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Paul Mecurio is a stand-up comedian and writer for shows like “The Late Show w/Stephen Colbert”. Mecurio started out as a lawyer, but after a chance encounter with legend Jay Leno, Mecurio embarked on a career in comedy.He is an Emmy winner for his work on “The Daily Show” and “The Late Show w/Stephen Colbert”.He also hosts the podcast, “Inside out w/Paul Mecurio” with such guests as Kevin Costner, Kyra Sedgwick, and Paul McCartney.Permission to Speak is directed by Frank Oz (Director “Bowfinger,” “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, “The Score,” Creator and voice of Yoda, “Muppets” creator/puppeteer).It's a show involving the audience, but not a traditional crowd work show.In this show the audience, and Paul, are telling their own stories that are fun, crazy, bizzare, and at times relatable.There is some of Paul's stand-up in the show also.You can see Paul at The Schrott Center for the Arts in Indianapolis on Saturday Aug 24th, 8pm. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

He had to have lost his MIND!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Comedian Paul Mecurio has an off-Broadway show coming to the United Theatre this Saturday. Mecurio was born and raised in Rhode Island and after a brief career on Wall Street as a lawyer and investment banker, he moved into comedy. Since then he's been on “The Daily Show,” “The Colbert Report,” and he's currently on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” as a performer. He's won Emmy and Peabody awards, and he hosts a podcast called “Inside Out with Paul Mecurio.” Artscape Producer James Baumgartner spoke with Paul about his off-broadway show, “Permission to Speak,” where he picks random members of the audience to come up on stage, asks them questions, and everyone gets to hear their story.

Mecurio needed groceries!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Mecurio, the shop keeper...See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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This week's guest is the king of the TV conspiracy thriller Jed Mercurio – the brains behind Line of Duty, Bodyguard and most recently, Bloodlands starring James Nesbitt. In this episode, Jed tells Kelly-Anne Taylor about the TV he watched as a young boy growing up in a working-class family in 1970s Staffordshire, why he felt more comfortable flying a plane for the RAF than writing his first script and how his years as a junior doctor gave him his big TV break. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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We talk Celtics, Patriots, Lebron, Tiger Red Sox and Bruins! Plus my Rant on Mark Wahlberg and Hollywood!! Check us out!

So how does a guy from Providence Rhode Island that studied Law and graduated in 89 from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington D.C.  end up doing comedy???   Well, during his third year working at a mergers and acquisitons lawyer and later as an investment banker, he gets invited to a private party being thrown by Jay Leno to celebrate the comedian's taking over the Tonight Show from Johnny Carson.    Mecurio, a comedy fan who had written some jokes for himself, handed 15 pages of his own material to Leno in hope of selling some for him to use on television. Leno contacted him and asked for more; Mecurio was paid $50 for his first joke which Leno used on the show.Mecurio became a self-described "addict" to performing stand-up comedy. After Mecurio's father died in 1993, he had a seven-month absence from work to support his mother in Providence; after returning to New York, he resigned to focus on comedy. In 1995 Mecurio joined a friend's firm, telling himself and his girlfriend that he would leave comedy, but after seven months relapsed and again began performing.  Then it was writing on the comedy staff for Jon Stewart's show, winning himself and Emmy and a Peabody and doing more stand up across the country...and Paul was hooked for good.  So, much for the lawyer thing.  Give a listen to our interview and I think you'll agree that Paul's career move....was the right one. 

Hello my friends and welcome to season 2 Chapter 11 "Middleof Trouble! & Chapter 12 "Everything's A Pippin!"  of Dr Mecurio’s Mythical Marvels and Traveling Menagerie!It’s taken forever to get this episode up because… well… You know why… We’re based out of California so still on locked down so we all recorded are parts separately and I stitched them all together to create what I think is one of our best shows to date!One of the reasons I like this particular show is because we’ve added some new voices! Michelle Avenell (who also co-wrote Chapter 12) & Collette Harrison are dragoneers in our live performances so it seemed only fitting to add them to the podcast. Speaking of the live show, if you haven’t heard we have a channel on you tube now where you can not only listen to the podcasts, but see the many creatures in Mecurio’s world on our new mini series The encyclopedia Mecurium. There’s two episodes up there and working on more to put up in the coming weeks!  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1cl82CK45L5vJMnWaq8gKwFinally, for those of you who didn’t know, before the new normal, the show itself was also an inspirational school assembly. We’d bring larger than life dragons, unicorns, and other amazing creatures to elementary & middle schools with an hour long show and a lecture afterward about how every incredible feature of our puppets would not be possible without math, science, engineering and even language arts as we had to write the story they just watched. The goal being to show a practical use for the skills they’re being taught! With that said I’m pleased to announce that we are in the process of creating a virtual version of that show which will be followed by a 30 minute live Q & A and virtual behind the scenes tour of The Puppetry Institutes Studio where you can see things like “what makes a 13 foot Yeti puppet work”.The show will be available to stream to your school, remote learner, home school group, or learning pods this September. Click the links in the show notes for more information and details on how to bring this show, plus The Puppetry Institutes other live streaming workshops to your students.With that said let us settle in, adjust our headphones, and turn it over to our good friend the DR. Commercial Links:https://www.thepuppetryinstitute.org/online-classes I’d like to talk for just a minute to those parents with kids learning from home, about The Puppetry Institutes online, and live streaming workshops. For the past 4 years the Institute has taught puppetry, costuming, and effects art to children and adults on the central coast, both at our big studio in Capitola and in schools and low income housing communities.Times being as they are, we have converted 75% of our classes into online and Live stream workshops. Our classes are not just your basic art class, but address VAPA standards such as Design, construction, puppetry, theater and concept artistry as well as  a True STEAM experience as all our classes involve two or more standards from Science, Technology, Engineering, Math and the Arts to be taught AND assessed in and through each other.Each class and workshop comes with a kit containing everything you’ll need to turn your imagination into reality, easy to follow instructional videos, and up to 10 hours of live instruction from one of the Institutes talented instructors! Workshops are affordable and group prices are available with  a portion of all fees going to support the Puppetry Institutes scholarship program which provides free kits and workshops to low income-special needs-and kids of essential workers. What could be better? You learn something and pass a little art along to someone who needs it. Check the show notes to find out more and help make the world a cooler place… One Puppet at a time… Credits:The Podcast is a Production of Geppettodreams.art in association with the TPI“Middleof Trouble” Written by Ricki Vincent“Every Thing’s A Pippin” Written by Ricki Vincent and Michelle AvenellStarring the voice talents of Annamarie McLeod as PenelopeRicki Vincent as Dr Mecurio, the Guard, and Mayor Squigglebottom.Ray Esquerra as PercyStar Hagen Esquerra as SadieCollette Harrison as PippinMichelle (sharkledog) Avenell as Judge Judith.Episode Art: Sharkledog!Dr Mecurios Mythical Marvels and traveling Menagerie is protected under a creative commons license which means don’t change it, sell it, steal it, but by all means share it with everyone you know!

