Wyatt Cenac! Comedian! Writer! Actor! Director! Friend! Delight! More!

Check out his website and his projects like Problem Areas, aka Wyatt Cenac and Night Train!

And enjoy our conversation! It's great!

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For the next half, subscribe via Apple Podcasts OR simply click on over here to Patreon. Enjoy!

Derek Sheen! Comedian! Friend! Delight! More!

Derek and I have a great talk! You can have a great listen!

And here's some more about Derek and his newest hour of comedy, "Unrelatable":

"As often as his crowd seems to brace for impact, they spend more time howling at his audacity. Sheen can be crude, but he's never alienating or upsetting" - Chicago Reader

Derek Sheen is a cuddly mess of insecurities, a human hug and a one-of-a-kind storyteller. He has amassed a loyal fanbase after years of touring with such acts as Patton Oswalt, Janeane Garofalo and Brian Posehn who said, "Derek is so funny and smart it makes me mad." Sheen has been described as audacious, irreverent and a "human hug" by acclaimed author Lindy West. His ability to mine humor from the dark underbelly of the human condition has made him a favorite of comedy nerds around the globe.

On Unrelatable Derek Sheen tackles the creeping indignities of aging, chronic social awkwardness, and the strange comfort of feeling out of step with everyone. Through dark autobiographical stories and irreverent, meticulously crafted bits, he makes an unusually compelling case that discomfort is pretty universal.

Derek Sheen has been writing and performing comedy since his late teens. But after 4 full-length hour releases, a string of tremendous personal losses befell him followed by 2 years of lockdown that he says "changed [him] fundamentally on a molecular basis." This was the moment that comedy became less about joke-writing and more about mining humor from real-life tragedy, a transition that brought out a more genuine version of himself. "This hour is the most honest and genuine thing I've ever written," he said. "I hope the audience can laugh with me at the darkness and absurdity of being a human being, because as uniquely awkward as our individual journeys seem, we are all, in the end, relatable."

Watch Unrelateable on on Blonde Medicine's YouTube channel, and enjoy the audio album version wherever albums are sold or heard.

And of course, listen to him on THIS VERY PODCAST! Enjoy!

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Jamel Johnson! Comedian! Podcaster! Friend! Delight! More!

We have a great conversation! you can have a great listen!

Jamel's newest album is called Mid-Range, shot live in one take at Sports Drink in New Orleans.

More about Jamel:

LA-based comedian Jamel Johnson has been in the entertainment world for 16 years. He made a name for himself on the D.C. comedy scene through a hard-to-hate mixture of non-threatening yelling, weird stories and impressively specific but not alienating sports and music references. Jamel lives for the laugh from the one dude in the back of the room who also watches too much SportsCenter. After making his television debut in 2016 on Kevin Hart Presents: Hart of the City, Jamel now performs regularly all across America. Jamel has also been on Comedy Central's Stand Up Featuring, and Vulture's Comedians You Should Know.

On Mid-Range, Jamel brings levity to serious topics like the racial biases of artificial intelligence, the ways men encourage toxic masculinity, and the pros and cons of being a fat boyfriend. Of course it wouldn't be Jamel's comedy without some hyper-specific references, this time about phone game ads, basketball, ice hockey, and living with an iPod Touch instead of a phone.

Jamel Johnson online:

Instagram
TikTok

Jamel Johnson's Podcasts:

In-Season
Ain't It Footy
Sorry We Love Football
The Brandon Jamel Show

And now he's on THIS one! Enjoy!

PS This is only the first HALF of our conversation.
For part two, subscribe via Apple Podcasts OR merely click on over here to Patreon!