Steve Skrovan talks to us from Tel Aviv about bringing Everybody Loves Raymond to Israel.
Everybody Loves Raymond is being produced in Israel with a brand new cast. Executive Producer Steve Skrovan talks to us from Tel Aviv and tells us what it’s like to produce a sitcom in Israel. Also sketches featuring Eddie Pepitone, Paul Dooley, Janie Haddad Tompkins Dylan Brody and Jeremy S. Kramer. Written by Frank Conniff, Guy Nicolucci and David Weiss.
Lee Camp is a political satirist whose Moment Of Clarity podcast is available on iTunes and You Tube. His new CD is called Pepper Spray The Tears Away.
Originally broadcast June 23, 2012. Comedian Lee Camp says, “Apathy is unacceptable and Ambivalence is dangerous.” He talks about his new comedy CD. Lee first gained David Feldman’s attention when he appeared on Fox News morning show Fox & Friends in 2008, when, before the presidential campaign, they asked him to do left-wing jokes along with a right-wing comedian. Instead he went live on air saying “What is Fox News? It’s just a parade of propaganda, isn’t it? It’s just a…festival of ignorance.” The video clip went viral online and was viewed by millions.
Also on today’s show Sister Diane Donoghue is one of the leaders of “Nuns On The Bus” traveling to Wisconsin reminding Republican leaders of Christ’s teachings. Nuns On The Bus insists Congressman Paul Ryan’s budget proposal specifically targets those whom Jesus commands us to protect.
Also The King Of TV Paul Goebel.
Martin Short upon realizing it’s David Feldman and not David Letterman.
Originally Broadcast June 22, 2012. Marty does Jerry Lewis and Lucille Ball!!! Sketches and song with Martin Short live in studio. With Paul Dooley, Eddie Pepitone, Frank Conniff, Janie Haddad Tompkins, Mark Thompson, Chris Pina, and Jeremy Kramer. Written by Frank Conniff, Ben Zelevansky, Guy Nicolucci, Dylan Brody, and David Weiss. Words and music by Alan Chapman and Will Ryan.
Josh Eidelson covers labor as a contributing writer at Salon and In These Times. He is a contributor at The Nation, The American Prospect, Alternet, and Dissent.
After receiving his MA in Political Science from Yale, he spent five years as a union organizer for UNITE HERE in Sacramento, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia. He is based in New York and Philadelphia. He has spoken on labor and politics in venues including Columbia University, public radio, and MSNBC.
He joins us for a primer on what exactly collective bargaining means. Hard subject made easy.
Todd Glass is appearing at the Comedy Attic In Bloomington, Indiana this week.
Originally broadcast June 19, 2012. Todd Glass is one of the funniest comics working today. Fast, spontaneous and careless, Todd dips his toe into the comedy river no matter how cold the water. He’s a great friend and his Comedy Central special is airing right now. Also movie reviews from Michael Snyder.
Alan Abel has been pranking the media since the 1960s.
Originally broadcast June 18, 2012. Prankster Alan Abel has been playing tricks on journalists for five decades. He is the subject of the award winning documentary “Abel Raises Cain” recounting a lifetime of preying on the sloppiness and downright laziness of American media. Then Eddie Pepitone tells us about how he lost his virginity to his college professor. And we kick around an idea for a movie. With Paul Dooley, Frank Conniff, Jimmy Dore, Stefane Zamorano, Jeremy S. Kramer, Dylan Brody and David Weiss.
“Before Stephen Colbert, there was Alan Abel, the man behind the world’s most infamous pranks.”
— The Toronto Star
“Like a reverse Jon Stewart, Abel has been creating fake news… preying on mainstream media’s insatiable thirst for the lurid, the perverse, and the wacky.”
— PBS POV blog
“Alan Abel is a master spoofer with incredibly perceptive insights into the human comedy.”
— San Francisco Examiner
“Abel challenges the obvious and utters the outrageous.”
— New York Times
“Abel is the Franz Liszt of put-on artists, the Rembrandt of the ridiculous”
— Cleveland Press
“The imagination and sheer guts of Mr. Abel are pure delight.”
— Erma Bombeck
“His droll dry wit is hilarious… it’s intelligent humor.”
— New Orleans Times
“Alan Abel is a jester with a serious face bound for an adventure in absurdity.”
— Atlanta Constitution
“Long before the Yes Men satirized Exxon and Halliburton, and before Ashton Kutcher was born, Alan Abel was the undisputed king of media hoaxers.”
— UTNE Reader
“Alan Abel is devilishly clever, perhaps the greatest hoaxer of our times.”
— New York Daily News