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Bob Saget podcast

David Lee Simmons — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:31:21 +0000

Former “Full House” and “America’s Funniest Home Videos” star Bob Saget has reinvented himself in recent years with his stand-up routine and blue humor, most famously captured in the 2005 documentary The Aristocrats, as well as his 2006 direct-to-video comedy Farce of the Penguins.

How do you sense the audience’s reaction to the paradox of your off-color humor compared with your image from “Full House” and “America’s Funniest Home Videos” now as opposed to a few years ago?

[After the two shows ended] I started hitting the clubs more, trying to figure out where I lost my funny gene. For me, it was like a 12-year project. I’m always a comedian. It’s the root of what I do and what I want to do. I found out what I thought was funny again and I always kind of talked the way I talk now, but I’m 52 now, when I was 32 hosting those shows, and a guy will change, hopefully. I started not to care as much and do what I thought was funny. Through the whole process audiences thought it was funny, so it’s the longest 15-year overnight transition that an artist can grow through.

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Air Loaf

Alicia Wages — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:21:50 +0000

Today’s Air Loaf features CL’s Chanté LaGon and David Lee Simmons chatting about Surfwise, a film about the traveling Paskowitz family (opening tonight at Landmark Midtown Art Cinema), as well as comedian Margaret Cho whose Beautiful Tour stops at the Tabernacle this Sat., June 7.

Air Loaf is broadcast weekdays on 1690 WMLB-AM at approximately 8:10 a.m., 12:20 p.m. and 6:20 p.m.

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Margaret Cho

David Lee Simmons — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:21:41 +0000

Cho performs Saturday, June 7 at The Tabernacle, 152 Luckie St. 404-659-9022.

What a difference an election cycle makes for comedian Margaret Cho. Four years ago, she was “disinvited” to the Democratic National Convention (and, soon after, accurately comparing John Kerry to Lord of the Rings’ Ent tree characters). Now she’s an Obama girl and proud of it — and not just because he’s the most liberal candidate in the mix.

“[When people] try to put qualifications about how ethnic he is, that is sooo familiar territory for me,” says Cho, whose Korean heritage has been both a professional blessing and curse. “It’s something that I’ve been navigating myself for many years. That attitude like, ‘Are you a proper representation of your own culture?’ – that there has to be a proper or qualifying characteristic that makes you qualified to represent yourself.”

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David Lee Simmons speaks with Margaret Cho

Podcast produced by Alejandro Leal

Air Loaf

Alicia Wages — Wed, 21 May 2008 16:11:39 +0000

Today’s Air Loaf features CL’s own Chanté LaGon and Curt Holman discussing The Kids in the Hall and their show Live as We’ll Ever Be on Sat., May 24. at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre.

Air Loaf is broadcast weekdays on 1690 WMLB-AM at approximately 8:10 a.m., 12:20 p.m. and 6:20 p.m.

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Air Loaf

Alicia Wages — Mon, 19 May 2008 20:03:51 +0000

Today’s Air Loaf features CL’s own Chanté LaGon and David Lee Simmons chatting about comic Maria Bamford who will be performing Tues.-Wed., May 20-21 at the Punchline.

Air Loaf is broadcast weekdays on 1690 WMLB-AM at approximately 8:10 a.m., 12:20 p.m. and 6:20 p.m.

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Air Loaf

Alicia Wages — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:46:22 +0000

Today’s Air Loaf features CL’s own Chanté LaGon and David Lee Simmons chatting about the 2008 Summer Guide — dropping today! Check it out for the best 111 things to do this summer.

Air Loaf is broadcast weekdays on 1690 WMLB-AM at approximately 8:10 a.m., 12:20 p.m. and 6:20 p.m.

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Comedian Pablo Francisco

David Lee Simmons — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:41:30 +0000

Pablo Francisco has a way with words, or at least the sounds of other people’s words. His gift for impersonations has people thinking he’s Don LaFontaine, the now-famous movie-trailer voice-over genius. Francisco brings his fast-paced stand-up routine to the Punchline from Fri.-Sun., April 18-20.

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Podcast produced by Edward Adams and Alejandro Leal

Tony Shalhoub

David Lee Simmons — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:21:30 +0000

Theatrical Outfit’s ATLEXIS 2008 fundraiser offers “an evening of Words, Wit and Wisdom from Southern Literature,” of which there’s a ton, with readings and music by a host of celebrity guests Sat., APRIL 5. The most notable of the group, besides our own Mayor Shirley Franklin (natch), is actor Tony Shalhoub (right), the three-time Emmy-winning star and executive producer of TV’s “Monk.” (Shalhoub’s sister, Susan Shalhoub Larkin, is a local theater figure, and will also read.) Shalhoub will be joined by wife/actress Brooke Adams in reading from Mark Twain’s The Diaries of Adam and Eve. Other, more local celebs include Tom Key, Monica Pearson and Ferrol Sams, along with singer/songwriter Kate Campbell and WSB-AM’s (750) Scott Slade hosting. $110 gala tickets; VIP tickets sold out. Reception, 6 p.m.; performance, 7:30 p.m. Rialto Center for the Arts and Balzer Theater, 80 Forsyth St. 678-528-1511. www.theatricaloutfit.org.

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Podcast produced by Alejandro Leal / Music for this podcast was provided by the Podsafe Music Network.

Comedian Paula Poundstone

David Lee Simmons — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:53:25 +0000

Paula Poundstone performs Fri., MARCH 28, at the Ferst Center for the Arts, and her material is as fresh as ever. $21.60-$37. 8 p.m. Ferst Center for the Arts, 225 North Ave. 404-894-9600. www.ferstcenter.gatech.edu.

Pundstone came out of the same burgeoning Boston comedy scene of the late 1970s that produced Steven Wright, Denis Leary, Janeane Garofalo and Kevin Meaney, but she carved out her own unique brand of observational humor in California. She won two Cable Ace Awards and was given an American Comedy Award for Best Female Stand-Up Comic in 1989. A frequent panelist on the National Public Radio show “Wait, Wait … Don’t Tell Me!” â€“ which airs Saturdays, 11 a.m., on WABE-FM (90.1) â€“ Poundstone also has authored a quirky, history-lesson-laced memoir, There’s Nothing in This Book That I Meant to Say (Three Rivers Press), which includes a candid take on alcohol-abuse issues that led to a 2001 arrest.

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Podcast recorded by Edward Adams and Alejandro Leal, and produced by Alejandro Leal / Photo courtesy George Lange Photography

Cloris Leachman: Maintaining humor

David Lee Simmons — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:28:18 +0000

Legendary comedic actress invades Athens

She might be approaching 82, but Cloris Leachman shows no signs of slowing down. Leachman has won a record number of Emmy Awards for an actress (nine) to go along with her Oscar for her work in 1971â€™s The Last Picture Show. But this weekend she is live and in person, presenting the local premiere of her one-woman show Cloris, which covers her formidable career with humor and music. Leachman took some time to discuss the show, which plays Saturday at the University of Georgiaâ€™ Ramsey Concert Hall. Saturday, March 22, at UGAâ€™s Ramsey Concert Hall in Athens, at 2:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. For tickets, call 888-289-8497.

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