Episode #71: Grace Parra
by Grace Parra has broken out as a star contributor and panelist for The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore since she joined the late-night Comedy Central …
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Episode #70: Steel Panther
Steel Panther has had one of the best-selling comedy albums of the past two years with their 2014 album, “All You Can Eat,” and also …
Episode #69: Nato Green
Nato Green is perhaps the most activist comedian I know. And I know more than a few comedian activists. Green lives and breathes San Francisco, …
Episode #68: Clare O’Kane
Lance Bangs said talking to Clare O’Kane now is like catching Janeane Garofalo circa 1991. O’Kane started stand-up comedy in the San Francisco Bay Area, then moved to …
Episode #67: Lance Bangs
Lance Bangs has become today’s go-to director for comedians filming their stand-up specials, road shows, showcases and documentaries. His credits since 2013 alone include directing …
Episode #66: Guy Branum
Guy Branum’s debut comedy album, Effable, came out in 2015. Branum himself has been out for years now, whether he was known as “Staff Homosexual” …
Episode #65: Jackie Kashian
Jackie Kashian is one of my favorite stand-up comedians to watch live because she knows who she is and makes no apologies for it. That’s …
Episode #64: Trump vs. Bernie (Anthony Atamanuik and James Adomian)
When comedians Anthony Atamanuik and James Adomian first met up to redefine the term mock debate during an October 2015 late-night comedy showcase at the …
Episode #63: Kyle Cease
Kyle Cease first caught my attention in the 1990s when we both were getting started in the Seattle comedy scene. He already was headlining clubs as …
Episode #62: Ronna and Beverly (Jessica Chaffin and Jamie Denbo)
Ronna Glickman and Beverly Ginsberg are allegedly best-selling co-authors of a book on marriage and re-marriage for Jewish singles, but these fifty-somethings from Boston actually …