Episodes

  • Writer Dan Ewen Says Jay's A Spoiled Brat

    Writer Dan Ewen Says Jay's A Spoiled Brat
    Mar 11 2025
    Writer Dan Ewen talks about his new show which was the last from Norman Lear, Dear Santa, growing up across the street from the good side of town, loving Athens.


    Bio:Dan Ewen is a writer/producer from Athens, Georgia. On the series front, he has written for Disney, USA Network and Amazon, where he serves as Executive Producer, co-creator and co-showrunner of "Clean Slate", Norman Lear's final comedy, starring Laverne Cox and George Wallace, He also created Paramount's feature, PLAYING WITH FIRE, starring John Cena, and the recent Jack Black vehicle, DEAR SANTA. Ewen has been doing improv for far too long, and owns two lovely cats.
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    47 mins
  • Cartoonist Extraordinaire David Silverman Explains Why Jay’s Writing The Simpsons Wasn’t What Made It Good.

    Cartoonist Extraordinaire David Silverman Explains Why Jay’s Writing The Simpsons Wasn’t What Made It Good.
    Mar 4 2025
    David Silverman explores the history of The Simpsons from before it existed until now. He talks about animating the hard stuff and making it look easy as well as his love of Burning Man & the tuba.

    Bio: After graduating from UCLA in 1983, David Silverman worked as a freelance illustrator and animator until, in 1987, he landed a job animating on The Tracey Ullman Show — where The Simpsons began. Animating on all 48 shorts led to David directing the first shows of The Simpsons. Starting with the Christmas Special in December 1989, and then the premiere episode the following month, David soon became Supervising Animation Director and a producer on The Simpsons. All told, he has directed 24 episodes and has won 4 Emmys along the way. When no one was looking, David snuck away from The Simpsons to work at DreamWorks (The Road to El Dorado – co-director), Pixar (Monsters, Inc. – co-director), and Blue Sky (Ice Age, Robots – writing and boarding). But, he came back to the show full-time at the end of 2003 and directed The Simpsons Movie. In 2012, David directed and co-wrote the short film The Longest Daycare about Maggie Simpson, which earned him an Academy Award nomination.And since the Disney acquisition of The Simpsons (via the purchase of Fox), David has directed 10 Simpsons shorts especially for Disney+, as well as several promotional pieces.
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    47 mins
  • Patton Oswalt Part 2 - The Reckoning

    Patton Oswalt Part 2 - The Reckoning
    Feb 25 2025
    Patton Oswalt and I finish our discussion in this first ever two part DBAWJK! You can never get enough Oswalt. He has been one of the most original minds out there for the last 30 years and a touch stone for quality who seems to be committed to art, laughter, ideas, and making the world slighty less shity.

    Bio: Patton Oswalt is a comic/actor/writer, but in alphabetical order.
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    46 mins
  • Patton Oswalt Explains Why Jay Isn’t Cool

    Patton Oswalt Explains Why Jay Isn’t Cool
    Feb 18 2025
    Patton Oswalt talks about life, love, parenting, fandom, art and comedy in an episode so great it had to be two! We talk about putting in the work to be an actor, and how comedy bits form on stage, and how dismissing bands for not being cool is a dangerous game since cool changes on a dime, we talk about the need to bring marketing into everything we do, we talk about blow hards demanding audiences, and the brutal give and take of Hollywood on all levels. We also talk “King of Queens”, “AP Bio”, Black Sabbath, sci-fi, finding your place in the world, coming up in the golden age of stand-up and much much more in this super-sized two part DBAWJK podcast.

    Bio:Patton Oswalt is a comic/actor/writer, but in alphabetical order.
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    46 mins
  • Oscar Winner, Jim Rash, Knows He’ll Never Befriend Jay

    Oscar Winner, Jim Rash, Knows He’ll Never Befriend Jay
    Feb 11 2025
    Screenwriter and actor Jim Rash and I talk about what makes him an empathetic and responsive friend, growing up in Charlotte, NC, being adopted, the Groundlings, winning an Oscar, Allison Janney, his dream of being on Friends coming true, Community, turning off your cell phone, directing his new movie, playing Snoopy, and singing and dancing in the kitchen to feel good.

