DAVID: Dylan, tell me your greatest night performing “Driving Hollywood” in Barcelona, Spain.
DYLAN BRODAY: In Barcelona there was a night where I got no laughs, and I swear I thought I was eating it. We had a decent house and no laughs. And then at the end of the show I did the final line. And there was the black out. And there was no applause. And then the lights came up. And I stepped forward. And there was this continued silence and then an eruption of applause. And a standing ovation! And just about everybody stayed to shake my hands! And buy a copy of my book. And I realized that, for no reason I can determine from that one night, they were just so into it, that they didn’t want to miss any words. So they were silent. But as a former comic, silence is very difficult for me while I’m performing. But as a storyteller and a humorist I have now lived in that place of fear for 80 or 90 minutes in Barcelona, Spain to discover that silence was full appreciation and engagement not absolute hatred of my show. It was such a relief, and an even bigger learning experience that I think that was my best night in Barcelona, Spain.
DAVID: And you walked away from that learning a laugh doesn’t tell you everything about how you’re doing.
DYLAN BRODY: That’s correct, that is correct.
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Laura House and Jerry Stahl are joined by comedian Matt Kirshen who hosts the popular podcast ‘Probably Science’, plus a story from Dylan Brody. Also, music from Will Ryan and Dave Hill. And last but not least, David Feldman pops in with some thoughts on Bush and Obama.
Kevin Allison (RISK, The State, Reno 911, Flight of the Concords) stops by to chat with David and Jerry Stahl. Also on the program: Down With Tyranny’s Howie Klein, a story from Dylan Brody, plus a song from Will Ryan, Jeremy Kramer and Hal Lublin.
Kira Soltanovich is a comedian, writer, and actress best known for her work on prank-oriented reality shows such as Oxygen Network’s Girls Behaving Badly and TV Guide Network’s Trapped by TV Guide. She is also known as the voice of a talking photo booth in a sketch on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, andThe Jay Leno Show. She’s also the voice of Carla on the animated series Iggy Cool. Soltanovich is part of the 90-minute comedy special Hot Tamales Live on the Showtime Network. She guest starred on Prank Stars, a Disney channel series. She currently hosts her own parenting podcast: thekirashow.com. Plus a song from Gary Shapiro and a touching story from Dylan Brody…and Steve Skrovan.
Kevin and Carol are back from Nice. Plus Will Ryan introduces us to his lesbian sister. Along with Dylan Brody, Jeremy S. Kramer, Janie Haddad Tompkins and Hal Lublin. On today’s show we talk about the problem with liberals, family, wives, lesbians, Miley Cyrus, cheap comedians, Justin Bieber, Rihanna, and Oscar Pistorius.
On today’s show the Ryan Brothers explain why they’re so accepting of their lesbian sister Baby Mary.
Kevin Rooney is a producer and writer, known for My Wife and Kids, Real Time With Bill Maher, Dennis Miller Live, The Jay Leno Show, The Tonight Show and countless sitcoms on FOX, ABC and NBC. Carole Rafael Davis was born in London to a French mother and American father. She grew up in England, Scotland, France, Italy and Thailand and moved to New York City as a teenager. Carole attended the City University of New York and majored in Chinese studies and political science. After university she attended the two-year programme at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute.
As a singer/song-writer and recording artist, Carole was signed to Warner Brother records in 1989. Her record “Heart of Gold” was produced by Nile Rodgers. Her single “Serious Money” was a Dance hit and the video was number one and became the official theme song to a new hip-hop music video show called Rap City on BET.
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She toured Europe and Asia and performed in clubs throughout the U.S. Carole wrote the song “Slow Love” with Prince for his Grammy Award nominated album “Sign O’ the Times.” She recorded her own version of the song for Warner Brothers records. She subsequently left Warners’ in 1993 and moved to Atlantic Records, where she self-produced and wrote the album “I’m No Angel.” As a song-writer, Carole made a publishing deal, signing with MCA. She was signed to Sony France for Europe.
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Davis also works as an actress. Her first feature film was in the 1981 horror film Piranha II: The Spawning. Later on in the 1980s, she appeared in the 1984 comedy film The Flamingo Kid, her best known film role came in 1987 as
Roxie Shield in the cult comedy film Mannequin. She later also appeared in films such as the 1990 comedy The Shrimp on the Barbie, the 1991 comedy If Looks Could Kill and The Rapture, in the same year. Carole had guest appearances in television shows such as The A-Team, Star Trek: Voyager, Sex and the City and Angel. Most recently, Davis appeared in Going the Distance.
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Apart from singing and acting, Davis is also a writer. She wrote a series of articles on anti-Semitism in Europe for the Jewish Journal.[1] As a novelist, she is the author of The Diary of Jinky, Dog of a Hollywood Wife (Andrews McMeel Publishing), a non-fiction humour book about Hollywood excess and human status anxiety written from the point of view of a death-row dog. She is an investigative journalist for American Dog Magazine for which she has written a series of articles about cruelty in the pet trade. She has an animal welfare column on Newsvine.com and is the author of the popular “Hollywood Dog Blog” at www.hollywooddog.blogspot.com. Davis is also the West Coast Director of the Companion Animal Protection Society, a national non-profit organisation that investigates puppy mills and pet stores (www.caps-web.org).
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