Episode 1345 - Jason Kander
Jason Kander was a rising star in national politics. In fact, he was staging a run for the Presidency and got the thumbs up from none other than Barack Obama himself. Then the roof caved in. Jason tel...
4 Jul 20221h 22min
Episode 1344 - Laura Veirs
Singer-songwriter Laura Veirs has something to prove with her latest album, Found Light. After divorce ended her 20-years-long collaborative relationship with her producer husband, Laura not only need...
30 Jun 20221h 17min
Episode 1343 - Atsuko Okatsuka
Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka has familiarity with garages. But unlike Marc, she didn’t start a podcast in one. She lived in one with her mother and grandmother for seven years, as three generations of imm...
27 Jun 20221h 22min
Episode 1342 - Dana Gould
Dana Gould is in his 40th year of doing standup. He and Marc talk about what they’ve learned in their decades of comedy, how they came to accept their limitations, and how they see themselves in today...
23 Jun 20221h 36min
Episode 1341 - Kate Berlant
Kate Berlant’s comedy defies easy categorization. That’s okay with Kate, who thinks people use a lot of empty terms to pin down comedy. Kate and Marc talk about how growing up in the art world helped ...
20 Jun 20221h 18min
Episode 1340 - Jen Statsky
When Jen Statsky and her collaborators were creating the show Hacks, they knew they needed to nail the portrayal of life in standup comedy because comics will quickly know if they got it wrong. Marc t...
16 Jun 20221h 20min
Episode 1339 - Greg Proops
Marc has a very direct question for his old friend Greg Proops: “Did we lose?” In the fight for the heart and soul of comedy, there is real uncertainty about the current trajectory. What legacy did th...
13 Jun 20221h 15min
Episode 1338 - Lara Beitz
For a while, Lara Beitz could only get on stage to do comedy if she was hammered. She'd drink to feel less nervous but then there wasn't a time when she didn't feel nervous, so she was just always dri...
9 Jun 20221h 13min