    Bio: JIM RASH is best known for playing “Dean Pelton” on NBC’s Community. Most recently, he starred opposite Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum in Fly Me To The Moon. He won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Descendants alongside Nat Faxon & Alexander Payne. Rash and Faxon also co-wrote and co-directed The Way, Way Back. Rash recently finished post-production on Miss You, Love You, an independent movie that he wrote and will mark his solo directing debut. It stars Allison Janney and Andrew Rannells. Rash hopes to take it to film festivals next year.
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    47 mins
  • Annie Sertich & Mindy Sterling Question Jay’s Ability To Have Friends.

    Annie Sertich & Mindy Sterling Question Jay’s Ability To Have Friends.
    Feb 4 2025
    Annie and Mindy talk about what it takes to have a deep and lasting friendship. They discuss what brought them together, how they are alike and how they are not. They also talk about a divorce workbook, pets, kids, the trauma of ex-husbands, the difference between growing up in Detroit vs Miami, having parents who asked you to perform and parents who didn’t, asking your teacher to “hang out”, Groundlings, tums, having no emergency contact, boundaries, and how Jim Rash is the center of the universe.

    Bios:
    Annie Sertich wanted to be a lawyer - instead ended up playing one opposite Denzel Washington. She wanted to be in the Super Bowl -instead she has sold tires, accepted M&M’s, and recently appeared as Tina, the Geico caveman’s wife during the commercial breaks. She is an actor, writer, and alumni of the famed Groundings Theatre where she also performs a one woman show called ‘How To Not Kill Yourself for 30 days…and the next 330.’ You’ll hear her voice on various animated shows and see her on shows such as: “Grey’s Anatomy/Station 19,” “Superstore,” “Silicon Valley,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” Roar,” to name a few.


    Mindy Sterling is a 2017 two time Emmy Nominee for Best Actress in Short Form Comedy or Drama for her work on Con Man and Secs and Execs. She is probably best known for her character portrayal of Frau Farbissina, Dr. Evil’s German henchwoman and lover in all three Austin Powers Films. Other films are The Grinch Who Stole Christmas and Drop Dead Gorgeous. She currently recurs as Linda Schwartz on The Goldbergs and has guest starred on Grace and Frankie, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Legit, iCarly. Her voice over career consists of Legend of Korra, The Great North , American Dad, Family Guy, Loud House, Scooby Doo, Chowder to name a few. She is an alumni of The Groundlings and occasionally still directs and performs there.
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    45 mins
  • Adam Pally Thinks People Hate Jay Kogen

    Adam Pally Thinks People Hate Jay Kogen
    Jan 28 2025
    On this episode we talk about the energy and commitment to be funny in everyday life with famed actor, writer, and improviser, Adam Pally who thinks it’s just a way of hiding yourself. We talk about being less funny and more authentic. We also discuss Mr. Throwback, Happy Endings, adulting, fatherhood, why New York is better than Los Angeles, parents who sing, deciding UCB was something Adam had to do, the artistic tribe he joined, why he thinks old show business is dead, and how his kid can’t believe Adam knows Childish Gamino.

    Bio: Hailing from Livingston, New Jersey, Adam Pally has quickly found his place as an actor and comedian in Hollywood. Pally is most known for Happy Endings, The Mindy Project, Sonic the Hedgehog 1 & 2, the live-action spinoff series Knuckles, the Peacock mockumentary series Mr. Throwback, which stars NBA All-Star Stephen Curry, Pally will next be seen in the sci-fi dramedy O Horizon, & HBO Max’s 101 Places to Party Before You Die. Pally has been a member of the Upright Citizens Brigade since 2003 and continues to write and perform sketch comedy. Pally is a graduate of the New School in New York and currently resides in New York.
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    46 mins
  • Jay Makes Lew Schneider’s House Burning Down All About Jay

    Jay Makes Lew Schneider’s House Burning Down All About Jay
    Jan 21 2025
    Writer/Comic/Director Lew Schneider talks about how he copes with his house burning down in the L.A. firesand. How to manage the feelings of loss and gratitude, how his wife Liz is feeling, the kindness of people, what he’ll miss, the french horn, and how he no longer needs his signed Bobby Orr poster.

    Bio: Lew Schneider is a youthful 62 year old man
    California Community Foundation

    Project HOPE
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    1 hr