DB Comedy Presents THE ELECTABLES

The Roaring 20s get ready to roar, with a President whose "Return to Normalcy" may have been a lot truer that even he realized. Presenting a man short on service in the office, but long on the kind of controversy and scandal that might make Kennedy AND Nixon go "Really, Man?!" From Teapot Dome to "Jerry," and from talkback to DB Comedy's first foray at Presidential Hip-Hop, it's WARREN G ... Hardi...

This BONUS episode was Produced, Written, and Performed by: Gina Buccola Sandy Bykowski Joseph Fedorko Sylvia Mann Paul Moulton Patrick J. Reilly And Tommy Spears This Episode’s Historians: Dr. Chelsea Denault, and The Rev. Lainie Petersen Original Music written and performed by Throop McClerg Audio production by Joseph Fedorko Sound effects procured at Freesound.org DB Comedy Logo Designed by Ada...

DB COMEDY IS BACK! After a somewhat longer-than-expected hiatus, we have returned with a Special Episode about American Presidents and their potent potable proclivities. Specifically, wine. And it's such a fun episode we realized we wanted to get you prepared for it with this BONUS episode about wines, America, and their intersections. It features our regular favorite Dr. Chelsea Denault, and Spec...

We knew Woodrow Wilson presided over World War I and tried and failed nobly to unite the world ... OR DID HE?!?! There's a lot we now know (kinda racist-y), a lot we forgot (Spanish Flu, anyone?), and a lot we didn't know (was he really President at the end of his term?), and it makes for one of those Presidents worth re-evaluating with some snark. Enter DB COMEDY PRESENTS THE ELECTABLES to fill t...

A big episode? No, just a big President. And not "big President" as in "big important President," "big President" as in "physically big President." Which means by now you know we're talking about The President Who Really Wanted To Be SCOTUS (and did it!!), one William Howard Taft. You should listen - you'll enjoy it BIG TIME! This episode’s sketches were Written, Produced, and Performed by: Gina B...

The DB Comedy Writers of Wrongs discovered we had so much background on Mr. Rough Rider, Teddy Roosevelt, that the talkback went long. And it went so long, we decided it was worth sharing a few of those segments in this Bonus Episode of DB COMEDY PRESENTS THE ELECTABLES. We are joined, as we often are, by our Americanists Historians, Dr. Chelsea Denault (not that kind of doctor) and James McRae. E...

Presenting ... The Game-Hunting Environmentalist! No, wait ... Presenting The Warmongering Peacemaker! No, wait ... Presenting The Sickly Hunk of Manly Masculine Masculinity! Presenting ... ALL OF THE ABOVE AND MORE! Our first 20th Century President, in policy and mythology, enjoy our episode on the one and only (and boy do we mean "only") Theodore Roosevelt! This episode’s sketches were Written,...

We wrap up the 19th Century on DB COMEDY PRESENTS THE ELECTABLES with a Ohioan (another one? ANOTHER one?!?) who parlayed his boring exterior and wealthy pals to begin The American Century of economic and industrial and imperial power (oops - said the quiet part out loud!) with that red, white, and blue cloak we've all come to know and love. He's a yawn but an important yawn, he's William McKinley...

Waitaminute - weren't we here already? Yes, yes we were - and we're back. Because Grover Cleveland is (so far) (gulp?!) our only President who was (re?)elected after losing after winning. And he was probably kinda sorry he did - which we here at DB Comedy will explore as only we can. Come join and 'return' to look at the second Grover Cleveland presidency! This episode’s sketches were Written, Pro...

A "meh" President in his own right, or merely a caretaker so Grover Cleveland could make a comeback? YOU MAKE THE CALL! Presenting another Midwesterner that occupied the White House - adopted Indianan Benjamin Harrison! Give it a hear! This episode’s sketches were Written and Produced by: Gina Buccola Sandy Bykowski Joseph Fedorko Ramona Kywe Sylvia Mann Paul Moulton Patrick J. Reilly And Tommy Sp...

A cute, fuzzy blue monster? A namesake for a city on Lake Erie? A 19th Century precursor to moderate Presidents breaking a long losing streak for their party while beating back salacious sexual rumors? There is only one way to find out - download and stream today's episode: the first and only non-consecutive American president (so far) (many of us hope) (boy, do we!), Grover Cleveland! This episod...

Yes, we had a President who had three names like a criminal - and even though Chester Alan Arthur came from the corrupt New York City political machine of the late 19th century and loved fancy clothes and food, "criminal" may be a little over the edge (especially since he only became President after an actual criminal assassinated James Garfield). One of the truly lesser-known of our stable of nat...

