Whoopi Goldberg

WNYC listener Julie Bayley grew up watching daytime talk shows to catch comics like Rodney Dangerfield. But there weren’t any comedians like her: female and black.
Then Bayley saw Whoopi Goldberg in her one-woman show on Broadway.

The screenwriter (?In and Out?) and playwright (?I Hate Hamlet?) puts the colorful details of his life in his new memoir, I Shudder: And Other Reactions to Life, Death, and New Jersey. As the original writer of ?Sister Act,? he tells Kurt why the sight of Whoopi Goldberg in a habit still makes him cringe. […]