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TV INTERVIEW: RICK SHAPIROSwimming Hard to Stay Afloat in a Fast-Running Flow of Consciousness“I like all this stuff, but sometimes I think I’m an outsider. Cut that. I’m an insider. I’m big in the game.” |
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TV INTERVIEW: JOE ROGAN & RICK OVERTONMixing the Heavy & the Light to Expand the Mind of a Brilliant AnimalJoe Rogan: “If a guy gets killed by a bear, it’s not brilliant for him; it sucks for him...but it’s brilliant if you watch that…” |
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TV COLUMN: 'ADVENTURE TIME' PANEL AT PALEY FESTThe Animated Comedy You Should Be Watching If You Aren't AlreadyNow if anyone from the show, or anyone from an asylum reads this, hakuna matata. I know Ooo ain't real, but oh, shouldn't it be? |
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TV INTERVIEW: MARGARET CHOGrowing Up Fast, Standing on Your Own, Becoming Everybody’s Mom“The women that are really good are great, but it’s a tough business for women, I think…” |
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TV INTERVIEW: BARBARA ROMENFrom 'The Green Room' to Your Living Room - Bringing Backstage Magic to the World“So that was the test: Could we do this in a way that felt so comfortable to the comics that they’d feel at home doing it?” |
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TV INTERVIEW: LEE CAMPGet Up, Stand-Up: (Don’t Be) Quiet in the Cheap Seats“It’s kind of nice to be on something this cool and have no responsibility. So I don’t have to even be funny - I can just enjoy it…” |
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TV INTERVIEW: KUMAIL NANJIANIFrom Pakistan With Love - An International Nerd of Mystery“I think all comics have this sort of outside observer perspective, and being from Pakistan just heightens that…” |
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TV INTERVIEW: RON WHITEEvery Girl's Crazy 'bout a Sharp-Dressed Man (with a Sense of Humor)“I’m not unemployed because I work for Ron White, Inc., and I’m the Ron White part of that, so I will never fire myself, I predict…” |
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TV INTERVIEW: KATHLEEN MADIGANDrink Your Beer, Smoke Your Smokes & Always Take the Crazy Bet“I’m kind of a gambler; I don’t want the solid bet, safe bet –- I want the crazy bet.” |
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TV INTERVIEW: JAMIE KILSTEINLetting the Politics Out in a Sarah Palin World While Trying to Keep the Glee Within“But I record a show into my computer from my apartment. That’s real.” |
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TV INTERVIEW: LEWIS BLACKDon’t Ask Me, None of This Is Real & Theoretically I’m on Vacation“It’s not like you go in and they give you a card, and all of a sudden you’re a member of the f***in’ Elks Club…” |
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TV INTERVIEW: DAVE ATTELL & DOUG STANHOPEFantasy League Green Roomers on Why Great Stand-Up Is Always Worth a Twelve-Hour Drive“Remember when we were in New Orleans, and we got drunk and did an open mic, and then you hopped a freight train?” |
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TV INTERVIEW: GLENN WOOLEscape To Victory - Around the World and Back Again“I was leading my normal life…I’d got the kids off to school, I was baking a cake, and the wife said, “Honey, Paul’s on the phone...” |
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TV INTERVIEW: JANEANE GAROFALOShe May or May Not Know Paul Provenza, but She Does Know Surreal Comedy“'Make it Provenza or make it yourself!' I’m so excited to meet the soup king…” |
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TV INTERVIEW: DANA GOULD & GARY SHAPIROTwo Satiristas Joust Over Classic Jingles and Revel in Obscure ReferencesDana Gould: “When I was 12, my brother came home from the Army with Cheech & Chong’s 'Big Bambu'… 'Let’s Get Small'… and 'FM & AM'…” |
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TV INTERVIEW: RICHARD ELFMAN & FRANKLYN AJAYEStraight From The Basement of Dorsey High... and on to 'Deadwood'“Thank God I’m old enough now and experienced enough now to do this, because as a young actor, I could not have handled this…” |
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TV INTERVIEW: GREG PROOPS & DAVID FELDMANComedy Podcast Kings Talk Improv vs. Stand-Up in 'The Green Room'Greg Proops: “I think that the ultimate in comedy…is when it doesn’t feel like there’s any distance between you and the audience…” |
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TV INTERVIEW: KELLY CARLINJust When She Thought She Was Out, Comedy Pulled Her Back In…“Paul [Provenza]’s vision for making people understand the importance of the art of comedy is something I’m very dedicated to…” |
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TV BUZZSCENE: ON THE SET OF 'THE GREEN ROOM WITH PAUL PROVENZA'Comics Talk Comedy: Lewis Black, Janeane Garofalo, Ray Romano & More at The VanguardJudd Apatow: "I'm always on a tightrope where it could get embarrassing or not. That's how you wind up on the 'Paul Provenza' show." |
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TV INTERVIEW: RAY ROMANOA Comic 'Of a Certain Age' on the Thin Line Between No-Win and Win-Win“With a live audience there and other comics there, it’s pretty hard not to squelch that desire to get a laugh. That’s who we are anyway, as comics.” |