Episode #278: Matt Besser
by 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 …
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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 …
Will Ferrell launching comedy podcast network, Big Money Players
Will Ferrell, who recently launched his own podcast under the guise of Anchorman’s Ron Burgundy, is now ready to assemble his own comedy podcast team. …
Episode #276: Josh Gondelman
Josh Gondelman is a writer and comedian who currently writes and produces comedy for Desus and Mero on Showtime. Before that, Gondelman spent five years at HBO’s Last …
Episode #275: Jim and Jeannie Gaffigan
Jim and Jeannie Gaffigan have survived and thrived in ways they couldn’t have imagined when they pulled the plug on their TV Land series in …
Episode #274: Evan Shapiro
Evan Shapiro had run cable TV stations IFC, Sundance Channel, and Pivot before he launched Seeso, a streaming comedy service owned by Comcast and NBCUniversal …
National Lampoon Radio Hour relaunching as podcast led by Cole Escola, Jo Firestone
The National Lampoon Radio Hour, whose initial run in 1973-74 included writing and performances from the likes of John Belushi, Christopher Guest, Anne Beatts, Gilda …
Episode #273: Quinta Brunson
Quinta Brunson took classes at The Second City in Chicago and Los Angeles and was performing with iOWest when she first found success not onstage …
Episode #272: Julio Torres
Julio Torres described himself as a Space Prince before casting himself as a Chocolate Prince in the surreal bilingual TV series, Los Espookys, which he …
Episode #271: Jacqueline Novak
After performing a half-hour stand-up special on Comedy Central and writing a book on depression (How to Weep in Public: Feeble Offerings on Depression from …