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About the Show One night, Pack had access to a comedy space and asked a group of fellow performers and comedians to bring in excerpts of autobiographies that were not necessarily written to be funny. The evening was an instant success---and it soon became a monthly performance piece, co-hosted and co-produced by Dayle Reyfel. After covering over 300 different bios, "In Their Own Words" is never short of material because every week, someone else has written their life story! The regular troupe includes such performers as Steve Atinsky, Saratoga Ballantine, Eugene Pack, Jack Plotnick, and Dayle Reyfel. Most evenings also feature celebrity guest performers -- recently these have included: Geri Halliwell, Laraine Newman, Penelope Ann Miller, Nathan Lane, Bruce Vilanch, Marcia Wallace, Carol Leifer, Fred Willard, Jay Mohr, Cheryl Hines, Kevin Nealon, Andrea Martin, Kel Mitchell, Niecy Nash, Kristen Johnston, Jackie Hoffman, Tony Roberts, Mary Testa, Richard Kind, Cheyenne Jackson, Karen Ziemba, Seth Rudetsky and Julie Brown. THESE ARE JUST SOME OF THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE CHECKED OUT "IN THEIR OWN WORDS".... Celebrity Autobiography enjoys...
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"Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words" is the brainchild of Eugene Pack. As Pack explains, "I would listen to a lot of books-on-tape, particularly autobiographies, and was astounded at what people would write about. If I got a hold of one of the books, I'd read it out loud to a friend, and they'd insist I was making it up….but people actually wrote these words. I thought that putting the material up in front of an audience would be extremely entertaining." 