This episode we are joined by famed Unicornologist and Ruler of the floating mountains of Neverwas, Lady Star Esquerra! She's here to give you a look at my astounding new addition to the Menagerie, GYPSY the Aries Unicorn!  Remember you can see actual footage of the show on our youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1cl82CK45L5vJMnWaq8gKwThis episode of The Encyclopedia Mecurium is written by Ricki Vincent & Michelle (Sharkledog) Avenell - Lady Star is played by Star Hagen-Esquerra, Dr Mecurio is played by Ricki Vincent Produced and Directed by Ricki Vincent Taped on location at The Puppetry Institute www.thepuppetryinstitute.org Puppets Created by Geppetto Dreams see more of how to bring your imagination to life please visit www.geppettodreams.art. We encourage you to subscribe and leave comments and to listen to the Podcast wherever you get your podcasts from including Apple podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dr-mecurios-mythical-marvels-traveling-menagerie/id1353511459?mt=2 While your there leave some stars and a comment to score some free schwag! Finally to all our listeners stay safe-stay well-stay creative!

Mecurio retrógrado nos trae un ambiente inestable en nuestra psicología y en la manera de comunicarnos. Por eso, te recomiendo siempre enfocarnos en captar las buenas energías. Con su influencia, podemos retomar todo aquello que hemos dejado inconcluso como realizar cobranzas o volver a intentar aquello que no nos salió como queríamos. Aquí, te cuento más detalles

Mecurio retrógrado nos trae un ambiente inestable en nuestra psicología y en la manera de comunicarnos. Por eso, te recomiendo siempre enfocarnos en captar las buenas energías. Con su influencia, podemos retomar todo aquello que hemos dejado inconcluso como realizar cobranzas o volver a intentar aquello que no nos salió como queríamos. Aquí, te cuento más detalles

Dr. Mecurio's Mythical Marvels Presents: The Encyclopedia Mecurium Volume 2 Basilisks! Today we'll learn all about these astounding creatures!

Hey Crafters! Award winning actor, comedian and former lawyer returns to his roots in DC as a Georgetown graduate to talk with our amazing host Haywood about his craft while sipping on some amazing craft beers. An extremely interesting conversation about how he got into comedy in secret and world he's been through to get where he's come along his professional career. Learn more about the amazing one man show he puts on known as "Permission to Speak," one of the most amazing concepts in storytelling and comedy. When you have a space where nobody can judge you and the amazing conversations that come from that. Comedy Craft, coming to you on every 3rd and 20th of the month.

By standard measures, accountancy major Paul Mecurio '82 was leading a successful life as a lawyer and investment banker on Wall Street. But after a chance encounter with Jay Leno, the Providence native found himself living a double life — managing mergers and acquisitions by day and performing stand-up at night. Mecurio discusses his transition from finance to comedy, a typical day of filming at shows like The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and how studying Development of Western Civilization at PC helps him craft jokes. See Mecurio perform in person on Friday of Homecoming. Register at homecoming.providence.edu and and listen to his podcast, The Paul Mecurio Show.Follow the Providence College Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Google Play and YouTube.Visit Providence College on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat, and LinkedIn.

Dr. Mecurio’s Mythical Marvels & Traveling Menagerie is an adaptation of the original story by fantasy artist Ricki Vincent, and takes you into the dimension of Improbable, to the land of Middleof, located in the ocean of Nowhere. There you will find the nefarious Dr. Elphias Mecurio and his ragtag group of airship pirates in a race against evil forces to find the last four remaining dragons in existence... And just what will they do with four living breathing dragons? Why, exploit them to the fullest extent possible of course! This episodes artwork is from the multi talented Terra Saura Elizabeth who also designed our new web page at https://www.thepuppetryinstitute.org/dr-mecurio You can also check out pics and clips of our live events at https://www.facebook.com/DrMecurios/

