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And so we conclude My Dining Room Table. Will I randomly put out an episode when I feel like it, when I have a really good interview to share with the world? Perhaps. Will I do this podcast live at festivals if asked? Probably. Those are fun. But for now, and most likely, forever, this is the last episode of My Dining Room Table, live from the High Plains Comedy Festival. Thanks for listening, everyone. It really has meant a lot to me.
Denver-raised, but groomed by comedy in the amazing scenes of Atlanta and New York, Noah Gardenswartz is a gentle giant with a furious wit. He's also a deeply profound and thoughtful dude. One of my favorite episodes in awhile. Enjoy.
Kevin O'Brien - ole Kev! - finally takes a seat at the table to pontificate on growing up Cornhusker, college radio and how weird it is when you realize you and your fuck up friends were maybe actually the ones who had it all figured out.
I sit down with Nick Nunns, the man behind TRVE brewing, to talk craft-beer, Satan, and how comedy and brewing aren't all that different.
Cory meets up with Denver comic, road dog and reader of books Sam Tallent. Enjoy their interview at Tattered Cover Bookstore in downtown Denver, that details one of the founding members of the Fine Gentlemen's Club history with Denver and the punk rock scene.He talks about as a youngster, his family sleeping in their car outside of bookstores, his stay at Mouth House and how he went from a kid from Elizabeth to one of the biggest personalities in the Denver comedy scene.This episode features an intro from Those Who Can't Star Adam Cayton-Holland who plugs his cd release show at Hi-Dive Friday the 10th. Shout out to Renegade Brewing and Sexpot Comedy. Drink Craft Beer. Smoke Weed. Eat Pizza.
On this weeks episode of Empty Girlfriend we have the heart of Denver Comedy joining us to talk about love and comedy. Adam Cayton-Holland gives us the skinny on the up-coming shoot for the Grawlix tv show “Those Who Can’t” and we talk about his transition to LA. We also get the deets on his recent engagement and talk about our shared love for his wonderful fiancé. Listen up to learn how to make friends (hint: we still don’t know how). Check out Adam’s upcoming show schedule on his website adamisfreakingoutrightnow.com and follow him on twitter @CaytonHolland and come to the release party for his new comedy album, “Backyards”, Friday April 10th at Twist & Shout!
Wrist Deep Productions founder and the man behind the infamous Squire Lounge open mic, Greg Baumhauer was one of my first true friends in comedy. In this amazing conversation, we look back over our early days in comedy through the lens of Greg's new-found and hard-fought sobriety. Chicago lives!
Episode Number Fifty! For this special anniversary episode I sit down with my co-horts in The Grawlix Andrew Orvedahl and Ben Roy to talk Those Who Can't, our favorite Grawlix memories, and what habits we have that annoy the bejesus out of one another.
In our Louie/Maron episode Ben Kronberg and I talk coming up together in Denver, career jealousy, making spicy comedy choices and keeping it Christian clean.
Picture me. Now picture Todd Barry. Now picture me and Todd Barry in a Denver hotel room talking about comedy and Bobby Flay. Can you picture it? You can! Then behold: you have pictured the very episode now in your possesion. Good for you.
Behold, Dave Ross, in all his deep-voiced glory! From a Colfax hotel room Dave and I discuss being fan-boys of one and other, general podcast weariness, and how a generation of young comedians may be web-policing each other into utter blandness.
Wende Curtis is Comedy Works. Comedy Works is Wende Curtis. Get to know the woman behind one of the greatest comedy clubs in the country. And her little dog Lucy.
Portland-raised, Chicago-helmed, turned into a goddamn man by Los Angeles, Matt Braunger gets the dining room table treatment and waxes comedic on Korea, mustaches and Big Daddy Kane
John Crist is hilarious. In any comedic realm. But he also just so happens to be one of the fastest rising stars in Christian comedy today. We sit down and talk mega-churches, five-tool athletes and Free Willy.
And then the Governor up and comes on your podcast! Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper sat down to the dining room table to discuss sketchy 80's Denver, Kurt Vonnegut and why Peyton Manning is a real class act.
Troy Baxley is a Denver legend and he may just be the funniest comedian I've ever met. If you don't know him, your bad. Get to know the man, the myth, the leyenda, as Troy opens up about his past, his comedy career and narrowly surviving a recent brain-swelling that left him in the ICU. Baxley speaks! You should listen.
