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"His performance, laced with his original songs, manages to make
suffering a knee-slapper. He delivers Zen zingers with Borsht Belt
timing." —New York Times
Radio personality, irreverent
comic commentator, best-selling author, and Buddhist meditation group
leader, Wes "Scoop" Nisker brings his well-rounded, humorous commentary
on the political and social questions of the day to the Freight stage
for a two-night extravaganza. In a comic monologue the Utne Reader calls, "deeply wise, wonderfully insightful, and delightfully humorous, "
Scoop places today's headlines in the context of biological evolution
and all of human history, exploring the foolish human condition and the
joys and sorrows of living in the modern age.
Scoop is a 27-year
veteran of the broadcast media best known for exhorting his listeners,
"and if you don't like the news, go out and make some of your own." He
has also been a student of Buddhism for over three decades, creating a
unique blend of Zen philosophy and wry humor. In his stage monologues,
Scoop reveals the absurdity of the human condition, offering us the
laughter that only vast perspectives can bring.
"Scoop's show is
not just crazy," says poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "it is wisdom, exactly
the kind we need today. It points to satiric truths about science, the
American empire, and the humanoid condition. Also, the show is very,
very funny."