Bullseye with Jesse Thorn
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Stand up comedy from Prescott Tolk, from our live show in Chicago earlier this year.

Direct download: tsoya11063prescotttolk.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:00am EDT

When we last spoke to Weird Al, he was working on his top-secret new album. Now he's returned to talk about "Alpocalypse" and the process of parodying other artists.

Direct download: tsoya110627_weirdal2.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 5:29pm EDT

Glenn O'Brien is the author of How To Be A Man, and the Style Guy columnist for GQ. He also created and hosted TV Party, the seminal new wave television show, and edited Interview magazine.

Direct download: tsoya110620_glennobrien.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 6:50pm EDT

Writer and filmmaker Rudolph Herzog explores the jokes employed by the oppressed and the oppressors of Germany's Third Reich in his new book, Dead Funny: Humor in Hitler's Germany.

Direct download: tsoya110608_rudolphherzog.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 6:00am EDT

Jon Ronson is a journalist, filmmaker and humorist who has written Them: Adventures with Extremists, The Men Who Stare at Goats, and has just published his newest book, The Psychopath Test.

Direct download: tsoya110606_ronson.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:00am EDT

Scot Armstrong is a screenwriter and comedian who has co-written Old School, Road Trip, and Starsky and Hutch among others.  His newest writing project was tackling The Hangover Part II with Todd Phillips.

Direct download: tsoya110602_scotarmstrong.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:00am EDT