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Visiting Professor of Pessimism
Audio CD
A
power-drunk President...
Troops advancing on Baghdad...
Protesters in the streets...
This was the situation as Charlie Varon took
the stage of the Brava Theater in San Francisco on April 6, 2003 before
an audience of 350. This CD is a live recording of that sold-out performance.
Highlights of the CD:
- Charlie's trademark BBC News parody, skewering Bush, Rumsfeld, and Blair
- a monologue on marching for peace in San Francisco
- a multi-layered story about American Jews and Israel, told by "the only Gentile at the bat mitzvah"
- a salute to Henny Youngman and Sigmund Freud, "the two giants of Jewish comedy"...
Track list: BBC News. . . Visiting Professor of Pessimism. . . My War. . . Too Damn Polite. . . Stewart Russell. . . Forget Your Troubles. . . The Four Questions. . . People's Violin Medley. . . America-Head
Listen to excerpts from the CD:
BBC News 
Visiting Professor of Pessimism
My War
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Or send $19.95 ($16.95 + $3 shipping/handling) to:
The Marsh, 1062 Valencia St., San Francisco, CA 94110
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Ten Day Soup
In
the spring of 2002, Charlie Varon and collaborator David Ford created
a show from scratch in ten days. Thanks to critical and audience response,
the show was extended...and recorded.
One fan writes: "I have been playing the CD in the car, at home,
at work, for friends, over and over. You are truly remarkable."
Eight monologues... 73 minutes... recorded before a packed house at The
Marsh in San Francisco.
Listen to excerpts from the CD:
• Picketers in front of Noam Chomsky's house
• Ushering in a redemptive age
• My spiritual awakening
• Listening to Leishmaniasis
• Grandma Dora (a memoir)
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Genome Out of the
Bottle: Documentary of a Prank
In
the spring of 2001, the California Medical Association approached Charlie
Varon about giving a speech. They were thinking comedy: Charlie would
do a few routines over lunch to lighten up a seminar for physicians and
attorneys.
Charlie had a different kind of comedy in mind.
He proposed to do the speech posing as a ranking expert on human genetics.
To Charlie's amazement, the C.M.A. agreed to the prank.
In less than five weeks, Charlie created Albin Avgher, Ph.D. and his theory
of human communication, supported by an intricate web of fabricated statistics
and personal anecdotes.
Still, when he finally took the podium, he had no idea whether the assembled
doctors and lawyers would believe him.
Color VHS video... 32 minutes... includes interviews with audience members.
Listen to an excerpt
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The Marsh, 1062 Valencia St., San Francisco, CA 94110
Rush Limbaugh in Night School
Hear the show that became a runaway hit at The Marsh
in San Francisco, and traveled to St. Louis, Washington DC, and Off Broadway.
The Washington Post called the 25-character solo show "a delight...
Varon, an uncannily gifted mimic, plays a cast of 24, including, besides
Limbaugh, his agent, his (uh-oh) libber girlfriend, several New School
for Social Research faculty members (one of whom lectures unforgettably
on the metastructure that produces a pear), a gay performance artist,
a rival talk radio star and assorted 'real' people, including Garrison
Keillor, Spalding Gray and Jackie Mason. It's quite a party."
Audio cassette... approx. 90 minutes... recorded live at The Marsh.
Listen to excerpts from the cassette:
Rush on the air
It's what boys do
Jackie Mason does Garrison Keillor
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