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Laura Kightlinger and Daniel Webb are seasoned standups getting to know each other via podcast. By sharing stunning missteps in life and career they’re able to trace their failings back to their parents, God, Texas, and piano lessons. Their budding friendship will be put to the test with special guests, friend activities, high school challenges, and classic movie recommendations.
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Laura and Garrett (sitting in for Daniel) chat with the funniest writer they know and co-creator The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman, Dave Punch. They discuss, doing a little bit better than the losers in high school, knee capping young girls, "your hole is full of stories", Treat Williams chokehold, Floor 44, Laura and Dave's writing proce…
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Laura and Daniel chat with comedian, real estate agent and mother of Phoebe, Jamie Bridgers. They discuss, Pugs, salt peter, Ed Asner reading bedtime stories at the roller derby, celebrity sweat offerings, postpartum vampire analogies, the gray areas of maritime law, not enjoying music like a man would, letting satan in, Buck Owens & Dwight Yoakam,…
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Daniel and Garrett (sitting in for Laura) chat with comedian, t.v. writer, voice act and podcaster Ian Edwards. They discuss, The Boondocks, working in the Wayan's Dynasty, starting comedy while taking orders in a drive-thru, Greg, not being on the Fugees album, Haitian Jack, Strong Island, using comedy to adapt, ayahuasca, past life experiences, m…
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Laura and Garrett (sitting in for Daniel) chat with the Comedian and Ad Man, Allen Strickland Williams. They discuss, the ad biz, I owe Larry David Money, Florida's sink holes, bitching about stand up, women do be like that, let it ride, paying it forward: illegal drug edition, acid trips, what did we get from the strike?, Allen's new special and C…
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Laura and Daniel chat with the Comedian, Podcaster and TV Expert Extraordinaire, Ken Reid. They discuss, keeping drunk newscasters on task, Chuck Connors: Italian Werewolf Ship Captain, flowers for Gerald McRaney, Golden Girls/Munsters vs. Designing Women/Addams Family, domesticated abuse parrot, which sitcoms had the most suicides, Laura's first h…
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Laura and Daniel chat with the the wonderfully talented actor, author, screen writer, comedian, playwright and beautiful soul, Justin Sayre. They discuss, Justin's new play, "Lottie Plachett Took A Hatchet", Lizzie Borden, their encounters with TV Tyrants who eat hair and or foot skin, Disney hostages, Betty "Backhand" Perske aka Lauren Bacall, fro…
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Laura and Daniel chat with the incredibly funny and quick witted, Michelle Biloon. They discuss, Disney Plaid status, multiple sclerosis, The Torkelsons, their inability to interact with normal people, dermoids and CHER vs. influencers Twitter: @biloon Insta: @biloon Website: biloon.com Laura Kightlinger Twitter: @KingKightlinger Insta: @laurakight…
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Laura and Daniel chat with vivacious, naturally funny Vanessa Gonzalez. Together they explore self-portraits, Vanessa’s pre-school teaching job, potty training and pre-school mom expectations, Daniel’s summer camp sickness, right-wing audience members, touring with Chelsea Handler on private planes, Kathy Griffin, Margaret Cho, Def Comedy Jam, Gay …
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Thank you to our over one thousand weekly listeners! Laura and Daniel reminisce about the first 20 episodes of WWTWH. The guests, the goofs, what to do with the tattered clothes of a dead grandparent, Mike Watt, Dolly Parton's saxophone, Elvis' solid gold diaper pins, getting bumped, murder scenes, toilet spices, champagne showers in Tommy Lee Jone…
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Laura and Daniel welcome the miraculous Two Headed Dog aka Mark Fite and Jim Turner. Together they ponder The Righteous Gemstones, the glorious Edie Patterson, Clowntown City Limits, the Higgins Boys and Gruber, octogenarian ushers, the 29 -year-old man, Adrian Belew, hooker number one and handjob guy thegooddeedcorps.org Laura Kightlinger Twitter:…
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Daniel and Laura talk with vivacious performer, Uncabaret creator producer and writing coach extraodinaire Beth Lapides about the singular comedy of transcendent Judy Toll, and the rare group of comic storytellers including Merrill Markoe, Henriette Mantel, Kathy Griffin, Dana Gould, Bob Odenkirk, Margaret Cho, Julia Sweeney, and Andy Kindler who l…
