Category: The News From Around The World

“Comedy Grad School”

gradschool

Dan Pasternack is head of programming for IFC. He joins Paul Dooley, Paul Provenza, and Jeremy S. Kramer to tell you who’s funny and everything about the history of comedy. Paul Dooley is the star of Breaking Away and Sixteen Candles. Paul Provenza is the host of Showtime’s The Green Room, director of The Aristocrats and author of Satiristas. Jeremy S. Kramer is the holy grail of comedy. Also Andrea Martin, Will Ryan and The Cactus County Cowboys, Eddie Pepitone, Rick Overton, Frank Conniff, Janie Haddad Tompkins, Mark Thompson and Shop War On Christmas’ Jimmy Wirt. Today’s show is written by David Weiss, Ben Zelevansky, Steve Rosenfield and David Feldman. Please subscribe to our show on iTunes and Stitcher and share it with your loved ones.

Read More »

“David Sedaris’s Favorite Story Teller”

dylan

David Sedaris’s favorite story teller Dylan Brody talks about performing in front of 3,000 people with David Sedaris. Then he recites the seven minute story he told that night. Our lady female woman doctor returns to tell the boys that their Attention Deficit Disorder is a figment of the pharmaceutical industry’s craven imagination. Also the Nation Magazine’s Moscow correspondent Alec Luhn fills us in on the protests in Ukraine. Michael Snyder talks movies. Plus new music from Will Ryan and The Cactus County Cowboys. This is the episode that almost didn’t happen. You can smell the tension in the air. But we did it. We almost had a fistfight break out, but everybody calmed down. Please subscribe to this show for free on iTunes and Stitcher.

Read More »

“Welcome Black Professor Armour!”

jody

One of this show’s most requested guests ever has come black! Law Professor Jodi Armour returns to offer up some surprising thoughts on Mandela, The Paradox of Black Patriotism, Chris Rock and Welfare Queens.  Jody Armour is Roy P. Crocker Professor of Law at the University of Southern California, where he specializes in race issues in legal decision-making. Professor Armour also writes the “Nigga Theory” blog and is author of “Negrophobia and Reasonable Racism: The Hidden Costs of Being Black in America” published by New York University Press.   Today’s program includes Will Ryan And The Cactus County Cowboys featuring Hal Lublin and Jeremy S. Kramer.

Read More »