Andrea Rosen is a stand-up, actress, and writer living in New York City. As a commercial actress, many people may know her from the Yoplait commercials (Why, we ask, is Key Lime Pie the topper and not Boston Creme Pie?). As an amazing comedian, many people may know her from her recurring role on Stella or from any number of sketch shows and films or her group Variety Shac. As a cool and personable human being, many people may know her as nice to talk to. We sat down with Andrea last week to talk about commercial work, neuroses and acting, sitcoms, one-person shows and the ambivalence of mainstream acting work.

Elliott Kalan is an Emmy-award winning writer for The Daily Show and co-host of the amazing bad movie podcast The Flophouse (which is worth listening to regardless of whether you like bad movies or not, as the effortless riffing and chemistry between Elliott, Dan and Stuart is delightful). Simply put, Kalan is a funny guy. Quick-witted, amiable and hard-working, he has progressed from intern to PA to writer at The Daily Show, and in this episode we sit down to discuss that journey as well as Kafka, comic books, ballet, tumbleweeds and foley sound. This episode is a little longer than usual because we had such fun talking to Kalan.

Rue Brutalia is Jason Kalter and Jon Pack, a sketch duo that's been performing here in New York since 2006/2007. The duo met in one of Kevin Allison's sketch classes at The PIT and struck up a fast friendship and writing/performing relationship. Rue Brutalia's sketches are delightful and absurd and fun and playful, and the two have been picking up steam lately. They not only performed at NYC Sketchfest for their third year in 2010, but they also helped to produce the festival. Kalter and Pack are a fountain of knowledge for the sketch scene both in New York and nationally. We sat down with the duo at the end of August to dish about the nadir of sketch, how to write sketch, lolcats, Broadway conspiracies, and the death of Google Wave.

While Wrestling Team has a number of influences and loves a wide variety of comedy, there are two people above all that we really look up to: Bob Odenkirk and Rich Fulcher. Both men are extremely silly but are also very honest. Also both love yelling and swearing, which is our bread and butter.Fulcher got his start doing improv in Chicago and eventually found himself out in Britain where he hooked up with Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding and wrote and performed on The Mighty Boosh radio and TV series, as well as the live show. Later he created the insanely beautiful and odd sketch series Snuff Box. In the last year, Fulcher wrote a book and has been performing all over the world as his character Eleanor the Tour Whore.We Skyped in to Rich's cellphone as he was at the studio in the UK recording a song as Eleanor for his upcoming shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Comedy nerds might know James Adomian from Comedy Death Ray Radio where he plays a number of characters including Huell Howser, Jesse Ventura, and Christopher Hitchens. Non-comedy-nerds might know him from the latest season of Last Comic Standing or from the second Harold and Kumar film. West Coast comedy nerds might know him from the sketch group The Midnight Show. Everyone should know him from his stand-up because he's a hilarious dude. Listen as we interview him about murdering CEOs, Socrates shitting, impersonations, philosophy and playing George W. Bush.

Chris and Paul come closest to preserving the vaudeville spirit of the early 20th Century without hiding behind irony or simply being pastiches. They're joke writers plain and simple and love setting up a good gag. A couple weeks ago, they sat down with us to discuss their comedy, women, and Aunt Viv. Then, in an unrelated incident, the Wrestling Team apartment became infested with bedbugs, which we just finished dealing with, freeing us up to put out the episode. Enjoy!

Episode three features our interview with the extremely funny stand-up Sean Patton. Sean's been a stand-up since 2001, and moved to New York in 2007. Since then, he's amassed a bottomless well of credits including a set on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Every Thursday, Sean co-hosts Comedy as a Second Language at Kabin, 9pm. Also, his eyes are pretty dreamy.

Episode two features our first interview with successful comedians: Will and Kevin Hines. Will is the associate academic supervisor at the Upright Citizens Brigade Training Center in New York City, a performer on the UCB house team The Stepfathers, and co-author of the book Get Psyched! Kevin is a teacher at UCB, a performer on the UCB house team Reuben Williams, and a writer for the UCB video team Diamonds, Wow! Both of them have been improvising since the late 1990s, and both of those previous sentences end in projects that contain exclamation points.

Wrestling Team's brand new podcast dedicated to looking at the beginnings of comedians' careers. What leads people into comedy? What's it really like starting out? How can you build a lasting career? All these questions and more will be explored. On episode one, Wrestling Team's friends Cory Palmer and Aaron Burdette talk about moving to New York to start performing comedy and the duo tests out the concept of talking about beginnings. Verdict: guilty of three counts of fun and two counts of negligent homocide!