Eric Bogosian Wake Up and Smell the Coffee (2001)

A profoundly insightful and wickedly provocative performer Obie Award winner Eric Bogosian Talk Radio has never shied away from the disturbing truths in life Frequently compared to comedic social commentators Lenny Bruce and Spalding Gray Bogosian keeps his finger on the pulse of our collective fears while satirizing contemporary American values Based upon his critically acclaimed stage show Wake Up and Smell the Coffee is Bogosian at his funniest smartest and angriest Taking us for a ferocious ride through a cavalcade of colorful characters in his mind Bogosian skewers pop culture conformity religious hypocrisy and human nature itself with a razorsharp wit Whether hes playing Satan as a modernday salesman a Hollywood producer capitalizing on an airplane disaster a spiritual guru with questionable motives or mocking himself as an obsequious actor auditioning for a part Bogosian tackles todays relevant post911 themes with uncompromising honesty