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My conversation with Ophira starts at about 41 minutes after headlines and clips Subscribe and Watch Interviews LIVE : On YOUTUBE.com/StandUpWithPete ON SubstackStandUpWithPete Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. This show is Ad free and fully supported by listeners like you! Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 750 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous soul Ophira Eisenberg is a Canadian-born standup comedian, writer, and host. She hosted NPR's comedy trivia show Ask Me Another for 9-years, where she interviewed and played silly games with hundreds of celebrities including Sir Patrick Stewart, Awkwafina, Rosie Perez, Yo-Yo Ma, Bob The Drag Queen, Nick Kroll, Chelsea Handler, Jim Gaffigan, Michael C. Hall, and so many others. As a comic and a parent to a 6-year-old, Ophira is the host of the new comedy podcast Parenting Is A Joke co-produced by iHeart Radio and Pretty Good Friends Productions. The show launches on October 18th. She can be seen live, regularly headlining across the United States, Canada, and Europe delivering her unique blend of standup and storytelling to a loyal fan base of smart, irreverent comedy lovers. She has appeared at Montreal's Just for Laughs Festival, The New Yorker Festival, The New York Comedy Festival, Moontower Comedy Festival, Bumbershoot, The Nantucket Film Festival, Women in Comedy Festival and more. Her new comedy album at special Plant-Based Jokes is available on iTunes and is streaming now on YouTube. Lauded as "hilarious, high risk, and an inspiration," Ophira filmed her comedy special Inside Joke, when she was 8½ months pregnant. The show's material revolves around how she told everyone that she was never going to have kids, and then unexpectedly found herself expecting at "an advanced maternal age." Her other comedy albums, Bangs! and As Is She has appeared on Comedy Central, This Week at The Comedy Cellar, Kevin Hart's LOL Network, HBO's Girls, Gotham Live, The Late Late Show, The Today Show, and VH-1. The New York Times called her a skilled comedian and storyteller with "bleakly stylish" humor. She was also selected as one of New York Magazine's "Top 10 Comics that Funny People Find Funny," and hailed by Forbes.com as one of the most engaging comics working today. Ophira is a regular host and teller with The Moth and her stories have been featured on The Moth Radio Hour and in two of The Moth's best-selling collections, including the most recent New York Times Bestseller: How To Tell A Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth. Ophira's first book, Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to Monogamy (Seal Press), is a comedic memoir about her experiments in the field as a single woman, traveling from futon to futon and flask-to-flask, gathering data, hoping to put it all together and build her own perfect Frankenmate. It was optioned for a feature film. She is also sought after as a brilliant interviewer and moderator, and has interviewed dozens of celebrities, writers, and actors including Neil Gaiman at New York's Town Hall; Jane Curtain, Anne Beatts, Heather Gardner, Sudi Green, Alysia Reiner, Jeanne Tripplehorn, David Crane, Jeffrey Klerik at The Nantucket Film Festival; Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Daniel Levy and Annie Murphy at the 92nd Street Y; and Nell Scovell and Sloane Crosley at The Mark Twain House. Originally from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Ophira graduated with a Cultural Anthropology and Theater degree from McGill University. She now lives in Brooklyn, NY where she is a fixture at New York City's comedy clubs including the Comedy Cellar, Gotham Comedy Club, New York Comedy Club and Carolines, as well as Brooklyn's famed performance venues The Bell House, Union Hall, and Littlefield. She resides with her husband and son where she can regularly be seen drinking a ton of coffee. Pete on Blue Sky Pete on Threads Pete on Tik Tok Pete on YouTube Pete on Twitter Pete On Instagram Pete Personal FB page Stand Up with Pete FB page Gift a Subscription https://www.patreon.com/PeteDominick/gift Send Pete $ Directly on Venmo All things Jon Carroll Buy Ava's Art Subscribe to Piano Tuner Paul Paul Wesley on Substack Listen to Barry and Abigail Hummel Podcast Listen to Matty C Podcast and Substack Follow and Support Pete Coe Hire DJ Monzyk to build your website or help you with Marketing

My conversation with Ophira starts at about 41 minutes after headlines and clips Subscribe and Watch Interviews LIVE : On YOUTUBE.com/StandUpWithPete ON SubstackStandUpWithPete Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. This show is Ad free and fully supported by listeners like you! Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 750 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous soul Ophira Eisenberg is a Canadian-born standup comedian, writer, and host. She hosted NPR's comedy trivia show Ask Me Another for 9-years, where she interviewed and played silly games with hundreds of celebrities including Sir Patrick Stewart, Awkwafina, Rosie Perez, Yo-Yo Ma, Bob The Drag Queen, Nick Kroll, Chelsea Handler, Jim Gaffigan, Michael C. Hall, and so many others. As a comic and a parent to a 6-year-old, Ophira is the host of the new comedy podcast Parenting Is A Joke co-produced by iHeart Radio and Pretty Good Friends Productions. The show launches on October 18th. She can be seen live, regularly headlining across the United States, Canada, and Europe delivering her unique blend of standup and storytelling to a loyal fan base of smart, irreverent comedy lovers. She has appeared at Montreal's Just for Laughs Festival, The New Yorker Festival, The New York Comedy Festival, Moontower Comedy Festival, Bumbershoot, The Nantucket Film Festival, Women in Comedy Festival and more. Her new comedy album at special Plant-Based Jokes is available on iTunes and is streaming now on YouTube. Lauded as "hilarious, high risk, and an inspiration," Ophira filmed her comedy special Inside Joke, when she was 8½ months pregnant. The show's material revolves around how she told everyone that she was never going to have kids, and then unexpectedly found herself expecting at "an advanced maternal age." Her other comedy albums, Bangs! and As Is She has appeared on Comedy Central, This Week at The Comedy Cellar, Kevin Hart's LOL Network, HBO's Girls, Gotham Live, The Late Late Show, The Today Show, and VH-1. The New York Times called her a skilled comedian and storyteller with "bleakly stylish" humor. She was also selected as one of New York Magazine's "Top 10 Comics that Funny People Find Funny," and hailed by Forbes.com as one of the most engaging comics working today. Ophira is a regular host and teller with The Moth and her stories have been featured on The Moth Radio Hour and in two of The Moth's best-selling collections, including the most recent New York Times Bestseller: How To Tell A Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth. Ophira's first book, Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to Monogamy (Seal Press), is a comedic memoir about her experiments in the field as a single woman, traveling from futon to futon and flask-to-flask, gathering data, hoping to put it all together and build her own perfect Frankenmate. It was optioned for a feature film. She is also sought after as a brilliant interviewer and moderator, and has interviewed dozens of celebrities, writers, and actors including Neil Gaiman at New York's Town Hall; Jane Curtain, Anne Beatts, Heather Gardner, Sudi Green, Alysia Reiner, Jeanne Tripplehorn, David Crane, Jeffrey Klerik at The Nantucket Film Festival; Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Daniel Levy and Annie Murphy at the 92nd Street Y; and Nell Scovell and Sloane Crosley at The Mark Twain House. Originally from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Ophira graduated with a Cultural Anthropology and Theater degree from McGill University. She now lives in Brooklyn, NY where she is a fixture at New York City's comedy clubs including the Comedy Cellar, Gotham Comedy Club, New York Comedy Club and Carolines, as well as Brooklyn's famed performance venues The Bell House, Union Hall, and Littlefield. She resides with her husband and son where she can regularly be seen drinking a ton of coffee. Pete on Blue Sky Pete on Threads Pete on Tik Tok Pete on YouTube Pete on Twitter Pete On Instagram Pete Personal FB page Stand Up with Pete FB page Gift a Subscription https://www.patreon.com/PeteDominick/gift Send Pete $ Directly on Venmo All things Jon Carroll Buy Ava's Art Subscribe to Piano Tuner Paul Paul Wesley on Substack Listen to Barry and Abigail Hummel Podcast Listen to Matty C Podcast and Substack Follow and Support Pete Coe Hire DJ Monzyk to build your website or help you with Marketing

It's an all new That Real Blind Tech Show with just Brian and the Ladies. That's right it's Allison, Jeanine, and Brian bringing you the latest Assistive Tech news without the dudes. Or well with one dude.   We start off on a somber note mourning the passing of Kiss'es Ace Frehley, and then dive in to the upcoming Laugh For Sight on Monday, October 27, 2025 at Gotham Comedy Club in NYC. For tickets go here.   Our first article we discuss is a fun one as a Brain Fart Scientist explains why NFL players from the ball at the goal line.   We go from a Brain Fart study to a study about why birds poop on certain cars more than others.   We have had a lot of rebrandings this year, but thanks to Maxwell House we may now have the dumbest rebranding of all time!   The Department of Justice once again has decided to shelf any new ADA ruling on Digital Accessibility.   Do you find that you are chronically online? And is it a bad thing?   It's the end of an era as Tivo sleeps with the fishes as they stop selling dVR's.   Roku's new Voice Assistant can answer questions about what you are watching, but yeah how is Roku's accessibility?   Since it has been a few weeks since we last recorded, and once again pardon the audio on this episode, as someone had a brain fart and hit the wrong keyboard shortcut causing us to be unable to record on multi-track, but we dive in to all the new products that Amazon announced. The conversation then strolls in to Alexa Plus.   Open A.I. wants ChatGPT to be your future operating system. Would you want that?   Figure A.I invented a humanoid robot that can do the dishes, fold your clothes, and tidy up a room.   The Albanian Government has appointed the first A.I. official to its Government.   Is your electric bill insanely high? Maybe you should check how close you are living to a Data Center. Which leads us in to discussing how we are using A.I.   We then get Jeanine's opinion of Mac OS Tahoe and how it is running with VoiceOver. We then discuss the new M5 Macs that were just announced, and the rumored release in late 2026 of the first touch screen Mac.   We briefly discuss some new products we got and that will be arriving soon. And it's more of What's Pissing Off Brian Now and Watcha Straming, Watcha Reading.   To contact That Real Blind Tech Show, you can email us at ThatRealBlindTechShow@gmail.com, join our Facebook Group That Real Blind Tech Show, join us on the Twitter @BlindTechShow , 

This Friends Like Us, join your host Marina Franklin, Shang Forbes, and Hollie Harper. They weave humor into today's most pressing topics - Like, is Marjorie Taylor Green not so Maga anymore? Tune in now for laughs and insights. SHANG, a transplanted New Yorker whose carefully nurtured evolution from stand-up comedy to socio-political satire gives heavy flight to the spoken and outspoken word. SHANG has been seen on CBS'S The Late Late Show 2X BET's Comic View Grand Stand Winner HBO 's Def Jam & Def Poetry, Gotham LIVE, STARZ 1st Amendment, Si TV, Mun2 Comics Unleashed, Comedy Central's Jamie Foxx Laffapaloolza ,Premium Blend &  Gotham Comedy LIVE. Shang Also Has Guest Starred On NBC'S “Heroes”, CBS'S “CSI” & NCIS & Shang recently Co-starred for Honda their Commercial Campaign & the Movie “Devine Intervention” & “Trunked!” Check out his Amazon Prime comedy special, 'SHANG is SHANGRY! LIVE IN NEW YORK'. It's the comedian That if you don't know, Now you know. Shang is not angry he's SHANGRY. Hollie Harper is a comedy nerd from South Jersey. She is currently the creator and co-exec producer of Hella Late! with Hollie Harper on BRIC TV and a co-host of the nationally trending Twitter Storytelling Chat “BlerdDating.” Hella Late! with Hollie Harper was recently in the 2021 NYC Web Fest where she was nominated as Best Actress. Hollie was a semi-finalist in the 2019 NBC Standup Competition and has been featured on NY1, and in Black Enterprise Magazine, Thrive Global, Confessional Magazine and Black San Diego Magazine. Her popular sketch comedy show AMERICAN CANDY has played the Comic Strip, Gotham Comedy Club, BAM Café as well as the Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival. Time Out Chicago named them one of the five groups to watch. Hollie is a regular host for West Side Comedy Club in NYC and works with Gold Comedy and Stand Up Girls, two programs that empower young women by teaching them standup comedy. She was recently the talent coordinator and casting for “Blood Lassi” on Spotify, written by Pratima Mani, and moderated the panel for the Emmy Award winning, WOC editing team of Black Lady Sketch Show for The Black TV and Film Collective. She is also the Creative Consultant for the very successful Black Women in Comedy Laff Fest. Always hosted by Marina Franklin - One Hour Comedy Special: Single Black Female ( Amazon Prime, CW Network), TBS's The Last O.G, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Hysterical on FX, The Movie Trainwreck, Louie Season V, The Jim Gaffigan Show, Conan O'Brien, Stephen Colbert, HBO's Crashing, and The Breaks with Michelle Wolf. Writer for HBO's 'Divorce' and the new Tracy Morgan show on Paramount Plus: 'Crutch    

