Film Overview

CRAZY WISDOM SAVES THE WORLD AGAIN!
A Comic Monologue with Original Songs
Written and Performed by

Wes `Scoop’ Nisker

Friends! Earthlings! Humans! Who are we, why are we here, and how did we get into the mess we’re in? Is there any hope for us and our species? In this unique comic monologue, Wes Nisker explores the foolish human condition and the joys and sorrows of living in the modern age. He reveals the secrets of the Big Bang and anti-matter, explores the issues of war, species extinction and global warming, and exposes the true heart of the New Age spiritual movement. Mr. Nisker places today’s headlines in the context of biological evolution and all of human history, and thereby offers us the relief and laughter that only vast perspectives can bring. This is comedy for the rest of us.

“His performance, laced with his original songs, manages to make suffering a knee-slapper. He delivers Zen zingers with Borsht Belt timing.”
New York Times

“This show is fantastic and hilarious.”
Ram Dass

“Brilliant, original, consciousness expanding, profound, mysterious and very funny. Oh, the audacious joy of crazy wisdom! What more could you ask?”
Jack Kornfield, Buddhist teacher and author

"Scoop's show is not just crazy. It is wisdom, exactly the kind we need today. It points to satiric truths about science, the American empire, and the humanoid condition. Also, the show is very, very funny."
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet

“Deeply wise, wonderfully insightful, delightfully humorous.”
Utne Reader

“Confirming, uplifting, enlightening!”
KFOG-FM, San Francisco

“Scoop Nisker is the missing link between sit-down meditation and stand up comedy.”
Paul Krassner, editor of the Realist

BIO: Wes “Scoop” Nisker is an author, radio commentator, Buddhist meditation teacher, and performer. His books include Essential Crazy Wisdom: The Big Bang, The Buddha, and the Baby Boom; and Buddha’s Nature. Mr. Nisker’s latest book is entitled “Crazy Wisdom Saves the World Again!” He is also the founder and co-editor of the international Buddhist journal “Inquiring Mind.”
For over 30 years, Mr. Nisker has worked in radio, first as a news anchor, and more recently as a commentator, during his career winning the Billboard Magazine, Columbia School of Journalism, and San Francisco Media Alliance awards for excellence in FM radio programming.
Mr. Nisker has studied Buddhist meditation for three decades with teachers in Asia and America, and for the past 15 years has been leading his own retreats and workshops in mindfulness meditation and Buddhist philosophy at venues internationally. He is an affiliate teacher at the Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California, and does regular workshops at Esalen Institute and other venues.