Daniel and Garrett (sitting in for Laura) chat with comedian, t.v. writer, voice act and podcaster Ian Edwards. They discuss, The Boondocks, working in the Wayan's Dynasty, starting comedy while taking orders in a drive-thru, Greg, not being on the Fugees album, Haitian Jack , Strong Island, using comedy to adapt, ayahuasca, past life experiences, music festivals and crowd work. X: @IanEdwardsComic Insta: @ianedwardscomic YouTube: @ianedwards2017 Check out Ian's Podcast, Soccer Comic Rant WWTWH ...
Nov 21, 2023•55 min•Season 1Ep. 27
Laura and Garrett (sitting in for Daniel) chat with the Comedian and Ad Man, Allen Strickland Williams . They discuss, the ad biz, I owe Larry David Money , Florida's sink holes, bitching about stand up, women do be like that, let it ride, paying it forward: illegal drug edition, acid trips, what did we get from the strike?, Allen's new special and Comedy Central Presents , Clint Eastwood...I fucked him, vasectomies and ropes, an Edsel full of ugly and the coolest Holocaust museums to check out....
Nov 13, 2023•55 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Laura and Daniel chat with the Comedian, Podcaster and TV Expert Extraordinaire, Ken Reid . They discuss, keeping drunk newscasters on task, Chuck Connors: Italian Werewolf Ship Captain, flowers for Gerald McRaney, Golden Girls/Munsters vs. Designing Women/Addams Family, domesticated abuse parrot, which sitcoms had the most suicides, Laura's first head injury putting the outfits before the monkey, Christmas morning snake fight, gay uncle vs a Tegu, "Sex Over the Phone" , Faye Dunnaway shits on a...
Nov 07, 2023•54 min•Season 1Ep. 25
Laura and Daniel chat with the the wonderfully talented actor, author, screen writer, comedian, playwright and beautiful soul, Justin Sayre. They discuss, Justin's new play, "Lottie Plachett Took A Hatchet", Lizzie Borden, their encounters with TV Tyrants who eat hair and or foot skin, Disney hostages, Betty "Backhand" Perske aka Lauren Bacall, from Gay to Z, John Waters, Female Trouble 2: Hot Flash, Crusing Crusader George Michael and how Vincent Price heals all head wounds. Tickets to Lottie P...
Oct 30, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Laura and Daniel chat with the incredibly funny and quick witted, Michelle Biloon. They discuss, Disney Plaid status, multiple sclerosis, The Torkelsons, their inability to interact with normal people, dermoids and CHER vs. influencers Twitter: @biloon Insta: @biloon Website: biloon.com WWTWH YouTube Channel Laura Kightlinger Twitter: @KingKightlinger Insta: @laurakightlingerlives Web: laurakightlinger.com MUSIC: Jimmy Harry Twitter: @bonsaimammal Insta: @thejimmyharry Web: jimmy harry.com...
Oct 23, 2023•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 23
Laura and Daniel chat with vivacious, naturally funny Vanessa Gonzalez. Together they explore self-portraits, Vanessa’s pre-school teaching job, potty training and pre-school mom expectations, Daniel’s summer camp sickness, right-wing audience members, touring with Chelsea Handler on private planes, Kathy Griffin, Margaret Cho, Def Comedy Jam, Gay Bobo, the Austin comedy scene, Martha Kelly, the Whitehouse tour, Biden’s biters - Commander and Major, Dollywood, early risers and the evolution of t...
Oct 16, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 22
Thank you to our over one thousand weekly listeners! Laura and Daniel reminisce about the first 20 episodes of WWTWH. The guests, the goofs, what to do with the tattered clothes of a dead grandparent, Mike Watt, Dolly Parton's saxophone, Elvis' solid gold diaper pins, getting bumped, murder scenes, toilet spices, champagne showers in Tommy Lee Jones' house, first date concussions and horny British widows trying to catch a dick. WWTWH YouTube Channel Laura Kightlinger Twitter: @KingKightlinger In...