Ophira Eisenberg! Comedian! Writer! Story-teller! Host! Friend! Delight! More! Ophira is taping her next 1-hour comedy special, produced by Lewis Black, at The Comedy Cellar on Nov 9, 2025 at 5pm and 7pm.  You can follow me @ophirae everywhere except for TikTok where she is @ophiranyc. We have a great chat! You can have a great listen! Also, this is only the first HALF of our chat. For part two, subscribe via Apple Podcasts OR merely click on over here to Patreon! PS Below is more about Ophira, from the bio on her website. Enjoy that as well! Ophira Eisenberg is a Canadian-born standup comedian, writer, and host. She hosted NPR's comedy trivia show Ask Me Another for 9-years, where she interviewed and played silly games with hundreds of celebrities including Sir Patrick Stewart, Awkwafina, Rosie Perez, Yo-Yo Ma, Bob The Drag Queen, Nick Kroll, Chelsea Handler, Jim Gaffigan, Michael C. Hall, and so many others. As a comic and a parent to a 6-year-old, Ophira is the host of the new comedy podcast Parenting Is A Joke co-produced by iHeart Radio and Pretty Good Friends Productions. The show launches on October 18th. She can be seen live, regularly headlining across the United States, Canada, and Europe delivering her unique blend of standup and storytelling to a loyal fan base of smart, irreverent comedy lovers. She has appeared at Montreal's Just for Laughs Festival, The New Yorker Festival, The New York Comedy Festival, Moontower Comedy Festival, Bumbershoot, The Nantucket Film Festival, Women in Comedy Festival and more. Her new comedy album at special Plant-Based Jokes is available on iTunes and is streaming now on YouTube. Lauded as “hilarious, high risk, and an inspiration,” Ophira filmed her comedy special Inside Joke, when she was 8½ months pregnant. The show's material revolves around how she told everyone that she was never going to have kids, and then unexpectedly found herself expecting at “an advanced maternal age.” Her other comedy albums, Bangs! and As Is She has appeared on Comedy Central, This Week at The Comedy Cellar, Kevin Hart's LOL Network, HBO's Girls, Gotham Live, The Late Late Show, The Today Show, and VH-1. The New York Times called her a skilled comedian and storyteller with “bleakly stylish” humor. She was also selected as one of New York Magazine's “Top 10 Comics that Funny People Find Funny,” and hailed by Forbes.com as one of the most engaging comics working today.  Ophira is a regular host and teller with The Moth and her stories have been featured on The Moth Radio Hour and in two of The Moth's best-selling collections, including the most recent New York Times Bestseller: How To Tell A Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth.  Ophira's first book, Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to Monogamy (Seal Press), is a comedic memoir about her experiments in the field as a single woman, traveling from futon to futon and flask-to-flask, gathering data, hoping to put it all together and build her own perfect Frankenmate. It was optioned for a feature film.  She is also sought after as a brilliant interviewer and moderator, and has interviewed dozens of celebrities, writers, and actors including Neil Gaiman at New York's Town Hall; Jane Curtain, Anne Beatts, Heather Gardner, Sudi Green, Alysia Reiner, Jeanne Tripplehorn, David Crane, Jeffrey Klerik at The Nantucket Film Festival; Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Daniel Levy and Annie Murphy at the 92nd Street Y; and Nell Scovell and Sloane Crosley at The Mark Twain House.  Originally from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Ophira graduated with a Cultural Anthropology and Theater degree from McGill University. She now lives in Brooklyn, NY where she is a fixture at New York City's comedy clubs including the Comedy Cellar, Gotham Comedy Club, New York Comedy Club and Carolines, as well as Brooklyn's famed performance venues The Bell House, Union Hall, and Littlefield. She resides with her husband and son where she can regularly be seen drinking a ton of coffee.

This Friends Like Us, host Marina Franklin talks with Hollie Harper and Chanel Ali about Chanel's new solo show 'Relative Stranger'! They dive deep into her story of triumph over adversity. Tune into today's podcast to hear her inspiring journey and get your tickets to see the show! You know Chanel Ali from Netflix's Dash and Lily or her time on MTV's Girl Code. Originally from Philly, her storyteller-like style and commanding stage presence allowed her to conquer the NYC comedy scene as a crowd favorite. She boasts two Comedy Central specials, an album, and the fact that she drinks way more than you. Her new Solo show, Relative Stranger is playing at the Soho House from Sept. 17th - 28th. Hollie Harper is a comedy nerd from South Jersey. She is currently the creator and co-exec producer of Hella Late! with Hollie Harper on BRIC TV and a co-host of the nationally trending Twitter Storytelling Chat “BlerdDating.” Hella Late! with Hollie Harper was recently in the 2021 NYC Web Fest where she was nominated as Best Actress. Hollie was a semi-finalist in the 2019 NBC Standup Competition and has been featured on NY1, and in Black Enterprise Magazine, Thrive Global, Confessional Magazine and Black San Diego Magazine. Her popular sketch comedy show AMERICAN CANDY has played the Comic Strip, Gotham Comedy Club, BAM Café as well as the Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival. Time Out Chicago named them one of the five groups to watch. Hollie is a regular host for West Side Comedy Club in NYC and works with Gold Comedy and Stand Up Girls, two programs that empower young women by teaching them standup comedy. She was recently the talent coordinator and casting for “Blood Lassi” on Spotify, written by Pratima Mani, and moderated the panel for the Emmy Award winning, WOC editing team of Black Lady Sketch Show for The Black TV and Film Collective. She is also the Creative Consultant for the very successful Black Women in Comedy Laff Fest. Always hosted by Marina Franklin - One Hour Comedy Special: Single Black Female ( Amazon Prime, CW Network), TBS's The Last O.G, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Hysterical on FX, The Movie Trainwreck, Louie Season V, The Jim Gaffigan Show, Conan O'Brien, Stephen Colbert, HBO's Crashing, and The Breaks with Michelle Wolf. Writer for HBO's 'Divorce' and the new Tracy Morgan show on Paramount Plus: 'Crutch'.

It's an all new That Real Blind Tech show with Allison, Brian, David and Jeanine.   We kick the show off discussing the very important study that calculates your chance of being killed by an Asteroid.   Next we discuss the new redesign that came to Innosearch.   Video game makers have begun to roll out accessibility labels.   Disney will be killing the stand alone Hulu app.   We then discuss the ACB's call for accessibility experiences with several financial institutions.   Jeanine then shares her experiences running the latest iOS beta. Brian then cuts in with a phone call that he got recently.   Brian then announces that Laugh for Sight will be returning for its 18th year at Gotham Comedy Club in NYC on October 27. 2025.   Brian then discusses his new Meta Oakleys.   A Tick Tock video is promoting a sticker to block the recording light on the Meta Ray Bans.   Brian then discusses the issues he has been having with Lift. Lift will now let you favorite and block drivers but the only way to do it is immediately after a ride ends. And could you imagine Lift or uBer charging you more for a ride because your phone's battery is low? It could happen!   Did you know that excessive use of A.I. ChatBots could cause a.I. Psychosis?   A single poison document could leak secret data via ChatGPT.   Microsoft Researchers have revealed the top 40 jobs most in danger due to a.I.   ChatGPT has launched a faster smarter GPT5. ChatGPT5 brings four new personalities that you can choose from. And it's supposedly the end of bullshit A.I., as ChatGPT will be more honest with you and let you know when it does not know something. And we discuss the seven newest ChatGPT features you must check out.   We then dive in to discussing medical and start off with our strangest blind experiences at a medical office.   And it's more of Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.   To contact That Real Blind Tech Show, you can email us at ThatRealBlindTechShow@gmail.com, join our Facebook Group That Real Blind Tech Show, join us on the Twitter @BlindTechShow     

On this Friends Like Us, Marina Franklin talks with Hollie Harper and Von Decarlo about empowering young girls through stand-up comedy.  They take a deep dive into how humor can be a tool for confidence and self-expression.  Von Decarlo is a New York-bred stand-up comedian, producer, writer, and actress who has appeared in worldwide ad campaigns and national commercials for Disney, GNC, Match, and Carnival Cruise lines. She performed in Montreal for Kevin Hart's LOL Network as well as the Lil' Rel and Friends show at the Just For Laughs comedy festival, and most recently in Australia for the Human Kind Festival. Additional appearances include HBO's Pause with Sam Jay, Laff Mobb's Laff Tracks on Tru TV and HBO Max, CNN's year-end wrap-up special, The Jerry O'Connell Show on FOX, BET, BuzzFeed, The Breakfast Club, Angela Yee's Lip Service, Sirius XM's Urban View and NBA channel, In Godfrey We Trust Podcast, and more. Von Decarlo is the Executive Producer of the documentary Killing Is Easy on Comedy Central as well as the producer of three posthumous comedy albums, Mr. P, Unreleased, and The Lost Files. Her debut comedy album, A Draggable Offense, is available on all major platforms, and can be heard on the She So Funny and Laugh Out Loud radio stations on Sirius XM. Look out for Von Decarlo in the RomCom, Switch Up, and in the indie film, Salesman, currently on Amazon Prime. Hollie Harper is a comedy nerd from South Jersey. She is currently the creator and co-exec producer of Hella Late! with Hollie Harper on BRIC TV and a co-host of the nationally trending Twitter Storytelling Chat “BlerdDating.” Hella Late! with Hollie Harper was recently in the 2021 NYC Web Fest where she was nominated as Best Actress. Hollie was a semi-finalist in the 2019 NBC Standup Competition and has been featured on NY1, and in Black Enterprise Magazine, Thrive Global, Confessional Magazine and Black San Diego Magazine. Her popular sketch comedy show AMERICAN CANDY has played the Comic Strip, Gotham Comedy Club, BAM Café as well as the Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival. Time Out Chicago named them one of the five groups to watch. Hollie is a regular host for West Side Comedy Club in NYC and works with Gold Comedy and Stand Up Girls, two programs that empower young women by teaching them standup comedy. She was recently the talent coordinator and casting for “Blood Lassi” on Spotify, written by Pratima Mani, and moderated the panel for the Emmy Award winning, WOC editing team of Black Lady Sketch Show for The Black TV and Film Collective. She is also the Creative Consultant for the very successful Black Women in Comedy Laff Fest. Always hosted by Marina Franklin - One Hour Comedy Special: Single Black Female ( Amazon Prime, CW Network), TBS's The Last O.G, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Hysterical on FX, The Movie Trainwreck, Louie Season V, The Jim Gaffigan Show, Conan O'Brien, Stephen Colbert, HBO's Crashing, and The Breaks with Michelle Wolf. Writer for HBO's 'Divorce' and the new Tracy Morgan show on Paramount Plus: 'Crutch'.  

