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These soulful standup comedy performances are all about religious cults: Judy Toll's epic tale of her involvement with "The Church of Something-ology" and Taylor Negron's casual dip into a model cult.

Hear Taylor Negron's emotional tale about trying to help a young school-mate who's been abused. TAYLOR NEGRON has appeared frequently in comedies of the 1980s and on television. He is an actor, stand-up comedian and writer who has been seen in The Aristocrats, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Punchline and his own HBO One-Night Stand comedy special.

A deeply funny story by Stephen Glass about the lure of the forbidden shiksa and another about the mysterious Kegel muscle.

Patton Oswalt falls in love. This is a classic Un-Cabaret performance, in which Beth's questions push the performer to go deeper and find all kinds of funny.

John challenges himself to make conversation and opens a very intriguing dialog with a vampire. JOHN RIGGI is a writer and co-executive producer on 30 Rock. He was also a writer and co-exec on The Comeback, Will & Grace, The Bernie Mac Show and The Larry Sanders Show.

A deeply funny story by Dan Bucatinsky about letters to the prospective mother of his adopted child and to his own future self.

Take a correspondence course in comedy with Julia Sweeney as she tries to deal with a spurned lover long-distance, and Beth Lapides and Sue Murphy get mail that really pushes the envelope.

A deeply funny story by Rob Cohen about his darkest days as a deli delivery boy, and one delivery that changed his life.

Merrill gets healed by Buddhist monks at a clothing store in Malibu, plus the latest from Zantar Mozinki.

Beth Lapides takes the Noah story as a personal instruction to build her own ark, an ark to protect us from catastrophic thinking - Ark 2.0!

A deeply funny story by Jon Kinnally about his childhood heroes. JON KINNALLY was a Writer and Co-Executive Producer of Will & Grace.

A deeply funny story by Jennifer Joyce about the rollercoaster of being a big sister.

Brent Forrester celebrates The Guy Who Does a Crazy Thing on Principal (Noah - and himself!) in a pair of stories about confronting a fast-food employee and a rabbi at a street fair.

Take off with these high-flying stories about air travel that go a lot deeper than jokes about airline food (although one of the stories is, in fact, about a food-related revelation). They're also about crazy travelers and horribly awkward interactions with the stranger in the next seat.

Todd Hanson surprises himself with his own accomplishments.

Here are the original performances of Julia Sweeney's stories about adopting a baby from China, which later became In the Family Way.

JULIA SWEENEY launched her career by playing Pat on Saturday Night Live. She has gone on to write and star in acclaimed one-person shows, including God Said Ha!, In the Family Way, and Letting Go of God, all developed at the Un-Cabaret.

Un-Cabaret assembled the entire Emmy-winning writing staff of Sex and the City, each reading their own work for this special sold-out edition of Say the Word at The Knitting Factory in New York. Meet the writers behind the hit show and hear the individual voices that came together to create a cultural landmark.

Here are the original performances of Julia Sweeney's stories about adopting a baby from China, which later become In the Family Way. JULIA SWEENEY launched her career by playing Pat on Saturday Night Live. She has gone on to write and star in acclaimed one-person shows, including God Said Ha!, In the Family Way, and Letting Go of God, all developed at the Un-Cabaret.

TAYLOR NEGRON has appeared frequently in comedies of the 1980s and on television. He is an actor, stand-up comedian and writer who has been seen in The Aristocrats, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Punchline, and in his own HBO One-Night Stand comedy special.

Taylor returns from his house in France and settles into West Hollywood, circa 1940, complete with the ghosts of Dorothy Parker and Judy Garland.