Podcasts about comic strip live studios

Andres Farfan joins Caleb and Mike at the world famous Comic Strip Live Studios in Manhattan. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Born and bred in “scary” Brooklyn, Neil Charles (Swatches and Boom Boxes, Comedy Central) joins Vox Celeste to discuss his recent marriage, his new role as step-father and the decision to uproot his family to Los Angeles in search of stardom.  Recorded at Comic Strip Live Studios  Music: Arkitexx and Phantom Boyz

A sex addiction, a failed marriage and an AIDS scare, Rodney Daniels (Big Talk and Brewskis) already has what it takes to be a star.  He also happens to be very funny.  We talk about his childhood in Milwaukee and the torment of growing up gay as the son of a preacher man. Recorded at Comic Strip Live Studios  Music: Arkitexx and Phantom Boyz   

Growing up in the South Bronx  as an immigrant, having Dumbo ears and a last name that looks like “fuck,” Allan Fuks (This Week in Sex), was a three-course meal for schoolyard bullies. However, those bullies were no match for Fuks’ axe-wielding, Russian cab-driving father.     Recorded at Comic Strip Live Studios  Music: Arkitexx and Phantom Boyz

Born to a 14-year-old mother, Courtland Faulden would be the first of her nine children. Most kids hope to see Santa Claus and get presents on Christmas not social workers from Child Protective Services removing them from their home.  Music: Phantom Boyz and Arkitexx Recorded at Comic Strip Live Studios 

Bronx born and bred, comedian, writer, author and dentist- Dr. Jeffrey Gurian (Comedy Matters TV) kibitzes with Vox Celeste-  about his childhood in the Bronx; the anti-Semitism he faced in dentistry school; his leap into comedy and “stalking” Woody Allen.  While Gurian has written for comedy icons such as Milton Berle, Joan Rivers and Rodney Dangerfield and is adored on the red carpet by today’s biggest comedy stars it is his coif that sets him above the rest.  Music: Phantom Boyz and Arkitexx  Recorded at Comic Strip Live Studios       

In the second episode of our series on comedians caring for their parents­– scholar, comic, author, and always a lady Dr. Leighann Lord (People With Parents, podcast; Dict Jokes; Real Women Do it Standing Up) joins Vox Celeste to discuss living with her octogenarian parents, who each have a host of age-related cognitive and physical ailments that require around-the-clock care.  Leighann discusses how Alzheimer's has robbed her once very close relationship with her mother and even though her mother is alive- she misses her.   Music: Phantom Boyz and Arkitexx Recorded at Comic Strip Live Studios  

In the first of this two-part series about comedians as caretakers for their elderly parents, self-proclaimed optimistic-cynic, uber-Texan, Jason Salmon, (Force of Nurture), joins Vox Celeste to discuss life with his father who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease, six years ago .  Jason sees this as a blessing. (Crazy, right? Trust me, you’ll come around).  His outlook is both heartwarming and hopeful.  Also, find out why the Cowboys will never lose a Super Bowl in the Salmon house. Music: Phantom Boyz and Arkitexx Recorded at Comic Strip Live Studios

We’re back with comedy inferno and my sister from another mister, Yamaneika Saunders.  We talk about scabies; why she cursed out one of the judges during her audition for the prestigious Los Angeles High School of the Arts;  her foray into comedy at the age of sixteen; and of course her distain for shrimp poop.    If you haven’t died from laughter from by the end of this episode, you were never  really alive. Music: Phantom Boyz and Arkitexx Recorded at The Comic Strip Live Studios 

I'm at Comic Strip Live Studios this week talking to producer Adam about being on the road for the last few weeks, the passing of Brody Stevens and some Oscar talk. 

Calvin Cato (Playable Characters Podcast)  joins Vox Celeste to discuss  growing up gay, in a West Indian household.  We wax poetic about the ever-evolving Jussie Smollett soap opera and what if any impact it will have on LGBQT people of color.  Also, Calvin reveals the time and place for the next  “gay agenda” meeting. Music: Phantom Boyz and Arkitexx Recorded at Comic Strip Live Studios 

You know you’re a Korean adoptee when… when you’re out to dinner with your white father and people assume you’re his escort.  Kate Moran (The Revolution) joins Vox Celeste to discuss growing up in lily-white Western New York as a Korean adoptee and meeting  her biological mother and siblings for the first time.  Music: Phantom Boyz and Arkitexx Recorded at Comic Strip Live Studios 

When you lose a parent, you lose your past.  When you lose your child, you lose your future.  When you lose a spouse, you lose the present.  When you lose a sibling you lose all three. Jordon Ferber (Where's the Grief) Samantha Bednarz (Bar None Comedy) join Vox Celeste to discuss life their lives after the loss of their siblings.  Music: Phantom Boyz and Arkitexx   Recorded at Comic Strip Live Studios 

This week I'm back at Comic Strip Live Studios with Michelle and producer Adam.

Back at Comic Strip Live Studios talking to producer Adam.

This week Veronica Mosey joins us at Comic Strip Live Studios. We talk about how to trigger a Park Slope bisexual and cause a twitter war, getting kicked off Facebook for 24 hours and why girls that like you but won't kiss you are a lot like Lenny. Follow us on Twitter! @kevinbrennan666 @brianpmccarthy @recroomaudio