It's time for One Funny Morning with special guest, Comedian Greg Capra. Join us as we discuss House Coats, Moo Moos and the Italian Horn! A little more about Greg ... Greg is a millennial who wants to have his life together but keeps getting derailed, mostly due to his own actions. Originally from San Francisco and now calling Raleigh home, Greg's comedy is a masterclass in relatable angst and clever wit. Greg has performed at legendary venues like The Comedy Store, Ice House Comedy Club, and Gotham Comedy Club. He was hand-picked to perform at Nate Bargatze's "Nateland Live" showcase at Zanies, and is a regular at Don't Tell Comedy shows nationwide. He's even shared the stage with heavyweights like Jim Gaffigan, Brian Simpson, K Trevor Wilson, Steve Hofstetter and Ian Lara. He has taken his act to a number of festivals including the Rubber City Comedy Festival, where he won "Best of Fest"… and you can check him out at this year's Vail Comedy Festival …

In this episode of Girl, You So Random, I have the pleasure oftalking with comedian, Nicole Phoenix who has built her following and resume by hosting a monthly live comedy, variety show called Two Locals Comedy, a home for all performers to hone their craft. A true force behind the scenes, Nicole's passion for fostering inclusivity and promoting diverse perspectives led her to produce Philly's inaugural and highly acclaimed Mad Ethnic Comedy Festival, an unprecedented event that united the industry's most innovative producers and performers of color who are changing the comedy scene in Philly. She has recently been featured on The New Negoes LIVE hosted by the illustrious duo of Baron Vaughn and Open Mike Eagle. Nicole has captivated audiences on "Las Culturistas LIVE," a celebrated showcase hosted by the brilliant comedic minds of Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers. You can catch Nicole locally at Punch Line Philly, Helium Comedy Club, New York Comedy Club, The Stand, Gotham Comedy Club, and more!  FB: NicolePhoenixComedianIG/TT: @sooo_xtraWebsite: www.nicolephoenix.comTwitter:  @ sooo_xtraVocals: Dian Sentino @belifunaFollow me on IG @drhollysfunny

Laughers, get ready for an inspiring and laugh-filled episode with Noah Miller—a former Coast Guard helicopter pilot turned stand-up comedian and screenwriter. Noah shares his unconventional journey from navigating the skies to commanding the stage, proving it's never too late to chase your dreams. He opens up about the pivotal moment that led him to trade his flight suit for a microphone and the path that took him to iconic venues like Gotham Comedy Club and Caroline's on Broadway. We also dive into his screenwriting work, including his semi-finalist script "Sunset Oaks" in the ScreenCraft Comedy competition. Whether you're a comedy fan, a veteran contemplating a big career shift, or someone seeking inspiration to take a bold leap, this episode is packed with humor, heart, and real talk about reinvention, resilience, and finding your funny. Don't miss this uplifting story of flight, fearlessness, and following the laughs. Cheers! Noah Miller: www.noahmillercomedy.com TikTok, YouTube & Instagram: @hellonoahmiller See Noah Miller LIVE on June 7th! NEW! Massanutten Resort Comedy Club ~ Massanutten, VA Buy Tickets: www.massresort.com/dine/dining-events/comedy-club The Grinder: Sitcom - 1 season (referred to in podcast) Starring Emmy-nominated actor Rob Lowe  Writers: Jarrad Paul, Andrew Mogel First episode date: September 29, 2015 (USA) Network: Fox Program creators: Jarrad Paul, Andrew Mogel — This podcast is brought to you by: FWAF [f-wahf] = The Funny Womacks & Friends We offer comedy shows, classes & this podcast! thefunnywomacks.com Facebook & Instagram: @thefunnywomacks YouTube: The Funny Womacks Get some free stuff & discounts to support this podcast!  Love Podcasts? Love Audiobooks? Get a Free One on Us!

The multi-talented author/comedian/director/producer/writer fromKearny, NJ Kellyann Chippendale talks about her latest release “Love &Life/L'Amour et la Vie” as a captivating creation blending poetry & art toexplore the depths of love, life, healing & inspiration which encompasses theaspect of human emotion connecting the world to our existence! Kellyanne is aformer St. John's University soccer player and Big East champion athlete latershifted to Special Ed teacher and soccer coach and becoming involved in actingin L.A. fulfilling her dream, debuted with an award-winning short “GettingMeisnered” plus “Meisnered in Monaco:A Peace-Keeping Mission” performed standupcomedy at Gotham Comedy Club and The Comedy Store and her ventures including “ListenYour World” and “Photography by Chippendale” and the stories behind her works!Check out the amazing Kellyann Chippendale with her latest on all majorplatforms and www.kellyannchippendale.comtoday! #kellyannchippendale #kearneynewjersey #author #comedian #loveandlife#lamouretlavie #director #producer #gettingmeisnered #poetry #art#stjohnsunviersity #bigeast #soccer #specialeducation #losangeles #meinseredinmonaco#gothmacomedyclub #listenyourworld #photgraphybychippendale #spreaker#iheartradio #spotify #applemusic #youtube #anchorfm #bitchute #rumble#mikewagner #themikewagnershow #mikewagnerkellyannchippendale#themikewagnershowkellyannchippendale

The multi-talented author/comedian/director/producer/writer fromKearny, NJ Kellyann Chippendale talks about her latest release “Love &Life/L'Amour et la Vie” as a captivating creation blending poetry & art toexplore the depths of love, life, healing & inspiration which encompasses theaspect of human emotion connecting the world to our existence! Kellyanne is aformer St. John's University soccer player and Big East champion athlete latershifted to Special Ed teacher and soccer coach and becoming involved in actingin L.A. fulfilling her dream, debuted with an award-winning short “GettingMeisnered” plus “Meisnered in Monaco:A Peace-Keeping Mission” performed standupcomedy at Gotham Comedy Club and The Comedy Store and her ventures including “ListenYour World” and “Photography by Chippendale” and the stories behind her works!Check out the amazing Kellyann Chippendale with her latest on all majorplatforms and www.kellyannchippendale.comtoday! #kellyannchippendale #kearneynewjersey #author #comedian #loveandlife#lamouretlavie #director #producer #gettingmeisnered #poetry #art#stjohnsunviersity #bigeast #soccer #specialeducation #losangeles #meinseredinmonaco#gothmacomedyclub #listenyourworld #photgraphybychippendale #spreaker#iheartradio #spotify #applemusic #youtube #anchorfm #bitchute #rumble#mikewagner #themikewagnershow #mikewagnerkellyannchippendale#themikewagnershowkellyannchippendale

The multi-talented author/comedian/director/producer/writer from Kearny, NJ Kellyann Chippendale talks about her latest release “Love & Life/L'Amour et la Vie” as a captivating creation blending poetry & art to explore the depths of love, life, healing & inspiration which encompasses the aspect of human emotion connecting the world to our existence! Kellyanne is a former St. John's University soccer player and Big East champion athlete later shifted to Special Ed teacher and soccer coach and becoming involved in acting in L.A. fulfilling her dream, debuted with an award-winning short “Getting Meisnered” plus “Meisnered in Monaco:A Peace-Keeping Mission” performed standup comedy at Gotham Comedy Club and The Comedy Store and her ventures including “Listen Your World” and “Photography by Chippendale” and the stories behind her works! Check out the amazing Kellyann Chippendale with her latest on all major platforms and www.kellyannchippendale.com today! #kellyannchippendale #kearneynewjersey #author #comedian #loveandlife #lamouretlavie #director #producer #gettingmeisnered #poetry #art #stjohnsunviersity #bigeast #soccer #specialeducation #losangeles #meinseredinmonaco #gothmacomedyclub #listenyourworld #photgraphybychippendale #spreaker #iheartradio #spotify #applemusic #youtube #anchorfm #bitchute #rumble #mikewagner #themikewagnershow #mikewagnerkellyannchippendale #themikewagnershowkellyannchippendaleBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-mike-wagner-show--3140147/support.

 This Friends Like Us, Marina Franklin and Hollie Harper chat with the incredible Sumer Strawbree, a 15-year-old CEO inspiring young girls with her empowering coloring books and confidence-building affirmations!  Sumer Strawbree, is a 15 year old speaker, author and affirmations authority. She helps girls unleash the power of positive "I Am" affirmations to improve their confidence and mental health. "I Am"...two words that speak directly to your subconscious mind. Between 8 and 14, girls' confidence levels drop by 30%. As Seen on, ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, at LA Comic Con & More... After she was bullied at school, this young CEO has independently sold over 10,000 worldwide copies of her Affirmations Coloring Books through her publishing company that features positive images of Black and Brown girls equating to 10,000 girls inspired. She teaches girls how to unlock their subconscious mindsets to bring out the SUPERHERO that is already inside of them, through her I Am Confident University™ Affirmations and Vision Board workshops, workbooks and books. Hollie Harper  is a comedy nerd from South Jersey. She is currently the creator and co-exec producer of Hella Late! with Hollie Harper on BRIC TV and a co-host of the nationally trending Twitter Storytelling Chat “BlerdDating.” Hella Late! with Hollie Harper was recently in the 2021 NYC Web Fest where she was nominated as Best Actress. Hollie was a semi-finalist in the 2019 NBC Standup Competition and has been featured on NY1, and in Black Enterprise Magazine, Thrive Global, Confessional Magazine and Black San Diego Magazine. Her popular sketch comedy show AMERICAN CANDY has played the Comic Strip, Gotham Comedy Club, BAM Café as well as the Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival. Time Out Chicago named them one of the five groups to watch. Hollie is a regular host for West Side Comedy Club in NYC and works with Gold Comedy and Stand Up Girls, two programs that empower young women by teaching them standup comedy. She was recently the talent coordinator and casting for “Blood Lassi” on Spotify, written by Pratima Mani, and moderated the panel for the Emmy Award winning, WOC editing team of Black Lady Sketch Show for The Black TV and Film Collective. She is also the Creative Consultant for the very successful Black Women in Comedy Laff Fest. Always hosted by Marina Franklin - One Hour Comedy Special: Single Black Female ( Amazon Prime, CW Network), TBS's The Last O.G, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Hysterical on FX, The Movie Trainwreck, Louie Season V, The Jim Gaffigan Show, Conan O'Brien, Stephen Colbert, HBO's Crashing, and The Breaks with Michelle Wolf. Writer for HBO's 'Divorce' and the new Tracy Morgan show on Paramount Plus: 'Crutch'.   

Stand Up is a daily podcast that I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 700 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Check out StandUpwithPete.com to learn more GET TICKETS TO PODJAM II In Vegas March 27-30 Confirmed Guests! Professor Eric Segall, Dr Aaron Carroll, Maura Quint, Tim Wise, JL Cauvin, Ophira Eisenberg, Christian Finnegan and The Ladies of The Hue will all join us! Ophira Eisenberg is a Canadian-born standup comedian, writer, and host. She hosted NPR's comedy trivia show Ask Me Another for 9-years, where she interviewed and played silly games with hundreds of celebrities including Sir Patrick Stewart, Awkwafina, Rosie Perez, Yo-Yo Ma, Bob The Drag Queen, Nick Kroll, Chelsea Handler, Jim Gaffigan, Michael C. Hall, and so many others. As a comic and a parent to a 6-year-old, Ophira is the host of the new comedy podcast Parenting Is A Joke co-produced by iHeart Radio and Pretty Good Friends Productions. The show launches on October 18th. She can be seen live, regularly headlining across the United States, Canada, and Europe delivering her unique blend of standup and storytelling to a loyal fan base of smart, irreverent comedy lovers. She has appeared at Montreal's Just for Laughs Festival, The New Yorker Festival, The New York Comedy Festival, Moontower Comedy Festival, Bumbershoot, The Nantucket Film Festival, Women in Comedy Festival and more. Her new comedy album at special Plant-Based Jokes is available on iTunes and is streaming now on YouTube. Lauded as “hilarious, high risk, and an inspiration,” Ophira filmed her comedy special Inside Joke, when she was 8½ months pregnant. The show's material revolves around how she told everyone that she was never going to have kids, and then unexpectedly found herself expecting at “an advanced maternal age.” Her other comedy albums, Bangs! and As Is She has appeared on Comedy Central, This Week at The Comedy Cellar, Kevin Hart's LOL Network, HBO's Girls, Gotham Live, The Late Late Show, The Today Show, and VH-1. The New York Times called her a skilled comedian and storyteller with “bleakly stylish” humor. She was also selected as one of New York Magazine's “Top 10 Comics that Funny People Find Funny,” and hailed by Forbes.com as one of the most engaging comics working today.  Ophira is a regular host and teller with The Moth and her stories have been featured on The Moth Radio Hour and in two of The Moth's best-selling collections, including the most recent New York Times Bestseller: How To Tell A Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth.  Ophira's first book, Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to Monogamy (Seal Press), is a comedic memoir about her experiments in the field as a single woman, traveling from futon to futon and flask-to-flask, gathering data, hoping to put it all together and build her own perfect Frankenmate. It was optioned for a feature film.  She is also sought after as a brilliant interviewer and moderator, and has interviewed dozens of celebrities, writers, and actors including Neil Gaiman at New York's Town Hall; Jane Curtain, Anne Beatts, Heather Gardner, Sudi Green, Alysia Reiner, Jeanne Tripplehorn, David Crane, Jeffrey Klerik at The Nantucket Film Festival; Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Daniel Levy and Annie Murphy at the 92nd Street Y; and Nell Scovell and Sloane Crosley at The Mark Twain House.  Originally from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Ophira graduated with a Cultural Anthropology and Theater degree from McGill University. She now lives in Brooklyn, NY where she is a fixture at New York City's comedy clubs including the Comedy Cellar, Gotham Comedy Club, New York Comedy Club and Carolines, as well as Brooklyn's famed performance venues The Bell House, Union Hall, and Littlefield. She resides with her husband and son where she can regularly be seen drinking a ton of coffee. Pete on Blue Sky Pete on Threads Pete on Tik Tok Pete on YouTube  Pete on Twitter Pete On Instagram Pete Personal FB page Stand Up with Pete FB page All things Jon Carroll  Follow and Support Pete Coe Buy Ava's Art  Hire DJ Monzyk to build your website or help you with Marketing Gift a Subscription https://www.patreon.com/PeteDominick/gift    

