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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episode 74: 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 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 writer and voice of Spike TV’s deluded cartoon mascot named “Roger”. You may also remember him as the voice of the Red Bull frog prince.
You can find Chris on the web playing the character Ralph the Roadie, a roadie who wants to be a rock star.
Chris is also a brilliant artist, his paintings are owned by various, show-biz industry fans of his work like Laraine Newman, Paul Provenza, Rick Overton, Kelly Carlin, Cheryl Hines, Andy Kindler and Hal Sparks to name a few. His painting of Conan O’Brien was the number one fan art piece at teamcoco.com for over a year. He’s illustrated for National Lampoon Magazine, the Writer’s Guild of America magazine, the LA Weekly and the Austin Chronicle and is currently a regular illustrator for The American Bystander magazine “an essential read for comedy nerds”(quote by the New York Times). He has illustrated books for “Tonight Show” writer T. Sean Shannon and comedian John Marks. Many of his recent works can be found in the article written about him called “The Art of Comedy” by publisher and editor Tony Shea.
Chris Bonno Art
Who is Andy Warhol:
Andy Warhol was a successful magazine and ad illustrator who became a leading artist of the Andy Warhol was a successful magazine and ad illustrator who became a leading artist of the Pop art movements in the 60's. He ventured into a wide variety of art forms, including performance art, filmmaking, video installations, and writing, and controversially blurred the lines between fine art and mainstream aesthetics.
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