After leaving home at 15yo for New York City and finding success on Broadway, Rita Rudner turned her sites to comedy and became one of the most successful and hilarious comedians of all time.

My guest, Rita Rudner and I discuss:

• Rita's memoir, "My Life in Dog Years"
• Touring with Dennis Miller (including a stop in my hometown at Pine Knob Music Theater)
• Performing with Tony Bennett at a state fair
• Leaving home at 15yo for New York City
• Touring with and upsetting Chita Rivera
• Performing in Industrial shows
• Making the decision to leave Broadway and become a stand-up comedian
• Auditioning for the David Letterman Show
• Standing firm on not changing her comedy style
• Jack Benny's influence on Rita and the origins of Rita's unique style of comedy
• Rita's difficulting getting booked on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
• Rodney Dangerfield and the 9th Annual Young Comedians Special
• Her many collaborations with her husband, Martin
• Vegas: becoming the Queen of Las Vegas and changing her life so she could have a family and still perform comedy
• Danny Gans
• HBO's Comic Relief
• Debby Reynolds and Liza Minnelli
• The Ask Rita Show
• Writing for the Oscars with Carrie Fisher and Steve Martin
• Being the first woman on the dais at the Friar's club
• and a million more stories!

You're going to love my conversation with Rita Rudner

Our Guest, Rita Rudner

• Website
• Twitter
• Rita's Memoir

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Need TV binge suggestions? You've come to the right place. We've got you covered.

In this bonus episode we discuss a few great binge suggestions:

• Ozark (from live ep 27)
• Confess Fletch (from live ep 89)
• Lennox Lewis: Untold Story (from live ep 71)

Crossing the Streams originated on this podcast in episodes 8 and 15. My idea was to record friends freely discussing TV shows (and movies) they binge on one of the many, many streaming services we all subscribe to.

Jeff Dwoskin is joined by Howard Rosner, Ron Lippitt, Bob Philips, and Sal Demilio are your co-hosts and we're joined weekly by special guests.

The assignment? We each come to the show with a TV binge suggestion. It might be a series, movie, or documentary but we'll give you the scoop so you can decide for yourself whether or not to dive in.

Each segment is pulled from a show and shared as is in all its LIVE goodness.

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A passion for teaching the craft of acting set the path toward the audition of a lifetime that would lead to fame as one of the greatest villains of all time.  

My guest, William B. Davis and I discuss:

• William's mastery of slalom skiing
• Williams's book, "On Acting... and Life"
• William Davis Center for Actors Study
• His Passion for teaching acting
• Answers the question: can anyone be a great actor?
• When great actors deliver bad performances
• Sudden fame from The X-Files
• Being recognized in public
• His infamous role as Cigarette Smoking Man
• Crisis of consciousness when The X-Files was accused of promoting pseudoscience
• Keeping the Bills out of the Superbowl
• The many deaths of CSM
• William's other roles he wants you to also know about
• Upload (his current series on Amazon Prime)

You're going to love my conversation with William B. Davis

Our Guest, William B. Davis

• Website
• Buy 'On Acting... and Life'
• Twitter
• Instagram
• YouTube
• Facebook
• Waterskiing video

Hashtag Fun: Jeff dives into recent trends and reads some of his favorite tweets from trending hashtags. The hashtag featured in this episode is #RejectedXFilesPlots from Friday Fondue. Tweets featured on the show are retweeted at @JeffDwoskinShow

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Need TV binge suggestions? You've come to the right place. We've got you covered.

In this bonus episode we discuss a few great binge suggestions:

• The Incredible Hulk Returns (from live ep 78)
• 1971 The Year That Changed Everything (from live ep 27)
• Rita Moreno: Just A Girl That Decided To Go For It (from live ep 46)

Crossing the Streams originated on this podcast in episodes 8 and 15. My idea was to record friends freely discussing TV shows (and movies) they binge on one of the many, many streaming services we all subscribe to.

