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Hey everyone! I'm back! Glad I made it back! It's been a year and some change. For now, catch up some previous episodes. For our new listeners, Give us a listen!

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Hey, what's going on? Welcome to Glad You Made It podcast. Welcome back. It's been a minute since I've talked to you guys. This is just, hey, this is just me checking in. It's been a minute since I've talked to anybody. Well, not anybody. I'm not saying like I'm isolated in like a, you know, like the Mojave Desert or something, and, you know, or I've been living on the moon or at the bottom of the ocean with the Titanic and the submarines.  This is just a check in! 

I'm just checkin in solo! prepping for season 2 and updating you on life!

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What up GLADGANG!

We are back with another banger! We have the vibrant and clever comedian Jenny Zigrino with me! We talk about her new special "Jen-Z" on Comedy Central and the process of creating that. We also discuss diet culture, Youtube trolls and ROAST BEEF! Check it out!  

Jenny made her late night debut on Conan with Conan O’Brien and performed a total of three guest appearances. She was a Just For Laugh’s New Faces in 2016 and since then has been featured on Comedy Central, MTV, TBS, and many others. She starred in films such as Bad Santa 2 along Billy Bob Thornton and in the horror comedy Too Late in 2021. She’s headlined festivals like Moon Tower, New York Comedy Festival, and High Plains Comedy Festival. She’s written and performed several comedy specials including Comedy Central Presents the Half Hours. Her latest appearance on The Late Late Show with James Corden in 2023 was met with rave reviews. Her brand new hour, Jen-Z, is available now on Comedy Central’s Youtube. 

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WHAT UP GLADGANG! We have my buddy, comedian Heath Harmison in the house!

Being a superhero was always an ultimate dream of Heath’s...but due to his lack of athleticism, money, and tragic back story, he decided that bringing laughter to the world would be the next best thing. His PG-13 style of comedy kills in clubs, colleges, cruise ships, and festivals including the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland. He has been seen on the tv show “Laughs” on FOX and has over 60 million views on his first Drybar Comedy Special. He just released his second special on Drybar+. He’s on Amazon’s BEST SELLER list for his book “Father’s Easy Answers to Life’s Difficult Questions.” He’s also a TikTok sensation with 400,000 followers! You can also find him performing regularly on the Las Vegas Strip at Planet Hollywood, the Rio, Tropicana, Bally’s, and the MGM Grand! He has worked with some of the best comics in the business including Brad Garrett, Louie Anderson, Dennis Miller, Eddie Griffin, and Roseanne Barr. His physicality onstage and outlook on life will have you rolling with laughter. Heath's comedy will paint a picture in your mind that will be burned in for weeks or longer. Being an Improv comedian also gives him that extra edge on the standup comedy stage. His quick wit allows him to adapt to any situation. If you have a chance to see Heath Harmison live, TAKE IT!

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After years of writing about comedy for The Interrobang, Splitsider, and her own website, Amma decided to take to the stage – on the nudge of a dare set for her by her podcast co-hosts. Seven years later, she’s appeared at Newport, RI’s Rogue Island Comedy Festival, NYC’s Black Women in Comedy Laff Fest, LA’s Laugh Riot Grrrrl Fest, and Toronto’s Far from Here Festival. She’s shared the stage with comics like Alingon Mitra (The Daily Show), Mia Jackson (Comedy Central), and Leighann Lord (Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn), performs regularly around New England and the Mid-Atlantic, and appears as a recurring panelist on The Great Pop Culture Debate podcast.

She’s a co-producer and co-founder of FODball Productions, a series of mics and shows dedicated to showcasing “FOD-ball” comedians (or those who are typically the ‘first, only, or different’ of their kind on comedy lineups), and as of January 2022 is hosting Pantry Raid Comedy, an online comedy show that allows comedians to share their favorite jokes – and their strongest food-based opinions – presented by Comedy Hub.


WATCH AMMA'S NEW SPECIAL "Enjoy Your Nachos"

Amma lays out her journey with anxiety, as laid bare by the pandemic. Along the way, she talks about her favorite foods, traveling the world, the dating fate she’s resigned herself to, and more.

Filmed January 2023 at All She Wrote Books in Somerville, MA

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Hey #GladGang! 

We had an absolute delightful time talking to Bebe Neuwirth on this episode. She's had and still having so much success in her career. Throughout this episode we were able to learn from her vast experience in theater, dance, television and film. Wait til you hear how Bebe and I connected in 2020!

Bebe Neuwirth has been dancing and singing and working in theater, television, and film for the last 40 years. Some of her credits are - Broadway: A Chorus Line, Little Me, Dancin’, Sweet Charity (Tony Award), Damn Yankees, Addams Family, Chicago (Tony, Drama Desk, Astaire Award, etc.), and Fosse. Off-Broadway: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Here Lies Jenny, and more. Regional: West Side Story and The Taming of the Shrew, among others. London’s West End: Kiss of the Spiderwoman. Television: Cheers (2 Emmy Awards), Frasier, Blue Bloods, The Adventures of Pete & Pete, Bored to Death, etc. Film: Green Card, Liberty Heights, Summer of Sam, Jumanji: The Next Level, tick…tick… BOOM!, etc. Animation: Ultra City Smiths, Teenage Euthanasia, etc. Albums: Porcelain and Stories in NYC (live at 54Below). Honors and awards: Career Transition for Dancers Rolex Dance Award, Dance Magazine Award, Honorary doctorate from Manhattan School of Music, Honorary Ziegfeld Girl, Honorary member of Local 1 (Stagehands’ Union). Neuwirth has recently been featured on  the Audible adaptation of Neil Gaimin’s series The Sandman, HBOMax’s Julia, and in the live improvisational comedy show Villain: DeBlanks.

