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This week, we're live in Boston with special guest Jim Rice and panelists Maz Jobrani, Joyelle Nicole Johnson, and Adam FelberLearn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adc…
Comic Sarah Silverman talks about her new Netflix special, PostMortem, about the death of her father and stepmother, 9 days apart. She talks with Terry Gross about how the special came to be…
Silverman's father and stepmother are buried under one tombstone that reads: "Janice and Donald, who loved to laugh." The loss was a starting point for Silverman's "cathartic" Netflix comedy…
We remember Broadway composer Charles Strouse, who died May 15 at age 96. He wrote the music for the hit musicals Bye Bye Birdie and Annie, which included such songs as "Put On a Happy Face,…
This week, special guest Ego Nwodim joins panelists Tom Papa, Dulceé Sloan, and Hari KondaboluLearn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Escola gives former first lady Mary Todd Lincoln a wild second act in the Tony-nominated play Oh, Mary! "This play is about a woman with a dream that no one around her understands," Escola s…
This week, we celebrate the arrival of spring with special guests Josh Gad, Gretchen Whitmer, GWAR, Kara Jackson, and Amber Maykut!Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.co…
Michelle Williams talks about starring in Dying For Sex " a dark but funny TV series based on a true story about a woman with stage four cancer who, facing death, decides to take ownership o…
This week, special guest Nathan Lane joins panelists Shantira Jackson, Luke Burbank, and Roy Blount, Jr.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Poli…
Snook, who played Shiv Roy on Succession, was just nominated for a Tony for playing all the characters in The Picture of Dorian Gray on Broadway. "I don't know what comes after this," she sa…
This week, special guest Natasha Rothwell joins panelists Hari Kondabolu, Joyelle Nicole Johnson, and Peter GroszLearn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Pri…
This week, special guest Brian Tyree Henry joins panelists Brian Babylon, Negin Farsad, and Luke BurbankLearn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Poli…
This week, we're live in Durham with special guest Lewis Black and panelists Dulcé Sloan, Alonzo Bodden, and Adam BurkeLearn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
In a new memoir, billionaire Melinda French Gates writes about the end of her marriage to Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, and her ongoing philanthropic work, directing funds and attention t…
Kind is the announcer and host sidekick on the Netflix show Everybody's Live with John Mulaney. "I don't know what the hell I'm doing. You must understand " it's anarchy," he says of the sho…
This week, special guest Austan Goolsbee joins panelists Peter Grosz, Rachel Koster, and Shane O'NeillLearn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
The White Lotus season finale dropped this weekend, and we have questions. And trauma. Maybe you do too? This week, How To Do Everything's "study break" is hosting acclaimed actor Jason Isaa…
This week, special guest Sterling K. Brown joins panelists Tig Notaro, Negin Farsad, and Josh GondelmanLearn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
As a longtime staff writer at The New Yorker, Hilton Als's essays and profiles of figures like Toni Morrison, Joan Didion, and Richard Pryor have redefined cultural criticism, blending autob…
This week, we invite everyone to take a much needed break and listen to interviews with Eric Idle, Bridget Everett + Jeff Hiller, Diane Lane, and more!Learn more about sponsor message choice…
The Rocky Horror Picture Show is 50 years old, and still going strong in midnight theaters. We're listening back to Terry's 2005 interview with Tim Curry, who starred on stage and in the fil…
This week, we're live in Orlando with special guest Moe Wagner and panelists Eugene Cordero, Alonzo Bodden, and Paula PoundstoneLearn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/a…
This week, special guest Amanda Seyfried joins panelists Fortune Feimster, Peter Grosz, and Emmy BlotnickLearn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Pol…
Burr talks with Terry Gross about processing his abusive childhood, a therapeutic mushroom trip, and why he's angry at liberals. "You can get canceled as a comedian for doing a friggin' Cait…
Athol Fugard's plays, like Blood Knot and Master Harold and the Boys, were about the emotional and psychological consequences of Apartheid. He also formed an integrated theater company in th…
