James Yang is an award-winning illustrator who has won over 250 awards for design and illustration. His work has appeared in prestigious trade publications, such as Communications Arts, 3x3 Magazine, Graphis, Print and The Art Directors Club of New York. His illustrations and designs have also appeared in Business Week, ESPN, Golf Digest, Forbes, Fortune, Nabisco, Sony Records, New York Times, Wired and Smithsonian Institution. He has released numerous books including ‘Bus! Stop!’ (selected as a...
Jul 05, 2025•1 hr 54 min•Ep. 73
Rob Kutner has won 5 Emmys, a Peabody, a TCA, and a Grammy writing for such shows as TBS’ “CONAN” and “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.’ He co-created the fact-based comedy TV show “Gander.” Rob’s other TV writing includes “Teen Titans Go!” “Ben10” “Angry Birds: Summer Madness” and HBO’s “Dennis Miller Live.” He has also written material for the Oscars, Emmys, Writers’ Guild Awards, MTV Movie Awards, Guys’ Choice Awards, and two White House Correspondents’ Dinners. He has developed kids’ and adu...
Sep 22, 2024•1 hr 23 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Phil Witte is a cartoonist and author. His cartoons have been published in dozens of publications in the U.S. and U.K., including The Wall Street Journal, The Times (of London) and Reader’s Digest, to name a few. His humor writing has appeared in American Bystander, Slackjaw, and many other print and digital publications. He has written 2 prior books including a joke book titled “What You Don’t Know About Turning 50” and a sequel on turning 60. Rex Hesner is a jazz musician, writer, and cartoon ...
Aug 17, 2024•2 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 1
David Weill is the former Director of the Center for Advanced Lung Disease and Lung and Heart-Lung Transplant Program at Stanford University Medical Center. He is currently the Principal of the Weill Consulting Group which focuses on improving the delivery of pulmonary, ICU, and transplant care. David’s writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Newsweek, the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post, The Hill, and the Los Angeles Times. He also has appeared on Fox, CNN, the New York...
Jul 20, 2024•1 hr 34 min•Season 1Ep. 1
I’m an illustrator, cartoonist, writer, and snowman expert. I’ve done cartoons for places like the New York Times, MAD magazine and The New Yorker. I wrote The History of the Snowman (Simon & Schuster, 2007) and Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores (Penguin Random House, 2016) which became a NY Times bestseller. My work has been exhibited in: The Cartoon Art Museum of San Francisco, Smithsonian Institute, The Cartoon Museum of London and in 2018, The Sordoni Art Gallery at Wilkes U...
Jun 22, 2024•1 hr 58 min•Season 1Ep. 1
David Sipress graduated from Williams College and went on to a master’s program in Russian History at Harvard before leaving to pursue a career as a cartoonist. His first cartoon appeared in The New Yorker in 1998. Since then, he has published over seven hundred cartoons in the magazine. During the presidential election in 2012, he became the first Daily Cartoonist on the New Yorker website, and his topical cartoons have continued to appear on newyorker.com ever since. His cartoons have been pub...
Jun 01, 2024•1 hr 29 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Jennifer Keishin Armstrong's writing takes readers behind the scense of major moment in pop culture history and examines the lasting impact that our favorite TV shows, music, and movies have on our society and psyches. She investigates why pop culture matters deeply, from The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Seinfeld, to Sex and the City and Mean Girls, to Beyonce, Taylor, and Barbie. She had written eight books, including the New York Times bestseller Seinfeldia, When Women Invented Television, Sex an...
Apr 26, 2024•1 hr 50 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Jim Wilson could have simply dismissed himself as a competent piano tuner-technician, even an exceptional one. But he was and is so much more, and it took the sudden death of a dear friend and the encouragement of a legendary singer/songwriter to prove it to him. From a broken home in Amarillo, Texas to a multi-award-winning recording artist, Jim Wilson’s journey is a captivating tale of showbiz glamour, personal tragedy, self-discovery, and dogged determination. And, as is typical of Jim Wilson...
Apr 19, 2024•2 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Jim Benton is an award winning cartoonist and author that regularly posts new comics across multiple platforms including GoComics, Instagram, Reddit, Imgur, Tumblr, Facebook and his own website. Dav Pilkey, creator of Captain Underpants says: “Jim Benton is a comic genius and a brilliant cartoonist.” And beloved MAD Magazine cartoonist Sergio Aragonés says: “Humor in print has many forms, what is amazing is that Jim Benton excels in all of them!” Jim is the creator of the brand It’s Happy Bunny®...
Mar 15, 2024•1 hr 46 min•Season 1Ep. 72
Bart Edelman was born in Paterson, New Jersey, and spent his childhood in Teaneck. He earned both his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Hofstra University. He has taught at Kingsborough Community College of the City University of New York, Santa Monica College, West Los Angeles College, Long Beach City College, UCLA, and Glendale College, where he edited Eclipse, A Literary Journal. Most recently, he was appointed to the Affiliate Faculty in the MFA Program at Antioch University, Los Angel...
