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 suits with her mom and meets a couple of dudes that catch her when she falls. If you would like to hear the next two episodes you can subscribe on your favorite podcast or head to www.lisaupsidedown.com...
Jan 28, 2021•18 min•Season 1Ep. 1
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 1.5 seconds of fame in Anchorman as a member of Public Television in the fight scene. Who is Jimmy Stewart: American actor, singer. Known for his heartwarming drawl and everyman screen persona, Stewart’s...
Dec 08, 2020•29 min
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 talent coordinator for Live at Gotham and The Next VR show. Knowing I have helped multiple comics secure that show and helped them achieve their dreams. Andrew’s Socials: Facebook Insatgram Twitter Who is Mik...
Dec 01, 2020•27 min
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 cooking show “Henry’s Kitchen” on YouTube. You can find more of Henry on his website, Henry Phillips . Twitter handle: @henlips Facebook and check Henry’s Patreon And Henry has a very cool cooking youtu...
Oct 07, 2020•28 min•Season 4Ep. 98
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 Los Angeles with her husband, kitties, and her yoga mat. Dana’s Instagram @danalynbaron www.danalynbaron.com Favorite Career Highlight: Working with David Fincher and Gary Oldman in the upcoming Mank. ...
Sep 29, 2020•43 min•Season 4Ep. 97
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
Sep 19, 2020•32 min•Season 4Ep. 96
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 Anne Frank. Miep Gies, who helped hide Anne Frank and her family, attended a show and she spoke with her regarding her experiences. What is Covid 19: To find out more about the plague visit the CDC or ...
Aug 27, 2020•29 min•Season 4Ep. 94
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 role of “Doody” in Paramount’s film, GREASE as well as creating the role of “Professor Erasmus Q. Tinkerputt” in BEDTIME WITH BARNEY: IMAGINATION ISLAND. These two projects along with the work I’m doing ...
Aug 19, 2020•30 min•Season 4Ep. 93
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 the way people work and play, based on Spolin’s techniques. Gary’s Rising Sign: Cancer Gary’s favorite Career Highlight: My first professional job was as a mime at 13 opening for Pete Seeger’s Clearwater...
Aug 04, 2020•35 min•Season 4Ep. 92
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 sexy. Kathy is an accomplished improviser and standup comedian and has lent her unique talents to cartoons, commercials, short films, and even at a ride at Disneyland. But wherever you hear her, she’s un...
Jul 21, 2020•33 min•Season 4Ep. 91
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 real magic happens. Fully embracing your own nerdy genius — whatever that is — gives you the power to make a difference and change lives. Jeff believes that we already have many of the answers we seek, and ...
Jul 14, 2020•34 min•Season 4Ep. 90
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 that was attended by Jill Biden What did you learn from playing Arianna: It was just super fun to be bossy and on top of the world – not sure it gained my soul but it was a BLAST. You can find Jessica at:...
Jul 07, 2020•30 min•Season 4Ep. 89
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 s...
Mar 12, 2020•36 min•Season 4Ep. 88
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 on Netflix’s “Lucifer”, and has recurred on hits shows like “Californication” “Private Practice” “Y&R”, and regularly on CW’s Emmy-award-winning “Kamen Rider Dragon Knight.” She’s played on local sta...
Mar 04, 2020•43 min•Season 4Ep. 87
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 Opera, “The dEvil in the MIRROR; Living Rehearsals,” equal parts I.B. Singer short story, wild improv, singing, and audience participation. Glassman is in development on two large scale projects...
Feb 26, 2020•33 min•Season 4Ep. 86
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 Namath: Joe or as some called him, Broadway Joe was a Football hero and cultural icon in the 1960s. Namath was known as much for gallivanting with beautiful women and partying as for his performances on the ...
Feb 18, 2020•31 min•Season 4Ep. 85
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 onscreen appearance in the 1982 film Young Doctors in Love , followed by a small role in Airplane II: The Sequel later that year. In 1987 , he wrote an episode of The New Adventures of Beans Baxter while al...
Feb 11, 2020•29 min•Season 4Ep. 84
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 that starred John Candy, Mike Myers, Howie Mandel, Fred Willard, and Louie Anderson; Staahl was also host and head writer of his own series, Laugh Trax . And wrote on such shows as Mork and Mindy , Married ...
Feb 04, 2020•30 min•Season 4Ep. 82
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 s...
Jan 28, 2020•29 min•Season 4Ep. 81
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 ...
Jan 21, 2020•29 min•Season 4Ep. 80
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...
Jan 14, 2020•38 min•Season 4Ep. 79
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 ap...
Jan 07, 2020•34 min•Season 4Ep. 78
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.
Dec 24, 2019•2 min•Season 4Ep. 77
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. How to show love to Project Woo Woo: Click here to buy Lisa a cup of joe. This episode ...
Dec 17, 2019•30 min•Season 4Ep. 76
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 the...
Dec 10, 2019•30 min•Season 4Ep. 75
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 w...
Dec 03, 2019•35 min•Season 4Ep. 74
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 an...
Nov 26, 2019•36 min•Season 4Ep. 73
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 ...
Nov 19, 2019•31 min•Season 4Ep. 72
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 Celebrity Chef out to solve America’s political and social problems the old-fashioned way, with food. As Chef Jewell Rae, she toured her improvised show to Chicago, and NYC, and “All Cake, No File: The Johnny Ca...
Nov 12, 2019•35 min•Season 4Ep. 71
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, Playboy TV approached Wendy to create and oversee a brand-new type of programming: Upscale, network quality, sex-positive programming called TV For 2 that's designed to keep married couples sexually in s...
Nov 05, 2019•34 min•Season 4Ep. 70
