Chef Jeremiah Tower is the father of California cuisine and the subject of the new documentary The Last Magnificent. We talk about Chez Panisse, Stars and how he created the whole farm to table movement.
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Comic Mark Pitta talks about his first Carson shot, the early days of the San Francisco comedy scene, and what it’s like hanging our with your comedy heroes.
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Three incredible headliners all on one show! Dom Irrera hosts Dom Irrera Live from the Laugh Factory on You Tube. On Dom’s podcast he chats up old and new comedian friends live on the world famous Laugh Factory stage with club owner Jamie Masada. Watch these comedy pals recount wild Hollywood tales, discuss their own lives, and consider the comedy business as it is and was.
Alonzo Bodden has performed on numerous television shows including The Tonight Show, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Make Me Laugh, Late Friday, The Late Late Show, Comedy Central Presents and It’s Showtime at the Apollo. He is also a voice actor who has worked on Power Rangers: Lightspeed Rescue, Masked Rider, and O’Grady.He is a co-host of Inside the Vault on WGN America. Alonzo was a panelist on a BBC America year end special of Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!, as well as a recurring panelist currently on the weekly NPR show and podcast. He is currently a comedic panelist on Game Show Network’s Mind of a Man.
She was a series regular on How To Be A Grownup for TruTV, the hidden camera show Girls Behaving Badly and was a correspondent on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno for over 8 years. Recently, Kira co-hosted the game show Winsanity with Donald Faison for the Game Show Network.
Kira Soltanovich’s greatest achievements is shooting her latest 1 Hour Stand Up Special,You Did This To Me, which was completely self-produced and she shot it while over 7 months pregnant. The first stand up comedian to shoot a special pregnant!
Kira has appeared on The Jay Leno Show, Hello Ross! with Ross Mathews, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Last Call with Carson Daly, Hell’s Kitchen, Last Comic Standing, Set List TV, and The World Stands Up on Comedy Central. She has written for Joan Rivers, Scott Baio, Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber. And here’s an interesting fact, three of those people have dated each other.
Kira’s pilot Weren’t You Scott Baio? was optioned by New Line Television, her hidden camera dating show Who’s Got Game? was optioned by MTV and her feature film What’s Your Sign? was optioned by Terra Firma at Universal. For a while there, she and her writing partner were only developing projects that asked a question. Genius, right?
She’s been a writer on Easiest Game Show Ever, How’d You Get So Rich? for TV Land, Warning: Men Thinking, Raising Whitley and Prankstars on Disney.
Her half hour Showtime special is entitled Here Comes Trouble.
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Dr. Katz, Cassie Grimaldi and The Insecure Morons. Dave Attell has been called one of the greatest standup comics whoever did it. If you ask the greats they will tell you they became great by watching Attell. He is considered a boundless fearless joke writer, and his work ethic makes him one of the most prolific artists working today.
Dean Obeidallah hosts The Dean Obeidallah Show, on SiriusXM, which is the only daily national radio show hosted by a Muslim American. He is a comic and a lawyer.
Cassie Grimaldi is a comedy writer who has been published in The New Yorker. The Insecure Morons are making their first and hopefully of many appearances on the David Feldman Show.
Dave Attell works closely with the National Military Family Association. Please donate to this wonderful cause by going to www.militaryfamily.org.
BBC Documentarian Louis Theroux’s new film is entitled My Scientology Movie. Entertainment Weekly calls it one of the best documentaries of 2017. Plus, Kelly Carlin, Dan Pasternack, Professor Corey Brettschneider and Film Critic Michael Snyder.
Louis Theroux is one of the world’s great documentarians who, for the BBC, has explored survivalists, black nationalists, white supremacists and porn stars. His new documentary My Scientology Movie is breathtaking; he joins us from London. Kelly Carlin is back, her new book a Carlin Home Companion is now out in paperback. Dan Pasternack writes for Splitsider and McSweeney’s, and is one of the world’s leading experts on comedy. As program director for IFC Dan is responsible for Portlandia, Maron and Comedy Bang Bang. Law Professor Corey Brettschneider stops by for David’s weekly lesson in the constitution, and film Critic Michael Snyder tells us what movies and TV shows you should be seeing.
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Comedy Writer and Author Merrill Markoe is prominently featured on CNN’s critically acclaimed new history of comedy. She is a multiple Emmy award winning comedy writer who was instrumental in the creation of David Letterman’s landmark series on NBC. Merrill is also the author of several bestselling books including Cool Calm and Contentious, Nose Down Eyes Up, Walking In Circles Before Lying Down and What Dogs Have Taught Me. Howie Klein is the founder and treasurer of the Blue America PAC which raises money for progressive candidates and writes the Down With The Tyranny Blog.
On our show Merrill talks dogs, dogs and more dogs. And Trump, gall bladders, mothers, and dogs. Howie talks special elections coming up and whose head will soon be on a stick outside the White House.