Discover the connection between Afrofuturism and prophecy with our latest episode featuring Vanessa Fraction and Hollie Harper. Hosted by Marina Franklin, we explore Black History Month and its significance today.  Vanessa Fraction is a talented and hilarious comedian, actress, and writer who has made her mark in various forms of entertainment. She can currently be heard as a co-host on the Nappy Boy Radio Podcast hosted by Tpain and seen in the movie Praise This on Peacock. Vanessa can also be seen guest hosting on the entertainment news show Dish Nation. As a stand-up comedian, Vanessa has performed on Def Comedy Jam , Laff Mobs Laff Tracks , and more. Her writing credits include Raven's Home , 106 & Park , and The Mo'Nique Show. Additionally, she has appeared in the film Barbershop 2 and television shows Last Call, Mann & Wife (BounceTV), Comedy KnockOuts (TruTV) and Tales (BET) Not only is Vanessa "Action" Fraction a talented entertainer, but she is also a certified self-defense instructor. She teaches her unique class called Kicks & Comedy, combining her love for humor with her passion for empowering others through self-defense. Hollie Harper is a comedy nerd from South Jersey. She is currently the creator and co-exec producer of Hella Late! with Hollie Harper on BRIC TV and a co-host of the nationally trending Twitter Storytelling Chat “BlerdDating.” Hella Late! with Hollie Harper was recently in the 2021 NYC Web Fest where she was nominated as Best Actress. Hollie was a semi-finalist in the 2019 NBC Standup Competition and has been featured on NY1, and in Black Enterprise Magazine, Thrive Global, Confessional Magazine and Black San Diego Magazine. Her popular sketch comedy show AMERICAN CANDY has played the Comic Strip, Gotham Comedy Club, BAM Café as well as the Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival. Time Out Chicago named them one of the five groups to watch. Hollie is a regular host for West Side Comedy Club in NYC and works with Gold Comedy and Stand Up Girls, two programs that empower young women by teaching them standup comedy. She was recently the talent coordinator and casting for “Blood Lassi” on Spotify, written by Pratima Mani, and moderated the panel for the Emmy Award winning, WOC editing team of Black Lady Sketch Show for The Black TV and Film Collective. She is also the Creative Consultant for the very successful Black Women in Comedy Laff Fest. Always hosted by Marina Franklin - One Hour Comedy Special: Single Black Female ( Amazon Prime, CW Network), TBS's The Last O.G, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Hysterical on FX, The Movie Trainwreck, Louie Season V, The Jim Gaffigan Show, Conan O'Brien, Stephen Colbert, HBO's Crashing, and The Breaks with Michelle Wolf.

Stand Up is a daily podcast that I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 700 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Check out StandUpwithPete.com to learn more GET TICKETS TO PODJAM II In Vegas March 27-30 Confirmed Guests! Professor Eric Segall, Dr Aaron Carroll, Maura Quint, Tim Wise, JL Cauvin, Ophira Eisenberg, Christian Finnegan and More! 31 minutes Ezra Levin is the co-founder and co-executive director of Indivisible. Prior to founding Indivisible, Ezra served as Associate Director of Federal Policy for Prosperity Now, a national anti-poverty nonprofit. Previously, he was the Deputy Policy Director for Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Field Director for Doggett's 2010 reelection campaign, and an AmeriCorps VISTA in the Homeless Services Division of the San Jose Housing Department.   Along with his co-founder and spouse Leah Greenberg, Ezra has been featured as one of TIME 100's Most Influential People of 2019, included on GQ's 50 Most Powerful People in Trump's Washington, and ranked #2 on the Politico 50 list of top thinkers, doers and visionaries transforming American politics. He has appeared as a commentator on and/or been interviewed by MSNBC, CNN, NPR, Pod Save America, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Politico, TIME Magazine, the New Yorker, the Nation, Slate, and Rolling Stone, among others. He is the co-author of We Are Indivisible: A Blueprint for Democracy After Trump, published by Simon & Schuster's One Signal Publishers in 2019.  He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Carleton College and a Master in Public Affairs from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. 1 hour 2 mins Ophira Eisenberg is a Canadian-born standup comedian, writer, and host. She hosted NPR's comedy trivia show Ask Me Another for 9-years, where she interviewed and played silly games with hundreds of celebrities including Sir Patrick Stewart, Awkwafina, Rosie Perez, Yo-Yo Ma, Bob The Drag Queen, Nick Kroll, Chelsea Handler, Jim Gaffigan, Michael C. Hall, and so many others. As a comic and a parent to a 6-year-old, Ophira is the host of the new comedy podcast Parenting Is A Joke co-produced by iHeart Radio and Pretty Good Friends Productions. The show launches on October 18th. She can be seen live, regularly headlining across the United States, Canada, and Europe delivering her unique blend of standup and storytelling to a loyal fan base of smart, irreverent comedy lovers. She has appeared at Montreal's Just for Laughs Festival, The New Yorker Festival, The New York Comedy Festival, Moontower Comedy Festival, Bumbershoot, The Nantucket Film Festival, Women in Comedy Festival and more. Her new comedy album at special Plant-Based Jokes is available on iTunes and is streaming now on YouTube. Lauded as “hilarious, high risk, and an inspiration,” Ophira filmed her comedy special Inside Joke, when she was 8½ months pregnant. The show's material revolves around how she told everyone that she was never going to have kids, and then unexpectedly found herself expecting at “an advanced maternal age.” Her other comedy albums, Bangs! and As Is She has appeared on Comedy Central, This Week at The Comedy Cellar, Kevin Hart's LOL Network, HBO's Girls, Gotham Live, The Late Late Show, The Today Show, and VH-1. The New York Times called her a skilled comedian and storyteller with “bleakly stylish” humor. She was also selected as one of New York Magazine's “Top 10 Comics that Funny People Find Funny,” and hailed by Forbes.com as one of the most engaging comics working today.  Ophira is a regular host and teller with The Moth and her stories have been featured on The Moth Radio Hour and in two of The Moth's best-selling collections, including the most recent New York Times Bestseller: How To Tell A Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth.  Ophira's first book, Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to Monogamy (Seal Press), is a comedic memoir about her experiments in the field as a single woman, traveling from futon to futon and flask-to-flask, gathering data, hoping to put it all together and build her own perfect Frankenmate. It was optioned for a feature film.  She is also sought after as a brilliant interviewer and moderator, and has interviewed dozens of celebrities, writers, and actors including Neil Gaiman at New York's Town Hall; Jane Curtain, Anne Beatts, Heather Gardner, Sudi Green, Alysia Reiner, Jeanne Tripplehorn, David Crane, Jeffrey Klerik at The Nantucket Film Festival; Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Daniel Levy and Annie Murphy at the 92nd Street Y; and Nell Scovell and Sloane Crosley at The Mark Twain House.  Originally from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Ophira graduated with a Cultural Anthropology and Theater degree from McGill University. She now lives in Brooklyn, NY where she is a fixture at New York City's comedy clubs including the Comedy Cellar, Gotham Comedy Club, New York Comedy Club and Carolines, as well as Brooklyn's famed performance venues The Bell House, Union Hall, and Littlefield. She resides with her husband and son where she can regularly be seen drinking a ton of coffee. Pete on Blue Sky Pete on Threads Pete on Tik Tok Pete on YouTube  Pete on Twitter Pete On Instagram Pete Personal FB page Stand Up with Pete FB page All things Jon Carroll  Follow and Support Pete Coe Buy Ava's Art  Hire DJ Monzyk to build your website or help you with Marketing Gift a Subscription https://www.patreon.com/PeteDominick/gift

This "Friends Like Us", host Marina Franklin chats with Brandon Collins and Hollie Harper about Brandon's new "Drunk Black History" tour, the legacy of Jimmy Carter, and how artistry meets activism.  Hollie Harper is a comedy nerd from South Jersey. She is currently the creator and co-exec producer of Hella Late! with Hollie Harper on BRIC TV and a co-host of the nationally trending Twitter Storytelling Chat “BlerdDating.” Hella Late! with Hollie Harper was recently in the 2021 NYC Web Fest where she was nominated as Best Actress. Hollie was a semi-finalist in the 2019 NBC Standup Competition and has been featured on NY1, and in Black Enterprise Magazine, Thrive Global, Confessional Magazine and Black San Diego Magazine. Her popular sketch comedy show AMERICAN CANDY has played the Comic Strip, Gotham Comedy Club, BAM Café as well as the Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival. Time Out Chicago named them one of the five groups to watch. Hollie is a regular host for West Side Comedy Club in NYC and works with Gold Comedy and Stand Up Girls, two programs that empower young women by teaching them standup comedy. She was recently the talent coordinator and casting for “Blood Lassi” on Spotify, written by Pratima Mani, and moderated the panel for the Emmy Award winning, WOC editing team of Black Lady Sketch Show for The Black TV and Film Collective. She is also the Creative Consultant for the very successful Black Women in Comedy Laff Fest. Brandon Collins is a versatile screenwriter, comedian and podcaster who has performed at the SXSW and New York Comedy Festival, and has had appearances in various MTV, VH1, and Max productions. He recently participated in the 2022-2023 Universal Writer's Lab (beating out over a thousand applicants) and is the host of the critically acclaimed show, "Drunk Black History" Always hosted by Marina Franklin - One Hour Comedy Special: Single Black Female ( Amazon Prime, CW Network), TBS's The Last O.G, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Hysterical on FX, The Movie Trainwreck, Louie Season V, The Jim Gaffigan Show, Conan O'Brien, Stephen Colbert, HBO's Crashing, and The Breaks with Michelle Wolf.  

“ The crowd will pay attention to whatever you give power to — it comes back to brand equity. Stand-up is a window and it's a mirror. Whatever you choose to talk about in stand-up and in art, it is truly yours.” Rajiv Satyal is a Los Angeles-based comedian and host known for his clean, versatile humor. Originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, he is the only comedian to perform standup on all seven continents and co-created Make Chai Not War, a Hindu-Muslim comedy tour sponsored by the U.S. State Department. Rajiv has opened for stars like Russell Peters, Tim Allen, and Dave Chappelle and once followed Jerry Seinfeld at Gotham Comedy Club. A former P&G marketer, he speaks to Fortune 500 companies — including P&G and Alumni events around the world — on innovation and branding and has written acclaimed one-person shows, blending comedy and storytelling to captivate audiences worldwide. You'll enjoy this conversation on not just Rajiv's journey from brand-marketing to stand-up comedy, but his reflections on where we are in the world today, and how maybe we just need to laugh a little more. This episode is hosted by P&G Alum Sudha Ranganathan, who's spent over 19 years in diverse Marketing leadership roles at companies like P&G, PayPal, and LinkedIn where she's honed her passion for customer-centric marketing and talent development.