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We're joined today by the hilarious and industrious firebrand Tammy Jo Dearen to discuss cats and a fear of intimacy, Who's Dead?, getting bad news on the john, a guided audio tour of our feet, prime rib and Don Rickles thin lips, the pleasure of performing on a Tammy Jo show, fascinating tales of nun corpses, HOLLAND TAYLOR!, shutterbug Daniel fin…
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Laura and Daniel talk with the peerless comic, author and polymath Julia Sweeney about the Greystone Mansion ghost tour, SCTV, Catherine O’Hara, Andrea Martin, prison sex in Ireland, Catholicism, SNL, Jan Hooks, rational thinking, the joy of skepticism, pot lip gloss, the scam artistry of Deepak Chopra, psychics, and the sign of the scales. Twitter…
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Laura and Daniel welcome Jimmy Harry, musician, composer and golden globe winner. They weigh in on pop, punk, RuPaul, Bob Mould, Peaches’ birthday in Berlin, the Bey Hive Vs. Swifties, Kylie Minogue, The Beatles, a musician’s dues, Sade’s bassist and Whorgasm Website: www.jimmyharry.com Twitter: @bonsaimammal Instagram: @thejimmyharry Laura Kightli…
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Daniel and Laura sit down with the stellar Maggie May and cover Austin, TX, the Spider Room, reading the audience, cheerleading, living in Los Angeles, Cassavetes, The Simpsons, Gary Shandling, poetry, Los Olivos, worst comic, rape jokes, 2 Broke Girls, San Diego clubs, plan B, “60 Spins Around the Sun", the Menendez Brothers, Conan, DaVinci's Vitr…
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The prolific, delightful, comedically corpulent Brian Kiley joins Laura and Daniel to chat about working on Conan, Ellen, comedy writing, baseball, Eileen Brennan, Murder By Death, Clue, Bob Newhart, Dick Van Dyke, Joan Rivers, pandering vs. material, comics with journeys, working clean, Jackie Gleason, Art Carney and sex slings. Comedy Special: ..…
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Actress, Handy Woman and Minor Accomplishments alumni, Nicholle Tom stops by to chat with Laura and Daniel about working with SAG pres. Fran Drescher on the Nanny, what to do when your magician lover leaves you with his rabbits and doves, Charles Grodin: human or machine?, don't look Liz Taylor or her dogs in the eye, 90210, working with notorious …
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Daniel and Laura welcome the wonderful, unbreakable Wendy Liebman to discuss car accidents, the hazards of supermarket rejiggering, beautiful EMT’s, Letterman, the dearth of women on TV after 9 pm, Daniel’s Easter pants, when we were bi, stepsons, husbands and Korean Jindo's. Twitter: @WendyLiebman Instagram: @wendyliebman Web: wendyliebman.com Lau…
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Fielding Edlow, "Bitter Homes and Gardens creator and star, and standup debuting her one-woman show, "Gaslighting Is My Love Language” at the Edinburgh Festival from Aug 3 to 13, joins Daniel and Laura to celebrate trapeze flying, patient enactment work, telemarketing, Ian Ziering and crying on cue. Web: fieldingedlow.com Twitter: @Fieldingedlow In…
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Renowned Conan head writer, comic, former mailman and tall glass of water, Mike Sweeney, joins Laura and Daniel to discuss the behind-the-scenes trajectory of the Conan show, open swimming, Keith Haring, and on stage out-of-body experiences. Inside Conan Podcast NIAD Art Center Laura Kightlinger Twitter: @KingKightlinger Insta: @laurakightlingerliv…
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Laura & Daniel sit down with the brilliantly talented, multifaceted, iconic Margaret Cho to discuss loose criminals, tv watching face, comedy communes, almost destroying Mark Ruffalo: the only man that can assemble and disassemble Margaret's Chinese bed, being in an Atlanta Police Chase, Daniel & Laura's childhood poetry slam and much, much more! W…
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Laura and Daniel are joined by comedian, podcaster and soothsayer Lizzy Cooperman Lizzy Cooperman's In Your Hands Book a tarot reading with Lizzy Laura Kightlinger Twitter: @KingKightlinger Insta: @laurakightlingerlives Web: laurakightlinger.com Daniel Webb Twitter: @thedanielwebb Insta: @the_danielwebb Web: thedanielwebb.com…
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Daniel and Laura discuss communal waffle irons, confusing murders with musicals, that f*cking submarine, losing your dressing room to Cher's wig, is Laura of sound mind?, hearing an Appalachian gay man say "Teddy bear", again with the capes, teen poetry, "oops, too much ecstasy" and bumming out execs. Laura Kightlinger Twitter: @KingKightlinger Ins…
