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The podcast currently has 39 episodes available.
Six years ago, Liam trekked out to Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, where cupcake maven Allison Robicelli and her husband Matt were neighborhood fixtures, having grown up there, and turned their bakery into an international institution.
Liam talked to Allison about her cookbook, the Robicelli's bakery, being famous in Japan, seeing their food used in porn, and her years managing the late Pip's Comedy Club in Brooklyn.
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This week's Tell Your Friends! History's Greatest Podcast! is a corker, as this week's guest, writer/showrunner/show creator/comedy force of nature SHADI PETOSKY starts busting Liam's ball immediately. Shadi has created some great TV for kids and adults, from segments for Yo Gabba Gabba! to her own beloved show, Danger & Eggs.
Shadi sat with Liam at the great Hollywood coffee shop Sabor y Cultura and talked about her career, why her very successful TV show had to go away, about why she left standup comedy after a group of her friends were forced to fight with a Midwestern hack over her honor, and why she doesn't want to consider herself a transgender role model.
We also get into her time as podcast network owner during the most difficult time of her life, living in a house where she would see famous people coming in and out all the time, and a touching encounter with the late Brody Stevens.
Also, Liam outs himself as a total bougie fancy lad.
PLUS, in a mighty intro, Liam talks about the Gilroy Garlic festival shooting, weird hotel toilets, and how Paul Krassner helped inspire him to create an alternative high school newspaper that somehow failed to get him into trouble.
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On this week's Tell Your Friends! podcast classic, Liam ventures in a NYC winter to the West Village home of Dave Hill where they talk about Dave's insane commute to his first writing job, what goes into a This American Life piece, and all about his vacation at a men's prison in Mexico where he played some music and almost got murdered.
PLUS 2 stories from Bob Powers.
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This week's episode of the TYF! podcast is a tribute to the great American iconoclast PAUL KRASSNER, a comedian, satirist, and editor and publisher of the great American magazine, The Realist. A founding member of the Yippies, he turned on to LSD with Dr. Timothy Leary, rode the bus with Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters, and took Groucho Marx on his first acid trip.
Liam was fortunate to talk to Krassner a few years ago, via phone, as he plugged his latest book, Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders, and we play their conversation here unedited. It was recorded at ShowBriz Studios in Manhattan by Alex Brizell. Liam and Krassner talked about his friendship, and working relationship with Lenny Bruce, about Groucho, about the famous "Twinkie Defense," a phrase he coined covering the case.
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In this classic edition of Tell Your Friends! History's Greatest Podcast!, Liam sits in the Brooklyn home of "Guitar God" (per Rolling Stone) KAKI KING. Liam and Kaki discuss how she got her start busking in the subways, how she created her first album, about her tapping guitar technique, about writing a Foo Fighters song and touring with, and playing onstage with, the Foo Fighters in front of a hundred thousand people.
Also, we check in with TYF! favorite guest MIKE DOUGHTY for the release of CIRCLES (et. al), a reimagining of some classic songs from the Soul Coughing catalogue.
Plus a story from KAMBRI CREWS about how Satanic rock led to her salvation.
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Will Hines and Billy Merritt are two masters of the improvisational comedy form, having worked at the Upright Citizens Brigade as performers and teachers for the past two-plus decades. They've written a book on their shared philosophy on performing called "Robot Pirate Ninja: An Improv Fable," available through Amazon, and Liam sits down to talk to them about how they got into improv, how they hooked up with the famed UCB at its beginning in NYC, and about what "Robot Pirate Ninja" means.
Also, Emily Flake reads a page from Melania Trump's diary, and Liam shares fond memories of the 2003 NYC blackout which happened just as he was about to enjoy a free ticket to a Bob Dylan concert.
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In this live show recorded at The Bell House in Brooklyn, Liam hosts a roundtable about TV comedy writing with comedy writing superstars ANDY BOROWITZ (The Borowitz Report, co-creator "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air"), JESSI KLEIN (Inside Amy Schumer, SNL), ANDY BLITZ (long-time Conan writer), BRYAN TUCKER (SNL, Chappelle's Show), and CHRIS GETHARD (The Chris Gethard Show).
Plus stories from Ophira Eisenberg, Michele Carlo, and Bob Powers.
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In the history of the Tell Your Friends! podcast, we've talked to some of the best singer/songwriters and musicians in New York City and the world. This week we hear performances and talk from some of those, including EDEN & JOHN of THE EAST RIVER STRING BAND talking to us about how they met and recruited legendary underground cartoonist ROBERT CRUMB to join their band.
Plus, live performances from A BRIEF VIEW OF THE HUDSON, EYTAN MIRSKY, ALANA AMRAM, and MIKE DOUGHTY.
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On this week's Tell Your Friends! podcast, Liam sat in McCarren Park in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, with musical comedian Rob Paravonian. Rob talks growing up Illinois, opening for legends George Carlin and Lily Tomlin, and being a YouTube star. Rob plays a few songs from his then-new album Keep Your Jazz Hand Strong, and demonstrates the power of the guitar to literally materialize a beautiful woman out of nowhere.
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Ritch Shydner is a classic comedian who achieved the kind of success starting in the 1980s that most working comics only dream of, scoring gigs on The Tonight Show with johnny Carson and Late Night with David Letterman, plus his own HBO special. After years focusing on his writing career, he returned to standup in 2010 as documented in the film I Am Comic.
He wrote about his career as a 1980s boom comic in the memoir Kicking Through the Ashes, and Liam talked to him in October, 2015, in his Los Angeles home.
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The podcast currently has 39 episodes available.