Oct 10, 2023•58 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Laura and Daniel welcome the miraculous Two Headed Dog aka Mark Fite and Jim Turner . Together they ponder The Righteous Gemstones, the glorious Edie Patterson, Clowntown City Limits, the Higgins Boys and Gruber, octogenarian ushers, the 29 -year-old man, Adrian Belew, hooker number one and handjob guy thegooddeedcorps.org WWTWH YouTube Channel Laura Kightlinger Twitter: @KingKightlinger Insta: @laurakightlingerlives Web: laurakightlinger.com MUSIC: Jimmy Harry Twitter: @bonsaimammal Insta: @the...
Oct 02, 2023•57 min
Daniel and Laura talk with vivacious performer, Uncabaret creator producer and writing coach extraodinaire Beth Lapides about the singular comedy of transcendent Judy Toll, and the rare group of comic storytellers including Merrill Markoe, Henriette Mantel, Kathy Griffin, Dana Gould, Bob Odenkirk, Margaret Cho, Julia Sweeney, and Andy Kindler who let it all hang out at Luna Park. And Taylor Negron’s monkey, Joni Mitchell, legendary keyboardist Mitch Kaplan, Beth’s critically acclaimed audio Book...
Sep 25, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 19
We're joined today by the hilarious and industrious firebrand Tammy Jo Dearen to discuss cats and a fear of intimacy, Who's Dead?, getting bad news on the john, a guided audio tour of our feet, prime rib and Don Rickles thin lips, the pleasure of performing on a Tammy Jo show, fascinating tales of nun corpses, HOLLAND TAYLOR!, shutterbug Daniel finding love with a single reflex, why doesn't our judge's arms work and the chanting stylings of Tammy Jo and the late Tina Turner. Instagram: @tammyjod...
Sep 19, 2023•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 18
Laura and Daniel talk with the peerless comic, author and polymath Julia Sweeney about the Greystone Mansion ghost tour, SCTV, Catherine O’Hara, Andrea Martin, prison sex in Ireland, Catholicism, SNL, Jan Hooks, rational thinking, the joy of skepticism, pot lip gloss, the scam artistry of Deepak Chopra, psychics, and the sign of the scales. Twitter: @JuliaSweeneyMeh Website: juliasweeney.com WWTWH YouTube Channel Laura Kightlinger Twitter: @KingKightlinger Insta: @laurakightlingerlives Web: laur...
Sep 11, 2023•59 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Laura and Daniel welcome Jimmy Harry , musician, composer and golden globe winner. They weigh in on pop, punk, RuPaul, Bob Mould, Peaches’ birthday in Berlin, the Bey Hive Vs. Swifties, Kylie Minogue, The Beatles, a musician’s dues, Sade’s bassist and Whorgasm Website: www.jimmyharry.com Twitter: @bonsaimammal Instagram: @thejimmyharry WWTWH YouTube Channel Laura Kightlinger Twitter: @KingKightlinger Insta: @laurakightlingerlives Web: laurakightlinger.com MUSIC: Jimmy Harry Twitter: @bonsaimamma...
Sep 04, 2023•57 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Daniel and Laura sit down with the stellar Maggie May and cover Austin, TX, the Spider Room, reading the audience, cheerleading, living in Los Angeles, Cassavetes, The Simpsons, Gary Shandling, poetry, Los Olivos, worst comic, rape jokes, 2 Broke Girls, San Diego clubs, plan B, “60 Spins Around the Sun" , the Menendez Brothers, Conan , DaVinci's Vitruvian man, our ape index, Up In Arms clothing line, and the splendor of the Orange County Target. Twitter: @Maggiemayehaha Insta: @maggiemayehaha Ti...
