Pop Life

We meet two people who use humour to shine a light on some very serious subjects.

W. Kamau Bell, host of the award winning United Shades of America stopped by the Pop Life bar to discuss his show, being raised in Alabama, Boston and Chicago and how race informed his comedy.

Then, Anne T. Donahue discusses her book “Nobody Cares,” a collection of essays about “work, failure, friendship and the messy business of being alive in your twenties and thirties.”

Emmy winner Lena Waithe and Misty Copeland, the first African American Female Principal Dancer with the prestigious American Ballet Theatre, talk the importance of role models.

“Black Panther” star Danai Gurira and “Workin’ Moms” creator and star Catherine Reitman stop by the Pop Life Bar to discuss diversity in art.

This week comedian Darcy Michael talks censorship and being true to himself and then, from the vault, Amy Schumer talks comedy and her short stint as a bartender.

Today we meet two men who have persevered to find success. Jonathan Goldsmith, “the world’s most interesting man,” and Meat Loaf, whose album Bat Out of Hell was rejected by the record industry before it was embraced by fans.

Today we meet two people who make people laugh for a living. Writer, comedian, and actress Fortune Feimster talks about finding her comedic voice. Then, John O’Hurley’s television career may have begun in daytime television on a number of soap operas but he will always be best known as J. Peterman on Seinfeld, the #1 syndicated television show in the world.

Virginia Woolf famously said, ‘One cannot think well, love well and sleep well if one has not dined well.’ Our guests today would surely agree. Jeremiah Tower was the first celebrity chef and Gail Simmons is a cook book author and Top Chef Judge.

Richard talks about 9/11 and speaks to “Come from Away” co-authors Irene Sankoff and David Hein and late shark activist Rob Stewart.

"Could I Be Your Girl" and "Insensitive” singer – songwriter Jann Arden and rock star Bif Naked swing by the Pop Life bar to discuss finding their voices with host Richard Crouse.