GOP Strategist Mike Murphy on how we ended up with Trump, Comedy Writer Kevin Kataoka recalls his family’s brush with a dark side of American history, Professor Lisa Wade author of American Hookup talks about sex on campus, Author Amy Sutherland author of Rescuing Penny Jane: One Shelter Volunteer, Countless Dogs, and the Quest to Find Them All Home, and Film Critic Michael Snyder talks Oscars 2017.
Comics Andy Kindler, Negin Farsad, Angela Cobb and Jon Ross talk Milo Yiannopoulos’ appearance on Bill Maher, Trump-related anxiety, comedians performing on college campuses, the disintegration of social capital, the dangers of belonging to religious institutions with questionable political leanings, being pigeonholed as a residential Muslim, profiling in show business, diversity on TV shows, lowbrow vs. highbrow TV, the Marx Brothers vs. the Three Stooges, becoming famous before becoming good, how to properly dismiss yourself from a conversation, the art of schmoozing, the authenticity of jokes, the conviction of being a comic, Bibi Netanyahu, old jewish jokes, apartheid, going after sacred cows, Ted Turner, being a comedy purist, the State of the Industry Address, Letterman, why arguing religion is infantile, and David’s early days as a stand-up.
Howie Klein on ICE rounding up Hispanic children in Los Angeles. Maz Jobrani stars in the new CBS sitcom Superior Donuts Mondays at 9:00. Howie Klein is the founder and treasurer of the Blue America Pac raising money for progressive candidates. He also writes the Down With Tyranny blog.
Best known as Dr. Katz, Jonathan Katz is an Emmy award winning comedian and creator of Dr. Katz Professional Therapist.
Plus Comedy Writers Steve Young and Tony Zaret.
Tim & Eric collaborator and surrealist comic Vic Berger talks about life as an absurdist video maker. Vic is one of the most original artists working in television comedy today.
Steve Young has written on The Simpsons, Late Show With David Letterman, Maya and Marty and countless other television shows.
Tony Zaret is comedian, comedy writer and student of the Internet.
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Congressional Communications Director Tina Dupuy, Fox News Radio’s Barry Weintraub, Comic Nick Mullen, Comic PJ Landers, and Comic Tamer Kattan talk Stephen Bannon, the Muslim Bannon, Jared and Ivanka, Holocaust Denying in the White House, Standing up to Fascism, Young French Women, Corporate Controlled Speech, Rape Jokes, Performing Comedy Overseas and The End of Our Republic.
Tamer Kattan won the 2015 World Series of Comedy and has TV & Radio credits on BBC and SkyTV in the UK as well as in the U.S. on Fox, HULU, HGTV & truTV.
Nick Mullen is the host of the subversively funny podcast on iTunes Cum Town.
Tina Dupuy has written for The Atlantic, Vox, The Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly and spent the past several years in D.C. as a congressional communications director.
Barry Weintraub is a comic who has spent nearly 25 years working in talk radio.
PJ Landers is a political satirist fighting the good fight here in Manhattan.
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Also Henriette Mantel who, besides playing Alice on The Brady Bunch movies, is an accomplished author, comedy writer, and activist.
Then we are joined by Investigative Journalist Robin Urevich who reveals that Trump’s pick for Secretary of Labor Andrew Puzder is no friend to the worker. Robin’s work is a joint effort of Newsweek and Capital and Main. Her article uncovers an alarming number of reports of federal racial discrimination and sexual harassment claims filed against Puzder’s fast food company CKE and its franchisees, which, she writes, “read like stories from the 1940s or ’50s, before civil rights laws were ever enacted.”
David then simplifies the news coming out of Washington by urging listeners to visit www.5Calls.org. Calling is the most effective way to influence your representative. 5 Calls gives you contacts and scripts so calling is quick and easy. 5 Calls uses your location to give you your local representatives so your calls are more impactful.