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Feb 2021
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American Hysteria: LIVE VARIETY HOUR (Wa...

CHELSEY WEBER-SMITH
About this episode

Our Live Variety Hour is not your run-of-the-mill podcast live show, but an actual two-hour theatrical production performed in 2019. For the first time ever, you can get access to the full video on Patreon (pay what you can)! Using my background as a drag and performance art producer, a handful of my brilliant creative partners and I created a vaudevillian bananas bonanza with skits, drag, dance, stand-up comedy, and videos from clips you'll remember from season one. Expect a lot of weird surprises along the way. Special guests include Satan, Tinky Winky, John Harvey Kellogg, and Alex Jones. 


Head to our Patreon for access to our live show and so much more!


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Acting, writing, and production by

Lily Orrey

Erin McCarthy

Will Rogers

Chelsey Weber-Smith

Produced/edited by Riley Smith

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