Comedy Writer Ian Gurvitz is the author of “Freak-Out: The 2016 Election and the Dawn of the American Democalypse.”
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Comedy Writer & Author Ian Gurvitz
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Comedy Writing Legends Andy Breckman & Steve Young
Steve Young and Andy Breckman talk teaching comedy, Merrill Markoe, fotomat, meeting David Letterman, first TV jobs, urine testing, writing for SNL during the mid-eighties, breaking stories, masturbating bear, raunchy jokes in writers rooms, women in comedy, the gift of a woman’s laughter, roast battle with between David and Andy’s son, how happy people do not make history and when your kids make you laugh. Then, Steve sticks to discuss his curriculum for teaching comedy and TV, industrial musicals, Rod Serling, working in an office, and David’s early ambition to become a journalist. Listen to entire episode here:
Jackie “The Joke Man” & Sam Quinones
Comedy Writing Legend Andy Breckman, creator of Monk, Comedy Writing Legend Steve Young, Letterman & The Simpsons, Down With Tyranny’s Howie Klein and from World Politics Review Judah Grunstein.
Journalist Sam Quinones is author of “Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic” which details the relationship between Oxycotin and America’s growing opiate epidemic.
Jackie “The Joke Man” Martling is the world’s leading expert on jokes. There is no joke he hasn’t heard, and he is one of the world’s greatest joke tellers.
Andy Breckman’s radio show 7 Second Delay can be heard on WFMU and he recently won a Writers Guild Award.
Steve Young’s book is “Everything’s Coming Up Profits: The Golden Age of Industrial Musicals” and it’s soon to be a documentary.
We talk healthcare, France, Trump remembering jokes and writing them.
Produced by Alicia Cordova