Exit Strategy with Jeff Wattenhofer

What would your favorite comedians do with their lives if performing wasn't in the cards? Exit Strategy is aiming to find out!

Join host Jeff Wattenhofer and Amber Kenny as we look back on four of the best exit strategies from the past year.

We'll find out what the plan B is for:

Rhea Butcher

Paul Danke

Kimberly Clark

Solomon Georgio

Part two next week!

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Amber Kenny from the Long Shot Podcast is joining us as we dig into another crop of the best chats from the past year of Exit Strategy! 

Today's Chats Include:

- Debra DiGiovanni on developing her high energy style

- Danny Maupin tells us his place in Peter Frampton history

- Greg Edwards on how he divides his energy between comedy and working with children

- Caitlin Gill grapples with her first taste of real Hollywood success

- Zach Sherwin on the bad advice that led to his disastrous first meeting with Jeff

- Whitmer Thomas struggles to fit into tried and true showbiz molds

- Dan Dominguez shares the journey to his successful exit from stand up comedy

Next week...The STRATS! Find out the Exit Strategies of some of your favorite comedians!

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It's the end of the year! Time to look back on a year of Exit Strategy. Join Jeff, along with his cohost and fiancé Amber Kenny as we revisit some favorite chats from the past year.

We're chatting about subjects like...

- Solomon Georgio on putting together his first TV set for Conan

- Dan Gill's plans for building his own roadside tourist trap

- Sara Benincasa on actor Geoffrey Owens' raw deal

- Paul Danke on how he balances fatherhood and comedy

- Jake Weisman on socializing and existential dread

- Tess Barker on how Brittany Spears' Instagram led to her speaking at Yale

- Anna Seregina on a truly nightmarish stand up gig involving yogurt

Tune in next week for Part Two!

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Allen Strickland Williams RETURNS to Exit Strategy this week! When we last left Allen, he was experiencing the worst year of his adult life, but now we find him on the cusp of taping his first Comedy Central Half Hour.

We chat about the role his Exit Strategy played in turning his year around, his first solo tour, and whether he's a Don Draper or a Duck Phillips. 

A lot of people like the second Godfather better than the first. Could the same hold true for the SECOND Allen Strickland Williams episode of Exit Strategy?

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Comedian, writer, and Cool World enthusiast Marlena Rodriguez is on the show today!

We talk balancing a career in both stand up and improv, her Nespresso habit, and whether a technical Oscar can count towards an EGOT.

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Veteran writer from the Late Night TV world, Eliza Skinner is on the show chatting about what a life without comedy would look like.

Eliza and Jeff talk expressing your personal creativity while writing for somebody else, the proper item people should be stuffing in their olives, and why Kenny G has the best perspective on what he is.

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Emily Faye has been inside the creepy apartments above the famed Americana mall, and lived to tell the tale! She's got the scoop on living in the Disneyland of shopping centers.

Jeff and Emily talk starting comedy as a teenager, how the American mall brings us all together, and whether it's true that being a comedian is our entire identity.

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Mystery Science Theater 3000's Hampton Yount is on the show this week, and we're diving deep into finding success outside of the mainstream.

Hampton's got the scoop on learning puppetry on the fly, the perks of being a Wingstop franchisee, and how he's following the Insane Clown Posse's model for growing a fanbase.

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This week's guest Andy Sell has already made his exit from comedy once, but after a year out of the life...comedy sucked him back in.

Jeff and Andy chat about the lack of social skills in film dorks, the best seat at the New Beverly Cinema in LA, and maintaining the perfect balance of introversion and extroversion.

Plus, Andy pitches an entire ad campaign (with slogan!) for O'Doul's non-alcoholic beer.

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Journalist Alissa Walker is fully invested in her city, and you can be too! On today's show, we're talking about taking the first steps toward making a meaningful connection with your city.

Also, Jeff and Alissa chat about looking good on a bike, the need to end car culture in Los Angeles, and whether she's running in 2020.

New to the show? Check out the podcast archives for interviews with Rhea Butcher, Jake Weisman, Sara Benincasa, and MORE!

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