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Happy New Year GLADGANG! Happy 2023!

We are back with another great episode. Comedian, actor and screenwriter Brandon Collins, stops by and we laugh it up about 90's movies, teaching and public transportation in Los Angeles.  

Brandon Collins is an actor, podcast host, screenwriter, producer and stand-up comedian with experience in theater, film and sketch comedy. His credits include Rotten Tomatoes, RogerEbert.com, CollegeHumor, MTV, VH1, and the Huffington Post.

Brandon gained much of his acting experience in the suburbs of Ann Arbor, Michigan where he performed in numerous stage productions ("Dracula", "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying") and learned how to write and perform stand-up comedy. In the summer of 2004, he moved to New York where he decided to do the "school thing" and date hot Spanish women. After a few years into college, Brandon decided to pursue his love of performing again and began a career in comedy and producing his own shows.

Brandon would later produce and co-host "Comedy Outliers", a critically acclaimed monthly stand-up showcase that was featured in the New York Comedy Festival, NY Times, TimeOut NY, Metro NY and AM NY! "Comedy Outliers" also produced successful private comedy events for Yelp NYC and Webster Hall!

He is the producer and co-host for the increasingly popular movie podcast "Medium Popcorn (Niggas Spoilin' Movies)!", which is regularly listed on "Best of" podcast lists and is an accredited critic on "Rotten Tomatoes". Additionally, Brandon has appeared on several popular podcasts such as Robert Kelly's "YKWD", the Anthony Cumia show, PBR Podcast, "Tuesdays with Stories", "The Black Guy Who Tips" and "Keith and the Girl"! Brandon can be seen regularly throughout the NY comedy scene performing stand-up or working on his newest screenplay in a coffee shop with that same honey latte coffee he bought hours ago...

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Happy Holidays ! We back with Roy Wood Jr! Also joining me as occasionally as he can, my brother @TheOneBmiller joins us as well! Make sure you check out Roy's podcast (one of my personal favorite podcasts), Roy's Job Fair


ROY WOOD JR. joined The Best F#@ing News Team in 2015 as a correspondent on Comedy Central’s Emmy-nominated The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. In 2021, Comedy Central continues its long-standing relationship with the talented comedian and actor collaborating on two podcasts–Roy’s Job Fair and Beyond the Scenes–as well as a third hour-long stand-up special airing later this year. 

As an Executive Producer, his credits include the PBS documentary The Neutral Ground, an HBO Max project 1% Happy and an untitled medical field comedy for NBC. Wood will executive produce, write, and star in an untitled single-camera comedy about the National Guard in works at FOX, with Denis Leary producing it for television. In theatres, Wood will star alongside Jon Hamm in the long-awaited Fletch remake, Confess, Fletch, currently in production.

Wood’s first Comedy Central one-hour stand-up special, Father Figure, debuted in 2017, the same year he was named the new host of Comedy Central’s storytelling series, This is Not Happening. His second Comedy Central one-hour stand-up special, Roy Wood Jr.: No One Loves You, which debuted in 2019, remains the network’s highest-rated original stand-up premiere. 

Wood has entertained millions across stage, television, and radio. Forbes declared he is “One of comedy’s best journalists,” Entertainment Weekly has described his thought-provoking comedy as “. . . charismatic crankiness. . .” and Variety Magazine named him “One of 10 Comics to Watch in 2016.” Before The Daily Show, Roy co-starred for three seasons on TBS’s Sullivan & Son, and he remains a regular guest on various ESPN shows and the MLB Network. 

Wood began his comedy career in 1998 at the age of 19 while attending Florida A&M University. In 2006, he debuted on network television on The Late Show with David Letterman. In 2008, he appeared on HBO’s historic Def Comedy Jam and was selected by America as one of the top three finalists on Last Comic Standing on NBC. He has appeared on Late Night with Seth Meyer, Conan, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.  He also performed on numerous USO Tours for our Troops stationed everywhere from Guam to Iraq to the Philippines.

During the global pandemic, Roy has spent time raising money for the displaced staff of comedy clubs through tipyourwaitstaff.com and Laugh Aid. In his hometown of Birmingham, Alabama, his philanthropic endeavors include supporting Workshops, Inc., which enriches lives by helping people with disabilities and other employment barriers achieve their vocational potential. The DUBS Baseball Academy is an investment in sports to change lives. STAIR of Birmingham, where tutoring empowers students to read better and dream bigger. Also, I See Me, Inc., where the mission is to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline by increasing the literacy rates in children of color by engaging them in literature that reflects their culture and image.

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Hey GladGang! We back after hiatus!! We have an amazing episode and you're going to love! We have Canice 100K in the house!


Canice has appeared on Hulu, MTV, Sway in the Morning Show, CBS Sports Radio, and is a writer for the CW & KPRC networks. He was awarded as one of the 'Funniest Comedians in South Texas.' He is a stand-up comedian, actor, social media personality, television writer, voice-over artist & proud host of the "Black Pop Quiz" gameshow that garners tens of millions views throughout social media with over 300k followers!

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Welcome back GLADGANG!! We back!  This episode we get right to it with comedian Doug Key! We talk skin care, masculinity and FIRE!

Doug Key is a New York City based comedian and performs at comedy clubs all over the country. Doug has been seen on MTV, ABC, VH1, and Mark Normand’s Comedy Central Digital series “What They Really Mean.” He’s had the privilege to open for some comedy greats including Dave Attell, Michael Che, Dom Irrera, Kyle Kinane, Sam Morril, Mark Normand and many others. Doug was featured in the 2013 Boston Comedy Festival, 2014 and 2017 New York Comedy Festival, the 2017 Cape Fear Comedy Festival, and founded the first comedy festival in the state of Rhode Island, The Rogue Island Comedy Festival, which takes place every October in Newport!

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