I’ve had the good fortune to interview most of my comedy heroes, and I’ve managed to make scores of new friends (including some comedy legends) as a result of my over 1,200 podcasts so far. The interview photos below are of people I’ve interviewed on Comedy on Vinyl, Dispatches from Fort Awesome, Dan and Jay’s Comedy Hour and more.
Vice-Precedence: Being Number Two in the White House
The first documentary about the vice presidency, currently in development.
Tommy Chong
Photo of Tommy Chong by Gage Skidmore
Booked Solid! by Paul Dooley
I re-released Paul Dooley's first comedy album through Celery Sound Records.
George Schlatter
Gregg Heschong
The Tracey Ullman Show
Graham Clark
This Hour Has 22 Minutes
Paul Miller
Not Necessarily the News, SNL, The Dave Thomas Comedy Show, The Carol Burnett Show (1991), The Ben Still Show, Townsend Television, In Living Color, House of Buggin', Viva Variety, MADtv
Tom Ruegger
Animaniacs
Alan Ruck
The Edge
Seán Cullen
MADtv
Keith Johnstone
Creator of Theatresports
Dave Rath
Comedy manager
Marc Hershon
Co-writer, Dana Carvey
Penelope Spheeris
Wayne's World
Jessica Holmes
The Royal Canadian Air Farce
April Winchell
Limboland
Andrew Moskos
Founder, Boom Chicago
Kevin Dorff
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Dick Chudnow
Co-creator, Kentucky Fried Theater, creator, ComedySportz
Deborah Liebling
Pirate TV, Hardcore TV
George McGrath
On the Television
Wayne Brady
Whose Line is it Anyway?
Brad Sherwood
Whose Line is it Anyway?
Allaudin Mathieu
The Compass, The Committee, namer of The Harold
Tracy Newman
Founding member, The Groundlings
Jamie Alcroft
Studio 59
Jeremy Kushnier
The Late Show with David Letterman
Jay Levey
Life as We Know It
Ken Hudson Campbell
Life as We Know It
Skye Townsend
A Black Lady Sketch Show
David Koechner
SNL
Brandon Dziengielewski
You Wrote It, You Watch It
Kent Alterman
Viva Variety
David Anthony Higgins
Higgins Boys and Gruber
Bob Odenkirk
Mr. Show with Bob and David, SNL, The Ben Stiller Show, The Dana Carvey Show
Saul Ilson
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Bill Chott
The Dana Carvey Show, SNL
Tracey Conway
Almost Live!
Troy Miller
Mr. Show with Bob and David
Meagen Fay
The Carol Burnett Show (1991)
Will Hines
Upright Citizens Brigade Theater
Marsha Warfield
The Richard Pryor Show, In Living Color
Mike Sweeney
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Bruce Leddy
MADtv, Head Cheese
Tamara Rawitt
In Living Color, She TV
Tommy Davidson
In Living Color
Todd Holoubek
The State
T. Faye Griffin
In Living Color
Stuart Pankin
Not Necessarily the News
Steve Young
Late Night with David Letterman, Higgins Boys and Gruber
Sheila Lawrence
Roundhouse
Sean Sullivan
Wayne's World
Scott Thomspson
Kids in the Hall
Rich Fulcher
The Upright Citizens Brigade on stage
Rick Overton
The Edge
Rita Sheffield Hester
Roundhouse
Rob Cohen
The Ben Stiller Show, MADtv
Rob Edwards
In Living Color
Salli Saffioti
Tracey Takes On...
Scott Aukerman
Mr. Show with Bob and David, Comedy Bang! Bang!
Scott Dikkers
The Onion's The Comedy Castaways
Phil LaMarr
MADtv
Peter Atencio
Key & Peele
Paul Germain
The Tracey Ullman Show
Paul Zaloom
Beakman's World
Paul Myers
Author, Kids in the Hall: One Dumb Guy
Patton Oswalt
MADtv, Small Doses
Patric Verrone
Muppets Tonight
Nicole Parker
MADtv
Mary Birdsong
Live on Tape
Mary Walsh
Codco, This Hour Has 22 Minutes
Matt Gourley
Kwik Witz
Mick Napier
Exit 57
Nancy Guppy
Not Necessarily the News, Almost Live!
Nick McKinney
The Vacant Lot
Marlene Weisman
SNL, designer of Wayne's World logo
Julie Brown
The Edge
John Fortenberry
House of Buggin', The Ben Stiller Show, The Dana Carvey Show, The Kids in the Hall, A Night at the Roxbury
Mark Hervey
The Bert Fershners
Marc Shaiman
SNL
Joey Garfield
The Bert Fershners
Joe Guppy
Not Necessarily the News, Almost Live!
Laura Milligan
Mr. Show with Bob and David
Kurt Fuller
Wayne's World
Jerry Minor
SNL, Mr. Show with Bob and David, Random Play
Jeff Kahn
The Ben Stiller Show
Kevin Nealon
SNL
Kevin Allison
The State
Jay Kogen
The Tracey Ullman Show
Jake Fogelnest
Wet, Hot American Summer
Kerri Kenney-Silver
The State, Viva Variety
David Cross
Mr. Show with Bob and David
David Wain
The State & Wet, Hot American Summer
David Bar Katz
House of Buggin'
Diane Flacks
The Kids in the Hall
Don Scardino
Tracey Takes On...
Kevin "Dotcom" Brown
The Uptown Comedy Club
Doug Herzog
The State, Viva Variety
Ian Roberts
Upright Citizens Brigade
Dave Thomas
SCTV, The Dave Thomas Comedy Show
Danny Tamberelli
All That
Dan Berrett
The Bert Fershners
Cindy Caponera
SNL, Exit 57
Chris Ballew
Almost Live!
Charna Halpern
iO
Carol Burnett
The Carol Burnett Show
Chris Parnell
SNL
Bruce McCulloch
The Kids in the Hall
Brian Posehn
Mr. Show with Bob and David
Brett Paesel
Mr. Show with Bob and David
Bob Nelson
Almost Live!, Oscar-nominated screenwriter for Nebraska
MADtv, The Martin Short Show
Bill Hayes
Your Show of Shows
Bill Corbett
Mystery Science Theater 3000
Beverly Leech
Mathnet
Joe Furey
Late Night with David Letterman, Hardcore TV
Alex Winter
The Idiot Box
Rick Overton
The Edge
Adam McKay
SNL, Co-founder of The Upright Citizens Brigade, Oscar winner for The Big Short
Alan Myerson
The Committee, co-creator of The Harold
Andy Merrill
Space Ghost: Coast 2 Coast
Anne-Marie Johnson
In Living Color
Becky Hartman Edwards
In Living Color, Roundhouse
Tom Stern
The Idiot Box
Eban Schletter
Mr. Show with Bob and David
John Keister
Almost Live!
Pat Cashman
Almost Live!
Deborah Theaker
Howie Mandel's Sunny Skies
Bill Odenkirk
Mr. Show with Bob and David
Ross Shafer
Almost Live!
Brian Stack
Late Night with Conan O'Brien. The Onion's The Comedy Castaways
John Lloyd
Not the Nine O'Clock News
Marty Lester
Audio engineer
Mike Myers
SNL
Mike Rock
The Bert Fershners
Robert Smigel
SNL, Late Night with Conan O'Brien. The Dana Carvey Show
Stephanie Courtney
Mr. Show with Bob and David
Jim Wise
SNL, Instant Comedy with the Groundlings
Matt Besser
Upright Citizens Brigade
Derek Waters
Drunk History
Chris Tallman
The Bert Fershners
Brian Shortall
Second City
Aretha Sills
Improvisation teacher