Showing titles in Art of Storytelling

Todd Hanson surprises himself with his own accomplishments.

Unique writer Peter Mehlman considers our need for immortality.

Eric Gilliland is so desperate for a job, that he takes a position as entertainment director at a club called The Snuggery. And it gets worse from there.

Jon Kinnally changes his eternal child's psychic diaper.

This performance was recorded at Un-Cabaret's spoken-word series "Say the Word", featuring great comedy writers reading their own original first-person non-fiction.

Tim Bagley's criminal career takes off when he meets Lisa, the grade-school Jewish Bonnie to his gay Clyde. But as they grow, so do their crimes.

Julia loses herself in the desert of Morocco and reclaims her sexuality, despite a chafing camel ride and a misfire with one of the tour guides.

Sherri's show gets picked up and she buys herself a treat, deals with an uppity extra and goes to stripper school.

Patton dishes out a little philosophy and a lot of funny in this classic Un-Cab set about a singular encounter with a NY cabbie.

Julia Sweeney goes biking in Ecuador, earns the best massage of her life, and goes scuba swimming with dolphins.

This deeply personal story starts with the latest L.A. condiments then travels back to Merrill's days as an art student and her attack by an intruder.

John Riggi's drug-addled Sedona adventure with his boyfriend, Beth & Greg, and a crazed Vietnam vet who helps John find his own personal vortex.

Patton Oswalt is a brilliant comedy writer and the ringleader of Comedians of Comedy on Showtime and on tour. In fact, he's probably appearing at a club in your area right now. You've probably seen him on King of Queens or Balls of Fury and heard him as the voice of Rattatouile.

Tim tries to learn how to date after the break up of a nine-year relationship. It turns out that Tim and dating are not a good fit. Althought he has some great stories and some practical tips about "red flags" to watch out for.

A "Connect the Dots" theme show brought together this brilliant trilogy from Cindy Chupack, connecting short pieces about things you have to endure to live and love in New York, going Hollywood, and her "re-location-ship" in Boca Raton, Florida.

Judy thinks she's found her new husband. Really.

Beth meets an Angel Healer at a New Age convention in Vegas and has a miraculous healing. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas - but in this case, what happened to Beth might not actually have happened.

Brent Forrester celebrates The Guy Who Does a Crazy Thing on Principal (Noah - and himself!) in a pair of stories about confronting a fast-food employee and a rabbi at a street fair.

Another of Stephen's bizarre and hilarious encounters with a psychiatrist. If you're keeping track, the score is currently Stephen: 2, Shrinks: 0.

Mike Daisey is a fierce storyteller, one minute hilarious, the next minute sweet, with a fine-tuned ear for digression. He circles in on his uneasy subject matter, closer and closer, until he exposes the raw heart. The New York Times calls him "the master storyteller" and he has been compared to Garrison Keillor, Spalding Gray, and David Sedaris.