Feb 16, 2024•1 hr 30 min•Season 1Ep. 68
Dan Misdea is a cartoonist for The New Yorker. He spent several years in finance before drawing funny pictures for a living. His work has also appeared in Air Mail, Narrative, The Times Luxury, and elsewhere. His first children's book, The Light Inside, is available now. He lives and draws in New Jersey. For more information, visit www.danmisdea.com and follow @danmisdea
Jan 06, 2024•1 hr 46 min•Season 1Ep. 63
An Award-Winning Stand-Up Comic and Cartoonist, Teresa Roberts Logan has appeared on HBO, A&E and The Comedy Channel. She has worked at some of the best clubs in the country, including Comedy Works, Catch A Rising Star, Flapper’s Burbank, and even The Comedy Cellar in Dublin, Ireland. She has opened for Maria Bamford, Paula Poundstone and Ardal O’Hanlon. As a cartoonist, her cartoons and comics regularly appear in GoComics and Tapas along with her making appearances at New York Comic-Con, Sm...
Aug 05, 2023•1 hr 48 min•Season 1Ep. 56
As one of the country's top comedians, Cathy Ladman presents herself as the self-probing, anxiety-venting person that she is. She has appeared on "The Tonight Show" ten times and was also featured on the last two of Johnny Carson’s "Tonight Show Anniversary" shows. She’s been on “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson,” five times, has had her own HBO "One Night Stand" comedy special, and was awarded the American Comedy Award for Best Female Stand Up Comic. Her TV and film credits include: recur...
Mar 17, 2023•1 hr 39 min•Season 1Ep. 53
Claudia Stavola began her career as a stand-up comedian when she realized the office thing wasn’t for her (she hates casual Friday, and chipping in for gifts for people who grunt when she says “hello” in the hallway.). She is also a writer for the satirical rock and roll website, Madhouse Magazine, and the host of the hard rock/heavy metal morning show on Monsters of Rock on Dash Radio—a station that boasts over 800,000 listeners per day. She can be heard weekdays from 8:00 AM to Noon EST/5:00 A...
Feb 10, 2023•1 hr 32 min•Season 1Ep. 50
Brett Neveu is an Award-Winning Playwright. His Film/TV productions include Eric LaRue (dir. Michael Shannon) with Big Indie Pictures, Brace Cove Productions and CaliWood Pictures, Night’s End (dir. Jennifer Reeder) with Shudder/AMC, the short Convo with Breakwall Pictures and the feature The Earl with Intermission Productions. Recent theatre productions include The Malignant Ampersands with A Red Orchid Theatre, Verböten with House Theatre (Joseph Jefferson Nomination, New Work), Traitor with A...
Dec 09, 2022•1 hr 49 min•Season 1Ep. 48
Rich Sparks is a cartoonist/illustrator living in Chicago. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Air Mail Weekly, Weekly Humorist,The American Bystander, Barron's,The Wall Street Journal, SpongeBob Comics, Narrative Magazine, and probably other places. He released a NY Times bestselling book of humorous drawings called Love and Other Weird Things. (The bestselling part is a lie.) For more information, visit www.richsparksillustration.com
Nov 18, 2022•1 hr 27 min•Season 1Ep. 45
David DeGrand is a cartoonist from Texas that enjoys drawing pictures that make people laugh or barf (preferably both). He used to draw comics for his high school and college newspapers but since then has written and drawn for MAD Magazine, SpongeBob Comics, The Simpsons, Garfield, and Uncle Grandpa among others. He has also illustrated numerous children's books including The Zombie Chasers and World of Weird Animals series, and designed the animated series Death Hacks for Augenblick Studios. Mo...
Oct 08, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 42
The life of Jeffrey Biegel takes its roots from age three, when Mr. Biegel could neither hear nor speak, until corrected by surgery. The 'reverse Beethoven' phenomenon explains his life's commitment to music, having heard only vibrations in his formative years. The year of 2020 focused on composition and commissioning projects: original "Waltzes of Hope", "Sonatina", and "Three Reflections: JFK, RBG and MLK" for solo piano, and for piano and orchestra, orchestrations by Harrison Sheckler. Autumn...
Feb 05, 2022•1 hr 36 min•Season 1Ep. 39
As American went into coronavirus lockdown, Madeleine seized the stuck-at-home opportunity and cooked up the idea for a hilariously delicious YouTube cooking show, MAD IN THE KITCHEN – which instantly became must-watch TV for the quarantined cook! Foodies and friends, old and new, fell in love with Madeleine’s offbeat, silly approach to cooking. So much so, she is now a regular guest on several morning television shows, including The TODAY SHOW with Hoda and Jenna. Madeleine’s cooking aspiration...
