Constitutional Law Professor COREY BRETTSCHNEIDER, The LGBTQ Editor for Think Progress ZACK FORD, Comedian DAVE SIRUS and JACKIE “THE JOKE MAN” MARTLING.
Trump’s Caravan of Racist Lies
Wayne Federman Talks Shandling
Comics FRED STOLLER, JOE DEVITO AND AARON BERG. Plus Congressman Ted Lieu’s Chief of Staff MARC CEVASCO. Comic, Actor, and Author Wayne Federman played Garry Shandling’s brother on “The Larry Sanders Show” and is one of the producers of the new Judd Apatow HBO documentary “The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling” which explores Garry’s lifelong pursuit of comedic and spiritual enlightenment.
HQ Trivia’s Scott Rogowsky
LIZ WINSTEAD, creator of The Daily Show and founder of Air America talks abortion, and how hard it’s become to get one. HQ Trivia’s a phenomenon, two million viewers play it every day, and SCOTT ROGOWSKY, the host, stops by. Professor COREY BRETTSCHNEIDER is the author of “The Oath And The Office,” which comes out this September, we discuss whether or not it’s finally time to get rid of the second amendment. The hardest working pediatrician in comedy Dr. JAY SUTAY tells David to wash his rubber ducky. ZACK FORD, LGBTQ editor for Think Progress, talks about the right wing bullying of those brave teenagers who led last weekend’s March For Life. Comedian DAVE SIRUS talks about Laura Ingraham losing all her sponsors, and Roseanne losing all her marbles.
Bill Scheft’s March Madness
Comedy Writer, Comedian, Sports Columnist, Novelist and Drummer Bill Scheft has lost more than 419 Prime Time Emmys. Comedian Joe DeVito remembers Pol Pot’s thing for eyeglasses. And then we meet Professor Katie Porter who is running for California’s 45th Congressional district.
Professor Porter has been endorsed by Senators Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris. And is also endorsed by Howie Klein.
Bill Scheft is best known for being a Letterman writer from 1991-2015. He ran a weekly humor column over at Sports Illustrated called “The Show.” A collection of his columns, The Best of “The Show”, was published by 2005.
Scheft is the author of four novels: The Ringer (2002), Time Won’t Let Me (2005), Everything Hurts (2009) and Shrink Thyself (2014). Time Won’t Let Me was a finalist for the 2006 Thurber Prize for American Humor. Both The Ringer and Everything Hurts have been optioned for film.
Scapegoating Putin and Facebook
Who’s really to blame for Trump winning in 2016? Putin? Facebook? Cambridge Analytica? Or maybe it’s simply the fault of the American people. Down with Tyranny’s Howie Klein, Think Progress’s Zack Ford, plus Comics Dave Sirus and Aaron Berg.
Abolish I.C.E.
America’s only immigration crisis is I.C.E. and it’s time to abolish it. Dan Canon is a civil rights attorney running for Indiana’s 9th congressional district and is calling for the dissolution of I.C.E., and he’s not the only candidate in 2018 to say that. Dan is supported by Howie Klein and Act Blue.
Also on today’s show Comics Joe DeVito, Jackie “The Joke Man” Martling and Jon Ross.