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Vanessa Hollinshead Standup Comedy
Explicit
October 02, 2008 06:49 AM PDT
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Vanessa Hollingshead: Warning! This is hard ass New York comedy, some listeners may be offended. Oh well! This is the funniest stand-up comedian I have heard in YEARS. You may think I am a little twisted after you listen to this, but then again, you already know I'm twisted, cause you listen to my podcast!

Bio of Vanessa Hollingshead

Vanessa is the quintessential, native New Yorker. She only just got her driver’s license a couple of years ago. As a child, she spent a year at Millbrook Mansion with her father, Michael Hollingshead, who introduced Timothy Leary, and later, Paul McCartney, of the “Beatles,” to LSD. At five years old she took LSD by accident. Hey, it was on a sugar cube, and they were out of Snickers. Mom found out and became outraged.

She whisked Vanessa back to New York City, encouraged her to try “amphetamines” to help her clean the apartment and to stay away from sugar. “Bad for your teeth!” But motherhood did not agree with Sophie (Vanessa’s mother), as it interfered with her finding good weed in bad neighborhoods. Now, throw in two years on a commune by herself, two years in London with her dad, and a decade of temp work, and Vanessa’s angst was complete. Coincidentally, a comedian was born.

Vanessa Hollingshead was married to Lucien Hold, the artistic Director of “The Comic Strip,” who died November 22, 2004 from Scleroderma. He was an extraordinary man who loved comics and is still missed by his wife and every comic that took the time to talk to him, because boy could he talk.

Vanessa is an active member of the Scleroderma Foundation. She dedicates her time in helping the foundation to find a cure and break new ground with stem-cell research. If you would like to know more about Scleroderma please click on the link on the Press/Contact page here on this site. And should you like to make any contribution, monetary or otherwise, in Lucien Hold's memory, Vanessa would be eternally grateful.

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