Welcome back to Chit Chat Wednesday on the JTrain Podcast! This week, Jared Freid sits down with his hilarious friend and comedian, Liza Treyger. If you've heard Liza on the pod before, you know this conversation will go in a million directions—touching on everything from comedy life to random personal stories—changing topics every five seconds in the best way possible.Liza announces her Netflix special, Night Owl, dropping on January 28th (a JTrain Podcast exclusive!). Jared shares his experience opening for the taping and gushes about how funny, personal, and downright fantastic the special is—so mark your calendars, folks!The duo dives into the highs and lows of stand-up: from crafting new material to the struggle of letting old jokes go. They also share stories about Thanksgiving antics, sporting events (Bulls vs. Celtics, anyone?), and how Liza managed to show up to a basketball game accidentally repping the wrong team.Prepare for nonstop laughs, chaotic tangents, and a behind-the-scenes look at what makes comedians tick. Don't forget to comment and let Jared and Liza know what topics you'd love to hear more about next time.he two dive into everything from hidden bar gems in Chelsea (including a bar full of glitter balls) to Gotham Comedy Club's eternal scaffolding. Liza shares her unique family New Year's traditions—think Russian TV concerts, backgammon marathons, and an unsettling chicken soup gelatin dish.The conversation gets delightfully off-track as they discuss Simpsons-themed NFL games, the best ways to prank family with an Aura Frame, and Liza's growing troll collection (she only collects the baby ones). Jared and Liza also delve into more serious topics, including the state of healthcare, corporate greed, and the bizarre Batman-like true crime story capturing national attention.Watch on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts!Want more JTRAIN? Join the Patreon for more, listen to Coffee with JTrain, & send an email to

This Friends Like Us, host Marina Franklin talk with Holly Harper and breathwork expert Jasmine Marie. Friends discuss the significance of mental health, particularly for Black women. They delve into Jasmine's book, 'Black Girls Breathing,' which focuses on healing from trauma, combating chronic stress, and finding freedom. Jasmine shares her personal journey and the establishment of Black Girls Breathing, which provides accessible breathwork resources for Black women. The conversation addresses the systemic issues surrounding Black women's health, the therapeutic benefits of breathwork, and the impact of chronic stress. Jasmine also highlights the importance of community and creating spaces for Black women to rest and heal. The discussion is interspersed with personal anecdotes, practical breathing techniques, and reflections on the socio-political climate, especially following recent elections. The episode concludes with a promotion for Jasmine's book and information on how to join the Black Girls Breathing community. Jasmine Marie is a speaker, breathwork practitioner, and founder of black girls breathing®, a wellness platform that provides Black women with tools to heal trauma in the body and reduce chronic stress and anxiety. An alum of NYU Stern School of Business, Jasmine Marie's work has been featured in Good Morning America, VOGUE, Forbes, Harper's Bazaar, Marie Claire, Glamour, Nylon Mag, Black Enterprise, Oprah Magazine, Well + Good, Wall Street Journal, Bust Magazine, Goop, MindBodyGreen, Refinery29, Pix11 NY, The Cut, FoxSoul, Cosmopolitan, and PopSugar Fitness, among others.  A Special promotions available for friends in black owned books stores.  Friends50 pre order the book now.  OFFER : Friends 50 -and join us 50% off - DEc 17th book Special promotions in black books stores   Hollie Harper is a comedy nerd from South Jersey. She is currently the creator and co-exec producer of Hella Late! with Hollie Harper on BRIC TV and a co-host of the nationally trending Twitter Storytelling Chat “BlerdDating.” Hella Late! with Hollie Harper was recently in the 2021 NYC Web Fest where she was nominated as Best Actress. Hollie was a semi-finalist in the 2019 NBC Standup Competition and has been featured on NY1, and in Black Enterprise Magazine, Thrive Global, Confessional Magazine and Black San Diego Magazine. Her popular sketch comedy show AMERICAN CANDY has played the Comic Strip, Gotham Comedy Club, BAM Café as well as the Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival. Time Out Chicago named them one of the five groups to watch. Hollie is a regular host for West Side Comedy Club in NYC and works with Gold Comedy and Stand Up Girls, two programs that empower young women by teaching them standup comedy. She was recently the talent coordinator and casting for “Blood Lassi” on Spotify, written by Pratima Mani, and moderated the panel for the Emmy Award winning, WOC editing team of Black Lady Sketch Show for The Black TV and Film Collective. She is also the Creative Consultant for the very successful Black Women in Comedy Laff Fest. Always hosted by Marina Franklin - One Hour Comedy Special: Single Black Female ( Amazon Prime, CW Network), TBS's The Last O.G, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Hysterical on FX, The Movie Trainwreck, Louie Season V, The Jim Gaffigan Show, Conan O'Brien, Stephen Colbert, HBO's Crashing, and The Breaks with Michelle Wolf.

Tyler Hittner joins us in the Acement. Tyler has become a BTF favorite. Always enjoy hearing about his latest accomplishments. Tyler works his a** off so it's no surprise how much he's accomplished. He just finished his residency at Broadway Comedy Club in NY and then does a spot at Gotham Comedy Club where he has a chance meeting with two huge comedy stars. Check out Tyler at https://www.facebook.com/Wheelz1990 Go to https://www.buymeacoffee.com/behindthefQ to buy us a coffee or a bourbon.  Get your BTF gear at https://www.teepublic.com/stores/scott-higgins 

In honor of the New York City Marathon, it's  a marathon  all new That Real Blind Tech show episode. Since Ed was out of town yet again, filling in is David Goldstein, along with Allison, Brian, and Jeanine.   We kick the show off acknowledging a very special one year anniversary. Then we dive in to recapping this year's amazing Laugh For Sight which was held on Monday, October 28, 2024 at Gotham Comedy Club in New York City.   It is then on to the story everyone will be talking about as scientists have discovered that animals are getting just as sloshed as humans.   Next we discuss the disturbing trend of people applying for ghost jobs.   A Russian court has hit Google with a whopper of a fine.   We then get to A.I. Corner and start off discussing Open A.I.'s search engine which is now live for paid subscribers. Claude now has a desktop app. Google Maps is getting an A.I. infusion and you will be able to ask it questions about restaurants and get A.I. created results. We then talk about the massive update that just came to seeing A.I. and now being able to get short video descriptions. We dream about what these descriptions for video could eventually be, and David tells us about his awesome Seeing A.I. shortcuts that Brian has stolen and made his own.   We then move on to discussing our experiences with iOS 18.1 and 18.2. Here are 10 new non-A.I. things you will be able to do in iOS 18.2. We discuss the new category feature coming to mail in iOS 18.2. Next we discuss Apple Visual Intelligence and ChatGPT with Siri.   Apple announced all new M4 Mac mini, iMac, and Mac Book Pros. The Mac mini chose an odd place for the power button which has the internet cracking up.   And then it is the show interruption to end all show interruptions. You will have to hear it to believe it.   And yeah, we went a little long on this show, but we finally get to Allison and Jeanine's  experience testing out the glide device.   We get really sidetracked again, but it's worth the listen, and we fairly get to David's experience at the Governor's Mansion.   And it's more of Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading    To contact That Real Blind Tech Show, you can email us at ThatRealBlindTechShow@gmail.com, join our Facebook Group That Real Blind Tech Show, join us on the Twitter @BlindTechShow , or leave us an old school phone message at 929-367-1005. .        In honor of the New York City Marathon, it's  a marathon  all new That Real Blind Tech show episode. Since Ed was out of town yet again, filling in is David Goldstein, along with Allison, Brian, and Jeanine.   We kick the show off acknowledging a very special one year anniversary. Then we dive in to recapping this year's amazing Laugh For Sight which was held on Monday, October 28, 2024 at Gotham Comedy Club in New York City.   It is then on to the story everyone will be talking about as scientists have discovered that animals are getting just as sloshed as humans.   Next we discuss the disturbing trend of people applying for ghost jobs.   A Russian court has hit Google with a whopper of a fine.   We then get to A.I. Corner and start off discussing Open A.I.'s search engine which is now live for paid subscribers. Claude now has a desktop app. Google Maps is getting an A.I. infusion and you will be able to ask it questions about restaurants and get A.I. created results. We then talk about the massive update that just came to seeing A.I. and now being able to get short video descriptions. We dream about what these descriptions for video could eventually be, and David tells us about his awesome Seeing A.I. shortcuts that Brian has stolen and made his own.   We then move on to discussing our experiences with iOS 18.1 and 18.2. Here are 10 new non-A.I. things you will be able to do in iOS 18.2. We discuss the new category feature coming to mail in iOS 18.2. Next we discuss Apple Visual Intelligence and ChatGPT with Siri.   Apple announced all new M4 Mac mini, iMac, and Mac Book Pros. The Mac mini chose an odd place for the power button which has the internet cracking up.   And then it is the show interruption to end all show interruptions. You will have to hear it to believe it.   And yeah, we went a little long on this show, but we finally get to Allison and Jeanine's  experience testing out the glide device.   We get really sidetracked again, but it's worth the listen, and we fairly get to David's experience at the Governor's Mansion.   And it's more of Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading    To contact That Real Blind Tech Show, you can email us at ThatRealBlindTechShow@gmail.com, join our Facebook Group That Real Blind Tech Show, join us on the Twitter @BlindTechShow , or leave us an old school phone message at 929-367-1005. .       

Watch on YouTube - https://youtu.be/_ZHbH0IfakU Kasaun Wilson is a versatile comedian from Jersey City, NJ, whose journey began at Howard University with encouragement from his professor, the legendary Al Freeman Jr. He's been featured on major platforms such as NBC's Last Comic Standing, TruTV's Laff Tracks, and TVOne's NewsOneNow. Performing across the country at venues like the Comedy Store, Gotham Comedy Club, and the Kennedy Center, Kasaun has opened for big names like Donnell Rawlings and Michael Blackson. He co-hosts YouthFul Praise with JJ Hairston and is the creator of the Generational Curse Breaker brand Filmed during the Laugh After Dark ComedyFest 2024 at L.A. Comedy Club inside the Strat in Las Vegas. For more information about Laugh After Dark Visit: https://linktr.ee/laughafterdark S O C I A L Instagram http://www.instagram.com/laughafterdark http://www.instagram.com/lifeofkay L I N K S http://www.laughafterdark.com http://www.laughafterdarkcomedyfest.com http://www.lifeofkay.com #laughafterdark #standupcomedy #comedian --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/laugh-after-dark/support

Doug Stanhope: No Refunds Not all stand-up comedy is spot-cleaned and pre-packaged for the masses. Like the legends who were born out of smokey, booze-soaked nightclubs of decades past, Doug Stanhope spews his own brand of moral outrage in an unmatched style that borders on self-destruction. Nothing is sacred, no subject off-limits and most importantly nothing is contrived. From critically acclaimed appearances at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival to regular appearances on The Howard Stern Show, Stanhope always shows an intelligence and brutal honesty in his comedy, no matter how viciously graphic or unsettling the material may be. Taped live at the Gotham Comedy Club, this appearance is an unflinching look at one of the few voices left standing in the dark, punk-rock underbelly of stand-up comedy. COMEDY DYNAMICS YouTube Facebook X (Twitter) TikTok Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Watch on YouTube - https://youtu.be/HzMJGKvOJL0 Kasaun Wilson is a versatile comedian from Jersey City, NJ, whose journey began at Howard University with encouragement from his professor, the legendary Al Freeman Jr. He's been featured on major platforms such as NBC's Last Comic Standing, TruTV's Laff Tracks, and TVOne's NewsOneNow. Performing across the country at venues like the Comedy Store, Gotham Comedy Club, and the Kennedy Center, Kasaun has opened for big names like Donnell Rawlings and Michael Blackson. He co-hosts YouthFul Praise with JJ Hairston and is the creator of the Generational Curse Breaker brand Filmed during the Laugh After Dark ComedyFest 2024 at the Vegas Theatre Company in the Las Vegas Arts District. For more information about Laugh After Dark Visit: https://linktr.ee/laughafterdark S O C I A L Instagram http://www.instagram.com/laughafterdark http://www.instagram.com/thelifeofkay L I N K S http://www.laughafterdark.com http://www.lifeofkay.com http://www.laughafterdarkcomedyfest.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/laugh-after-dark/support

