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Celebrity Autobiography
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We're really excited because Celebrity Autobiography, in their own words, is back every Monday night at the Triad Theatre
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and audiences are just enjoying it the way we really hope. I want to let your love open me like an envelope containing pages from my diary I hid from myself as a child
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The inspiration for this really comes from the simple words on a page and what a performer
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can do with that and how you can spin it, how you can read it really simply and how
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it translates in front of an audience. And to see that kind of reaction from an audience is really what the fun of this whole show is
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Good Morning America may go on the air at 7am, but our workday starts some three hours
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earlier, at 4 a.m. to be exact. You may have noticed it before, but I can verify for you
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4 o'clock in the morning comes around very early. It's such a simple idea, and if anybody leaps through any autobiography or memoir, and you
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actually read some of these paragraphs out loud you think oh my goodness I can believe the details that these people are writing about their lives Merv says that he hired me because I turned the letters better than any of
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the 200 other women who auditioned. And what's my secret? As I told 60 Minutes
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It must be in the wrist. It's such a fun and unique night out
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and you get to see, really, such incredible performers doing the oddest material that you could ever imagine
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I first met Lonnie Anderson when both of us guested on the Merv Griffin Show in 1978
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Three years later, I was honored as Entertainer of the Year. Lonnie also attended
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and before the night ended she snuggled up beside me and in a breathy voice
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whispered in my ear I want to have your baby! I have to say it's just so much fun to watch the audiences
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enjoy this kind of show and we, everybody, everybody has a blast
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and we're so excited to be doing this in New York every Monday
