Annabelle Gurwitch

Annabelle Gurwitch is an American comedian, author and television host best known for her time as host of Dinner and a Movie on TBS and as a defender of spiritual issues as well as secular humanism. Annabelle Gurwitch has been a well-known actress for many years. She's also a bestselling writer of memoirs, including No matter where you have been, I am glad that you put in the effort When you say tomato, I'm saying put it down and be fired! It was also The Showtime Comedy Special. Gurwitch was the longest-running host on the TBS show Dinner & a Movie and TV viewers will remember her unforgettable appearances on various shows, including Better Things Boston Legal Seinfeld Dexter Murphy Brown and also as the host of the series on sustainability WA$TED which airs on The Planet Green Network. She's a regular on PBS Newhour Real Time With Bill Maher, NPR and write satires and op-eds for the New York Times WSJ The Hollywood Reporter in addition to satires to The New Yorker. She is an actress whose performances onstage have brought her into the critics' Top Ten performance for the year in The New York Times as in the Los Angeles Times. Annabelle offers her humorous and insightful perspective on growing older in our culture that's very youth-oriented. The show has played at theater festivals around the globe, including for instance, the 90th St Y Prevention Magazine AARP Events and Ladies Nights of women's groups across the country. Annabelle is a speaker on the value and absurdity of family members, both that we are born into and those we choose to become part of. She's spoken to crowds of every age at the Now Generation Women's Philanthropy of Phoenix, GOOGLE talks, The Skirball Center for the Arts and the Rancho Mirage Writers Conference. Gurwitch talks about the power of memoir in helping bring meaning back to the past. She also offers direction to our lives in the future. Among the many lectures and talks she's presented are in performing arts centres as well as literary festivals like those organized by George Washington University Watermark Conference for Women. On the PBS News Hour, she gives her opinion on how to choose between binge-watching or reading. We can tell which side of that argument she is on.