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"Celebrity Autobiography" Keeps Crowd Laughing At Guild Hall

An all-star cast including Lewis Black, Susan Lucci, Rob Reiner, Chris Bauer, and other stars kept the crowd roaring at Guild Hall Friday.

(Courtesy Tom Kochie.)

EAST HAMPTON, NY — A crowd packed Guild Hall in East Hampton Friday night for two uproariously funny presentations of "Celebrity Autobiography."

Straight from Broadway, "Celebrity Autobiography" is a Drama Desk Award-winning hit comedy show where celebrities act out “hot off the press” and "hard-to-believe-they-wrote-‘em tell-alls," according to a release.

Created by Emmy Award-nominated writer-performer Eugene Pack and developed by Pack and Dayle Reyfel, "Celebrity Autobiography" has enjoyed runs from Broadway and London’s West End to Australia’s Sydney Opera House.

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Friday night's shows, which featured memoirs from celebrities including Vanna White, Suzanne Somers, Miley and Billy Ray Cyrus, the Kardashians, Ivana Trump, and more, featured a cast including Lewis Black, Susan Lucci, Chris Bauer, Julia Macchio, Alan Zweibel, Dayle Reyfel, and Eugene Pack, with Rob Reiner also appearing in the later show of the evening.

The crowd was clearly delighted with the show, which was packed with side-splitting humor.

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"What's so fun and unique about this show is where else would you get to experience a cast like Susan Lucci, Lewis Black and Chris Bauer sharing a stage and at the same time in one night — you get to take in the written words of such 'authors' as Tommy Lee, Vanna White, Elizabeth Taylor and Tiger Woods," Pack said. "Only at this show! We're not making fun of anyone. It's really a send-up of the fact that everyone has a memoir or a fitness book. And we love when audiences come up to us after the show and say, 'This cannot be real, you made it up.' But that is the whole point — these are the actual words!"

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