Paul Mecurio is a comedian, writer, actor, and film producer/director. He also hosts a podcast called "The Paul Mecurio Show" with A-list guests like Paul McCartney, Stephen Colbert, Bryan Cranston, Judd Apatow, Bill Burr, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Kristin Chenoweth, Sugar Ray Leonard, Chris Matthews, Rob Corddry, Steve Austin, Marcia Clark, Bob Costas and more.   Mecurio has performed at the Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal and made numerous TV appearances, including The Late, Late Show with Craig Kilborn, Comedy Central's Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn, NBC's Late Friday, Comedy Central's Dr. Katz, and numerous appearances on VH1's popular clip shows. He has been a guest on Fox News Channel, and makes regular appearances on CNN, CNNfn, and MSNBC as a political satirist.   Mecurio has written, produced, and directed five short films. Mecurio also worked on the film American Buffalo, starring Dustin Hoffman and Dennis Franz based on the award-winning David Mamet play of the same name.   Brought to you by Haberland Group (HaberlandGroup.com) and Hardy Haberland's Programs (HardyHaberland.com).   This podcast is brought to you by Haberland Group. Haberland Group is a global provider of marketing solutions. With multidisciplinary teams in major world markets, our holding companies specialize in advertising, branding, communications planning, digital marketing, media, podcasting, public relations, as well as specialty marketing. If you are looking for a world-class partner to work on marketing programs, go to HaberlandGroup.com and contact us.   This podcast is also brought to you by Hardy Haberland's Programs. Hardy provides educational programs for high performers who want world-class achievement, true fulfillment, and lasting transformation in their lives. He also provides consulting for established brands and businesses that have generated a minimum of $3 million in annual sales. If you need a catalyst for transformation and a strategist for success at the highest level, go to HardyHaberland.com and apply.   If you enjoyed this episode, please consider to rate, review, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts/iTunes. It takes less than 60 seconds and it really makes a difference. Rate, review, and subscribe at HardyHaberland.com/iTunes.

Paul Mecurio is a comedian, writer, actor, and film producer/director. He also hosts a podcast called "The Paul Mecurio Show" with A-list guests like Paul McCartney, Stephen Colbert, Bryan Cranston, Judd Apatow, Bill Burr, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Kristin Chenoweth, Sugar Ray Leonard, Chris Matthews, Rob Corddry, Steve Austin, Marcia Clark, Bob Costas and more.   Mecurio has performed at the Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal and made numerous TV appearances, including The Late, Late Show with Craig Kilborn, Comedy Central's Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn, NBC's Late Friday, Comedy Central's Dr. Katz, and numerous appearances on VH1's popular clip shows. He has been a guest on Fox News Channel, and makes regular appearances on CNN, CNNfn, and MSNBC as a political satirist.   Mecurio has written, produced, and directed five short films. Mecurio also worked on the film American Buffalo, starring Dustin Hoffman and Dennis Franz based on the award-winning David Mamet play of the same name.   If you enjoyed this episode, please consider to rate, review, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts/iTunes. It takes less than 60 seconds and it really makes a difference. Rate, review, and subscribe at HardyHaberland.com/iTunes.

Dr. Mecurio’s Mythical Marvels & Traveling Menagerie” is an adaptation of the original story by fantasy artist Ricki Vincent, and takes you into the dimension of Improbable, to the land of Middleof, located in the ocean of Nowhere. There you will find the nefarious Dr. Elphias Mecurio and his ragtag group of airship pirates in a race against evil forces to find the last four remaining dragons in existence... And just what will they do with four living breathing dragons? Why, exploit them to the fullest extent possible of course! Written and directed by Ricki Vincent, Starring Annamarie Macleod, Claire Whitaker, Elliot Kaiser, Ray Esquerra, Star Haggen-Esquerra, and Ricki Vincent as Dr. Mecurio! For more info on the Podcast and live performances gp to https://www.facebook.com/DrMecurios/ or https://www.thepuppetryinstitute.org/events

Today we’re talking to Zach Mercurio, whose research, teaching and consulting on how purpose and meaningfulness can help individuals and organizations unleash human potential to produce tangible results, has been applied to transform Fortune 500 companies, non-profits, schools, and universities around the world. Zach is the best selling author of “The Invisible Leader: Transform Your Life, Work, and Organization with the Power of Authentic Purpose,” In this episode, we explore why what’s possible when purpose becomes the boss of our choices in workplaces and the practical steps you, your team and your organization can take to genuinely put meaning and purpose at the heart of what you do each day. Connect with Zach: Website:  https://www.zachmercurio.com/ You’ll Learn: [01:51] - Zach explains why purpose has become a priority in workplaces over the last few years. [03:48] - Zach studies are finding a focus on purpose impacts the bottom-line in workplaces. [06:05] - Zach explains why-washing has become a problem in some workplaces and how we can avoid it. [07:53] - Zach outlines why purpose is a process and the pathway to purpose that workplaces can follow based on his research. [11:38] - Zach explains how leaders can ensure their choices and actions remain aligned to their organization’s purpose even in a dynamic, complex and unpredictable world. [13:53] - Zach provides an example of how leaders can keep the purpose of their organization front-of-mind as they make decisions. [17:07] - Zach explains what we can do practically to be more purpose-focused – no matter what our role - if our organization isn’t yet clear on its purpose. [19:17] - Zach offers some tips to help us deliver on our organization’s purpose more consistently. [24:03] - Zach completes the lightning round. Your Resources: MPPW Podcast on Facebook Make Your Job a Calling by Brian J. Dik & Ryan D. Duffy Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for joining me again this week.  If you enjoyed this episode, please share it using the social media buttons you see at the bottom of this post. Please leave an honest review for the Making Positive Psychology Work Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. They do matter in the rankings of the show, and I read each and every one of them.  And don’t forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic updates. It’s free! You can also listen to all the episodes of Making Positive Psychology Work streamed directly to your smartphone or iPad through stitcher. No need for downloading or syncing. Until next time, take care!  Thank you Zach!

