Episode #286: Chloé Hilliard
by In an email to me on Jan. 3, 2020, Chloé Hilliard proclaimed “This is the YEAR of CHLOE!” and she may well be right. Hilliard already …
Category: Last Things First — Podcasts
Episode #285: 2019 Comedy MVPs with Jason Zinoman of The New York Times
As we put a bow on 2019, it’s time once again for me to sit down with New York Times comedy critic Jason Zinoman to …
Episode #284: Becky Robinson
Becky Robinson grew up in the suburbs of Portland, Ore., and studied business at San Diego State University before she threw her everything into show …
Episode #283: Abby McEnany
Abby McEnany stars as a fictionalized version of herself in the new Showtime series Work In Progress. On Showtime, Abby is a 45-year-old overweight queer …
Episode #282: Jeff Garlin
Jeff Garlin is a comedian and actor who honed his chops in the 1980s with The Second City, alongside the likes of Stephen Colbert and …
Episode #281: Erik Rivera
Erik Rivera got heavily involved in comedy in the wake of 9/11 while studying at Pace University just blocks away from the World Trade Center. …
Episode #280: Elliott Morgan
Elliott Morgan is one of the members of The Valleyfolk, a crowd-funded Internet comedy troupe that won the inaugural season of NBC’s Bring The Funny …
Episode #279: Celeste Barber
Celeste Barber had appeared on Australian television as a regular on the hospital soap opera All Saints in the late 2000s, but that wasn’t translating …
Episode #278: Matt Besser
Matt Besser is known as one of the co-founders of the Upright Citizens Brigade, which began as a sketch comedy group in Chicago, moved to …
Episode #277: Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn Luebbe
Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn Luebbe are an award-winning writing and directing team based in Los Angeles. They became friends and collaborators while performing together in New York City …