Adam and Alex tell us about Tanner's wedding.   Join us as we dive into the world of Peter Asher—legendary producer, musician, manager and the only guy who can make a cup of tea sound like a hit single! He tells us about being friends with Paul McCartney & the Beatles. And talks on managing the greats and knowing when an award winning song is finished.    Comedy club dates to hear me live: https://www.adamferrara.com/tourdates/   Oct 11 & 12 Magooby's Joke House Timonium MD   Oct 24-26  Mohegan Sun Casino Uncasville CT   Oct 28  Gotham Comedy Club  New York City  

Phil calls in from a Houston airport to give is an update on his throat condition. Adam gets him to yell again causing security to eye him suspiciously.   Comedian Jeff Arcuri stops by and tells us about dating a girl he may have been related to, getting his new tattoo, but he is not sure if he likes it and being on a mood app with his fiancé.   Comedy Tour Dates: https://www.adamferrara.com/tourdates   Oct 11 & 12 Magooby's Joke House Timonium MD   Oct 24-26  Mohegan Sun Casino Uncasville CT   Oct 28  Gotham Comedy Club  New York City

Living with the unpredictability of MS sometimes feels like riding a rollercoaster. As you experience the twists and turns of life with MS, you can sometimes feel unmoored from the person you thought you were. You can sense your priorities, motivations, and values shifting. And, in those moments, it becomes easy to lose your sense of purpose.   Clinical assistant professor and rehabilitation psychologist at the University of Michigan, Dr. Evan Smith, joins me to discuss how to identify and reconnect with your core values and live a more purposeful and satisfying life.  We'll also tell you about Creating Order, an art exhibit featuring 12 artists living with MS. (Don't miss our conversation with the co-curators and lead artist in this unique exhibit!)  And we're sharing the details of MS Stand Up, a night of comedy and cocktails at the Gotham Comedy Club. We have a lot to talk about! Are you ready for RealTalk MS??! This Week: Greetings from ECTRIMS!  :22 Our 7th anniversary is one week away!  2:00 Coming Up: The importance of staying connected to your core values  2:30 Creating Order art exhibit features 12 artists living with MS  3:35 My conversation with Creating Order co-curators Pam Schoenberg and Ted Meyer, and lead artist, Susan Trachman  4:27 MS Stand Up is happening September 30 at the Gotham Comedy Club    15:24 Dr. Evan Smith discusses how to lead a purposeful life while living with MS  16:54 Share this episode  33:17 Have you downloaded the free RealTalk MS app?  33:38 SHARE THIS EPISODE OF REALTALK MS Just copy this link & paste it into your text or email: https://realtalkms.com/368 ADD YOUR VOICE TO THE CONVERSATION I've always thought about the RealTalk MS podcast as a conversation. And this is your opportunity to join the conversation by sharing your feedback, questions, and suggestions for topics that we can discuss in future podcast episodes. Please shoot me an email or call the RealTalk MS Listener Hotline and share your thoughts! Email: jon@realtalkms.com Phone: (310) 526-2283 And don't forget to join us in the RealTalk MS Facebook group! LINKS If your podcast app doesn't allow you to click on these links, you'll find them in the show notes in the RealTalk MS app or at www.RealTalkMS.com Creating Order exhibit at the DNJ Gallery https://dnjgallery.net MS Stand Up https://msstandup.org Join the RealTalk MS Facebook Group https://facebook.com/groups/realtalkms Download the RealTalk MS App for iOS Devices https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/realtalk-ms/id1436917200 Download the RealTalk MS App for Android Deviceshttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tv.wizzard.android.realtalk Give RealTalk MS a rating and review http://www.realtalkms.com/review Follow RealTalk MS on Twitter, @RealTalkMS_jon, and subscribe to our newsletter at our website, RealTalkMS.com. RealTalk MS Episode 368 Guests: Pam Schoenberg, Ted Meyer, Susan Trachman, Dr. Evan Smith Privacy Policy

It's an all new That Real Blind Tech show with the entire gang back together to recap the Apple Glow Time event in a way that only That Real Blind Tech Show can do.   We kick the show off with an exciting upcoming trip by Ed, and as we stumble through our intro Jeanine fills us in on how Aira Audio Described the debate. We then discuss the breaking news right before we recorded of Jon Bon Jovi talking a jumper off of a bridge.   Next we discuss the story of Gen-Z pissing everyone off with their new fad of filming their airport tray's.       Brian then tells us all about this year's 17th annual Laugh For Sight NYC at Gotham Comedy Club on Monday, October 28, 2024. For tickets go here. And one of our Hosts will soon have their own swag, hmm, who could it be?   If you are interested in attending the Lighthouse guild Mac versus PC Accessibility Smackdown on September 17, 2024 at 3pm Eastern Time on Zoom, you can register for it here.   Not everyone was tuned in to the Apple event as Pornhub's tracking metrics didn't drop everywhere during the event.   We then finally get around to discussing the apple Event It's Glow time. We start off discussing if screen real estate makes a difference for gesture and braille with a lower case b input users. It was only quickly mentioned but could apple Visual Intelligence LookUp only available on the iPhone 16 Pro and up cause a lot of blind people to get new phones? We then discuss the new camera button coming to some of the phones. During the event apple kept pimping out the bigger battery life, so how much bigger is it? Here are the biggest differences between the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro.   Apple announced a new Mag Safe charger, don't buy it. Apple finally killed the lightning  cable for all new products.   Apple announced the air Pod 4's, making the Air Pod product line very confusing. The Air Pod Pro 2's will be able to replace hearing aids for people with low to moderate hearing loss. Will Air Pods doubling as hearing aids challenge new social norms?   We got the Apple Watch Series 10, and one of us already ordered one. Sleep Apnea detection comes to the new watches.   We got a drop date for iOS 18 on Monday, September 16th, and fortunately Allison and Jeanine have been running the betas. Additionally, Mac OS Sequoia will also be dropping on Monday, but none of us have been beta testing it. Apple will actually allow users to stay on iOS 17 and still get security updates.   And it's more of What's Pissing Off Brian Now and Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.   To contact That Real Blind Tech Show, you can email us at ThatRealBlindTechShow@gmail.com, join our Facebook Group That Real Blind Tech Show, join us on the Twitter @BlindTechShow , or leave us an old school phone message at 929-367-1005.      It's an all new That Real Blind Tech show with the entire gang back together to recap the Apple Glow Time event in a way that only That Real Blind Tech Show can do.   We kick the show off with an exciting upcoming trip by Ed, and as we stumble through our intro Jeanine fills us in on how Aira Audio Described the debate. We then discuss the breaking news right before we recorded of Jon Bon Jovi talking a jumper off of a bridge.   Next we discuss the story of Gen-Z pissing everyone off with their new fad of filming their airport tray's.       Brian then tells us all about this year's 17th annual Laugh For Sight NYC at Gotham Comedy Club on Monday, October 28, 2024. For tickets go here. And one of our Hosts will soon have their own swag, hmm, who could it be?   If you are interested in attending the Lighthouse guild Mac versus PC Accessibility Smackdown on September 17, 2024 at 3pm Eastern Time on Zoom, you can register for it here.   Not everyone was tuned in to the Apple event as Pornhub's tracking metrics didn't drop everywhere during the event.   We then finally get around to discussing the apple Event It's Glow time. We start off discussing if screen real estate makes a difference for gesture and braille with a lower case b input users. It was only quickly mentioned but could apple Visual Intelligence LookUp only available on the iPhone 16 Pro and up cause a lot of blind people to get new phones? We then discuss the new camera button coming to some of the phones. During the event apple kept pimping out the bigger battery life, so how much bigger is it? Here are the biggest differences between the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro.   Apple announced a new Mag Safe charger, don't buy it. Apple finally killed the lightning  cable for all new products.   Apple announced the air Pod 4's, making the Air Pod product line very confusing. The Air Pod Pro 2's will be able to replace hearing aids for people with low to moderate hearing loss. Will Air Pods doubling as hearing aids challenge new social norms?   We got the Apple Watch Series 10, and one of us already ordered one. Sleep Apnea detection comes to the new watches.   We got a drop date for iOS 18 on Monday, September 16th, and fortunately Allison and Jeanine have been running the betas. Additionally, Mac OS Sequoia will also be dropping on Monday, but none of us have been beta testing it. Apple will actually allow users to stay on iOS 17 and still get security updates.   And it's more of What's Pissing Off Brian Now and Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.   To contact That Real Blind Tech Show, you can email us at ThatRealBlindTechShow@gmail.com, join our Facebook Group That Real Blind Tech Show, join us on the Twitter @BlindTechShow , or leave us an old school phone message at 929-367-1005.     

Hollie Harper and Nonye Brown-West visit friends and discuss cultural vultures to Kamala Harris, we're breaking down some heavy topics on this episode of Friends Like Us. Catch the insightful conversation and let us know your thoughts!  Hollie Harper is a comedy nerd from South Jersey. She is currently the creator and co-exec producer of Hella Late! with Hollie Harper on BRIC TV and a co-host of the nationally trending Twitter Storytelling Chat “BlerdDating.” Hella Late! with Hollie Harper was recently in the 2021 NYC Web Fest where she was nominated as Best Actress. Hollie was a semi-finalist in the 2019 NBC Standup Competition and has been featured on NY1, and in Black Enterprise Magazine, Thrive Global, Confessional Magazine and Black San Diego Magazine. Her popular sketch comedy show AMERICAN CANDY has played the Comic Strip, Gotham Comedy Club, BAM Café as well as the Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival. Time Out Chicago named them one of the five groups to watch. Hollie is a regular host for West Side Comedy Club in NYC and works with Gold Comedy and Stand Up Girls, two programs that empower young women by teaching them standup comedy. She was recently the talent coordinator and casting for “Blood Lassi” on Spotify, written by Pratima Mani, and moderated the panel for the Emmy Award winning, WOC editing team of Black Lady Sketch Show for The Black TV and Film Collective. She is also the Creative Consultant for the very successful Black Women in Comedy Laff Fest. Nonye Brown-West is a New York-based Nigerian-American comedian and writer. She has been featured in the Boston Globe's Rise column as a Comic to Watch. She has also appeared on Amazon, NPR, PBS, ABC, Sway In The Morning on Sirius XM, and the New York Comedy Festival. Check her schedule on nonyecomedy.com or Instagram to see when she's coming to a city near you. Always hosted by Marina Franklin - One Hour Comedy Special: Single Black Female ( Amazon Prime, CW Network), TBS's The Last O.G, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Hysterical on FX, The Movie Trainwreck, Louie Season V, The Jim Gaffigan Show, Conan O'Brien, Stephen Colbert, HBO's Crashing, and The Breaks with Michelle Wolf.

In this special episode of the Rated G Podcast, we are thrilled to welcome Jim Mendrinos, the comedy legend and Gary's former teacher, as our guest. Jim taught Gary the ropes at Gotham Comedy Club in New York City and played a pivotal role in helping him find his funny. Join us as we dive into their history, Jim's influence on Gary's career, and their exciting new partnership. AC Jokes has partnered with Jim to offer the Atlantic City Comedy School, a fantastic opportunity for aspiring comedians to sharpen their skills and get booked in major comedy clubs around the country. Whether you're new to the scene or a seasoned comic, this 6-week workshop provides the tools you need to excel in the art of stand-up comedy. From writing to the business side of comedy, Jim's expert guidance will help you succeed. Interested in honing your public speaking abilities or taking a shot at stand-up? AC Jokes' supportive environment welcomes comedians of all experience levels. Network with other comedians and industry professionals, and perform live at AC Jokes at the end of the course. For more information, email info@acjokes.com.

