The Forum

The Forum

By Ian Griffin Adams and Alise MoralesComedy
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The Forum episodes

  • Episode 56: Celebrity Deaths w/ Mamoudou N'Diaye

    This week we're joined by the wonderfully thoughtful Mamoudou N'Diaye to talk about the internet's reaction to celebrity deaths, spoilers and shitty idiot racists commenting on youtube videos. Also vegan mommy bloggers at one point. It's a whole thing. 

    Mamoudou N'Diaye (aka America's Black Friend) is a Brooklyn-based comedian, actor, DJ, and writer who knows all the lyrics to power ballads such as My Heart Will Go On and Kiss From A Rose. When he isn't slinging hot jokes about his life as a African beta male in the United States, he's a science teacher in Bed-Stuy with a degree in Behavioural Neuroscience with a minor in knowing the lyrics to awesome songs. He writes for the show Ryan Live and is premiering three new projects this year; talk show "America's Black Friend," the podcasts "This African-American Life" and "Banter," and finally, a webseries by the name of "Yung Taco." You can find him on Twitter @MamoudouNDiaye, or just yell his name into the void and eventually he'll show up.

     

    57 min
  • Episode 55: Ride Wit Me Through the Journey of More Success w/ Rachel Joravsky
    Rachel Joravsky is a comedian, writer, and director living in Harlem. Originally from Chicago, Illinois (THE ACTUAL CITY), Rachel studied Dramatic Writing and Spanish from the Tisch School of the Arts. Rachel was a writer and performer for Hammerkatz — NYU’s premiere sketch comedy group, where she earned her chops playing orphan boys and gender bending toddlers. Currently she is head writer, producer, and founder of Damn Lady Laugh — a sketch comedy production company that releases monthly videos. You can catch Rachel performing at her monthly sketch show Peas in a Pot at the Peoples Improv Theater, as well as performing characters around NYC. Rachel has been featured on Above Average, Refinery 29, Reductress, and more.
    1 hr 9 min
  • Episde 53: Catfish w/ Matt Rubano
    Matt is an active member of the UCB community in New York performing Improv and doing Music Production as a member of UCB Digital Team ‘The Backyard’. Matt has performed monologues at ASSSSCAT, has had teams featured in the 15th and 16th and 17th annual Del Close Marathons, UCB Cage Match and Indie Improv Showcase at UCB.
    1 hr 4 min
  • Episode 52: EverCrack w/ Phillip Markle
    Philip Markle is the Executive Director of Annoyance Theater NY, and a professional actor, improviser, and teacher. In Chicago, Philip trained, produced and performed with theaters such as The Annoyance, iO, Second City Theatricals, Baby Wants Candy and studied with teachers such as Mick Napier, Susan Messing, Rich Sohn, and Joe Bill. He works in NY now as the NY Director of Education for the Annoyance’s improv classes in Brooklyn. He is a proud member of the Story Pirates. Philip loves musical improv and is the Creator/Producer of the show Happy Karaoke Fun Time! which currently runs on the 3rd and 4th Friday of every month at 11 PM at the PIT. Philip also performs on the PIT music improv house team Royals every Friday at 8. Philip wrote and performed his one-man show Sparkle Hour! in the 2013 International NY Fringe Festival and at The Annoyance
    1 hr 2 min
  • Episode 51: Future Plans w/ Brandon Scott Wolf

    After a well deserved rest, Ian and Alise return to the podcast game with their friend and Viral Mastermind Brendan Scott Wolf. We talk stabbing, a list of you tubers and welcome a special guest.

    Brandon Scott Wolf is a Brooklyn-based comedian, a staff writer for NBC's "Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris," the creator of his own personal online dating site DateBrandonScottWolf.com and his own personal online fighting site FightBrandonScottWolf.com, a co-host of the always been silly podcast, a co-founder of the Empire Biscuit Comedy Festival, and a contributing writer for Funny Or Die News. 

    0 min
  • Episode 49: The Wave w/ Brennan Lee Mulligan
    If you know one thing, you'll know that Alise and I love us some smart people. Comedian and cool dude Brennan Lee Mulligan is one of those people. On this episode (right before we reach 5-0!) we gauge Brennan's reaction on weird cult emails, online role-play and the college romance that never was.
    1 hr 16 min

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The Forum (formerly Important Shit That Doesn't Matter) is a podcast about the internet, social media, and life online hosted by former roommates and current friends Ian Griffin Adams (The Unemployed…