Jeff Dwoskin is joined by Howard Rosner, Ron Lippitt, Bob Philips, and Sal Demilio are your co-hosts and we're joined weekly by special guests.

The assignment? We each come to the show with a TV binge suggestion. It might be a series, movie, or documentary but we'll give you the scoop so you can decide for yourself whether or not to dive in.

Each segment is pulled from a show and shared as is in all its LIVE goodness.

Join us LIVE every Wednesday at 9:30 PM ET / 8:30 PM CT

Subscribe to our YouTube Channel: https://bit.ly/CTSYouTubeSubscribe

Grabbing someone else's mail changed the course of Wendy's life unlocking the tools and lighting the path to becoming one of the funniest comedians ever.

My guest, Wendy Liebman and I discuss:

• Her amazing comedic delivery
• The upside to Zoom comedy shows
• How being hit by a car (twice) changed her perspective on life and comedy
• Performing on America's Got Talent
• Comedy origin story: How taking the wrong mail and an ill-fated acting class led to a life of comedy greatness
• The Aristocrats movie
• Winning a comedy contest that led to her first performance on The Tonight Show
• Meeting Johnny Carson
• Steven Wright's amazing advice on performing comedy on TV
• Appearing on the Rosanne talk show
• Winning the American Comedy Award for best Stand-up Female Comedian
• The Sherman Brothers
• Opening for Bob Hope
• Some amazing Phyllis Diller stories
• and much more!

You're going to love my conversation with Wendy Liebman

Our Guest, Wendy Liebman

• Website
• Twitter
• Instagram
• Facebook

Hashtag Fun: Jeff dives into recent trends and reads some of his favorite tweets from trending hashtags. The hashtag featured in this episode is #MyLowBarSecretTalent from @FletchyTags. Tweets featured on the show are retweeted at @JeffDwoskinShow

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Renowned TV expert Pat Jankiewicz takes me on a guided tour of the groundbreaking The Incredible Hulk TV series (1977 - 1982) starring Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno

My guest, Pat Jankiewicz and I discuss:

• Our shared Michigan roots!
• His TV companion book to The Incredible Hulk TV series: You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry: A Hulk Companion
• The deep approach to storytelling that grounded the series and made it the flagship Marvel show that led the way for everything that followed
• Ted Cassidy's role as the opening show narrator
• The various actors that played Banner after Bill Bixby
• Eric Allen Kramer - the original Thor
• Kenneth Johnson's negotiations with Stan Lee on proposed character changes for the show
• Others auditioned for the Hulk and the actor that originally landed the role (not Lou!)
• Bill Bixby's divorce and losing his son during the run of the show
• The background of 'The Lonely Man' theme
• Why the original series ended
• What brought the Hulk back
• The She-Hulk that could have been

You're going to love my conversation with Pat Jankiewicz

Our Guest, Pat Jankiewicz

• Hulk Companion Book
• Buck Rogers Companion Book
• JAWS Companion Book
• IMDB

Hashtag Fun: Jeff dives into recent trends and reads some of his favorite tweets from trending hashtags. The hashtag featured in this episode is #MakesMeWantToHulkOut from @HangoverTags. Tweets featured on the show are retweeted at @JeffDwoskinShow

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Following your instincts is the way to go. Just ask my guest who followed his instincts and became an Oscar winner and Hollywood legend. 

My guest, George Chakiris and I discuss:

• His mentor Eduard Caso
• Dancing with Marilyn Monroe in the infamous Diamonds are a Girls Best Friend dance number
• Almost getting a kiss from Marilyn Monroe 
• Dancing with Rosemary Clooney in White Christmas
• Working with Judy Garland and teaching Liza dance steps
• Landing a 7-year deal at Paramount
• Auditioning for the stage play, and playing Riff in the London version of West Side Story
• Working with Chita Rivera
• Working with Jerry Robbins
• A history of the play, West Side Story
• Famous people that auditioned for roles in the movie adaption of West Side Story
• Auditioning and landing the role of Bernardo in the movie adaption of West Side Story
• Winning the Oscar for West Side Story
• George's memoir, "My West Side Story"

You're going to love my conversation with George Chakiris

Our Guest, George Chakiris

• Website
• IMDB
• George's Memoir

Hashtag Fun: Jeff dives into recent trends and reads some of his favorite tweets from trending hashtags. The hashtag featured in this episode is #FoodAMusical from @WeeklyHumorist. Tweets featured on the show are retweeted at @JeffDwoskinShow

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Need TV binge suggestions? You've come to the right place. We've got you covered.

In this bonus episode we discuss a few great binge suggestions:

• Drop Dead Gorgeous (from live ep 84)
• Shadow and Bone (from live ep 21)
• Task Master (from live ep 75)

Crossing the Streams originated on this podcast in episodes 8 and 15. My idea was to record friends freely discussing TV shows (and movies) they binge on one of the many, many streaming services we all subscribe to.

Jeff Dwoskin is joined by Howard Rosner, Ron Lippitt, Bob Philips, and Sal Demilio are your co-hosts and we're joined weekly by special guests.

The assignment? We each come to the show with a TV binge suggestion. It might be a series, movie, or documentary but we'll give you the scoop so you can decide for yourself whether or not to dive in.

Each segment is pulled from a show and shared as is in all its LIVE goodness.

Join us LIVE every Wednesday at 9:30 PM ET / 8:30 PM CT

Subscribe to our YouTube Channel: https://bit.ly/CTSYouTubeSubscribe

Born to make people laugh a focus on Improv led to a workshop with Mike Myers and later the role that would change her life in Mike Myers' Austin Powers trilogy. 

My guest, Mindy Sterling and I discuss:

• Developing a love of entertaining 
• Improv
• Her time with The Groundlings and her famous students (Maya Rudolph, Cheri Oteri, Chris Kattan)
• Hiring a one-day famous babysitter: Kristen Wiig
• Workshopping Austin Powers with Mike Myers
• Landing the role of Frau Farbissina, the Founding member of the Militant Wing of the Salvation Army
• Drop Dead Gorgeous - the best movie you may not have seen 
• Con Man with Alan Tudyk
• The Grinch with Jim Carrey
• Voice-over work on The Minions movies
• Playing Linda Schwartz on The Goldbergs
• Landing a role on The Larry Sanders Show

You're going to love my conversation with Mindy Sterling (special appearance by Hazel the dog)

Our Guest, Mindy Sterling

• IMDB
• Instagram
• Cameo
• Twitter

Hashtag Fun: Jeff dives into recent trends and reads some of his favorite tweets from trending hashtags. The hashtag featured in this episode is #SpySongsAndBands from @MusicalHashtags. Tweets featured on the show are retweeted at @JeffDwoskinShow

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Need TV binge suggestions? You've come to the right place. We've got you covered.

In this bonus episode we discuss a few great binge suggestions:

• Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes (from live ep 72)
• Hotel Walmart (from live ep 87)
• Mare of Easttown (from live ep 28)

Crossing the Streams originated on this podcast in episodes 8 and 15. My idea was to record friends freely discussing TV shows (and movies) they binge on one of the many, many streaming services we all subscribe to.

Jeff Dwoskin is joined by Howard Rosner, Ron Lippitt, Bob Philips, and Sal Demilio are your co-hosts and we're joined weekly by special guests.

The assignment? We each come to the show with a TV binge suggestion. It might be a series, movie, or documentary but we'll give you the scoop so you can decide for yourself whether or not to dive in.

Each segment is pulled from a show and shared as is in all its LIVE goodness.

Join us LIVE every Wednesday at 9:30 PM ET / 8:30 PM CT

Subscribe to our YouTube Channel: https://bit.ly/CTSYouTubeSubscribe