Live from Denver's (and my) High Plains Comedy Festival it's My Dining Room Table all up in your face! Coming at you from Mutiny Now bookstore and cafe I welcome Beth Stelling, Nick Thune, Andy Juett, Nate Bargatze, Emily Gordon and last-minute, boy-hero addition Kumail Nanjiani! Bees. Knees.
Coming at you en plein air, TJ and I sat down in his parent's backyard in Denver to discuss growing up together, philosophy, and of course, death and people's aversion to discussing it openly. And how we both love East High School more than words can express. Hey-lo-lo, hey-lo-lo, hey!
Welcome to Denver host Cory Helie sits down for his first episode with Denver comedian Adam Cayton-Holland. They discuss his love for Denver sports, growing up in the city and discusses his friendship with Governor John Hickenlooper. Cayton-Holland is kicking off his second year of High Plains Comedy Festival on August 21st. Get your tickets and enjoy all of the hard work he put in to booking guests like T.J Miller, Pete Holmes and Kumal Nanjiani.
Only fitting that the first episode of the summer features the King of Summah, Howard Kremer! I toured with Howard across the country on the Road to Oddball tour and somewhere along the way we broke out the podcasting gadgetry in a hotel room to talk Austin Stories, Dragon Boy Suede and why we are both about ready to stay in one place for awhile. Have a summah!
Coming at you live from the Crom Comedy Festival in lovely Omaha, Nebraska I welcome Ben Kronberg, Ian Douglas Terry, Chris Charpentier, Dave Ross and Rory Scovel to the podcast. Feats of strength ensue.
National Poetry Slam Champion, Tedx Speaker, Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam Champion and Queen City of the Plains alleyway-wander Ken Arkind stopped by My Dining Room Table to talk about how a poet's life and a comic's life aren't all that different, and how he and I are both going to wind up old men, lamenting our lost Denver of yore. The parts we were born to play. Denver is lonesome for her heroes. Less so with Ken Arkind around.
Emily Heller came by My Dining Room Table! We talked about Friday Night Lights! Then I asked her a bunch of questions and tried to make her answer on behalf of all female comedians. She did so politely and then schooled me on why it's annoying to always have to do exactly that. Then she showed me Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton videos! And we both agreed that their chemistry was something you cannot fake.
Ian Douglas Terry is the boy-prince of Omaha comedy. He also has three names. I love Omaha. I also have three names. Thus, we are dear friends. IDT is a punk-rock kid who got into comedy and basically just invented his own scene. DIY and all that. We caught up in a West Des Moines Hilton Garden Inn hotel room and talked shop, wrestling, then we got drunk and ate Mexican food and talked shit about Rory Scovel (after the outro music, secret track!). Somebody had to
Can you believe My Dining Room Table has been around one year?! I can. I was there for literally every episode. Trust me: it took a year. So we decided to celebrate with a live episode from the amazing Sidewinder Tavern, featuring Ben Roy and Chuck Coffey of the band Spells, Jordan Doll, Nathan Lund, Amber Tozer and Andrew Orvedahl! Rock. Thanks for a year, gang!
Bienvenue to the first MDRT episode of Ben and Adam Do Things, wherein I, Adam, team up with my buddy Ben Roy, he of Ben fame, and head out and do things! We intend to do these sporadically and for our inaugural effort, we headed out to buy pot, legally, as only us Coloradoans can. Enjoy.
Kevin Fitzgerald is like Forrest Gump but Irish. And not mentally disabled. The stand-up-comedian/star of Animal Planet's "Emergency Vets"/former crack security team-member for The Rolling Stones has lived one of those amazing, mercurial lives that defy all reason. He sits down with Adam to chat George Burns, P. Funk and Mongolian vultures. Par for the course.
Mustachioed fine gentleman Chris Charpentier stops by the dining room table to talk drugs, sports, and why it's not ever worth it to try during an improv class until you actually get to perform in front of an audience. Give this episode a listen and learn all about what makes Charpie tick. Sponsored by the one and only TRVE Brewing Company. Rock.
Well hey there, kids! Look who stopped by to say hello! It's Rory Scovel! You know Rory? He brought a fancy piano-man to Conan and yelled! He also played the principal on Those Who Can't, Adam's (and Andrew Orvedahl and Ben Roy's) sitcom pilot thingee. He's a Southern gentleman and he's real nice and he knows Jack White personally! Listen as these two beardos talk about life, liberty and the persuit of doing the best comedic German accent on stage.
On Adam's first episode, he talks to comedian and fellow Grawlix member Ben Roy about sobriety, Denver, and how he can go all jiu jitsu on your ass while wrestling a gigantic snake!