Aug 28, 2023•55 min•Season 1Ep. 15
The prolific, delightful, comedically corpulent Brian Kiley joins Laura and Daniel to chat about working on Conan, Ellen, comedy writing, baseball, Eileen Brennan, Murder By Death, Clue, Bob Newhart, Dick Van Dyke, Joan Rivers, pandering vs. material, comics with journeys, working clean, Jackie Gleason, Art Carney and sex slings. Comedy Special: ...What's His Problem? Website: briankiley.com Twitter: @kileynoodles Insta: @kileybriancomic WWTWH YouTube Channel Laura Kightlinger Twitter: @KingKigh...
Aug 21, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Actress, Handy Woman and Minor Accomplishments alumni, Nicholle Tom stops by to chat with Laura and Daniel about working with SAG pres. Fran Drescher on the Nanny, what to do when your magician lover leaves you with his rabbits and doves, Charles Grodin: human or machine?, don't look Liz Taylor or her dogs in the eye, 90210, working with notorious ball buster, Laura Kightlinger and Belizean switcheroo's YouTube: @NicholleTomOfficial Twitter: @NicholleTom Insta: @nicholletom WWTWH YouTube Channel...
Aug 14, 2023•56 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Daniel and Laura welcome the wonderful, unbreakable Wendy Liebman to discuss car accidents, the hazards of supermarket rejiggering, beautiful EMT’s, Letterman, the dearth of women on TV after 9 pm, Daniel’s Easter pants, when we were bi, stepsons, husbands and Korean Jindo's. Twitter: @WendyLiebman Instagram: @wendyliebman Web: wendyliebman.com WWTWH YouTube Channel Laura Kightlinger Twitter: @KingKightlinger Insta: @laurakightlingerlives Web: laurakightlinger.com MUSIC: Jimmy Harry Twitter: @bo...
Aug 07, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Fielding Edlow, "Bitter Homes and Gardens creator and star, and standup debuting her one-woman show, "Gaslighting Is My Love Language” at the Edinburgh Festival from Aug 3 to 13, joins Daniel and Laura to celebrate trapeze flying, patient enactment work, telemarketing, Ian Ziering and crying on cue. Web: fieldingedlow.com Twitter: @Fieldingedlow Insta: @fieldingedlow "Gaslighting Is My Love Language" tickets NIAD Art Center LGTBQ SHOWCASE STARRING LAURA KIGHTLINGER tix WWTWH YouTube Channel Laur...
Jul 31, 2023•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 11
Renowned Conan head writer, comic, former mailman and tall glass of water, Mike Sweeney, joins Laura and Daniel to discuss the behind-the-scenes trajectory of the Conan show, open swimming, Keith Haring, and on stage out-of-body experiences. Inside Conan Podcast NIAD Art Center WWTWH YouTube Channel Laura Kightlinger Twitter: @KingKightlinger Insta: @laurakightlingerlives Web: laurakightlinger.com MUSIC: Jimmy Harry Twitter: @bonsaimammal Insta: @thejimmyharry Web: jimmy harry.com...
Jul 24, 2023•59 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Laura & Daniel sit down with the brilliantly talented, multifaceted, iconic Margaret Cho to discuss loose criminals, tv watching face, comedy communes, almost destroying Mark Ruffalo: the only man that can assemble and disassemble Margaret's Chinese bed, being in an Atlanta Police Chase, Daniel & Laura's childhood poetry slam and much, much more! Web: margaretcho.com Twitter: @margaretcho Insta: @margaret_cho Tik Tok: themargaretcho LGTBQ SHOWCASE STARRING LAURA KIGHTLINGER tix WWTWH You...
Jul 17, 2023•57 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Laura and Daniel are joined by comedian, podcaster and soothsayer Lizzy Cooperman Lizzy Cooperman's In Your Hands Book a tarot reading with Lizzy WWTWH YouTube Channel Laura Kightlinger Twitter: @KingKightlinger Insta: @laurakightlingerlives Web: laurakightlinger.com MUSIC: Jimmy Harry Twitter: @bonsaimammal Insta: @thejimmyharry Web: jimmy harry.com...
