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Wendy Wasserstein's Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy.
Bought by WRKF, KCHW, Spokane Public Radio, KMUN, KFCF FM and more
- Added: Feb 28, 2024
- Length: 01:58:03
- Purchases: 26
We hear a familiar phrase, “2021 was not a good year for me,” and it’s true. 2021 was not a good year for Haley.
- Added: Feb 15, 2023
- Length: 07:58
What a decade-long fight taught Laura about relationships, laughter, and the grace we need to keep giving each other.
- Added: May 27, 2020
- Length: 15:32
Dolly Parton helped comedian Jan McInnis move away from certain comedy club bookers and into bigger gigs. And the funny thing is, Dolly has no idea.
- Added: Feb 10, 2020
- Length: 04:15
Comedian Jan McInnis took a comedy writing class when she first got into comedy, and merely getting to the class gave her some comedy gold!
- Added: Feb 10, 2020
- Length: 03:14
A program first: A featured interview from an Applebee’s parking lot in East Texas! Acclaimed Grammy nominated and CMA Award winning songwriter Sus...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP, KMXT, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Nov 12, 2019
- Length: 29:15
- Purchases: 4
After hearing a mentor make an inappropriate joke, medical student Jenny Tiskus grapples with humor's place in the world of medicine.
- Added: Jun 08, 2019
- Length: 37:22
When you’re emceeing for a week, and none of the shows are going well, you need to figure out how to cover your butt. Here’s what Jan did.
- Added: Mar 09, 2019
- Length: 03:20
What, if any, difference is there in comedy clubs that have more white or black audiences? Jan talks about her experience starting out in comedy.
- Added: Mar 09, 2019
- Length: 03:41
Selling jokes to Jay Leno for his Tonight Show monologue was always fun. Here's a fun story about it.
- Added: Mar 06, 2019
- Length: 02:12
Oprah’s show could boost your comedy career, and Jan had her crack at it! Hear how it turned out!
- Added: Dec 20, 2018
- Length: 04:21
Maggie Faris is a Minnesota comedian and out lesbian. She's produced two CDs and co-hosts Magnotronic, a weekly comedy podcast. KFAI's Dixie Treich...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jul 03, 2018
- Length: 03:27
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Mar 19, 2017
- Length: 19:00
A friendly prank puts Kathryn in a "complicated" Facebook relationship with a sloth, but maybe that's just what her love life needs right now.
- Added: Jan 20, 2017
- Length: 04:45
When Christine Ernst was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 34, she didn’t expect it would one day spark her own one-woman show. But, thanks to a ...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Nov 21, 2016
- Length: 04:34
- Purchases: 1
A woman walks into a bar, asks 23 random strangers what advice they would give their 18 year old self, and every single person said the same thing.
- Added: Oct 13, 2016
- Length: 02:03
Christine navigates love and romance as she grows up.
- Added: Aug 31, 2015
- Length: 07:08
What happens when someone does something to their house that stands out in the neighborhood? Lucia Duncan, from Somerville, Massachusetts, went to ...
- Added: Aug 18, 2015
- Length: 05:18
A Valentine's Special from WNYC's Death, Sex & Money, hosted by Anna Sale.
Bought by KUT, KCPW Salt Lake City, KJZZ, KRPS, KUER and more
- Added: Jan 16, 2015
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 39
- Added: Sep 17, 2014
- Length: 04:09
WTIP's Ann Possis had the chance to speak with best-selling Minnesota author Lorna Landvik recently about her new book, "Best to Laugh." It's loos...
- Added: Sep 16, 2014
- Length: 18:38
I was hired in 1974 to help Ginger Rogers learn her lines for the opening of “Forty Carats,” at the Drury Lane East Theatre in Chicago. And that’s...
- Added: Sep 21, 2013
- Length: 16:55
The story of dying my hair red on a whim and the way people reacted to me as a redhead.
- Added: Sep 17, 2013
- Length: 09:11
The imaginary travails of myself reacting to rude patrons making noise with candy wrappers, cell phones, and other rude behavior in public movie th...
- Added: Sep 17, 2013
- Length: 05:48
Gail describes her recent visit to an Irish bar in Chicago’s Streeterville neighborhood.
- Added: Aug 31, 2013
- Length: 15:20
