Podcast Episodes

Eddie Brill (comedian, Letterman warm up / comedian booker 1997 - 2014)

Season 1 Episode 245

Eddie Brill joins me to discuss watching Jackie Gleason, Ernie Kovacs, & Bill Dana as a kid; going to Emerson college; Andy Kaufman; creating a comedy major at Emerson; trying stand up, quitting, and…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Jameel Saleem (South Park / Disenchantment / Bob's Burgers)

Season 1 Episode 284

Jameel Saleem and I discussed his watching Cheers and MASH as a kid; Jimmy Stewart; going to Hampton College with DJ Envy; wanting to be an FBI agent, then realizing he wants to be playing an FBI age…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Rob Kutner (Dennis Miller Live / Daily Show / Conan)

Rob Kutner joined me to discuss Lost in Space; Letterman; writing; the Far Side; writing for the Princeton Tiger; applying to write for MAD; writing spec scripts; getting hired as an intern on Dennis…

Published on 5 months ago

Allan Katz (Laugh In / M*A*S*H* / Rhoda / Blossom)

Season 1 Episode 282

Allan Katz joined me to discuss Kukla, Fran & Ollie; joining the National Guard; becoming a copywriter; Screaming Yellow Zonkers; George Schlatter calls him; staying in a hotel and writing writing on…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

Comedian Helaine Witt

Season 1 Episode 281

Helaine Witt joined me me to discuss watching Bonanza in color; Ed Sullivan Show; her mom not liking Jack Benny; going to Elmont High School; John Mulaney; seeing the Beatles on Ed Sullivan and earli…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Rose Abdoo (Josephina on Hacks / Gypsy on Gilmore Girls)

Season 1 Episode 280

Rose Abdoo joined me to discuss us being birthday buddies; The Flintstones; staying up to watch The Tonight Show; going to Michigan State; moving to Chicago to join Second City; ETC with Stephen Colb…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Barry Nichols (p.a./music producer, SNL, Friday Night Videos, Saturday Nights Main Event)

Season 1 Episode 279

Barry Nichols joined me to discuss his love of the Smothers Brothers; how his brother Nils got an internship at SNL in 1978; being the drummer from Jeannie Cunningham; getting hired to work on Nothin…

Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago

Steve Bleustein

Season 1 Episode 278

Legendary comedian Steve Bleustein joined me and discussed his autobiography Memoir of a Nobody; watching Howdy Doody & Peter Pan; going to Emerson College w/ Henry Winkler; Dave Madden & Albert Hamm…

Published on 6 months ago

5 Favorite Sketches from The Credibility Gap

Season 1 Episode 277

Included: 10 minutes of my conversation with Harry Shearer, the sketches: "Where's Johnny", "Tom Snyder", "Who's on First",, "Senator Kennedy's Next Speech", "The Night the Nights Stayed on in Pittsb…

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

Marc Sheffler (actor / comedian / writer)

Season 1 Episode 276

Marc Sheffler joined joined me to discuss watching 50's children's TV; his father getting The Three Stooges for his tenth birthday; seeing Jerry Lewis in a movie and his dad telling him "Why not you?…

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago