College Stories

Writer Jack O’Brien comes in from L.A. to talk about his time at Quinnipiac University. We talk $3 bills, apologies, embarrassing college tours with parents (his dad is basically Randy Quaid from Vacation movies). Jack totally killed it in his first lead acting role in college (with a little help from a giant dildo), he...

On this episode, our starting five of Kevin, Shane, Jaimie, Jon, and Elizabeth talk about their favorite stories from working at The Late Show with David Letterman, which wrapped up its legendary run on May 20th. All of us were lucky enough to work at the show in a bunch of different jobs, and it was our...

In screenwriter Chris Galletta’s return appearance, he talks about how writing jokes for Letterman got him into Columbia film school, how he became a film professor, and about one of the most horrifying, profane email snafus ever. Shane counters with a story of a terrible accidental IM sent in college, Chris judges us by our...

This week we celebrate Mother’s Day the best way: with Kevin’s mom, Ev. Kev’s mom was in the first class of women at the University of Notre Dame when they went co-ed in the ’70s, and she tells us all about it! Joined by guest co-hosts Joe and Pat McCaffrey, Mom talks about going to...

“Late Show University” w/ Meghan Maguire (Actress/Late Show staffer) Our friend Meghan Maguire comes by the show to talk about our stay at both NYU, and Late Show University (not technically a college). She’s done a bunch of jobs at the show, and she tells us how she originally got hired, and about some of...

Any college kid can go streaking, but it took a biopsychology major to take it to the next level. Jono and his roommate Skippy were part of the most involved, character-based streaks through classes in college history. He attended the beautiful UC-Santa Barbara, which is as much of a party school as you’d expect, where...

Kara Klenk went to Trinity College which is (surprisingly) a big time party school, that throws school-sponsored keggers in a campus gym. As Kara says, Trinity is like the “cool mom” of colleges. She gives the inside scoop on the scam that is getting alumni donations, and we dive deep into the pre-21 predicament of...

Dan St. Germain went to Evansville University on an acting scholarship, and left a trail of tears. Banging teachers, hooking up under bushes, sleeping under bridges, showing up drunk and shoeless at the opera and cheering his ass off — Dan calls college as “a good time to get crazy out of your system,” and...

Jared Freid, host of the TFM podcast (Total Frat Move), joins to talk about a ton of great college stuff: the greatest tailgate parties of all time, the beginnings of TFM, the “Sunday Weirds,” recent fraternity news, and of course, his own time in a fraternity at Penn State University. Follow Jared on Twitter, Instagram,...

Michelle Jung can’t say her own name, but she says a lot of other fun stuff! After graduating high school at 16, a planned gap year in Switzerland got weird when she lived with her dad’s ex-girlfriend, who turned out to be an insane spider-whisperer. It gets REAL weird. Michelle is a comic, actor, and...