Jun 11, 2021•1 hr 54 min•Season 1Ep. 25
Adam Mamawala is a stand-up comedian, actor and podcaster based out of New York City. He has appeared on Comedy Central, MTV, BET, and SiriusXM, and his debut album ‘One of the Good Ones' debuted at #1 on the iTunes Comedy Charts. Adam has been a freelance contributor to Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update and Someecards. He currently co-hosts podcasts ‘Away Games’ and ‘HORSE,’ as recently featured in the New York Times! For more information, visit www.adammamawala.com
Jun 04, 2021•1 hr 28 min•Season 1Ep. 24
John Matta is a TV writer best known for his work on The Martin Short Show, Steve Harvey’s Big Time, Kid President: Declaration of Awesome, The Epic Adventures of Captain Underpants and the creator of Matta Napkin. It all started when his wife Rose Abdoo was going through cancer treatment, and drawing a comic on a napkin was a silly way to make her laugh every day. It both delighted and exhausted her. Finally, she told him to please share them with other people. So he uploaded them to the web an...
May 21, 2021•1 hr 44 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Wisconsin native Ed Steckley is a humorous illustrator living in New York City. Beginning as a theme park caricature artist at multiple parks around the Midwest and the country, he’s navigated an illustration career ranging from comic books and magazine illustration, newspaper and advertising, and children's book illustration. Currently he’s the illustrator of two different series of Rube Goldberg books, published by Abrams: two kids’ picture books to date as well as the upcoming three book seri...
May 14, 2021•1 hr 44 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Bob Eckstein is an award-winning illustrator, cartoonist, writer and snowman expert. He creates cartoons for places like the New York Times, MAD magazine and The New Yorker. Eckstein wrote The History of the Snowman (Simon & Schuster, 2007) and Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores (Penguin Random House, 2016) which became a NY Times bestseller. His work has been exhibited in: The Cartoon Art Museum of San Francisco, Smithsonian Institute, The Cartoon Museum of London and in 2018 an...
Apr 23, 2021•1 hr 35 min•Season 1Ep. 16
John Di Domenico is an Emmy Nominated, Actor, Writer, Comedian and Impersonator. He is currently best known for his Award-Winning Donald Trump impersonation as winner of Best of Las Vegas Silver, ABC’s The View’s National Trump Contest and The Laugh Factory’s International Trump Competition. Di Domenico was immortalized as Trump on the Las Vegas Wall of Honor. Di Domenico has been performing Trump since 2004 and is the official Trump for Conan O’Brien, Slate’s Trumpcast, Chelsea Handler on Netfl...
Apr 10, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 12
The Maryland-based rock band ANY GIVEN SIN spent much of 2019 turning heads with the release of their single, "Dynamite," which quickly became the #1 most spun song on SiriusXM's Octane. The band soon solidified its position on the channel, landing the coveted 'Accelerator Artist' title, and blazing past some of the biggest names in Rock on their weekly 'BIG UNS Countdown', becoming the #2 Most-Requested song on the channel and landed them at #29 of SiriusXM Octane's Top 100 Year end countdown. ...
Jul 25, 2020•58 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Peter Mehlman grew up in Queens, NY and graduated from the University of Maryland. He started his career as a sportswriter for The Washington Post and worked with Howard Cosell where he produced a TV series titled, ‘SportsBeat.’ His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, GQ, Esquire, LA Times and practically every Conde Nast women’s magazines. In 1989, he moved to Los Angeles, CA where he bumped into his friend, Larry David. After showing Larry David a humor piece he wrote for the New...
Jun 26, 2020•1 hr 35 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Fielding Edlow is an LA based comedian/writer and native New Yorker. She was recently named one of “the six funniest women in Los Angeles right now.” (Pure Wow) Fielding voiced the recurring character, “Roxie” on Bojack Horseman and hosts her own hit monthly show ‘Eat Pray F*ck’ at the Hollywood Improv. Her solo show, Coke-Free J.A.P, (Backstage’s “Best of Fringe Award”), was followed by a four-month, sold-out run in LA at the McCadden Theatre and was subsequently developed as a half-hour comedy...
Jun 19, 2020•1 hr 39 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Jennifer Keishin Armstrong is the New York Times bestselling author of Seinfeldia: How the Show About Nothing Changed Everything; a history of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted; and Sex and the City and Us: How Four Single Women Changed the Way We Think, Live, and Love. Most recently, she published her book, 'Pop Star Goddesses: And How to Tap Into Their Energies to Invoke Your Best Self.' She spent a decade on staff at Entertainment Weekly and has since written for many ...
Jun 05, 2020•1 hr 47 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Abby Schachner (Your Friend Abby) is a writer/performer who started illustrating four years ago to make her children’s writing REAL. When not illustrating, she performs her poems (and comedic ditties) around Los Angeles and beyond (especially when not in quarantine). After college, Abby moved to Chicago to study improvisation. There, she toured the country with The Second City and improvised with amazing people. She’s also a solo performer who enjoys tackling tough themes in creative ways. Be it...
May 29, 2020•1 hr 36 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Mike Sager is a bestselling author and award-winning reporter. He’s been called “the Beat poet of American journalism.” For more than forty years he has worked as a writer for the Washington Post, Rolling Stone, GQ and Esquire. In 2010, he won the American Society of Magazine Editors National Magazine award for profile writing. More than ten of his articles have been optioned for or have inspired television movies and series and feature films, including Boogie Nights. The author of a dozen books...
May 08, 2020•1 hr 39 min•Season 1Ep. 3
