Ruth Bader Ginsberg à la Madonna Magee
Who is Madonna Magee: Madonna Magee is a graduate of NYU and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts NYC. She credits the Uta Hagen, as being the greatest influence on her work.. Madonna's career began as a recurring character on the daytime Serial "Love of Life" exactly 50 years ago. For 35 years...
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John Smith à la Byron Katie
John Smith John Smith is a Gemini, who comes from London England. His spritiual quest started at an early age and took him around the world. One year he was sitting at the feet of his guru in India, in another year he was dancing in a night club in soho, in another year he D.j in Prague in an...
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Jane Morris à la God
Who is Jane Morris: Jane Morris is the Johnny Appleseed of comedy clubs, having opened the Chicago Comedy Showcase, the Second City ETC, Upfront Comedy, the Comedy Underground and currently managing the fanaticSalon in Culver City. She's has most recently been seen in Brooklyn Nine-Nine…
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Mikhail Baryshnikov à la Phil Proctor
Who is Philip Proctor: Phil is a Leo with a Gemini rising. Actor/writer/singer/producer/VO artist member of the thrice-Grammy-nominated Firesign Theatre, recognized as one of the "Thirty Greatest Acts of All Time" with a recording in the Library of Congress. He's appeared on-and-off Broadway, on...
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Kahlil Gibran à la Robbie Rist
Who is Robbie Rist: If you were to compare Robbie Rist to a renaissance man…..well……you couldn't. The renaissance happened hundreds of years ago and how do you compare someone from that time to now? What you COULD say is that Rist is a multi-hyphenate with hands in many different art forms. He…
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Alice Miller à la Jann Karam
Who is Jann Karam: Stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and artist Jann Karam has made numerous appearances on NBC's Tonight Show and The Late Show with David Letterman. Jann played one of Jerry's girlfriends on Seinfeld (rated #1 by UPROXX in "A Very Important and Scientific" ranking of Jerry's...
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DALAI LAMA À LA BILLY MERRITT
Who is Billy Merritt: Billy is a Gemini, an actor, teacher, and writer based in Los Angeles. He has been affiliated with the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre since they were founded in the '90s in NYC. You can find Billy in all these social places: Twitter Instagram Favorite Career Highlight:...
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Jane Goodall à la Sarah Coomes
Who is Sarah Coomes: Sarah is a Cancer with her moon in Virgo. Sarah Coomes grew up in space, where she ate dehydrogenated food and projected the universe's first mind vision solution of Einstein's gravity equivalence condition, a problem that had eluded the scientist for the whole of his working...
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Dr. Ruth à la Terry Evans
Who is Terry Evans: Terry is a Pisces born in Texas, lives in California. Enjoys acting, building things, fishing from the beach and letting them go. And maybe a little humble. Terry has been a fixture in the LA theatre scene for over 25 years and a member of the premier classical Los Angeles...
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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. Lisa has chatted with the likes Jesus, Dr. Ruth, Eddie Van Halen, Eckhart Tolle, and Ann Frank to name a few.Real conversations with imaginary people.
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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. Lisa has chatted with the likes Jesus, Dr. Ruth, Eddie Van Halen, Eckhart Tolle, and Ann Frank to name a few.Real...
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