Episode #256: Chris Porter
by Kansas City native Chris Porter caught his first big break just months after moving to Los Angeles with a gig competing on NBC’s Last Comic …
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Episode #255: Hampton Yount
Hampton Yount has already seen the past, present and future of cinema, as spoken through the character Crow T. Robot he voices on Netflix’s new …
Episode #254: Trae Crowder
Trae Crowder grew up in rural Tennessee and worked for a federal government agency while harboring dreams of becoming a famous stand-up comedian. Crowder didn’t …
Episode #253: Jill-Michele Meleán
Jill-Michele Meleán’s mother’s Irish, and her father’s Bolivian. But she grew up in Miami surrounded by Cubans. All of which makes her White Latina, the …
Episode #252: Liza Treyger
Liza Treyger is a New York based stand-up comic by way of Chicago, who grew up in nearby Skokie after immigrating from Russia when she …
Episode #251: Yakov Smirnoff
Yakov Smirnoff got his big break in America thanks to Mitzi Shore, who not only put up the Soviet immigrant in her home behind The …
Episode #250: Keith And The Girl
Keith Malley and Chemda Khalili began podcasting out of their apartment in Queens in March of 2005, three months before Apple recognized podcasting officially on …
Episode #249: Lyric Lewis
A classically trained theater major who grew up in New Orleans and Minnesota’s Twin Cities, Lyric Lewis took her degree from Syracuse and headed straight …
Episode #248: Steve Agee
Steve Agee had a bizarre enough life behind the camera before he ever got his first big shot in front of it thanks to Sarah …
Episode #247: Dane Cook
In 2019, Dane Cook is heading out for his first full national tour in six years, and he’s calling it his Tell It Like It Is …