Don't Be Alone with Jay Kogen

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  • Don’t Be Alone with Jay Kogen is a comedy/advice podcast trying to fight the isolation of modern life. Each episode, Award winning TV writer/comedian/philosopher Jay Kogen has a conversation with a friend about how to solve the problems on Jay’s mind. These friends happen to be famous comics, musicians, actors, artists, writers, and sometimes even his family. It’s an entertaining, fun, and thoughtful show meant to bond us through humor, experience, and empathy.

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  • Jay’s Work Friends, Nicole Sullivan & Jerry Trainor, Explain That Jay’s Has No Real Friends\

    Jay’s Work Friends, Nicole Sullivan & Jerry Trainor, Explain That Jay’s Has No Real Friends\
    Jan 7 2025
    Nicole and Jerry talk about Friendship, iCarly, MadTV, “Wendell & Vinnie”, electric shock collars, escape rooms, snowboarding, keeping in touch, drinking, LA tour buses, kids, and playing a grandmother at 40.

    Nicole Sullivan - As a native New Yorker, Nicole has been acting since she was seven years old. Nicole studied the drama classics at Northwestern University. Sullivan was an original cast member of FOX’s smash hit “MADtv” and was their youngest member. She left “MADtv” to join the hit series “King of Queens.” Nicole was a series regular on “Hot Properties,” “Raines,” “Rita Rocks,” “Sh** My Dad Says,” and “Disjointed.” She has appeared in “17 Again,” “Guess Who,” “Scrubs,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Boston Legal,” “Monk,” “My Boys,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Will & Grace,” “The Mindy Project,” “All Rise,” “Good Girls,” “Mom,” “Bob Hearts Abishola,” and “Blackish” for 6 seasons. As a comedic voice actor, Sullivan has lent her voice to numerous animated hits including “Family
    -Jerry Trainor - Jerry Trainor’s first television role was in the MTV series Undressed as Eric. Some of his other television credits include Law & Order True Crime, Angel, Malcolm in the Middle & Crossing Jordan. He has had several small roles in films such as the science fiction drama Donnie Darko and Bring It On Again. Trainor had a recurring role on Drake & Josh as "Crazy Steve”, He starred in iCarly as Spencer Shay, the older brother and guardian of Miranda Cosgrove's title character from 2007 to 2012. He completed the 2008 music-themed comedy Wreckless Epic, in which he stars. Trainor starred in the animated series T.U.F.F. Puppy as the voice of Dudley Puppy, for which he was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program.In 2013, Trainor starred in the short-lived series Wendell & Vinnie as Vinnie, the uncle and guardian of Buddy Handleson's character Wendell. He played Commander Michael Sullivan for both seasons of the Halo in-universe podcast Hunt the Truth. In 2017, Trainor voiced the recurring role of Commander Cone on Bunsen Is a Beast. Since 2018, Trainor and Mike O'Gorman have starred in a comedy Web series called The Porch, which can be found on YouTube. In 2018, Trainor starred in the film Cover Versions written and directed by award-winning filmmaker Todd Berger. The film premiered at the 2018 Palm Springs Film Festival and was acquired for distribution by Sony Pictures. Parts of the film were shot on location during the KAABOO Del Mar music festival (in coastal northern San Diego County). Trainor's performance was heralded as being edgy and thought-provoking.In March 2021, it was announced that iCarly was being revived. The series premiered on Paramount+ in June of that year, with Trainor reprising his role as Spencer Shay.
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    48 mins
  • Matt Selman Says Jay’s Big Failure Was Leaving The Simpsons

    Matt Selman Says Jay’s Big Failure Was Leaving The Simpsons
    Dec 31 2024
    Blurb: Matt Selman talks about keeping The Simpsons afloat and still funny after all these years, being the rare writer who stayed in one place, Terry Jones being the smart Python, innovating the show each week, what’s too silly, looking back with pride, how we are more judgy when we are younger, Ghost, Matt’s says he’s not a sociopath, and we discuss if Jay regrets leaving The Simpsons after 5 seasons? We also talk about Matt’s chance to leave that he left behind and working out on chest day.

    Bio: Emmy Award-winning writer/producer, Matt Selman, has worked on THE SIMPSONS for 27 seasons and counting. Selman has written or co-written 30 SIMPSONS episodes and was one of the writers on THE SIMPSONS MOVIE. He has won six Emmys, a Writer’s Guild of America Award and a Peabody Award. He currently serves as Show Runner and Executive Producer. Selman grew up in Watertown, Massachusetts, and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was the Editor-in-chief of 34th Street Magazine. Before starting at THE SIMPSONS, he wrote on SEINFELD, and has written comedy for many animated movies. He currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two daughters.12/30/24
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    46 mins
  • Kelly Carlin-McCall Says Her Dad Is Better than Jay’s

    Kelly Carlin-McCall Says Her Dad Is Better than Jay’s
    Dec 24 2024
    Jay and Kelly talk about what we got from our fathers, both good and bad. We also talk about the genius of George Carlin, living in the shadow of your parents, Crossroads School, Judd Apatow, taking care of you parents, the Emmy Awards, defining yourself, fans, wanting to make people laugh, and how pity sex is just fine.

    Kelly Carlin-McCall is an author, storyteller, depth psychologist, transformational coach and television producer. Her solo show, A Carlin Home Companion, was expanded and then published as a memoir by St. Martin’s Press in 2015. Her television work includes being a producer of the showtime show, The Green Room with Paul Provenza, and in 2023, she won an Emmy as executive producer of the HBO documentary, George Carlin’s American Dream. Her 20+ years of study and practice in Zen Buddhism, Co-Active Coaching and Imaginal Psychology are the foundation for her creative work and for her transformational programs through her Humans on the Verge community. She is proudly deeply involved in The National Comedy Center as an Industry Advisory Board member, and proud to be a Chautauquan since 2017 when she helped to launch the first ever comedy week hereEDITING NOTES: KELLY CARLIN I think incorrectly she helped stand ups. We can cut that out. .
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    49 mins

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