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The Week of February 14, 2012
The Wil Durst Journal
About Will Durst
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Appearances Near You
February 21
The Marsh
1062 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA
415.282.3055
February 24
Last Day Saloon
120 5th Street
Santa Rosa, CA
707.545.5876
February 25
Comedy in the Cellar
Mayo Family Winery
13101 Arnold Drive @ Highway 12
Glen Ellen, CA
707.938.9401
February 25-27
Rrazz Room
with Dick Gregory
222 Mason Street
San Francisco, CA
415.394.1189
February 28
The Marsh
1062 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA
415.282.3055
March 1
Celebrate with Heart Gala
4 Seasons
San Francisco, CA
March 2
Orinda Theater
4 Orinda Theatre Square
Orinda, CA
March 6
The Marsh
1062 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA
415.282.3055
March 7
*Rabobanc
San Antonio, TX
April 17
*Marin Dentists
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The Marsh
1062 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA
415.282.3055
April 19
*International Society of Barristers
Los Angeles, CA
April 24
The Marsh
1062 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA
415.282.3055
May 1
The Marsh
1062 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA
415.282.3055
May 4
Holly Springs Cultural Arts Center
300 West Ballentine Street
Holly Springs, NC
May 8
The Marsh
1062 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA
415.282.3055
May 10-12
Riot Act Comedy Theater
801 E Street NW 20004
Washington, D.C.
202.697.4900
May 15
The Marsh
1062 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA
415.282.3055
May 22
The Marsh
1062 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA
415.282.3055
May 29
The Marsh
1062 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA
415.282.3055
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He is a 5 time Emmy nominee; has been fired by PBS three times; told jokes in 14 countries; racked up 7 nominations for Stand-Up of the Year; and his 800+ television appearances include Letterman, HBO, Showtime, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox News, the BBC and many more. The critically acclaimed Off-Broadway run of his one man show: “The All American Sport of Bipartisan Bashing,” The All American Sport of Bi-Partisan Bashingwas subsequently turned into a book of the same name by Ulysses Press. His hobbies include pinball, the never-ending quest for the perfect cheeseburger and his heroes remain the same as when he was 12… Thomas Jefferson and Bugs Bunny. Not necessarily in that order. Durst's performances are made possible by the 1st Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
you can't make stuff up like this!
Taped in the wilds of San Francisco’s Fisherman’sWharf at Cobbs Comedy Club you can't make stuff p like this CDin the Courtyard of the Canneryat a point four and a half months after the world was forced to kneel under the shadow of 911. Much mocking and scoffing and taunting ensues, involving Bush and the Clintons, comedy as a cathartic release and life during wartime. Happy comedy.
Warning!
Taped for and by XM Radio on March 13, 2004, deep in the heart of the belly of the DC beast at the Improv on Warning CDConnecticut Avenue, this production was designed to look like a bootleg, but nobody got the joke. 3 years into the first Bush administration, it’s pretty damn funny if I do say so myself. And I do. So will you.
18 Durstisms
Raging Moderate
Acme Comedy Club. Minneapolis, Minnesota. Legendary producer Dan Schlissel of Stand Up Records culled this from a week of recorded performances in May of 2009. Originally titled, “On the Cusp,” Raging Moderate CDit dealt with the end of eight wonderful years of George W Bush in the comedic crosshairs and segued into the first blush of Barack Obama’s historic term. Voted one of the Top Five Comedy Albums of 2010.
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Notable and Quotable
Quite possibly the best political satirist working in the country today.
—The New York Times
A modern day Will Rogers.
—The Boston Globe
Heir apparent to Mort Sahl and Dick Gregory.
—The San Francisco Examiner
He’s an equal opportunity offender with a restless mind and delicious sense of language. Where most comedians give us attitude, Durst brings style and has one thing in common with the best: a sense of moral outrage.
—The Los Angeles Times
A cross between a living editorial cartoon and a stand- up journalist.
—The Seattle Times
The Dark Prince of Doubt.
—The Washington Post
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108 Jobs Book108 Jobs
Wisconson State Highway
Construction Surveying Crew
Summer of 72
Summer job. Between semesters at college. I forget which. Think I was finished with UWCWC and moving on to the lesser named but larger learning factory: UWM, which at the time was one of the 20 largest universities in the nation. In terms of students. Most of whom commuted. It was an outdoor summer job between semesters at college. Was working on a surveying team plotting the extension of Highway 43 west from Hales Corners to Mukwanago. I was on a three man team and we would go out into the field before any of the other heavy equipment showed up. It was just rough graded dirt. The faintest sketch of a highway. Like God had dragged two giant fingers across the ground all the way to the horizon.
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