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Jan has performed comedy in front of all sorts of audiences - sometimes it works, and sometimes you realize coal miners are not your crowd!
- Added: Jul 16, 2019
- Length: 04:11
NON-ROMCOM features two short plays by young female playwrights. Both Patricia Cotter's RULES OF COMEDY and Chiara Atik's 52ND TO BOWERY TO COBBLE ...
Bought by KUNM
- Added: Mar 21, 2019
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 1
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
Comedian Jan's first big of 1500 people and a lot riding on the line. She's being reviewed so she can get into corporate work but the crowd isn't c...
- Added: Jan 05, 2019
- Length: 04:48
Not all comedy shows go great. Sometimes you wind up with a handful of very bad comment cards. Jan had this happen early on in her career. . .it wa...
- Added: Jan 05, 2019
- Length: 04:24
Entertainers do these routinely, and a one-nighter sounds sexy, but it’s not what you think. See what we mean by one-nighter. You might want to che...
- Added: Jan 05, 2019
- Length: 04:15
One of the most prestigious comedy clubs in the country and Jan gets her shot on stage. Hear how this turns out!
- Added: Jan 05, 2019
- Length: 04:36
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
On this episode of The Live Feed we talk with Minnesota based comedian Maggie Ferris. She tells us what its like to be a female comedian, a dog wal...
- Added: Jan 22, 2018
- Length: 40:20
Sheila Head and Norma Lana, two very funny, accomplished and creative women have joined forces both personally and professionally. They first met a...
Bought by WCNY and CI Dolphin Radio
- Added: Jul 14, 2017
- Length: 33:00
- Purchases: 2
To close out 2016, we’re bringing you two lighter stories of people exhibiting everyday genius under. . . unusual circumstances. Comedian Dave Holm...
Bought by KPIK-LP
- Added: Jan 13, 2017
- Length: 18:44
- Purchases: 1
On this episode of Art Beat, KQAL's Teri Tenseth drives to Lanesboro MN to visit with the two starts of the Commonweal Theatre’s production of "Sou...
- Added: Aug 19, 2016
- Length: 17:30
Susan Sarandon and Lorene Scafaria talk giving, taking, and scoring good eggs.
- Added: Apr 25, 2016
- Length: 16:25
Charity Bachelor & Bachelorette Auction, Cooking Zesty Lemony Shrimp
Bought by KXCR
- Added: Mar 25, 2016
- Length: 27:05
- Purchases: 1
How Moshe Dayan’s wife and Yasser Arafat’s mother-in-law became bosom buddies, and other tales of unlikely friendships.
- Added: Jan 27, 2016
- Length: 44:06
Comedian and actress Sarah Silverman, and Director Catherine Hardwicke have each made a career of challenging assumptions--from what a female comed...
- Added: Oct 28, 2015
- Length: 52:59
- Purchases: 5
Adopting dogs that need homes can be rewarding but challenging. Sunny tells us about 20 years of living with - and loving - huskies. Sunny lives of...
- Added: Oct 22, 2015
- Length: 06:46
Guest Barb Geer of the Middle River (MN) Community Theater. Barb is directing a stage production called “Blithe Spirit” – a comic play by Noel Cow...
- Added: Sep 22, 2015
- Length: 09:54
The provocative and hilariously wicked mind of Amy Schumer. *UNBLEEPED*
- Added: Jun 24, 2015
- Length: 01:00:12
Nelly Tagar talks sacrifice, stapleguns, and why she’s like a cactus.
- Added: Jan 18, 2015
- Length: 22:04
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
First, not your grandmother’s menopause story, Sandra Tsing Loh chronicles the everyday perils of raising preteen daughters, surviving hormone chan...
Bought by WCWP
- Added: Aug 26, 2014
- Length: 59:54
- Purchases: 1
Sarah Vowell talks to reporter Brian Friedman about Louis Armstrong, voiceover work, Andrew Jackson, and other musings.
- Added: Apr 11, 2014
- Length: 04:27
