Laurie Kilmartin talks comedy. Meteorologist Mark Thompson talks tornadoes. Plus Paul Dooley, Janie Haddad Tompkins, Jeremy S. Kramer and Hal Lublin. Portions of today’s show are written by Hal Lublin, Will Dixon and David Feldman. Plus new music from Will Ryan And The Cactus County Cowboys. Laurie Kilmartin is an American comedienne and writer best known for being a finalist on Last Comic Standing season 8, and is currently a staff writer for the Conan O’Brien show. Kilmartin performed stand-up on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Comedy Central’s Premium Blend, Showtime, the USO Tour Cuba, performing for troops in Iraq, Shorties Watchin’ Shorties, Verdict with Dan Abrams, Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld, and The World Stands Up. She has been featured at comedy festivals in Aspen, Edinburgh, and Montreal.
Laurie Kilmartin also appeared on VH1 Best Week Ever, the Today Show, White Boyz in Da Hood, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, The Rachel Maddow Show, Fox & Friends and The Oprah Winfrey Show. She has writing credits on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, and Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn on which she was also a frequent panelist. She grew up in Northern California and went to UCLA where she was a competitive swimmer.
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Dr. Katz returns! Also Kevin Rooney, Cathy Ladman and Carol Davis discuss poo. Plus Paul Dooley and Jeremy S. Kramer. Plus new music from Will Ryan And The Cactus County Cowboys featuring Jeremy S. Kramer and Michael McShane.
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David Corn is Washington bureau chief for Mother Jones Magazine. He fills us in on the latest “scandals” plaguing the Obama administration. Corn has broken stories on presidents, politicians, and other Washington players. He’s written for numerous publications and is a talk show regular. His best-selling books include Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War. We are also joined by our movie critic Michael Snyder.
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Mac McClelland is the human rights reporter for Mother Jones magazine. Her cover story for Mother Jones this month is entitled, “Schizophrenic. Killer. My Cousin.” Mac McClelland is an award-winning journalist and author of For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question: A Story From Burma’s Never-Ending War. She’s reported in every region in the US, undercover in industry and sex work, and from international locations including Thailand, Haiti, Australia, Burma, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Bhutan. She’s appeared on major national and international media outlets such as MSNBC, PBS, NPR, Al Jazeera, Democracy Now, the BBC, CBC, and Deutsche Welle.
Mac has won awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Hillman Foundation, the Online News Association, and the Society of Environmental Journalists; her book was a finalist for the 2011 Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and she’s been nominated for two National Magazine Awards for Feature Writing. You can find her work anthologized in the Best American Magazine Writing, Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011, and Best Business Writing. Her writing has been written about by most major news organizations, from TIME to the New York Times, and her features translated and reprinted around the world.
Michael McShane talks The Bard. With Laura House and movies with Michael Snyder. Michael McShane is known to American and British audiences from the hit series Whose Line Is It Anyway? One of his larger TV roles was as Kramer‘s nemesis Franklin Delano Romanowski(FDR) on Seinfeld. He also had a cameo role as a doomed hypnotherapist in the film Office Spaceand played the friendly scientist, Professor Keenbean, in the 1994 movie Ri¢hie Ri¢h as well as Friar Tuck in “Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves”. He also co-starred with Sir John Geilgud, Emily Watson and Rosemary Harris in “A Summer’s Day Dream” for BBC “Performance” series.
In 1995, McShane starred as Harley in the BBC Screen Two TV Movie Crazy For A Kiss, about a young boy who is sent to a mental institution for teenagers in Kansas. Touted as being somewhat biographical of McShane’s childhood, the film has never been released on video or DVD. McShane appeared in Tom and Huck as Muff Potter and on Brotherly Love as the experienced but wisecracking mechanic, Lloyd.
He provided the voice for Cid in the video gamesFinal Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2.He appeared in Tower of Terror, a TV movie based on the Disney attraction as “Q” along withSteve Guttenberg and Kirsten Dunst. He had also appeared with Tony Slattery in the comedy sketch show S&M, starred with Sandi Toksvig in the sitcom The Big One, and provided voice work in the anime Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, as D’s sarcastic possessed left hand. He also provided the voice of Detective Twitch in the HBO animated series Spawn. Other voice work by McShane includes the characters of Tuck and Roll, the twin pill bugs in A Bug’s Life and the video game of the same name in 1998,he also provided the voice of Shalulu in Disney’s redub of Castle in the Sky. He also portrayed Baron Rakan Harkonnen in the 2001 strategy gameEmperor: Battle for Dune.
He also narrated several episodes of Animated Tales of the World. In 2003, McShane underwentgastric bypass surgery, losing a significant amount of weight. In 2005 he made an appearance as Dr. Phelps in Malcolm in the Middle. In 2006 he was in a production of Talk Radio directed byStewart Lee, with Stephen K. Amos, Phil Nichol. It was the first dramatic production in the Udderbelly, a performing space housed in a giant, inverted purple cow.
McShane appeared as the voice of Audrey II (as well as playing a number of peripheral characters) in the London revival of Little Shop of Horrors at the Menier Chocolate Factory inSouthwark between December 2006 and February 2007. The show was a critical success and was sold out for the duration of its run, and Mike had been contracted to continue in the role following the show’s transfer to the West End at the Duke of York theatre. In September 2007 he took part in the British Library’s celebration of Jack Kerouac, reading excerpts from On The Road on the 50th Anniversary of its publication.
In 2008, McShane appeared as a guest performer in Paul Merton’s Impro Chums, a live improv show, and was asked to join the permanent company for three UK tours, and is still ongoing with the group. and as Dr. Vaabit in episode 5 of BBC’s Sitcom Lab Rats,[5] and has appeared twice on the BBC radio programme Just a Minute. In 2012, Mike wrote and starred in, along side Suki Webster, a play called “Mon Droit” based on the incident of the discovery of a body in St. James Park in London. The deceased was an American with a psychological condition known as De Clerembault’s Syndrome, and believed he was receiving messages from Queen Elizabeth the Second to come and be her paramour. It was received favorably, and Mike was nominated for Best Actor by The Stage magazine.
In September 2012, McShane appeared as the character Grayle in the television series Doctor Who in the series 7 episode “The Angels Take Manhattan.” In November of 2012, Mike starred as a CIA military consultant in the new BBC Three comedy series, “Bluestone 4-2”. In February of 2013, Mike created the role of Louis B. Mayer in the new musical “The Tailor Made Man” at The Arts Theatre in Londons’ West End, garnering rave reviews.
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Mother Jones Columnist Tom Philpott talks to us about about Monsanto, GMOs, Organic Farming and why our food is killing us. For five years, Tom Philpott servedas a columnist, food editor, and senior food writer for the online environmental site Grist. He’s a cofounder of Maverick Farms, a center for sustainable food education in Valle Crucis, North Carolina. Before moving to the farm in 2004, Philpott worked as a financial journalist in Mexico City and New York, most recently writing daily dispatches on the stock market as equity research editor for Reuters.com. His work on food politics has appeared in Newsweek, Gastronomica, and TheGuardian. Maverick Farms has been featured in Gourmet and the New York Times, and in September 2008, Food & Wine named Philpott one of “ten innovators” who “will continue to shape the culinary consciousness of our country for the next 30 years.” In 2011, he was a finalist for a James Beard Foundation Journalism Award—the “Oscars of the food world,” as Time put it—in the “Food-Related Columns and Commentary” category.
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