PRX - Pieces for Topic: Women
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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
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
- Added: Mar 19, 2017
- Length: 19:00
Christine navigates love and romance as she grows up.
- Added: Aug 31, 2015
- Length: 07:08
- 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
This Story was told on July 10th, 2012 at Aubrey's Place in the Treme neighborhood of New Orleans. Here, Elizabeth Steeby reminisces on the horrify...
- Added: Sep 24, 2012
- Length: 07:00
This story was first told on July 10, 2012, and later produced for radio broadcast by Laine Kaplan-Levenson and Nina Feldman. The theme of that eve...
- Added: Sep 23, 2012
- Length: 33:19
We discuss work-life balance with Dr. Michelle Au, an anesthesiologist and acclaimed author. Since medical school, she has penned “The Underwear Dr...
- Added: Jun 22, 2012
- Length: 29:30
Starting off on my quest to generate a new piece based on the Moth's weekly storytelling themes. This week's theme is vacation, so here is a tale ...
- Added: Mar 27, 2012
- Length: 11:12
Storyteller Jennifer Munro shares a childhood memory about her father and an overzealous neighbor.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 28, 2010
- Length: 04:04
- Purchases: 1
If there’s one thing she’s learned, it’s how to be herself...
Bought by KBGA 89.9 FM
- Added: Aug 09, 2010
- Length: 11:59
- Purchases: 1
Personal essay by Courtenay Hameister, host of Live Wire Radio, featuring lots 'o' humiliating moments.
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, WNIN, and NPR Station Showcase with PRX
- Added: Jun 04, 2007
- Length: 07:54
- Purchases: 4
