Episode #443: Comedy MVPs of 2023 with Jason Zinoman
New York Times comedy critic Jason Zinoman has joined me every year since 2015 for our own traditional December To Remember the year in comedy. On …
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Episode #442: Jen D’Angelo
Jen D’Angelo is a comedian, actress and screenwriter in Los Angeles. Originally from the Philadelphia area, she graduated from Northwestern before heading to LA and …
Continue ReadingFoodie funnies: James Acaster and Ed Gamble’s podcast Off Menu goes on the road
As it fills the Royal Albert Hall on tour, the comedians’ ‘dream restaurant’ show questions what ingredients a live performance really needs‘I can’t believe this many people like your podcast!” That’s Elis James talking, as he and his pals James Acaste…
Continue ReadingEpisode #441: Chris Turner
Chris Turner is a stand-up comedian and freestyle rapper from England who made his debut as a solo artist at the Edinburgh Fringe with 2014’s …
Continue ReadingEpisode #440: Sasheer Zamata
Actress and comedian Sasheer Zamata may be most familiar to comedy fans from her four years on Saturday Night Live, but she has kept busy …
Continue ReadingEpisode #439: Courtney Pauroso
Courtney Pauroso is an LA-based actor, writer and comedian, who traveled the world and the United States as the child of a military family. She …
Continue ReadingJohn Robins: ‘I don’t agree with what I wrote when I wasn’t well … But it’s really funny’
Having built his reputation as a comic and podcaster on his candour about anxiety and addiction, Robins is facing a new comedy challenge – happiness‘There is no greater sorrow,” as Dante had it, “than to recall happiness in times of misery.” If the con…
Continue ReadingEpisode #438: Jared Freid
Jared Freid is a stand-up comedian based in New York City whom you’ve most likely heard on one of his two highly popular podcasts — …
Continue ReadingEpisode #437: Martin Urbano
Martin Urbano is a comedian who grew up in southern Texas on the border with Mexico, but he’s based now in New York City, where …
Continue ReadingEpisode #436: Kiran Deol
Kiran Deol is a comedian and actress whose show business career began auspiciously enough when she followed up her college thesis with a documentary short, …
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