Brian Frazer: Hyper-Chondriac

Are you easily stressed out? Do your neck veins bulge out from road rage yelling? Does the concept of relaxing seem like it’ll have to wait until you’re dead? Then your name could very well be Brian Frazer.

On paper, Brian is the world’s healthiest guy. He’s a former award-winning stand-up comic who eats right, exercises, gets plenty of sleep, never smokes, and has only missed one day of flossing in the last five years. But inside, he’s a swirling cesspool of angst. Brian has the ability to contract a new illness and/or disorder almost every month. In his quixotic quest for calm, he ventures into everything from seratonin blockers and Tai Chi to Ayurveda and Kabbalah. Never has the road to Wellville been the site of so many wrong turns.

This one-man show is based on Brian’s Simon & Schuster memoir, Hyper-Chondriac: One Man’s Quest to Hurry Up and Calm Down. Brian has also written for Esquire, Vanity Fair, Premiere, ESPN, Los Angeles and other magazines.