Hollie Harper and host Marina Franklin disuss the debates, ageism in politics, and the upcoming election. Don't miss this insightful chat!  Hollie Harper is a comedy nerd from South Jersey. She is currently the creator and co-exec producer of Hella Late! with Hollie Harper on BRIC TV and a co-host of the nationally trending Twitter Storytelling Chat “BlerdDating.” Hella Late! with Hollie Harper was recently in the 2021 NYC Web Fest where she was nominated as Best Actress. Hollie was a semi-finalist in the 2019 NBC Standup Competition and has been featured on NY1, and in Black Enterprise Magazine, Thrive Global, Confessional Magazine and Black San Diego Magazine. Her popular sketch comedy show AMERICAN CANDY has played the Comic Strip, Gotham Comedy Club, BAM Café as well as the Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival. Time Out Chicago named them one of the five groups to watch. Hollie is a regular host for West Side Comedy Club in NYC and works with Gold Comedy and Stand Up Girls, two programs that empower young women by teaching them standup comedy. She was recently the talent coordinator and casting for “Blood Lassi” on Spotify, written by Pratima Mani, and moderated the panel for the Emmy Award winning, WOC editing team of Black Lady Sketch Show for The Black TV and Film Collective. She is also the Creative Consultant for the very successful Black Women in Comedy Laff Fest. Always hosted by Marina Franklin - One Hour Comedy Special: Single Black Female ( Amazon Prime, CW Network), TBS's The Last O.G, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Hysterical on FX, The Movie Trainwreck, Louie Season V, The Jim Gaffigan Show, Conan O'Brien, Stephen Colbert, HBO's Crashing, and The Breaks with Michelle Wolf  

Jourdain Fisher and Charles Mcbee visit friends and discuss comedy, social media, the tend commandments, and surviving breakups. Catch the laughs and insights now with host Marina Franklin. Jourdain Fisher has got it all. He is a hilarious comedian, writer, and actor. He has performed on COMEDY CENTRAL and in 2018 he made his late night TV debut on THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON where he received a standing ovation. In fact, his performance on The Tonight Show went so well that Jimmy hired him as a staff writer! He has also written for VICELAND, NETFLIX and BET. He was a highlight at the prestigious Just For Laughs festival in Montreal as a New Face and was a finalist at Stand Up NBC, held in Los Angeles. Jourdain has also performed at festivals Laugh Your Asheville Off, Laughing Skull, and Riot Comedy Fest. Jourdain has gained attention on social media platforms with numerous viral clips racking up millions of views on TikTok and Instagram. His debut Comedy Album “Good For You” can be found on all streaming platforms. When he is not touring he resides in New York City where he is a regular at The Comedy Cellar and Gotham Comedy Club.  Charles McBee is a respected NYC stand-up comedian and writer from Toledo, Ohio. He has made three national stand-up comedy appearances on Gotham Comedy Live and was a favorite on two FOX television shows, Laughs Seasons 1 and 2 and Punchline Seasons 1 and 2.  Charles has written for several TV shows, including Uncommon Sense and Uncommon Sense Live with Charlamagne Tha God, VH1's Hip Hop Honors 2017, and was also a creative consultant on Nick Cannon's Wild N Out.  He's most recently worked on the 2020 VMA's as well as the 2021 Golden Globes, hosted the 2021 Music Lives Festival for the Live X Live Network, and was the Head Writer for Comedy Central's Hell Of A Week, which was nominated for a Writers Guild Award. Charles has also gained a following on social media with his comedic commentary about growing up in the 80s and 90s. Always hosted by Marina Franklin - One Hour Comedy Special: Single Black Female ( Amazon Prime, CW Network), TBS's The Last O.G, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Hysterical on FX, The Movie Trainwreck, Louie Season V, The Jim Gaffigan Show, Conan O'Brien, Stephen Colbert, HBO's Crashing, and The Breaks with Michelle Wolf  

Ready for a sex talk that's hot AF? NYC comedian Meka Mo, is joined by firecracker Christiana Jackson for a hilariously candid dive into Black female sexuality. They unpack early sexual awakening, the power of nudes, and defying expectations (and the fam). Christiana, a self-described "horny old man" trapped in a fabulous woman's body, spills the tea on becoming an unwitting Pornhub star, finding humor in the mortifying, and taking her power back with a one-woman show where she wrote the narrative. Plus, learn the art of being a generous lover and the weird science behind attracting unsolicited sexy stories (trust us, it's a thing). Ready to break free from the box and live by your own rules? Get ready to be done here! KEEP UP WITH CHRISTIANA Christiana Jackson is a New York based stand up comedian, who has been performing for over 6 years. She performs anywhere and every where from an ice cream shop in Staten Island to Gotham Comedy Club. Christiana recently performed her bold half hour, Stout, Lusty Wench this summer. She has also produced a variety of shows including Fresh Kicks Comedy, The Nerds on The Wall, and the biannual apartment show Sábado Gigante. Aside from comedy, Christiana has been a real estate professional for over 15 years, is a big sneakerhead, and loves a good cigar! Follow Christiana on Insta! https://www.instagram.com/incomparablemsc/reels/?locale=us&hl=am-et

On today's episode I had the pleasure of talking to Ophira Eisenberg about her journey to becoming a standup comic, parenting and work life balance. Ophira is a Canadian-born standup comedian, writer, and host. She hosted NPR's comedy trivia show Ask Me Another for 9-years, where she interviewed and played silly games with hundreds of celebrities including Sir Patrick Stewart, Awkwafina, Rosie Perez, Yo-Yo Ma, Bob The Drag Queen, Nick Kroll, Chelsea Handler, Jim Gaffigan, Michael C. Hall, and so many others. As a comic and a parent to a 6-year-old, Ophira is the host of the new comedy podcast Parenting Is A Joke co-produced by iHeart Radio and Pretty Good Friends Productions. The show launches on October 18th. She can be seen live, regularly headlining across the United States, Canada, and Europe delivering her unique blend of standup and storytelling to a loyal fan base of smart, irreverent comedy lovers. She has appeared at Montreal's Just for Laughs Festival, The New Yorker Festival, The New York Comedy Festival, Moontower Comedy Festival, Bumbershoot, The Nantucket Film Festival, Women in Comedy Festival and more. Her new comedy album at special Plant-Based Jokes is available on iTunes and is streaming now on YouTube. Lauded as “hilarious, high risk, and an inspiration,” Ophira filmed her comedy special Inside Joke, when she was 8½ months pregnant. The show's material revolves around how she told everyone that she was never going to have kids, and then unexpectedly found herself expecting at “an advanced maternal age.” Her other comedy albums, Bangs! and As Is She has appeared on Comedy Central, This Week at The Comedy Cellar, Kevin Hart's LOL Network, HBO's Girls, Gotham Live, The Late Late Show, The Today Show, and VH-1. The New York Times called her a skilled comedian and storyteller with “bleakly stylish” humor. She was also selected as one of New York Magazine's “Top 10 Comics that Funny People Find Funny,” and hailed by Forbes.com as one of the most engaging comics working today. Ophira is a regular host and teller with The Moth and her stories have been featured on The Moth Radio Hour and in two of The Moth's best-selling collections, including the most recent New York Times Bestseller: How To Tell A Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth. Ophira's first book, Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to Monogamy (Seal Press), is a comedic memoir about her experiments in the field as a single woman, traveling from futon to futon and flask-to-flask, gathering data, hoping to put it all together and build her own perfect Frankenmate. It was optioned for a feature film. She is also sought after as a brilliant interviewer and moderator, and has interviewed dozens of celebrities, writers, and actors including Neil Gaiman at New York's Town Hall; Jane Curtain, Anne Beatts, Heather Gardner, Sudi Green, Alysia Reiner, Jeanne Tripplehorn, David Crane, Jeffrey Klerik at The Nantucket Film Festival; Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Daniel Levy and Annie Murphy at the 92nd Street Y; and Nell Scovell and Sloane Crosley at The Mark Twain House. Originally from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Ophira graduated with a Cultural Anthropology and Theater degree from McGill University. She now lives in Brooklyn, NY where she is a fixture at New York City's comedy clubs including the Comedy Cellar, Gotham Comedy Club, New York Comedy Club and Carolines, as well as Brooklyn's famed performance venues The Bell House, Union Hall, and Littlefield. Ophira Eisenberg https://www.ophiraeisenberg.com https://www.instagram.com/ophirae https://www.facebook.com/OphiraEisenberg https://twitter.com/OphiraE https://www.tiktok.com/@ophiranyc American gypC Podcast http://americangypc.com https://www.instagram.com/americangypcpodcast/ https://www.tiktok.com/@UCtt0HzXgvNADAOyRarKZFkQ https://www.linkedin.com/in/american-gypc-1940a2231 https://open.spotify.com/show/2stCfDEs5xOY7xMldvZjXo http://luamlee.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/american-gypc/support

Today on The Neil Haley Show, Neil "The Media Giant" Haley interviews Chris Mazzilli. Chris Mazzilli Is the founder and owner of Dream Car Restorations/CMC Motors in Plainview, New York and spearheads the RDJ Dream Car Sweepstakes. He also assembled and oversaw the team of experts – including Jehu Garcia, a YouTube star of “Jag35” and Los Angeles-based champion of clean tech in cars; YouTube star Rich Benoit, star of “Rich Rebuilds” and owner of “Electrified Garage” in Salem, MA; Charles Burnett from KEM South in Monticello, GA; and Dave Weber, the master Corvette restorer from Dream Car Restorations – who have retrofitted the cars to 2023 eco-friendly standards at various specialty restoration shops around the country, including his own. Mazzilli also served as an Executive Producer and co-host of “RDJ Dream Cars,” a six-episode series on MAX that focuses on the refurbishment of the cars. The RDJ Dream Cars Sweepstakes has been running since June 16, 2023 through July 16, 2024 and will give away the six iconic cars featured in the six-episode Downey's Dream Cars series. FootPrint Coalition's nonprofit, which advances research frontiers and promotes solutions, is the beneficiary of the RDJ Dream Cars Sweepstakes.

Si quieres disfrutar de la versión extendida de este y todos los episodios, hazte miembro en chisteinterno.com Episodio #27 de Chiste Interno: Laura Bolívar Laura Bolívar es una comediante, periodista y comunicadora venezolana basada en Nueva York y es una de las figuras emergentes del mundo del stand-up bilingüe. Se ha presentado en clubes legendarios como el Gotham Comedy Club y el Broadway Comedy Club, donde tiene el show unipersonal “The Bochinche”. Bolívar también ha hecho shows en Pensilvania, Ohio y Miami y, actualmente, se encuentra de gira con su nuevo monólogo “Un Show Ahí” En nuestra conversación hablamos sobre el ecosistema de comedia de Nueva York, los “Bringer shows”, cómo crear oportunidades donde no las hay, el Stand-up como mecanismo para aprender inglés y los desafíos de la comedia bilingüe. ¡Gracias, Laura, por visitar Chiste Interno! Chiste Interno es: Oswaldo Graziani / Creación, Conducción y Producción Ejecutiva Adrián Salas / Producción, Edición y Música Pedro Graterol / Comunidad y Contenido Astro Studio / Estudio de Grabación chisteinterno.com Hazte miembro y disfruta los episodios completos en chisteinterno.com/miembros TIMESTAMPS EPISODIO GRATIS 00:00 | ¿Quién es Laura Bolívar? 10:23 | Bringer shows y su show en el Broadway Comedy Club 15:30 | Aprendizaje de pasantías y crear oportunidades 25:16 | Aprendiendo inglés aprendiendo comedia 32:30 | Representación y comedia 41:34 | Mi bella genio y la comedia sin palabras 50:27 | La exploración, la creatividad y audiencias bilingües

Estás disfrutando la versión extendida de este episodio, exclusiva para miembros. Gracias por tu apoyo. Episodio #27 de Chiste Interno: Laura Bolívar Laura Bolívar es una comediante, periodista y comunicadora venezolana basada en Nueva York y es una de las figuras emergentes del mundo del stand-up bilingüe. Se ha presentado en clubes legendarios como el Gotham Comedy Club y el Broadway Comedy Club, donde tiene el show unipersonal “The Bochinche”. Laura también ha hecho shows en Pensilvania, Ohio y Miami y, actualmente, se encuentra de gira con su nuevo monólogo “Un Show Ahí” En nuestra conversación hablamos sobre el ecosistema de comedia de Nueva York, los “Bringer shows”, cómo crear oportunidades donde no las hay, el Stand-up como mecanismo para aprender inglés y los desafíos de la comedia bilingüe. ¡Gracias, Laura, por visitar Chiste Interno! Chiste Interno es: Oswaldo Graziani / Creación, Conducción y Producción Ejecutiva Adrián Salas / Producción, Edición y MúsicaPedro Graterol / Comunidad y ContenidoAstro Studio / Estudio de Grabación chisteinterno.com TIMESTAMPS EPISODIO MIEMBROS 00:00 | ¿Quién es Laura Bolívar?10:23 | Bringer shows y su show en el Broadway Comedy Club15:30 | Aprendizaje de pasantías y crear oportunidades25:16 | Aprendiendo inglés aprendiendo comedia 32:30 | Representación y comedia 41:34 | Mi bella genio y la comedia sin palabras 50:27 | La exploración, la creatividad y audiencias bilingües 1:03:43 | El acento 1:11:10 | Audiencias bilingües 1:14:20 | Planes para el 2024 y recomendaciones

