The Katie Halper Show takes a (hopefully) humorous look at the news, politics, pop culture, and the arts through news segments and conversations with writers, journalists, activists, artists and political comedians. Katie Halper, co-host Gabe Pacheco and engineer Reggie Johnson chat it up and bring you segments like "Excuse You," "Right Wing Erotica," "Family Values,"  and “The Sixty-Second Rant."

Born and raised on the mean streets of New York City’s Upper West Side, Katie Halper is a comedian, writer, filmmaker and history teacher based in New York. 

A co-founder and member of the comedy ensemble Laughing Liberally, Katie has performed at Town Hall, Symphony Space, The Culture Project, D.C. Comedy Festival,  and The Nation Magazine Cruise. Katie's writing and videos have appeared in Salon, The New York Times, Comedy Central, The Nation Magazine, Jezebel,  Guernica, Alternet, Raw Story, Feministing and more. Katie appears regularly on HuffPost Live as well as MSNBC, RT, the Alan Colmes Show, Sirius radio (which hung up on her once).  The National Review calls comedian Katie “cute and somewhat brainy.”

Katie co-produced Tim Robbins’s film Embedded, (Venice Film Festival, Sundance Channel); Estela Bravo’s Free to Fly (Havana Film Festival, LA Latino Film Festival); was outreach director for The Take, the Naomi Klein/Avi Lewis documentary about Argentine workers (Toronto & Venice Film Festivals, Film Forum); co-directed New Yorkers Remember the Spanish Civil War, a video for Museum of the City of NY exhibit.

Katie went to Florida in 2008 with Judy Blume and Letty Cottin Pogrebin to tell Jews to vote for Obama and wrote the viral online videos Women for McCain, Jews for McCain and Gays for McCain. 

Katie’s latest project is her award-winning film, COMMIE CAMP, a documentary about Camp Kinderland, the summer camp the Right loves to hate.

Katie went to the Dalton School, where she has taught history, and Wesleyan University, where she learned that "labels are for jars."


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Parody song link: https://youtu.be/dEG76hlnhNw

Katie talks to Palestinian-American student Saba Saed who told "Face The Nation" that she would not vote for Biden because she cares about reproductive rights and Biden's genocide is forcing women to undergo c-sections without anesthesia. Then Katie talks to journalist Max Blumenthal about the state of the Middle East. Finally Katie talks to comedian Matt Lieb and musical theater lyricist Daniel Maté about the role of Hasbara, satire and being anti-zionist Jews. 

Saba Saed is a Palestinian-American college student at Michigan State where she's a neuroscience major and is vice president of the Arab Cultural Society. She was born in the West Bank and moved to the Michigan when she was 10. 

Max Blumenthal is the editor and founder of The Gray Zone and the author of several books including "The Management of Savagery: How America’s National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump" and "Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel."

Matt Lieb is a comedian, podcaster, accidental award winning journalist, and guy from Good Mythical Morning. He hosts the podcast Bad Hasbara. Daniel Maté is a musical theater lyricist, the world's only mental chiropractor, and the co-author of "The Myth Of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture"  by Gabor Maté. He also co-wrote with Katie the Parody song "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now: The Genocidal Remix" a duet by Biden and Bibi. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEG76hlnhNw


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Max Blumenthal SLAMS Biden's Warmongering; Arab-Americans Abandon Biden, Matt Lieb Mocks Biden

On the second episode of The Katie Halper Show, historian Claire Potter joins us live in studio to talk about the Confederate Flag, how we talk about history and when racism and heritage are the same thing. She'll probably surprise you with her recommendations for reliable sources. I play an interview with one of the major organizers of Take Down The Flag SC, Mariangeles Borghini. We also bring you a Trump update or "Trumpdate," and how one Mexican artist responded to his claim that Mexico is sending over a bunch of rapists. Spoiler alert: it involves candy, a stick, and bashing. And we debut our how-full-of-it-are-you-eter. 

Ep 2: Historian Claire Potter debunks the Confederate Flag debate

The debut episode of The Katie Halper Show looks at Donald Trump, his "great relationship with the blacks," and the song he should have played when he announced his presidency. Then Rebecca Carroll and Syreeta McFadden discuss  the "transracial mishegas" that is Rachel Dolezal story, and Ava Farkas, the executive director of the Metropolitan Council on Housing talks about what she got arrested and placed in string handcuffs over. Also in the studio are Gabe Pacheco and Reggie Johnson. 

Ep 1: "Transracial Mishegas" Rebecca Carroll & Syreeta McFadden on Rachel Dolezal

On Episode 3 of the Katie Halper show, we talk to Jelani Cobb of the New Yorker about the sliding scale definition of racism, which makes it so easy for people to claim they're not racist.  Pablo Benson Silva talks about the Puerto Rican debt crisis, Giovanni Zelko and Andrew Kirell talk about Islamophobia. And Gabe Pacheco and I talk about our night with Jimmy "The Rent is too damn High" McMillan. Plus, Gabe has a thing for blue-eyed gorillas and Katie floats a brown-eyes-only guest policy. 

Ep 3: Jelani Cobb & Jimmy "The Rent is Too Damn High" McMillan

On episode 4 of The Kate Halper Show, Nate Silver of fivethirtyeight talks to us about a study which finds that Black Americans are almost eight times as likely as white Americans to be victims of homicide. Comedians Ted Alexandro and Desiree Burch talk about politics and humor, and Chris Cobb discusses how he encouraged New York City to recognize site of a former slave market on Wall Street and mark it with a plaque. And speaking of terrible, greedy, rich white men, we give you a Trumpdate. Did you know that there is a Donald Trump State Park? Well, we at The  Katie Halper Show are renaming it. We have some great candidates. And they're Mexican. 

Ep 4: Nate Silver, Ted Alexandro, Desiree Burch, NYC's Slave Market

On episode 5 of The Katie Halper Show, political comedian Justin Williams goes through the headlines of the week, Ali Gharib talks about Iran and his infiltration of alcoholic terror-cells, Meredith Clark shares her Wisconsinite and journalistic insights into Scott Walker, And Fernando Sosa the Mexican-born and raised artist explains what inspire him to create the Donald Trump The Butt Plug as well as other butt plugs and inaction figures. 

Ep 5. The Donald Trump Butt Plug, Meredith Clark, Ali Gharib, Justin  Williams

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The Katie Halper Show takes a humorous look at the news, politics, pop culture, and the arts through news segments and conversations with writers, journalists, activists, artists and political comedians.