The Comic's Comic Presents Last Things First

The Comic's Comic Presents Last Things First

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The Comic's Comic Presents Last Things First episodes

  • Colton Dunn

    Colton Dunn began performing improv comedy while still a teenager in St. Paul, Minnesota. Dunn moved to New York City just in time to join the upstart Upright Citizens Brigade, then went to Amsterdam to perform with Boom Chicago. When he returned to the U.S., Dunn wrote and performed on MADtv, Pretend Time with Nick Swardson, Parks and Recreation, Burning Love, Comedy Bang! Bang!, the new Arsenio Hall show, and Key & Peele. Dunn co-stars now as Garrett in the NBC sitcom Superstore, and he also is a member of Rooster Teeth's Lazer Team, which is putting out its second film via YouTube Red in November 2017. So let's get to it!

    37 min
  • Judah Friedlander

    Judah Friedlander may be best known for playing TV writer Frank Rossitano on the hit NBC sitcom, 30 Rock, but Judah has been making his appearance felt on screens big and small, with or without his trademark trucker hats. From his roles in films such as American Splendor, The Wrestler, Wet Hot American Summer, Meet the Parents -- from a bar patron in Star Wars: The Force Awakens to comic relief in the Project Greenlight horror film Feast. Judah Friedlander truly is the World Champion. Two books, How to Beat Up Anybody: An Instructional and Inspirational Karate Book, and a collection of drawings called If The Raindrops United. His first stand-up special is almost three decades in the making, Judah Friedlander's America is the Greatest Country in the United States, now available on Netflix. So let's get to it!

    50 min
  • Jenn McAllister

    Jenn McAllister has 3.1 million subscribers and counting on YouTube, where she documents her life as jennxpenn. Jenn started uploading videos to YouTube when she was 12. At 16, she signed a deal with Awesomeness TV, then moved from Bucks County Pennsylvania to Los Angeles. She published her best-selling autobiography, Really Professional Internet Person, in 2015, and for the past two years has starred in the YouTube Red series, Foursome, alongside Logan Paul, for which she won a Streamy Award as best actress in 2016. The third season of Foursome premieres in November 2017, and Jenn caught me up on everything. So let's get to it!

    21 min
  • Mark Feuerstein

    Mark Feuerstein co-created, produces and stars in the new CBS sitcom 9JKL, which is loosely based on his real-life experience moving back to NYC to live next to his parents and brother while starring for eight seasons on the USA drama Royal Pains. Feuerstein began acting as a student and classmate of mine at Princeton University, and after winning a Fulbright Scholarship, found early success in Hollywood, scoring network TV roles in Caroline in the City, Fired Up, Conrad Bloom and Good Morning Miami. He's also co-starred on the big screen with Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock in Practical Magic, Albert Brooks in The Muse, Mel Gibson in What Women Want and Penelope Cruz in Woman on Top. He also appeared in 2017 on the new installments of both Prison Break and Wet Hot American Summer. There's a lot of catching up to do, so let's get to it!

    42 min
  • Guys We F@#ked: Corinne Fisher and Krystyna Hutchinson

    Comedians, writers and actors Corinne Fisher and Krystyna Hutchinson co-host the incredibly successful podcast Guys We F*cked: The Anti Slut-Shaming Podcast which now has more than 200 episodes talking to comedians, porn stars, and more, a worldwide audience of more than a million listeners. They've taken their show on the road to comedy clubs, theaters, TED Talks and festivals. Now they've released their first book: F*CKED: Being Sexually Explorative and Self-Confident in a World That's Screwed. So let's get to it!

    41 min
  • Vladimir Caamano

    Vladimir Caamano grew up in an immigrant Dominican family in the Bronx to live the American comedy dream. Since breaking out as a New Face in the 2015 Just For Laughs comedy festival in Montreal, he has been anointed by Howie Mandel in a televised gala for The CW, co-wrote and starred in an NBC pilot based on his life and comedy with hit producer Bill Lawrence, and named one of Variety magazine's Top 10 Comics to Watch in 2016. In 2017, Caamano has performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live and in HBO's first English-speaking comedy showcase for HBO Latino, Entre Nos: Part 2. You're going to be seeing and hearing a lot more from him, so let's get to it!

    32 min
  • Billy West

    Best known for his work on Ren & Stimpy, Billy West has been making magic with his character voice work since the 1980s, starting on the radio in Boston and graduating to the Howard Stern Show. He has voiced the title characters on the Nickelodeon series Doug, as well as Ren & Stimpy, was Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd for the movie Space Jam, is the red M&M in TV commercials, portrayed Philip J. Fry and several other characters on Futurama, and in 2018, he'll co-star in Matt Groening's newest animated series for Netflix, Disenchantment. So let's get to it!

    28 min
  • Heather Anne Campbell

    Heather Anne Campbell is one of America's great improvisers. She has studied under the legendary Del Close in Chicago, performed overseas with Boom Chicago in Amsterdam, appeared on MADtv, written for Saturday Night Live, and helped jumpstart FOX's ADHD Animation Domination High-Definition. In Los Angeles, you've seen her or taken classes from her everywhere you possibly could, from the UCB Theatre, The Groundlings, IO West and The Pack. She's written and performed The Midnight Show, and The Eric Andre Show. While pitching new shows to the networks, she's currently a regular on The CW's Whose Line Is It Anyway? There's a lot to unpack, so let's get to it!

    1 hr 5 min
  • Dormtainment

    Chaz Miller, Cameron Miller, and Amanuel Richards are one half of the sketch comedy group Dormtainment, who formed in Atlanta in 2009. They went straight from college to YouTube, and over the next eight years, amassed one million YouTube subscribers, a Comedy Central web series called Six Guys One Car, two albums on the Billboard comedy charts, and a live show that's a hit on college campuses. They've now joined Kevin Hart for his new online venture, the Laugh Out Loud Network, where they produce and star in the satire of National Geographic called Black Geo. They invited me into their Comedy Trap House in the San Fernando Valley to tell me how they did it. So let's get to it!

    51 min
  • Jimmy Shubert

    Jimmy Shubert was just a kid from Philly who wanted to be a magician. That's how he started in show business, before moving to Los Angeles in the 1980s and taking a job at The Comedy Store, where he became the kid in Sam Kinison's outlaws of comedy crew. That led to development deals and pilots early on in his career. Over the years, you've seen him in recurring roles on King of Queens and Entourage, more recently as a finalist on Last Comic Standing and a headliner on Dave Attell's Comedy Underground. I caught up with Shubert at Montreal's Just For Laughs comedy festival, where he was performing as part of the Masters showcase. So let's get to it!

    34 min

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Last Things First asks comedians and funny performers about the historic lasts and firsts in their lives as their comedy careers have blossomed.