Irene Bremis and Hollie Harper visit Friends and discuss Irene's new comedy special: 'Sweetie', the OJ Saga, mental health in the subway, and more with host Marina Franklin.  Hollie Harper is a comedy nerd from South Jersey. She is currently the creator and co-exec producer of Hella Late! with Hollie Harper on BRIC TV and a co-host of the nationally trending Twitter Storytelling Chat “BlerdDating.” Hella Late! with Hollie Harper was recently in the 2021 NYC Web Fest where she was nominated as Best Actress. Hollie was a semi-finalist in the 2019 NBC Standup Competition and has been featured on NY1, and in Black Enterprise Magazine, Thrive Global, Confessional Magazine and Black San Diego Magazine. Her popular sketch comedy show AMERICAN CANDY has played the Comic Strip, Gotham Comedy Club, BAM Café as well as the Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival. Time Out Chicago named them one of the five groups to watch. Hollie is a regular host for West Side Comedy Club in NYC and works with Gold Comedy and Stand Up Girls, two programs that empower young women by teaching them standup comedy. She was recently the talent coordinator and casting for “Blood Lassi” on Spotify, written by Pratima Mani, and moderated the panel for the Emmy Award winning, WOC editing team of Black Lady Sketch Show for The Black TV and Film Collective. She is also the Creative Consultant for the very successful Black Women in Comedy Laff Fest. Irene Bremis is a seasoned Comedian who Headlines clubs and venues nationwide. She is a Sirius XM regular and co-hosts The Woo Woo with Rachel Dratch at the top of Amazon's podcast picks. Raised in a Greek family with an autistic brother, before autism could “speak,” she rantingly jokes about her Greek upbringing, her marriage to a retired firefighter, and life's hypocrisies. Balls out and brutally honest, Irene's comedy has been a pillar of strength throughout her nebulous life. She unrestrainedly diffuses life's most challenging issues through humor. Uncensored and unapologetic, her intrepidity leaves no stone unturned. Her comedy album Unladylike is on over 400 platforms worldwide. Her Comedy Special, Sweetie- produced by SNL alumni Rachel Dratch and Directed by Filmmaker Onur Tukel (Cat Fight, Summer Of Blood), is dropping everywhere in February 2024. Always hosted by Marina Franklin - One Hour Comedy Special: Single Black Female ( Amazon Prime, CW Network), TBS's The Last O.G, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Hysterical on FX, The Movie Trainwreck, Louie Season V, The Jim Gaffigan Show, Conan O'Brien, Stephen Colbert, HBO's Crashing, and The Breaks with Michelle Wolf.

Performing at Danielle's sold out "Laughter Heals" comedy show tonight at Gotham Comedy Club - we welcome Tammy PescatellI! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Interfaith Comedy in 2024, sounds like a slippery slope that could end in the flames of societal outrage right? The pendulum of what is deemed appropriate in comedy has swung from the outright cruel to the paralyzed in fear of offending. However, the founder of Interfaith Comedy reveals it is actually a unique approach to anti-bias work. Their mission-driven, feel-good, clean comedy show reduces prejudice through laughter. Starring comedians from different faiths, their nationally touring show is perfect for places of worship, community organizations, faith-based conferences, comedy clubs and universities.Their comedians have been seen at venues that include: The White House, Gotham Comedy Club, Caroline's on Broadway, Stand Up NY, the DC Improv, The Moth and the Kennedy Center. All Music and Lyrics by James Harrell and Ilyana Kadushin.

Originally hailing from San Francisco, Caitlin Peluffo is a stand up comedian living in New York City. This lovable loose cannon has been seen on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Late Late Show with James Corden, and has been featured on Comedy Central. She's opened for comedians like Matteo Lane, Maria Bamford, Brian Regan, and Fortune Feimster and is the host of the Good Time Gal Podcast. Peluffo is a regular in the NYC comedy scene performing in clubs like the world famous Comedy Cellar, New York Comedy Club, and Gotham Comedy Club. Got some feedback? Let us know! openmicguest@gmail.com Follow us on social media! IG /brettallanshow FB / thebrettallanshow Twitter / brettallanshow Consider giving us a kind rating and review on Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Christina Greer and Hollie Harper visit friends and discuss the dificult job of Mayor, Sneakers used to pay an Ex-President's legal fees, anti-social students and more with host Marina Franklin. Christina Greer is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Fordham University - Lincoln Center (Manhattan) campus. Her research and teaching focus on American politics, Black ethnic politics, campaigns and elections, and public opinion. Prof. Greer's book Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream (Oxford University Press) investigates the increasingly ethnically diverse black populations in the US from Africa and the Caribbean. She finds that both ethnicity and a shared racial identity matter and also affect the policy choices and preferences for black groups. Professor Greer is currently working on a manuscript detailing the political contributions of Barbara Jordan, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Stacey Abrams. She recently co-edited Black Politics in Transition, which explores gentrification, suburbanization, and immigration of Blacks in America. She is a member of the board of The Tenement Museum in NYC,  The Mark Twain House in Hartford, CT, Community Change in Washington, DC, and serves on the Advisory Board at Tufts University. She is a frequent political commentator on several media outlets, primarily MSNBC, WNYC, and NY1, and is often quoted in media outlets such as the NYTimes, Wall Street Journal, and the AP. She is the co-host of the New York centered podcast FAQ-NYC, is a political analyst at thegrio.com and host of the podcast quiz show The Blackest Questions at thegrio.com, is a frequent author and narrator for the TedEd educational series, and also writes a weekly column for The Amsterdam News, one of the oldest black newspapers in the U.S. Prof. Greer received her BA from Tufts University and her MA, MPhil, and PhD in Political Science from Columbia University Hollie Harper is a comedy nerd from South Jersey. She is currently the creator and co-exec producer of Hella Late! with Hollie Harper on BRIC TV and a co-host of the nationally trending Twitter Storytelling Chat “BlerdDating.” Hella Late! with Hollie Harper was recently in the 2021 NYC Web Fest where she was nominated as Best Actress. Hollie was a semi-finalist in the 2019 NBC Standup Competition and has been featured on NY1, and in Black Enterprise Magazine, Thrive Global, Confessional Magazine and Black San Diego Magazine. Her popular sketch comedy show AMERICAN CANDY has played the Comic Strip, Gotham Comedy Club, BAM Café as well as the Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival. Time Out Chicago named them one of the five groups to watch. Hollie is a regular host for West Side Comedy Club in NYC and works with Gold Comedy and Stand Up Girls, two programs that empower young women by teaching them standup comedy. She was recently the talent coordinator and casting for “Blood Lassi” on Spotify, written by Pratima Mani, and moderated the panel for the Emmy Award winning, WOC editing team of Black Lady Sketch Show for The Black TV and Film Collective. She is also the Creative Consultant for the very successful Black Women in Comedy Laff Fest. Always hosted by Marina Franklin - One Hour Comedy Special: Single Black Female ( Amazon Prime, CW Network), TBS's The Last O.G, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Hysterical on FX, The Movie Trainwreck, Louie Season V, The Jim Gaffigan Show, Conan O'Brien, Stephen Colbert, HBO's Crashing, and The Breaks with Michelle Wolf.  

Danielle just announced an incredible event benefitting Happy Jack Foundation. It's called Laughter Heals and features Joe Gatto, Anthony Rodia, and Goumba Johnny, it's all going down March 20th at Gotham Comedy Club! Get your tickets today. We also have David Burke who brought a ton of delicious food and caller Diane tells us she is going on a 7-day Norwegian Cruise! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Danielle just announced an incredible event benefitting Happy Jack Foundation. It's called Laughter Heals and features Joe Gatto, Anthony Rodia, and Goumba Johnny, it's all going down March 20th at Gotham Comedy Club! Get your tickets today. We also have David Burke who brought a ton of delicious food and caller Diane tells us she is going on a 7-day Norwegian Cruise! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mi gente!! Happy Monday/Feliz Lunes. I am back after an amazing show at Gotham Comedy Club clips coming soon! This week we talk about breaks before the burnout point. La Comai, sits this one out on a very much needed break of her own. A shorty of an episode but a goody, I promise. This is an audio only episode and can tune in wherever you stream your podcasts

Hollie Harper and Nonye Brown-West discuss the fallout from the Katt Williams Interview, Tariji P. Henson's fight for The Color Purple cast, T.D. Jakes and more with host Marina Franklin.  Hollie Harper is a comedy nerd from South Jersey. She is currently the creator and co-exec producer of Hella Late! with Hollie Harper on BRIC TV and a co-host of the nationally trending Twitter Storytelling Chat “BlerdDating.” Hella Late! with Hollie Harper was recently in the 2021 NYC Web Fest where she was nominated as Best Actress. Hollie was a semi-finalist in the 2019 NBC Standup Competition and has been featured on NY1, and in Black Enterprise Magazine, Thrive Global, Confessional Magazine and Black San Diego Magazine. Her popular sketch comedy show AMERICAN CANDY has played the Comic Strip, Gotham Comedy Club, BAM Café as well as the Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival. Time Out Chicago named them one of the five groups to watch. Hollie is a regular host for West Side Comedy Club in NYC and works with Gold Comedy and Stand Up Girls, two programs that empower young women by teaching them standup comedy. She was recently the talent coordinator and casting for “Blood Lassi” on Spotify, written by Pratima Mani, and moderated the panel for the Emmy Award winning, WOC editing team of Black Lady Sketch Show for The Black TV and Film Collective. She is also the Creative Consultant for the very successful Black Women in Comedy Laff Fest. Nonye Brown-West  is a New York-based Nigerian-American comedian and writer. She has been featured in the Boston Globe's Rise column as a Comic to Watch, as well as in NPR, PBS, ABC, Sway In The Morning, and the New York Comedy Festival. Nonye made her acting debut in The Sympathy Card, now available for streaming on Vudu, Apple, Amazon, and Google Play. Always hosted by Marina Franklin - One Hour Comedy Special: Single Black Female ( Amazon Prime, CW Network), TBS's The Last O.G, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Hysterical on FX, The Movie Trainwreck, Louie Season V, The Jim Gaffigan Show, Conan O'Brien, Stephen Colbert, HBO's Crashing, and The Breaks with Michelle Wolf.  

“Jokes are subjective anyway, but laughs are as objective as you can get — as long as the joke is funny and the audience is laughing. That's where the line is, if people laugh or not.” Jocelyn Chia is a New York-based lawyer-turned-comedian, who's a regular at the Comedy Cellar and Gotham Comedy Club, and has been featured in Vulture, Vice, CNN, BBC, The New York Times, Sirius XM, MTV, Fox News, TMZ, Vice TV, and Comedy Central. Now if the name Jocelyn Chia sounds familiar - or even if it doesn't, you've heard of her. That's because she really is infamous...at least in Malaysia. You see, back In June 2023, Jocelyn made the front page of The New York Times. The Singaporean comedian got into hot water when she told a series in NYC  that went viral with Malaysians, but not in a good way. And we're not talking about just a few Malaysians. We're talking about pretty much the entire country. So FrieMMd of the Pod and THE Funny Indian Rajiv Satyal reached out to have her on HIS TanGent podcast - because he admired her willingness to stand her ground and not apologize for a joke. You'll hear Jocelyn's deep-dive into what happened, how she dealt with it, how the levels of trust about the media among Asian and American comedians differ, and how Jocelyn's mental health preparation enabled her to not only weather the storm but also to capitalize on the moment. This is a great conversation between two comics not just talking about their craft, but on the very merits of free speech in our increasing global - and social - society.  LEARN MORE THE STORY: nytimes.com/2023/06/09/arts/television/jocelyn-chia-malaysia-joke.html THE COMIC: jocelynchia.com //  instagram.com/chiacomedy RAJIV: rajivsatyal.com // instagram.com/funnyindian Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices