Name: TYF! #6.4 "Conan Might Think Your Jokes Are Funny But Nobody Else Does" with ROB KUTNER by Tell Your Friends! History's Greatest Podcast!
Duration: 1 h 35 min 40 s
Description: This week on the TYF! podcast, Liam McEneaney talks to Rob Kutner, formerly a writer for Conan, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and Dennis Miller Live, about his start in comedy, about how he made the jump from writer’s assistant to full-time writer, about how Dennis Miller insulting him was the greatest moment in his career, and more.

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This week on the TYF! podcast, Liam McEneaney talks to Rob Kutner, formerly a writer for Conan, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and Dennis Miller Live, about his start in comedy, about how he made the jump from writer’s assistant to full-time writer, about how Dennis Miller insulting him was the greatest moment in his career, and more.

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TYF! #6.4 "Conan Might Think Your Jokes Are Funny But Nobody Else Does" with ROB KUTNER

Will Hines and Billy Merritt are two masters of the improvisational comedy form, having worked at the Upright Citizens Brigade as performers and teachers for the past two-plus decades. They've written a book on their shared philosophy on performing called "Robot Pirate Ninja: An Improv Fable," available through Amazon, and Liam sits down to talk to them about how they got into improv, how they hooked up with the famed UCB at its beginning in NYC, and about what "Robot Pirate Ninja" means.

Also, Emily Flake reads a page from Melania Trump's diary, and Liam shares fond memories of the 2003 NYC blackout which happened just as he was about to enjoy a free ticket to a Bob Dylan concert.

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TYF! #6.13 "Robot and Pirate" with WILL HINES & BILLY MERRITT and EMILY FLAKE

TYF! Classic #20 KAKI KING And MIKE DOUGHTY

This week's episode of the TYF! podcast is a tribute to the great American iconoclast PAUL KRASSNER, a comedian, satirist, and editor and publisher of the great American magazine, The Realist. A founding member of the Yippies, he turned on to LSD with Dr. Timothy Leary, rode the bus with Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters, and took Groucho Marx on his first acid trip.

Liam was fortunate to talk to Krassner a few years ago, via phone, as he plugged his latest book, Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders, and we play their conversation here unedited. It was recorded at ShowBriz Studios in Manhattan by Alex Brizell. Liam and Krassner talked about his friendship, and working relationship with Lenny Bruce, about Groucho, about the famous "Twinkie Defense," a phrase he coined covering the case.

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TYF! #6.14  The Twinkie Defense  With PAUL KRASSNER

On this week's Tell Your Friends! podcast classic, Liam ventures in a NYC winter to the West Village home of Dave Hill where they talk about Dave's insane commute to his first writing job, what goes into a This American Life piece, and all about his vacation at a men's prison in Mexico where he played some music and almost got murdered.

PLUS 2 stories from Bob Powers.

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TYF! Classic #21 w. DAVE HILL and BOB POWERS

This week's Tell Your Friends! History's Greatest Podcast! is a corker, as this week's guest, writer/showrunner/show creator/comedy force of nature SHADI PETOSKY starts busting Liam's ball immediately. Shadi has created some great TV for kids and adults, from segments for Yo Gabba Gabba! to her own beloved show, Danger & Eggs.

Shadi sat with Liam at the great Hollywood coffee shop Sabor y Cultura and talked about her career, why her very successful TV show had to go away, about why she left standup comedy after a group of her friends were forced to fight with a Midwestern hack over her honor, and why she doesn't want to consider herself a transgender role model.

We also get into her time as podcast network owner during the most difficult time of her life, living in a house where she would see famous people coming in and out all the time, and a touching encounter with the late Brody Stevens.

Also, Liam outs himself as a total bougie fancy lad.

PLUS, in a mighty intro, Liam talks about the Gilroy Garlic festival shooting, weird hotel toilets, and how Paul Krassner helped inspire him to create an alternative high school newspaper that somehow failed to get him into trouble.

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TYF! #6.15  "One Of The Bad Ones" w/  SHADI PETOSKY

Six years ago, Liam trekked out to Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, where cupcake maven Allison Robicelli and her husband Matt were neighborhood fixtures, having grown up there, and turned their bakery into an international institution. 

Liam talked to Allison about her cookbook, the Robicelli's bakery, being famous in Japan, seeing their food used in porn, and her years managing the late Pip's Comedy Club in Brooklyn.

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TYF! Classic #21 ALLISON ROBICELLI

In this week's powerful Tell Your Friends! podcast repeat, Liam sits in Williamsburg's McCarren Park with the late comedian and classic New York City comedy character Gary Marinoff. Gary traces his career in standup, living with his mother while taking odd jobs. After her death, he descended into the homeless shelter systems of New York and Hollywood, Florida. Gary gave it all for comedy, his one love, and he talks about it all.

Plus a story from Bob Powers and poetry from Dale Goodson.

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TYF! Classic #22 GARY MARINOFF with DALE GOODSON and BOB POWERS

Tell Your Friends! History's Greatest Podcast! has returned. Including interviews with comedians, writers, producers, artists, directors, actors, and everyone else Liam knows. Past guests have included Lewis Black, Jim Gaffigan, W. Kamau Bell, Gilbert Gottfried, Lizz Winstead, Lawrence Block, Janeane Garofalo, Jon Ronson, Maeve Higgins, Catherine Popper, David O'Doherty, Ophira Eisenberg, Baratunde Thurston, Julia Wertz, Alana Amram, and many many many more.

MONDAYS: New episodes.
THURSDAYS: Classic episodes.

TYF! #6.4 "Conan Might Think Your Jokes Are Funny But Nobody Else Does" with ROB KUTNER

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