Simon Amstell and Brian K. Vaughan
We revisit Jesse's interview with the delightful stand-up comic Simon Amstell. On TV, he prods at the powers that be and has even caused a few walk-offs. But despite the escapades, Amstell spends much...
30 Apr 20131h 5min
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Armando Iannucci and Billy Bragg
We're talking Veep this week with the HBO comedy's showrunner, Armando Iannucci, and its star, Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Iannucci talks about geeking out on American and British politics and recreating the...
23 Apr 20131h 25min
Shane Carruth (Upstream Color) and Rodney Ascher (Room 237)
Jesse talks to the director Shane Carruth. His new movie Upstream Color has almost no dialogue, involves a kind of abstract science fiction premise, but keeps you fully engaged. Then Jesse talks to Ro...
16 Apr 20131h 4min
Big Boi from OutKast and Catherine O'Hara
Actress Catherine O'Hara talks about her start with the Second City's SCTV, blockbuster success with Beetlejuice and Home Alone, and her perfect encapsulation of comic absurdity in Christopher Guest f...
9 Apr 20131h 26min
Lily Tomlin, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Davy Rothbart
There's no mistaking actress Lily Tomlin. Even when the part is small, she's never lost in the background. In fact she almost steals the show in the new Tina Fey movie. It's called Admission. Jesse ta...
2 Apr 20131h 33min
NBC's Must See TV with Warren Littlefield, former NBC executive
Dive into the empire that Cheers built. Whether it was The Cosby Show, Seinfeld, Frasier, or Friends, Warren Littlefield oversaw all of it. NBC was a Thursday night powerhouse in the 80s and 90s. But ...
26 Mar 20131h 1min
Simon Rich and Bill Burr
Simon Rich is an absolutely hilarious writer. He sits down with Jesse, and says that he doesn't write about the way love happens, he writes about the way love feels. Rich has a new book out — Last Gir...
19 Mar 20131h 2min
Moshe Kasher and Lateef the Truthspeaker
Alex Zalben and Brian Heater offer up some of their all-time comics favorites. The comedian Moshe Kasher talks about his amazing memoir, rapper Lateef the Truthspeaker reveals how jazz scat changed hi...
12 Mar 201357min