Dr. Mecurio’s Mythical Marvels & Traveling Menagerie” is an adaptation of the original story by fantasy artist Ricki Vincent, and takes you into the dimension of Improbable, to the land of Middleof, located in the ocean of Nowhere. There you will find the nefarious Dr. Elphias Mecurio and his ragtag group of airship pirates in a race against evil forces to find the last four remaining dragons in existence... And just what will they do with four living breathing dragons? Why, exploit them to the fullest extent possible of course! Written and directed by Ricki Vincent, Starring Annamarie Macleod, Claire Whitaker, Elliot Kaiser, Ray Esquerra, Star Haggen-Esquerra, and Ricki Vincent as Dr. Mecurio! For more info on the Podcast and live performances gp to https://www.facebook.com/DrMecurios/

Jack Holmes is Associate Editor for News & Politics at Esquire.com, where he writes daily and edits the Politics Blog with Charles P. Pierce. He also does a dash of sports and some feature writing. His work has appeared in New York magazine and The Daily Beast. Paul Mecurio is a Rhode Island-born comedian featured on Comedy Central Presents. A lawyer by education, Mecurio took up stand-up comedy after working as an investment banker and mergers and acquisitions lawyer. Watch more episodes and clips at: http://www.livefromamericapodcast.com Email the show at LiveFromAmerica@ComedyCellar.com

Dr. Mecurio’s Mythical Marvels & Traveling Menagerie” is an adaptation of the original story by fantasy artist Ricki Vincent, and takes you into the dimension of Improbable, to the land of Middleof, located in the ocean of Nowhere. There you will find the nefarious Dr. Elphias Mecurio and his ragtag group of airship pirates in a race against evil forces to find the last four remaining dragons in existence... And just what will they do with four living breathing dragons? Why, exploit them to the fullest extent possible of course! For more info on the Podcast and live performances gp to https://www.facebook.com/DrMecurios/

Dr. Mecurio’s Mythical Marvels & Traveling Menagerie” is an adaptation of the original story by fantasy artist Ricki Vincent, and takes you into the dimension of Improbable, to the land of Middleoff, located in the ocean of Nowhere. There you will find the nefarious Dr. Elphias Mecurio and his ragtag group of airship pirates in a race against evil forces to find the last four remaining dragons in existence... And just what will they do with four living breathing dragons? Why, exploit them to the fullest extent possible of course! To see the good Doctors Dragons as well as pictures of the members of the crew go to https://www.facebook.com/DrMecurios/ or to Book the traveling menagerie for your next event check out or page at https://www.thepuppetryinstitute.org/

Today on What Got You There Sean talks with comedian Paul Mecurio. After graduating Georgetown Law School with high honors, Paul worked as a lawyer on Wall Street at a top tier international law firm and as an investment banker, executing multi-billion dollar M&A transactions for Fortune 100 companies. While on Wall Street Paul was hired by Jay Leno to write jokes for “The Tonight Show." After living a secret double life as a Wall Street lawyer/banker by day and comedian by night, Paul left Wall Street to go into entertainment full time ... if he didn't he would have had a nervous breakdown trying to keep the two worlds separate. It has been a hard road to the successful comedic career Paul has today but one he wouldn’t change. http://whatgotyouthere.com/ Vuori Clothing 25% off with discount code “WGYT” https://www.vuoriclothing.com/ GlobeKick 10% off with discount code “WGYT” https://globekick.com/ 15% off Four Sigmatic with discount code "WGYT" http://foursigmatic.com/wgyt   https://www.paulmecurio.com/ https://twitter.com/PaulMecurio   https://twitter.com/WhatGotYouThere https://www.instagram.com/whatgotyoutherepodcast/ https://www.facebook.com/whatgotyouthere/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/sean-delaney-00909190/   Intro/Outro music by Justin Great- http://justingreat.com/ Audio Engineer- Brian Lapres   

Dr. Mecurio’s Mythical Marvels & Traveling Menagerie” is an adaptation of the original story by fantasy artist Ricki Vincent, and takes you into the dimension of Improbable, to the land of Middleof, located in the ocean of Nowhere. There you will find the nefarious Dr. Elphias Mecurio and his ragtag group of airship pirates in a race against evil forces to find the last four remaining dragons in existence... And just what will they do with four living breathing dragons? Why, exploit them to the fullest extent possible of course!

In today's special Entertainment Episode, Dayna welcomes to the program, Former Lawyer turned Comedian Paul Mecurio... He's in San Francisco doing shows all weekend at The Punchline Comedy Club... Paul is also a contributing writer for The Late Show with Stephen Cobert, and also hosts his own podcast, "Two Chairs & A Microphone"  To learn more about Paul, link up to his podcast and get info about his upcoming shows, check him out at www.PaulMecurio.com  To contact Dayna & Radio Rehab:  Email - RadioRehab@Go-ToProductions.com Facebook, Instagram & Twitter - @RadioRehabDayna Text & Voicemail - 415-496-9511 Radio Rehab is brought to you by Go-To Productions, for more information visit www.Go-ToProductions.com

On this show, Emily welcomes back Brian Howie from the Great Love Debate to pick up where they left off on the topics of love and sex. Together with Menace, they share personal dating experiences, pose provocative questions and try to get to the bottom of how to make sex and love better. How has dating changed in our app-driven social scene? What makes it so hard for people to get to the 2nd date? How is the dating climate influenced by the environmental climate? These are just a few of the topics Emily and Brian address on their journey to understanding love and relationships on a deeper level. Emily also takes a call from fellow podcaster and comedian Paul Mecurio; they reminisce about their first meeting, his bizarre Paul McCartney story and discuss how he really feels about anal. If you have any questions about the opposite sex and need a second or third opinion, you’re likely to find the answers you need in this show!

