How to Hate Yourself

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10. Laura House, Susan Tierney, Timeheart, Zip Ties and so much more!
I can’t believe I am at #10 already – there are too many great shows I don’t have room to mention – the otherworldly comedy improv musical, Timeheart, a fan-favorite attested by the long audience lines at midnight down dark Hollywood sidewalks. Zip Ties’ testosterone-fueled crime-comedy was a madcap, blood-drenched, paranoid Tarantino-esque wild ride. Susan Tierney’s brave and stirring one woman show at the Complex Theatre rocked. And Thank God I caught Laura House’s How To Hate Yourself on the last day of Fringe – a riotous laughfest and a complete joy. I learned I don’t hate myself and I love Laura House even more!

Hollywood, CA – Laura House’s original, one-woman comedy show How to Hate Yourself makes its world premiere with a limited engagement at the Hollywood Fringe Festival, June 5, 2015. How to Hate Yourself, written and performed by comedian and seasoned television writer Laura House (Mom, Samantha Who), traces her quest for fulfillment in all the wrong places.

The 50-minute show is based on House’s web series in which she plays “an internationally renown self-help/self-hate coach” who shows the audience how to hate yourself “more deeply than you ever thought possible.” With an absurd stance, the show satirically pokes fun at the self-help industry. House teaches the audience methods to hate yourself, such as “Make a list of everyone who’s better than you” and “Create a Resentment Box.” Some of her techniques hit close to home in modern times, such as “Look at other people on Facebook having more fun than you! They live better!”

How to Hate Yourself weaves House’s high-energy “self-h