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Emmy and WGA award winning writer on Arrested Development, writer/producer on Golden Girls, The John Laroquette show, My wife and kids, with two Tonight Show appearances under and above his belt, please give a What We Thought Would Happen welcome to the the inimitable, lactose-loving Jim Vallely. We discuss watching The Robin Byrd Show with the rea…
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Daniel and Laura discuss the downside of inviting friends to standup shows, their regard for Stephen King’s compelling, multi-dimensional female characters, the standup pandering trend, parallel stealing, touring in the South, the King Bear pageant, Pat Robertson’s Chick Fil-a, comedy fest couples: Lynn Shawcroft and Mitch Hedberg, Laura and Absint…
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Laura and Daniel sit down with the ingenious, sitcom writer/creator and critically acclaimed author, Elizabeth "Liz" Astrof. The dictator show runner: “Where do you live, fat jew town?" Late night all-male rewrite sessions including: “How 'bout I punch Laura in the face,” death obsessions, 9/11, the Challenger Explosion, Rust, Westworld Rifles and …
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We covered Disney movies with unhappy endings - Bambi, Dumbo, The Lion King, going to the theater alone and crying, how it rained trench coats at the 25th Anniversary of Caligula, a porn theater conspiracy theory, hypnotherapy, Pat the Hip Hypnotist, the cheating improv-er, the Gen Z lack of in-person rejections, the prom, what moms want for their …
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Daniel and Laura are joined by the incomparable, illustrious, Laraine Newman. Details from Laraine's revelatory book “May You Live in Interesting Times” available exclusively on Audible, such as growing up in LA on the same street as Groucho Marx, hanging out at Duke’s, meeting Fred Astaire, SNL, the Coneheads, Gilda, Jane, the Dating Game sketch, …
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Our country might be saying “Merry Christmas” again, but we are not! And we remind you that Christmas Isn't About Presents, It's About Finally Fucking Your Childhood Friend's Hot Dad. And in this live show, we talk to the former deputy chief of staff to president Obama and current media mogul, Alyssa Mastromonaco!…
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Our country might be saying “Merry Christmas” again, but we are not! And we remind you that Christmas Isn't About Presents, It's About Finally Fucking Your Childhood Friend's Hot Dad. And in this live show, we talk to the former deputy chief of staff to president Obama and current media mogul, Alyssa Mastromonaco! See Privacy Policy at https://art1…
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We’re in the Nation’s capital, Philadelphia! Plus, we try to figure out what Bitcoin is! Plus Dikoda talks to the hilarious Philly local, Michelle Biloon! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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We have a seance and summon a really annoying ghost, talk about sexy Halloween costumes for your dog, and talk to the fourth member of Pussy Riot, Dashka Yurikinovov! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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This week, we share all the ways we STICK IT TO THE MAN, celebrate a woman who got her life together purely out of spite for her ex, and talk to a knife eating survivor, Bippy Dunkin! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.…
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In this live episode, Quenn and Dikoda learn that mommies can be daddies too, talk about a successful arsonist who is also a busy mom, and professional mom and creator of Odd Mom Out, Jill Kargman! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.…
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Quenn and Dikoda talk about their biggest fear: cool teens! We finally ask the question, “Would Lorde think you’re cool?” and speak to teen trendspert and TV mogul, Veronica Barry! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.…
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We talk about social media and how amazing and helpful it is with no exceptions! We dish on all that hot DC goss! We discuss a woman who was so politically involved that she banged her senator’s wife, and sit down with Elahe Izadi, political and pop-culture journalist for the Washington Post. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Cali…
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