On this BEST OF episode of THE BOWER SHOW PODCAST: Bower & Jeff are joined by Comedian Paul Mecurio and he tells the guys about being attacked by a room filled with women THEN former WWE commentator and current ESPN anchor Jonathan “The Coach” Coachman joins the guys to discuss the resentment that he felt coming from the WWE to ESPN.

I hate to do this right out of the gate, but I have to start the show off with an apology to our network and the affiliates. And, of course, you – the listener. This edition is meant to be an episode of Succotash Clips, wherein we feature clips, just clip, and nothing but clips. But I have a bit of a chat to toss in, too. It’s just a smidge of a chat, really. Friend of the show, past guest, fellow podcaster, and comedian Paul Mecurio called me up and said he was heading for the San Francisco Punchline this week (March 4-7) and could we chat up his appearance. I don’t know that we’ve got that kind of impact on an audience, but I do know that there are Succotashians in the Bay Area so I agreed and we did it. It was via Skype from New York and the only worse than the quality of a Skype call is a Skype call where one of the people has laryngitis. Paul also has a new comedy CD out, called It’s Not Me, It’s The World, so we’ll hear a track off of that as well.  But after that, I SWEAR the rest of the show is clips. For reals. Except of a double dose of our Burst O’ Durst segment with comedian and social commentator Will Durst. Oh, and a Henderson’s Pants ad. And the Tweetsack. But the rest? All clips. The delay for this ‘sode of Succotash making it to your ears was because I was suffering a miserable bout of laryngitis. Every other ailment in the world wouldn’t matter so, of course, a podcaster gets the one thing that keeps him off mic — no voice. You’ll get to hear how that sounded though, because I barely had my voice back last week when I interview Paul Mercurio. Here’s what’s in the bushel basket o’ clippage we have in store for this show: Pass The Gravy, Proudly Resents, Sibling Rivalry, Soda Press, The Geep And Gam Show, and This Damn World. In addition, we unveil our NEW segment this week! It’s the brainchild of our associate producer Tyson Saner and we call it the Podcast Graveyard! When the time is right, we’ll feature a clip from a podcast that is no longer with us. CLIPS   Pass The GravyKicking off this show’s official rasher of clips with a show that requested we give them a listen. So Tyson wandered out into the podcast wilderness and brought back a sample of Pass The Gravy, with hosts Alex Middleton - I assume no relation to England’s Princess Kate Middleton – and his partner in crime Curtis Chaffin, also – it is assumed - not related to Kate Middleton. On their website they claim to solve the world’s problems one episode at a time, so it’s nice to know someone is taking care of those matters. They also claim that it is “the podcast nobody is listening to and everyone is talking about”. In this dollop from Pass The Gravy – and, really, what could be more natural than gravy and succotash – the hosts get into dolphin love. Deep into it.     Proudly ResentsWe haven’t featured friend–of-Succotash Adam Spiegelman and his podcast Proudly Resents in a while. And Adam knows that because he listens. So being a proactive podcaster, he sent us in a clip from his recent interview, a second visit with director Eric Schaeffer. (I’m doing a little back-to-back with Proudly Resents this week. This clip was from his show about a month ago, but I’m also reviewing a more recent episode for This Week In Comedy Podcasts on Splitsider.com and for the Huffington Post, where his guest was TV producer Todd Yasui and there’s some amazing behind the scenes stuff revealed about The Tonight Show when Jay Leno was just starting out as the host as well as some revealing “inside baseball” info about the nuts and bolts of talk show television.) Soda PressWe started getting some very kind retweets and mentions from a new podcast out there called Soda Press, hosted by a guy named Andy Thomas. And then he went and gave us a big ol’ shoutout at the top of a recent episode. So the least we can do is clip him for you. Soda Press episodes are pretty short, and feature Andy monologing about a given topic which spins off into related microrants. We have a snippet of him going off about gross gym wipedown towels. Sibling RivalryKudos to our friends at the Sibling Rivalry podcast – that would be Jeremy, Stacy, and Aaron — for being savvy enough to know that the EASIEST way to get your comedy podcast clip on our show is to use our custom upload URL through Hightail (http://www.hightail.com/u/Succotash). That’s what our pals over at SibRiv used to get this clip to us, from a recent episode where they’re talking about some unique offers from strip clubs. (I have to also issue an apology to the SibRiv guys. Jeremy and Stacy were good enough to join me in the Podast Lab at the 3rd Annual LA Podcast Festival at the end of LAST SEPTEMBER for an interview. And I still haven’t gotten a chance to play it on the show — along with about a half a dozen others. At  this point, I may have to issue the interviews as special Succotash Chats halfisodes and just dump them out there. Sorry, guys…) The Geep & Gam ShowHosts Geep and Gam run their podcast out of…well, I don’t where the heck they’re from. But they asked us via Twitter if we’ve give’em a listen and clip ‘em and that’s what our stalwart associate producer Tyson Saner has done. In this slice, the show is playing host to two other podcast hosts, Diamond Dave and Aaron Corbett of Canada’s The Cool Story Show. This Damn WorldAnother show that reached out via Twitter and asked if we’d give ‘em a sniff is the This Damn World podcast, hosted by Dom and Jenn. iTunes describes the show as “a longform conversational podcast” with topics ranging from news, life, and all around creative. The clip we have is from last month, snipped by Tyson out of an episode called “The One Where We Get Sweaty”. Okie dokie. Succotash Clips with just a side of chat is kaputski. If you’re in the San Francisco area, remember to catch our friend Paul Mecurio this weekend, that’s March 4th through the 7th, at the Punchline. We’ll be back soon with an episode of Succotash Chats, where I’ll be speaking with comedian/podcaster and warmup guy for The Nightly Show, Kevin Bartini. See you then. In the meantime, please remember to pass the Succotash!

