A Real Doctor, Mark Thompson and Will Ryan talk love, sex and excitement. Paul Dooley, General Smedley Butler and David’s acting teacher Rupert Robert Rutlidge talk musical chairs. Michael Snyder talks documentaries. And new music from Will Ryan and the Cactus County Cowboys. Also Jeremy S. Kramer and Hal Lublin. Portions of today’s show were written by Chris Compton.
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Comedians Lisa Landry and Tommy Savitt get enlightened by The Tommy Lama. Lisa talks about converting to Judaism. Also Zack Ford from Think Progress, and new music from Will Ryan And The Cactus County Cowboys.
Lisa Landry came up through the famed New York City comedy circuit to become an audience favorite at clubs, colleges and theaters across the country. Landry has appeared on CBS’s “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson” & “The Bonnie Hunt Show” on NBC. She starred in her own half hour Special, “Comedy Central Presents Lisa Landry.” And a nationwide vote catapulted her special to third place out of 100 top comedians in Comedy Central’s annual “Standup Showdown.” She’s the first woman to ever place in the top three.
Landry’s CD Put Your Keys in the Key Bowl was selected by iTunes as one of the “Top 10 Best Comedy CDs” of 2008. She is one of a handful of comedians chosen by TBS for their “We Know Funny” series of stand-up style commercials. She’s also appeared on Comedy Central’s “Premium Blend” and co-starred on NBC’s “Law and Order: SVU.”
The Louisiana native was featured on “Brett Butler’s Southern Belles of Comedy” DVD. She did commentary for E!’s “Forbes Top 100 Celebrities” and CMT’s “20 Greatest Redneck Moments,” where Landry was chosen as a “Top Pick” by TV Guide. Her guest appearances include Fox’s “Morning Show with Mike and Juliet,” the “Bob and Tom Show,” Fox’s “Redeye” and the “Hollyweird” segment on MSNBC’s “Scarborough Country.” For four years, Landry was a comedy writer for US Weekly Magazine. Punchline Magazine describes Landry best: “She’s an incredibly skilled comedian, a controlling presence onstage and a master of pacing and delivery.”
Multi- Award winning comedian ,Tommy Savitt, has won the prestigious 2007 Boston Comedy Festival, 2008 Seattle Comedy Competition, and was honored for the “Best In Comedy”category at the 2009 LA Comedy Awards. Tommy has been seen on WGN’s “The Bob & Tom Show”, SI Tv’s “Funny is Funny”, Comcast On Demand, Man Up Stand Up on Mav.Tv and on JLTV’s ” James and Sunda “. Tommy’s comedy CD “Who Wants Me Now!” is one of the top requested on satellite radio. Tommy has dedicated this past decade to performing for our troops here and abroad.
Performance artist, Comedian, and Actor Tommy Savitt was born in New Jersey and bred in Brooklyn. Tommy performs an exhilarating brand of eclectic comedy rarely seen today. Tommy’s unorthodox comedy routine envelops his audience and teleports them into a domain of hilarity and pure craftmanship. Tommy’s journey to bring laughter to those that sacrifice for our country has taken him to airforce,army,and naval bases in Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay, Japan, South Korea, Bahrain, the United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Curacao, Honduras, and Ecuador. Tommy has done it all – even performing at the United States Embassy in Belarus.
From Chelsea Lately and E’s Talk Soup Investigates Comic Sara Tiana. Meterologist Mark Thompson gives us an update on Typhoon Haiyan. Plus Emmy Award Winning Comedy Writer Guy Nicolucci, Chris Bonno and Will Ryan. Please subscribe to our show for free as a podcast on iTunes and Stitcher.
David was in a horrible mood until he realized his guests Cathy Ladman and Brian Scolaro both appeared on Mad Men. Cathy Ladman is a Jewish American stand-up comedian, television writer, and actor. She was featured in her own installment of HBO’s One Night Stand comedy series, and has been a guest on The Tonight Show on nine occasions. She has had numerous supporting roles in films like Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead (1991), My Fellow Americans (1996), and White Oleander (2002), and two Mike Nichols films: “What Planet Are You From? (2000)” and Charlie Wilson’s War (2007), as well as TV shows like Roseanne, Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, Caroline in the City (in a recurring role), and Everybody Loves Raymond. She won an American Comedy Award for Best Female Stand-Up Comic in 1992.
Ladman’s comedy is self-described as “self-probing, anxiety-venting vehicle” for “exposing personal neurosis”. She is currently working on a new solo show, entitled, Does This Show Make Me Look Fat? In 2007, she was featured in the Off-Broadway production J.A.P. – The Princesses of Comedy, which included live standup routines by four female Jewish comics juxtaposed with the stories of legendary performers from the 1950s and 1960s, Totie Fields, Jean Carroll, Pearl Williams, Betty Walker and Belle Barth.
Brian Scolaro (born October 18, 1973 in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn) is an American comedian, actor, voice actor.and producer. He is most known for his half hour special on Comedy Central and his roles on FOX’s “Stacked” and TBS’s “Sullivan and Son” and NBC’s “Three Sisters.”
He first established himself as a stand up comedian in Manhattan and appeared in Montreal’s Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in 1999. He was hired by writer Steve Koren (Click, Bruce Almighty, SNL, Seinfeld) to be a regular cast member on a pilot for NBC “Everything But the Girl” with Tiffani Amber Thiessen. He moved to Hollywood to be a regular cast member on NBC’s Three Sisters. He then shot an ABC pilot by director Tom Shadyack (Ace Ventura, Nutty Professor) called “Platonically Incorrect”. After a holding deal with CBS, he was cast as Stuart Miller for both seasons on Fox’s Stacked. He was also cast as a recurring character Doug on the first season of TBS’s “Sullivan and Son”. He also has played numerous characters on HBO’s “The Life and Times of Tim”.
Since then he has acted on AMC’s Mad Men, TNT’s Men of a Certain Age, Showtime’s Dexter, ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy, Disney Channel’s Wizards of Waverly Place, NBC’s “GO ON”, and the film “The Brothers Solomon.”
His half-hour special Comedy Central Presents: Brian Scolaro premiered in January 2009. He has done stand up comedy Late Nite with Conan OBrien, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Comedy Central’s “Live at Gotham”, and ABC’s “Comics Unleashed.”
His production company, Voodoowop Pictures, was formed in Brooklyn in 1996 with his college friends and their short films See That Guy and Something were featured respectively at Chicago’s Angelciti and Hollywood’s Show Off Your Short Film Festivals. His production company is available on YouTube. And their webseries “Hitman” was picked up by Atomic Wedgie TV and their webseries “Legend Hunters” remains a popular series on YouTube.
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Today’s featured songs: “Man Out Of Time” by Elvis Costello. And Macarthur’s Park sung by Richard Harris.
Why does a dog love us more than it loves another dog? Are dogs really racist? What’s up with dogs and urine? Our guest is Dr. Gregory Berns, professor of neuroeconomics at Emory University and the author of “How Dogs Love Us: A Neuroscientist and His Adopted Dog Decode the Canine Brain.” And then Film Critic Michael Snyder on what movies to see.
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Comedians Raj Desai and Dave Ross ask a real live female doctor the important questions like What is love? How does a woman’s body work? And how much porn is too much porn?
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