Category: Comedy Writers

Comedy Writing Legends Andy Breckman & Steve Young

May 9, 2017 - Comedy Writers, Full Interviews With Our Guests

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

May 8, 2017 - Activists, Authors, Comedians, Comedy Writers, David Feldman Radio Show, Journalists

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

Comedians Pat Dixon, Sean Donnelly & Angela Cobb

May 4, 2017 - Comedians, Comedy Writers, David Feldman Show, Our Podcast

Recorded live in New York City the David Feldman Show is back in front of a live audience. Our special guests are Comic Sean Donnelly from Conan and Letterman, Comic Angela Cobb, and from the New York City Crime Report Pat Dixon. Special thanks to Christian, Kambri and Chris over at QED for making this amazing night possible. When you’re visiting New York make sure to check out QED in Astoria. For more information please go to www.QEDAstoria.com.

Colleen Werthmann & Liam McEneaney (Full Interview)

May 2, 2017 - Actors, Comedians, Comedy Writers, Full Interviews With Our Guests

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Eddie Pepitone & Colleen Werthmann

May 2, 2017 - Activists, Actors, Authors, Comedians, Comedy Writers, David Feldman Radio Show, Full Interviews With Our Guests

Liam McEneaney and Constitutional Law Professor Corey Brettschneider. Colleen starts the show with the C word right out of the gate, so there’s that. David remembers Gary Shapiro who passed away last week. David talks about whether it’s possible to be friends with a Trump supporter. Liam and Colleen pester David about his love life until he finally confesses to a type of sex act. Eddie Pepitone talks about his two dogs Basil and Charlotte and how they lead him down dark dangerous alleys in bad neighborhoods because they want him dead so they can be free to chase squirrels. David defends the impending Writers strike insisting less television getting written is a good thing. Eddie and David try to cheer each other up by comparing their individual states of despair and anxiety. Eddie and David argue over whether or not America ended with a whimper of a bang. Professor Corey Brettschneider lightens things up by telling David that during the past 100 days he has never had more faith in the constitution, even though Donald Trump says he wants to get rid of it. David and Corey talk libel laws, First Amendment issues as well as Sullivan Versus The New York Times.

Produced by Alicia Cordova

Christopher Titus (Full Interview)

April 29, 2017 - Actors, Comedians, Comedy Writers, Full Interviews With Our Guests

Christopher Titus, is an actor, comedian and director. He talks about his new movie Born With a Defect and the early days of the San Francisco Comedy scene.