Welcome to Epi80 of Succotash, the Comedy Podcast Podcast. This week our special guest is Paul Mecurio, who you would have also heard for a few minutes at the top of last episode, number 79, and for a longer interview back in Epi65. To be honest, I was going to play my interview that I did back in October with Travis and Brandy Clark, from the Tiny Odd Conversations podcast but I recorded it at a sidewalk café in North Hollywood and the traffic noise made it really difficult to listen to, which means I’ll have to visit them and have another sit down soon. Apologies guys! I ended up having a good conversation with Paul, who was in town performing at the San Francisco Punchline. I caught his show on Wednesday night then we spent the rest of the week trying to coordinate a time for the interview. What finally worked was getting together in the last hour that he was in town, at his hotel, before he had to dash off to the airport. We talked about some of the projects he's got going on, from his headlining gigs around the counttry to some TV show ideas he was on his way to LA to pitch, and also The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, both of which he still does audience warmup and writing for. During the interview I cut away to play a couple of audio snippets from things like his Makeover Specialist and this video segment he did from Got No Game, a show on HBO Sports… The 10 Most Active Shows in the Stitcher Top 100 Comedy Podcast List Here's our weekly look at the shows that moved the most UP or DOWN on Stitcher's Top 100 Comedy Podcast list. AT                                                                                 MOVED 28. The Crabfeast with Ryan Wickler & Jay Larson             +634. Bertcast’s Podcast                                                      +1236. SModcast >> Jay & Silent Bob Get Old                         -1044. Keith & The Girl Comedy Podcast                                -1148. What Say You?                                                            +662. About Last Night                                                         +3175. How Was Your Week with Julie Klausner                     +3085. The Almost A Show Podcast                                        +18189. The Half-Assed Podcast with Gary & John                   +29594. Out Of The Box Podcast                                              -11 And Succotash has actually benefited by missing a week, apparently, as we are hanging at #5945, which is UP 1616 place since last episode! Maybe we'll stay away more often… Burst O' Durst In this week's Burst O' Durst segment, our Ambassador to the Middle rails a bit on New Jersey governor Chris Christie. He's a hard target to miss. Musical Break During the show we play a cut from Walk The Fire, the new album by friend-of-Succotash John Anealio. You can get the whole album for whatever price you name at http://JohnAnealio.com. The Clips Midweek DriveA few episodes ago we got our weekly shout out from The Chillpak Hollywood Hour from a guest of theirs: Alex Lewczuk, who’s the host of The Midweek Drive radio show and podcast in Britain (where he's joined by regulars John Jarrold, Holly Cox, and Gabriella Peralta.) I vowed then to feature a cut from his show and I finally got one that’s MOSTLY understandable to the American ear and which should be imminently familiar to a British audience. In this clip, Alex’s guest was English comedian Stu Francis. It seems the show, in trying to research Stu, had actually gotten to the website of STEWART Francis, a Canadian comic. Then they get into a discussion about Stu’s catchphrases, which are apparently his hallmark. ManBuyCow PodcastThis show was recommended to us via Twitter. I think it was Davian Dent from the Bitter Sound Podcast, actually. In realtime, on Twitter, I asked our Associate Producer Tyson Saner to go grab a clip which he did. But I ended up listening to the whole episode and I gotta tell you that, if you’re taste in comedy runs in the Monty Python/Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy vein, this show has got to be on your Subscribe list. ManBuyCow is from England and features two guys – Rufus & Howard. Last names undiscoverable so far. In this clip, the guys are mucking about with a clairvoyant tea kettle. Newbs RadioThis segment comes directly from Newbs Radio and it is not a comedy podcast, really. But the host, Eric Newby, is a supporter of Succotash and I told him I can pull some strings and get a clip of his show on the episode. He has a lot of musicians on and he sent in this clip from last summer, with his guest – singer Jonathan Richmond – because he felt it “explains what we do for your listeners”. Proudly ResentsI interviewed the host of the Proudly Resents podcast, Adam Spiegelman, during the LA Podcast Festival a few months ago. He’s been back in New York THIS month for the New York Podcast Festival. He did a live Tribute to Troma Films which I reviewed in last week’s This Week In Comedy Podcasts for http://Splitsider.com. And then he interviewed the co-founder of Troma, Lloyd Kaufman, who’s a genius of the ultra-low budget film. In this clip, he reveals how they can afford to keep flipping and exploding cars in Troma films, as well as how to crush a head on screen The John Dredge Nothing To Do With Anything ShowThe same day I got word about the ManBuyCow podcast (see above), @Good_Podcasts on Twitter suggested we give a listen to The John Dredge Nothing To Do With Anything Show. I was game. @GoodPodcasts never steers us wrong and John Dredge himself has retweeted some of our tweets. So Tysonpulled down a clip from a recent episode and – Ahhhhhh – pure audio hilarious weirdness ensued. Starring John Dredge, Anna Emerson from the Boom Jennies, Greg Haiste from Haiste & Lawrence – and sounding a lot like Greg Proops putting on a British accent – along with James Shakestaff. Needless to say, that’s up on my Subscribe list now, too. The URL is too long for me to read and not screw up so you can click on it at this episode’s blog at http://SuccotashShow.com or just type “John Dredge Show” into Google. You’re find it. That what Epi80 has in store for you. We appreciate it when you take time out of your busy day to not just listen to the podcast, but especially when you go up to iTunes where you can rate and review us. You can also Like our Facebook page (where you can even stream episodes of Succotash while you're catching up on your friends' status updates!) Okay, that's it for now. Please pass the Succotash! — Marc Hershon