Sometimes, life - and history - sucks. When your Presidency is the second-shortest because your death by assassination was the longest, well, that's history for ya! At least such anomalies make for great possibilities in comedy and podcasting, so DB Comedy makes do with James A. Garfield - who at least also is the only President written about by Johnny Cash and Stephen Sondheim, if you count Sondh...

DB Comedy is back for the summer! In this episode, we present the Presidency of a lesser-known man who got the job under suspicious circumstances yet still made policies that would take a century to reverse - thus becoming a prime candidate for historical re-exposure and satire. Pour yourself a tall, icy cold, refreshing glass of lemonade, and let us explore the history of President 19, Rutherford...

We Americans love our men in uniforms - so much so we have made a few of them President. Yet we often remember them more for the uniform than as President. Take, for instance, Mr. Won-The-Civil-War (and was President, we think), Ulysses S. Grant. But is that a fair assessment? Let DB Comedy, with the help of Prof. Matthew Norman and James McRae, take you though our two-term President and Civil War...

Funny story - this is NOT the first time in American history a historically important and quotable and generally loved President was followed by a historically terrible and inarticulate and generally loathed President. Witness this episode, as Guest Historian Prof. Matthew Norman helps us explore (with our proud snark) the putridity of our first Impeached President, Andrew Johnson. Join us for the...

After looking at the life of President 16 BEFORE he became President, we now get to the heart of his life as far as this podcast is concerned: Abe Lincoln AFTER he became President. Dr. Matthew Norman and Team Historians return to talk about how to look at all the different Abe Lincolns - and we at Team Comedians are here with some sketch comedy goodness to wrap up our two-parter about one of the...

Did you ever wonder whether we knew so much about Abraham Lincoln that there was nothing left to know? Maybe we know so much we can adapt what we know about Lincoln to what we would like him to be! Deep, huh? Sure - and funny, too! Join us as we welcome a team of historians, led by Guest Historian Dr. Matthew Norman, for the first of a two-part comedic journey (part one up to his election) of Abra...

We're working on a full two-part Abe Lincoln episode - so here's some bonus stuff about ol' Abe! Give it a quick listen, take the week to catch up on some of our back episodes, and be back here next week for Part One of our exciting two-part episode of one of The Big Ones in American Presidential history! This BONUS episode was Produced by: Gina Buccola Sandy Bykowski Joseph Fedorko Sylvia Mann Pa...

Used to be, when you talked about WORST PRESIDENT EVER, the go-to was the guy who ended up losing states at the end of his term, the pre-Civil War lump known as James Buchanan. Does that assessment still hold down? Join DB Comedy along with return Guest Historian Dr. Paul  Finkleman to find out if President 15 is still Number 45 at the bottom of the chart ... This episode’s sketches were Written a...

Everyone said Franklin Pierce looked and sounded like he should have been President. Everyone got their wish - and boy, did everyone get THAT one wrong!  To explore the political foppery and personal darkness of yet another President who didn't stop the Civil War, DB Comedy is joined by two Special Guests: Neo-Futurist theatre Alumni Andy Bayiates and gothic novelist Andrew Pyper ("The Residence")...

What can you say about a President who shuffled between four political parties and more or less destroyed them all, whose Southern sympathies ran right in the teeth of his Northern upbringing, and whose name was so nondescript clubs were created to remember to try to remember him? Well, plenty! Join us and Gratz College President Dr. Paul Finkelman, whose specialty just happens to be this episode'...

A man whose celebrity was based on military action against people of color whose comeuppance came in the bowl of a frozen dairy treat (or was it tainted fruit??) encapsulates the 12th President of this fine country, and the second who didn't complete his term. Join us today as we explore and comedically nerd out on the man some called Ol' Rough and Ready ... (we didn't ask who "some" of those peop...

We bet you didn't know that James K. Polk was the President that acquired most of the land that these United States sits on, did you? Or that he consumed so much it was rumored - mostly by us - that he could very well have been a cannibal? You didn't?! Well, then, you HAVE to listen to the latest episode and find out about the ravenous appetite of our 11th President! (And when you tell people abou...

DB Comedy returns to its bread-and-butter, the Presidents, beginning with what is still America's Shortest-Tenured President, the 31-day wonder and Hero of Tippecanoe, William Henry Harrison! Is this podcast as long as his Presidency? Download and find out (but here's a hint: also in this episode is Harrison's successor, the nondescript disaster-magnet, John Tyler)! Like, Recommend, Catch Up on ba...