The Forum

The Forum

By Ian Griffin Adams and Alise MoralesComedy
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The Forum episodes

  • Episode 47: Agony Aunts w/ Catherine Cohen
    Catherine Cohen is an actor/singer/writer living in NYC. She currently performs with the Maude team Lover at UCB. She can also be seen performing sketches with Boy Girl Boy Girl Comedy and stand-up with herself. She has studied improv at UCB and The PIT and graduated from Princeton University with a degree in English and Theater. www.catherine-cohen.com
    52 min
  • Episode 45: Gay Internet w/ Bowen Yang

    A shithead asked us recently to figure out what the Gay Internet is, so we invited our good friend Bowen Yang to come in a talk to us about it. Turns out it's about wizards, fan powers and mid-maxing your Sims for fucking. We weren't expecting that.

    ISTDM LIVE is just around the corner. You can RSVP to the event here. Remember, it's November 17th, 10pm at Over The Eight

    Bowen Yang is a comedian living in Brooklyn in addition to being an Asian graphic designer which is probably a stereotype. He has trained at the Upright Citizens Brigade since 2012 under Abra Tabak, Lydia Hensler, Chelsea Clarke, Brandon Gardner and Achilles Stamatelaky. He is a proud Story Pirate, and currently writes and performs with musical sketch group Pop Roulette at The PIT, and also hosts the monthly variety show Ethnic Realness with Joel Kim Booster. His work has been featured on Above Average, The Onion News Network, and CollegeHumor. Okay bye!!!

    1 hr 5 min
  • Episode 44: Unendearment w/ Ryan T Bennett
    ISTDM LIVE is building up steam. Over the Eight on November 17th at 10pm. We're looking for your hard to answer questions for Capt. Nathan Yaffe, Commandant Mary Houlihan and Marshal of the Royal Air Force Ben Weirheit. Send them to us @istdmpod or our email! Ryan is a NYC base standup comedian featured in the movie "Fort Tilden". You can see him performing all over New York. And on twitter.
    1 hr 9 min
  • Episode 43: Thanksgiving DinnerProv w/ Jackie Jennings
    Jackie is a writer/ performer and UCB teacher based in New York. At UCB she's currently a proud member of GOAT and hosts the long-running School Night at UCB Chelsea. Jackie is the creator and star of the popular, webseries Neighbors (Northside Fesitval 2015 Official Selection) which you can find on her website below. She appears on The Chris Gethard Show as one half of The Couple Who Is So In Love But Will Definitely Break Up in 6 Months. If you're still like, More, please, of this lady! you can check out videos for Above Average, College Humor and UCBComedy.com that she's been in. Jackie graduated from Johns Hopkins University and regularly contributes to Above Average and Reductress. Her work has also appeared on The Awl, Hot Hot Phone and The Daily Beast. Email, Twitter, Web
    1 hr 8 min
  • Episode 42: El Paquete w/ Joanna Hausmann
    Joanna is a Venezuelan comedian who performs regularly in the city and is currently the in-house writer/producer for Flama, a new digital comedy channel geared for the "multicultural generation" which is just a corporate-y way of saying Latino . She has created and starred in over 10 viral videos in the past year and has been featured on CNN, BBC, Cosmo, BuzzFeed, and other internety places. Her bi-weekly show called Joanna Rants has both a fan club and a club of people who claim she is secretly man. Joanna is also the red head in those bilingual AT&T commericals that were shot on a roof she almost walked off of.
    1 hr 14 min
  • Episode 41: InfoWars w/ Shaun Diston
    UCB Teacher and friend of the show Shaun Diston joins this week. We talk about the Bohemian Grove’s insidious plot to enslave the human race under an owl dictatorship, drinking poopwater and good ol’ fashion Facebook fights! We’re one step closer to episode 50, and that means we NEED YOUR SUPPORT. Shitheads, We’ve never attempted something on this scale. Find us on iTunes, subscribe and write a review. Send us your show topics to [email protected]. We’re gonna make you stars shithead babies! Shaun Diston is an Improviser/ Writer living in NYC. Shaun performs every Friday night with The Law Firm. On Television, Shaun has appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Broad City, The Chris Gethard Show, and VH1's The Short List. He can also be scene in various commercials for Coke Zero, Comedy Central, Foot Locker, Olive Garden, NY Lotto, ect. Twitter: @shaundiston
    1 hr 12 min

About The Forum

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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…