Howdy and Happy New Year from Succotash, the Comedy Podcast Podcast!  In typical fashion, this greeting isn't coming until the second week of the new year. We kick off the show with Skype visit from comedian, podcaster, and friend of the show Paul Mecurio. He's going to be at The Punchline in San Francisco this week, so if you're in the Bay Area, be sure to check him out! (I'll be at the Wednesday night show and will be packing some of our Succotash magnetic buttons - just ask me for one!) I'll be meeting up with Paul and doing a face-to-face sitdown for a longer chat which we'll feature on an upcoming epi. Paul's opening intro with me is only a few minutes of this show, which means we've got time for a bunch of clips, our Burst O' Durst - in which political comedian Will Durst gives us his predictions for 2014, an ad for Henderson's Auld Lang Slacks, our Tweetsack segment, and the pilot episode for Adam Barker's new Batfella pod series! As I announce in this week's episode, our Honorary Associate Producer Tyson Saner is no longer honorary, he's actually the Official Associate Producer! While there's no salary or benefits that come with the gig, we're honored to have his services in harvesting clips from the vast field of comedy podcasts out there. And he'll be co-hosting an upcoming episode soon, so you'll get to hear from the man himself. The 10 Most Active Shows in the Stitcher Top 100 Comedy Podcast List Of the shows that moved the most on this week's Top 100, nine were up and only one was down. AT                                                                                  MOVED 35. What About Pod?                                                          +1236. Bertcast’s Podcast                                                        +3456. PRI: Michael Feldman’s Whad’Ya Know?                        +2857. SModcast >> Edumacation                                             +1969. Wits                                                                             +2871. Where’s My Forty Acres: Ratchet & Real Opinions          +2774. Industry Standard w/Barry Katz                                     +5782. The Champs w/Neal Brennan & Moshe Kasher                +1497. SModcast >> Last Week on Earth with Ben Gleib             +2899. The Dana Gould Hour                                                    -13 The Clips Big Pop FunWe’ve featured Big Pop Fun before. That's the podcast hosted by comedian and actor Tom F. Wilson. It’s a nicely put-together interview show and recently the guest was none other than friend-of-Succotash Travis Clark from the Tiny Odd Conversations podcast. (I have my own interview that I haven’t had a chance to get to that I did with Travis and his wife Brandi when I was in LA for the Podfest last October. I'll post it soon. I promise! This Ain’t IowaI’m often talking about how vast the world of podcasting is and comedy podcasts comprise a major continent of that world. It’s so big that it’s hard to see – or hear – everything until it’s too late. This Ain’t Iowa is a podcast out of Las Vegas, hosted by comedian Brian Mollica and it’s been chugging along since 2006. But now that chugging is coming to an end. Brian’s doing his “farewell tour” of the show, as he calls it, and has been having past co-hosts and regular guests calling and dropping in. One of those guest was a guy who was only ever identified on the show as “Wooden Spoon” and Spoon seems to have a somewhat colored and checkered past on the show. Pop My CultureWe haven’t heard from the Pop My Culture podcast for a while, with Cole Stratton and Vanessa Ragland - oh, they've been podcasting, we just haven't played a clip from them recently - but we’re going to hear from them now, along with their guest Armin Shimmerman, who you might know from his role as Quark on Deep Space Nine. Break Room PartyI first caught wind of the Break Room Party podcast on Twitter so I decided to check ‘em out. At first, it sounded to me like one of those dreaded “shootin’ the shit” shows I’ve kind of come to fear having to slog through but I hung in there.  Sure enough, the four hosts – Josh, Brandon, Trey & Ryan – didn’t disappoint. What they lack in comedy chops they make up for in comraderie and good natured ribbing. PLUS they dispense business advice. Every episode’s a different topic and this time it was about The Interview. The boys got off into a sideline about How To Turn The Interview Around. UttabullAnother show that came via a Twitter reference is the first podcast that I’d heard of that originates from the Isle of Man in the British Isles. Liam and Jason are the hosts of Uttabull. (Or, rather, Liam seems to be THE host while Jason USUALLY shows up.) They do a segment called Jason’s News and that’s where I pulled this clip from, as the gents get into a story from somewhere in Poland. Hangin’ OutcastTwitter was once again the conduit for me virtually meeting up with the Hangin’ Outcast podcast. These guys – Alex and Justin - are located in the Heart of the Inland Empire, which is another way of talking a whole bunch of nothing off the beaten track in Southern California. From this episode, I pulled the two hosts doling out some advice for those who want some to get into this podcast game. The 31 PodcastTyson Saner clipped us something from a show I hadn’t heard of before: The 31 Podcast. It’s basically a twist on the old “20 Questions” game, in which the host, Brandt Tobler, asks his guests 31 questions. Not sure why. But here he is with his guest Tom Segura, cohost of his own podcast, Your Mom’s House. BatfellaHere's the FULL debut episode of Adam Barker’s parody audio series, The Adventures of Batfella. Written and voiced by Adam along with some guests. Episode one, of many more to come, features the voice talents of British actress Rita Ramnani. If you're an Adam Barker fan (And, really, who isn't?), you should enjoy this show and not just because  the two podcasts that Adam normally does – the Oddcast Podcast UK and Its Not Soccer are taking a break until early spring while his girlfriend has a baby. There it is then. Epi79 is done. 2014 is off and running. And all is right with the world. I want to thank you, our listener, for doing us the honor of listening, I hope you continue to listen and, what’s more it would be delicious of you if you were to pass the Succotash… — Marc Hershon

