Episode #443: Comedy MVPs of 2023 with Jason Zinoman
by New York Times comedy critic Jason Zinoman has joined me every year since 2015 for our own traditional December To Remember the year in comedy. On …
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Episode #442: Jen D’Angelo
Jen D’Angelo is a comedian, actress and screenwriter in Los Angeles. Originally from the Philadelphia area, she graduated from Northwestern before heading to LA and …
Episode #441: Chris Turner
Chris Turner is a stand-up comedian and freestyle rapper from England who made his debut as a solo artist at the Edinburgh Fringe with 2014’s …
Episode #440: Sasheer Zamata
Actress and comedian Sasheer Zamata may be most familiar to comedy fans from her four years on Saturday Night Live, but she has kept busy …
Episode #439: Courtney Pauroso
Courtney Pauroso is an LA-based actor, writer and comedian, who traveled the world and the United States as the child of a military family. She …
Episode #438: Jared Freid
Jared Freid is a stand-up comedian based in New York City whom you’ve most likely heard on one of his two highly popular podcasts — …
Episode #437: Martin Urbano
Martin Urbano is a comedian who grew up in southern Texas on the border with Mexico, but he’s based now in New York City, where …
Episode #436: Kiran Deol
Kiran Deol is a comedian and actress whose show business career began auspiciously enough when she followed up her college thesis with a documentary short, …
Episode #435: Jeff Clanagan
As president and chief distribution officer of Hartbeat Productions, Jeff Clanagan runs Kevin Hart’s LOL! Network — which includes radio programs and podcasts on SiriusXM, …
Episode #434: Christina Catherine Martinez
Christina Catherine Martinez is a writer, actor, art critic, comedian and Los Angeles native who was named in 2020 to Vulture’s Comedian You Should Know …