Podcast appearances and mentions of cindy caponera

Lori Nasso joined me to discuss watching Twilight Zone as a kid and SNL as a teenager; loving to play characters; going to college to study theatre; joining Second City and auditioning for SNL; getting hired as a writer and only knowing Cindy Caponera; being scared by the New York Magazine article; helping Will Ferrell with Get Off the Shed; writing the Rita Delvecchio sketches with Cheri Oteri; Laura Leighton psychic sketch; Blizzard of 1996; pitch meetings; dying singer sketch with Christine Baranski; writing monologue for Rosie O'Donnell; her and new writer Tina Fey saying we have to make fun of the View being invited backstage; Tom Hanks; Pamela Anderson; seeing Robert DeNiro hit on Scary Spice backstage; writing commercial parody Lobitol; Gwyneth Paltrow; Tina Fey as a head writer; working on the Sally O'Malley character with Molly Shannon and her husband Jerry Collins; leaving to do Hype on the WB; voice work on King of the Hill, The Goode Family, and Beavis and Butthead; Mike Judge; making Life Inside Out with Maggie Baird and Finneas O'Connell; writing for Nickelodeon; impressions; read through; working with hosts Dan Aykroyd, Bil Murray, Chris Farley, and Chevy Chase; celebrity watching at SNL 40; meeting Peyton & Eli Manning; sneaking in to watch Joni Mitchell play on Rosie O'Donnell; musical guest memories of Tina Turner; Ricky Martin; Courtney Love, Pavarotti, and Whitney Houston; souvenirs from the show

Patrick McCartney chats what it was like writing for SNL, staying sober and her time with Second City. Cindy Caponera is Second City veteran, TV and movie writer, and producer her credits include Saturday Night Live, Shameless, I'm Dying Up Here, Nurse Jackie and At Home with Amy Sedaris. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kevin-scott2/support

Cindy Caponera (@cccap and @cindycaponera on IG) is SO FUNNY. And she has memorized because she was MESMERIZED by so many scenes in cop TV shows. Then just movie scenes. She must return. You will love. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at or . USE THE AMAZON banner when you order your own dorky goodness.  Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on , and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here:      Youtube has a bunch of stuff too: @jackiekashian on all the social mediaz. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady  Music is by Mike Ruekberg  Website design by Vilmos

Writer Cindy Caponera (Shameless, Nurse Jackie, SNL) talks how to look your best on radio, real estate regrets and Tess’s eyebrows.

Writer, actress and performer Cindy Caponera launched her career at Chicago's Second City and wrote for Saturday Night Live from 1995 to 1998, which is to say that she came up with just about everyone, from Stephen Colbert to Will Ferrell to many more in between. She's also written for Shameless and Nurse Jackie and by the way appeared in the pilot for a funny little show you may have heard of called Curb Your Enthusiasm. On the personal front, she's been sober over 20 years and has made her way from Chi Town to NYC to LA, where she's happily married and has a small pool where she likes to do stationary swimming. If you clicked on that link, you know that she's also written a best-selling Kindle Single, I Triggered Her Bully, which very humorously touches on such topics as food, alcohol, meditation, medication, dating guys who live in halfway houses and moving back in with your parents as an adult. In this episode, we discussed how alcoholism is different for women, coming to sobriety through Alanon and how sober people on SNL helped her find her way, among many other topics.

Today we’re re-releasing our podchat with writer and actor Cindy Caponera. She wrote, “I Triggered Her Bully,” a collection of hilarious and touching personal essays drawn from her experience growing up on Chicago’s South Side. It was published on Kindle, but was just released on audible.com, read by Cindy herself. Yes, Cindy’s written for Saturday Night Live, “Shameless,” and “Nurse Jackie,” but she’s so much more. Cindy’s smart, funny, pointed, real, honest, and truthful. This is one of my favorite interviews. 

Steve Cooper talks with writer Cindy Caponera. Cindy honed her comedy with two stints in at The Second City in Chicago and began her television writing career with the early Comedy Central series, Exit 57. She then landed a writing job with Saturday Night Live and after that has worked as a writer or producer on various shows that include Norm, My Boys, Sherri, Ground Floor, and Sunny with a Chance plus Showtime’s Shameless and Nurse Jackie. She recently published her collection of essays, I Triggered Her Bully which is available both in an online and print version, after being named a Kindle Top Rated Humor Book and will soon be available on audio book.

Comedian Laura House talks life & teaches funny people to meditate. Because smartass*s deserve relaxation, too. Cindy Caponera is comedy genius. She wrote on SNL for years. OWNED the MAIN STAGE at Second City Chicago--performed with a coupla guys you might have heard of Steve Carrell & Stephen Colbert. She's still making comedy in LA and she meditates. TV's Wally Langham and I try to get her to talk about meditation, but she keeps doing weird voices.

Cindy Caponera. Cindy is a comedy writer, author and performer. She wrote on among other shows "Saturday Night Live,” and Showtime’s “Shamless” and “Nurse Jackie.” Her solo shows have played in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, and at the HBO Comedy Festival in Aspen. Cindy is a Second City alum, and an author whose book “Triggered Her Bully” is a best-seller on Amazon, and will soon come out in paperback.

Author and TV writer Cindy Caponera joins Dwyer to discuss her book of essays I Triggered Her Bully, growing up in never changing Canaryville, going from blue collar to arts and lounging in swimming pools while wearing wool. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.