The usual format for the show is to be festooned with wall-to-wall clips of comedy podcasts from around the world via the internet. Along with some regular features and some inane silliness provided by our local crew – me, Joe Paulino our producer/engineer, Bill Heywatt our booth announcer, and even Kenny Durgess, our booth assistant. For Succotash, Epi65, we DO have a few clips but we also have an interview with special guest Paul Mecurio. We’ve clipped The Paul Mecurio Show several times before. And the last time was a short clip from an interview he did with Paul McCartney. Well, his entire episode featuring the McCartney interview dropped this week. So we talk to Paul about that, his own career, podcasting, and a whole lot more. He talks about having gone from sweating out 100-hour-weeks as a big shot Wall Street acquisitions-and-mergers guy and chucking it all to do open mics and one-nighters as a standup comedian. And how his work ethic paid off as he moved up and into the offices of The Daily Show and later The Colbert Report as an Emmy-winning writer. And then how he ran into Sir Paul McCartney in passing one day, struck up a conversation and ended up inviting him to be interviewed for his podcast. The rest is online and we have the interview with the guy who interviewed McCartney. I'm never washing my audio recorder again… THE TOP 10 MOST ACTIVE SHOWS IN THE STITCHER TOP 100 COMEDY PODCAST LIST There was mostly sluggish movement this week on the Stitcher Top 100 Comedy Podcast list. MOSTLY. There were a few gigantic climbs up the ladder, though and a few jumpy jumps as well. (That’s a technical term. Jumpy jump. It means, well…look it up.) 55. The Morning Stream +3062. Onion Radio News -1763. The Artie Lange Show -1565. Writer’s Bloc Podcast +355!68. Tits & Giggles +632!71. The Joey Medina Show +22982. Answer Me This +3687. Dining With Doug & Karen –2490. Keith & The Girl -2498. #AfterBlack +68 BACK TO BOGANWOOD We're up to Episode 4 in our featuring of Jason "Jabs" McNamara's Boganwood pod mini-series. In my chat with Jabs before it play, we talk about what some other podcasters think about the show and also get into where he got the idea for some of the characters in the show. CHEF EDDIE VEDDER Since the beginning of the year, I've been featuring a little Easter Egg at the end of almost every episode: A recipe for succotash - different each week - pulled from videos on YouTube of people preparing the dish. But now I'm scrapping the bottom of the saucepan as I've gone through most of them at this point. So I reached out to Travis and Brandi Clark of the Tiny Odd Conversations podcast and they were able to get Chef Eddie Vedder to whip up his version of succotash exclusively for our show. So if you listen past the show ending, after Bill Heywatt says his goodbye, you can hear Chef Eddie prepare his dish while he tells - nay, sings - you how to do it at home. BURST O' DURST Our Ambassador to the Middle Will Durst lambasts the conservative folk of Texas in this week's installment of his regular feature. And if you're going to be in the San Francisco area this summer, Will's show BoomeRaging, LSD to OMG, has been extended! It plays ever Tuesday night at the Marsh Theater in the city. visit http://WillDurst.com for more information. CLIPS Tits & GigglesJumping up 632 places to hit #68 in the Stitcher Top 100 Comedy Podcasts this week, in only its second week, it's “The podcast for women in comedy AND their supportive male friends.” according to the homesite for the just two-episode old podcast. In our clip, host Sue Smith (actress, writer and comedian)  talks to Orthodox Jewish transgender comedian Dana Friedman talks about the pressure, in front of a Jewish audience, whether to do Jewish material or not. (Spoiler Alert: Sometimes, she doesn’t.)  Writer’s BlocWriters’ Bloc is a podcast that leaped up 355 places, ending up at #65 this week on the Stitcher Top 100 Comedy Podcasts, and it’s a show all about the business of comedy writing. Hosted by J.R. Havlan, an 8-time Emmy Award-winning writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, his recent guest was Scott Jacobson, the co-producer of TV's Bob’s Burgers. In the clip we have, Scott talks about how the show was originally pitched to the network, and they also get into some of the characters. The OddCast PodcastCongratulations to Adam Barker over at The Oddcast Podcast on hitting his Epi100! Adam’s got several shows under the Barker Productions banner, including the It’s Not Soccer podcast and the Ask An American podcast. For Episode 100, he had fellow podcasters from all over the place chime into an extensive audio play, in which a visitor from the future comes back to warn him about how dangerous his podcast is going to become. I clipped a clever bit from the top of the show, springing off of his catchphrase, “Nobody Is Listening”, and based on the Baz Luhrman song, Everybody’s Free To Wear Sunscreen. Doesn't seem like a lot in writing but this episode runs over an hour and 20 minutes. (Not as lengthy as last week's fun epi with guest co-host Monica Hamburg from the Dazed & Convicted podcast, but still pretty ample!) Hope you enjoy it. Fell free to let me know how you're liking the show by emailing me at marc@SuccotashShow.com or show your appreciate even more concretely by going up to iTunes where you can rate and review Succotash. For even MORE concrete-ness, you can use the Donate button on the side of of our homesite and toss us some spare change to help us keep this mothership hovering a little longer over Podcastland. Don't forget to pass the Succotash! — Marc Hershon

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