Jul 10, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Daniel and Laura discuss communal waffle irons, confusing murders with musicals, that f*cking submarine, losing your dressing room to Cher's wig, is Laura of sound mind?, hearing an Appalachian gay man say "Teddy bear", again with the capes, teen poetry, "oops, too much ecstasy" and bumming out execs. WWTWH YouTube Channel Laura Kightlinger Twitter: @KingKightlinger Insta: @laurakightlingerlives Web: laurakightlinger.com MUSIC: Jimmy Harry Twitter: @bonsaimammal Insta: @thejimmyharry Web: jimmy ...
Jul 03, 2023•55 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Emmy and WGA award winning writer on Arrested Development, writer/producer on Golden Girls, The John Laroquette show, My wife and kids, with two Tonight Show appearances under and above his belt, please give a What We Thought Would Happen welcome to the the inimitable, lactose-loving Jim Vallely . We discuss watching The Robin Byrd Show with the real life Kramer. Richard Belzer on patrol, Gilbert Gottfried's underwear washing techniques, a dead Elvis impersonator marionette and Bea Arthur's Beef...
Jun 26, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Daniel and Laura discuss the downside of inviting friends to standup shows, their regard for Stephen King’s compelling, multi-dimensional female characters, the standup pandering trend, parallel stealing, touring in the South, the King Bear pageant, Pat Robertson’s Chick Fil-a, comedy fest couples: Lynn Shawcroft and Mitch Hedberg, Laura and Absinthe, the Cat Laughs, dropping your own name, drum lessons from pro Denise Frasier, Beth’s Uncab, The Cramps’ Human Fly , Bram Stroker’s Daniel Webb, cl...
Jun 19, 2023•51 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Laura and Daniel sit down with the ingenious, sitcom writer/creator and critically acclaimed author, Elizabeth "Liz" Astrof . The dictator show runner: “Where do you live, fat jew town?" Late night all-male rewrite sessions including: “How 'bout I punch Laura in the face,” death obsessions, 9/11, the Challenger Explosion, Rust, Westworld Rifles and other chilling workplace tales of shitbags who continue to prosper. Buy Liz's Book: Stay-at-Work Mom: Marriage, Kids and Other Disasters WWTWH YouTub...
Jun 12, 2023•55 min•Season 1Ep. 4
We covered Disney movies with unhappy endings - Bambi, Dumbo, The Lion King, going to the theater alone and crying, how it rained trench coats at the 25th Anniversary of Caligula, a porn theater conspiracy theory, hypnotherapy, Pat the Hip Hypnotist, the cheating improv-er, the Gen Z lack of in-person rejections, the prom, what moms want for their gay sons, Pam &Tommy sex tape, and our love for Shelly Winters. WWTWH YouTube Channel Laura Kightlinger Twitter: @KingKightlinger Insta: @laurakig...
Jun 02, 2023•55 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Daniel and Laura are joined by the incomparable, illustrious, Laraine Newman . Details from Laraine's revelatory book “May You Live in Interesting Times” available exclusively on Audible, such as growing up in LA on the same street as Groucho Marx, hanging out at Duke’s, meeting Fred Astaire, SNL , the Coneheads, Gilda, Jane, the Dating Game sketch, and meeting David Bowie. A brief nod to Laura’s shitty time on SNL , Roseanne and the prison talkshow sketch, and a heartfelt “thank you" to the Bud...
May 26, 2023•54 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Obama, Phylis Diller and layover sex WWTWH YouTube Channel Laura Kightlinger Twitter: @KingKightlinger Insta: @laurakightlingerlives Web: laurakightlinger.com MUSIC: Jimmy Harry Twitter: @bonsaimammal Insta: @thejimmyharry Web: jimmy harry.com...
May 19, 2023•52 min•Season 1Ep. 1
