Ashley Gavin: “My Therapist Is Dying” at Edinburgh Fringe 2024
⭐⭐⭐⭐ NYC-based stand-up Ashley Gavin warns us early on that she knows she looks ridiculous when she cries as well as just how she dresses …
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Anna Akana: “It Gets Darker” at Edinburgh Fringe 2024
⭐⭐⭐½ Actress Anna Akana has more than 2.8 million YouTube subscribers (and an additional 1.5 million combined followers on TikTok and Instagram), and her first …
Continue ReadingCatherine McCafferty: “(Not) That Bad” at Edinburgh Fringe 2024
⭐⭐⭐⭐ “If it’s not content, then why did it happen?” That’s a pithy way for someone who has grown up in the social media age …
Continue ReadingVeronica Osorio as “Medicine Woman” at Edinburgh Fringe 2024
⭐⭐⭐⭐ There’s something extra ominous about being led through a bar into a dark, damp cave as the clock approaches midnight, receiving a wooden percussive …
Continue ReadingIan Lockwood: “The Farewell Tour” at Edinburgh Fringe 2024
⭐⭐⭐⭐½ Lots of Fringe shows this month employ songs of the summer from Chappell Roan and Charli XCX to hype up the crowds and themselves. …
Continue ReadingElf Lyons: “Horses” at Edinburgh Fringe 2024
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Who wouldn’t want to see “the first ever comedy show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe performed entirely by a horse.” Then you encounter Emily-Anne …
Continue ReadingEpisode #461: PunchUp Live’s Danny Frenkel and Alex Dajani
The state of the comedy industry, like most everything else in 2024, feels very much in flux. Danny Frenkel and Alex Dajani have seen firsthand …
Continue ReadingEpisode #460: Ashley Gavin
Ashley Gavin is a comedian from New York City who studied computer science and helped craft the curriculum for Girls Who Code, before deciding to …
Continue ReadingEpisode #459: Sam Reich, Dropout CEO
I spoke to Sam Reich on this podcast back in the fall of 2020, when he was in his first year running Dropout, the subscription-based …
Continue ReadingEpisode #458: Hank Green
Hank and John Green began influencing online viewing long before we tied the word influencer to social media, launching their Vlogbrothers YouTube channel on Jan. 1, 2007, …
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