Show for Dec 19, 2010: Crafting with Amy Sedaris
We first had Amy on the show a couple of years ago, when she was touring with her book I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence. She recently paid us a return visit with her latest book of demented domesticity: Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People. Also, a brief excerpt from our Christmas 2005 interview with John Waters.

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Show for May 30, 2010. Satiristas and the Art of Comedy: Interview with Dan Dion and Paul Provenza
Photographer Dan Dion and comic/actor Paul Provenza (director of The Aristocrats) take a searching look at the craft of contemporary comedy in their new book Satiristas. It features photos of and interviews with many of the leading satirists today—including comics, comedy writers and songwriters. Judd Apatow, George Carlin, Stephen Colbert, Randy Newman, Mike Nichols, Bob Odenkirk, Trey Parker and many, many more…
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