What We Thought Would Happen

Tammy Jo Dearen (sitting in for Daniel) and I sit down with comedian Eddie Pepitone. We discuss our Vaudeville days, Dorito's Vodka, the ICP Healthcare plan, operatic rage-aholics, the death of Comedy Central, uncle porn, Dennis Leary dating dopplegangers, losing a tooth on live television, Elton John's low effort song repackaging, defensive postures, stealing vegan valor and roving clan...

We sit down with Kimberly Clark who is one of the sweetest,  funniest and most original comics out there. We discuss preferring t.v. to snow, the slutty spectrum of newscasters, shaking down Walter Cronkite for the truth about the JFK assassination, being a CBS Page on The Price is Right and the Drew Carey show, stand up clubs in malls, "Blow Branford, Blow!", meeting Paul Mooney, watchi...

Laura and Daniel chat with the wonderfully clever comic and filmmaker, Max Beasley. They discuss swinger iconography, Lorena Bobbit: girl-boss, kink test results, touching that tonight show money, Woody Allen's Children's Hospital/2nd wife pipeline, checking vax cards at the Ripley's Believe it or Not museum, filmmaking inspirations and Oscar wars. X: @maxbeasleyyy Insta: @maxbeasle...

Laura and Daniel chat with the beautiful and hilarious, Kira Soltanovich. They discuss the dark nature of Russian Fairy Tales, the indomitable Rasputinic like nature of Kira's mother, Babushka's last beep, withstanding Joan Rivers, growing up in San Francisco, sneaking into stand up shows at 15, worst sets and Russian spas. X: @kiracomedy Insta: @kiracomedy Website: kiracomedy.com BREAKI...

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 process, Mary Kay Place , Orson Bean, Pa...

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, bombing in Pioneertown & Saint Beth Lapid...

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, music festivals and crowd work. X: @IanEdward...

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 Comedy Central Presents , Clint Eastwoo...

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 head injury putting the outfits before the mo...

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, from Gay to Z, John Waters,...

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 WWTWH YouTube Channel Laura Kightlinger Twitter: @KingKightlinger Insta: @laura_kightlinger Web: laurakightlinge...

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 Bobo, the Austin comedy scene, Martha Kelly, the W...

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 Jones' house, first date concussions an...

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 WWTWH YouTube Channel Laura Kightlinger Twitter: @KingKightlinger Insta:...

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 let it all hang out at Luna Park. And Taylor Neg...

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 finding love with a single reflex, why does...

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: @JuliaSweeneyMeh Website: juliasweeney.com WWT...

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 WWTWH YouTube Channel Laura Kightlinger Twitter: @KingKightlin...

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 Vitruvian man, our ape index, Up In Arms...

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: ...What's His Problem? Website: briankiley.com...

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 ball buster, Laura Kightlinger and Belizean s...

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 WWTWH YouTube Channel Laura Kightlinger Twitter...

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 Insta: @fieldingedlow "Gaslighting...

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 WWTWH YouTube Channel Laura Kightlinger Twitter: @KingKightlinger Insta: @laura_kightlinger Web: laurakightlinger.com Ton...

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! Web: margaretcho.com Twitter: @m...