Today's Guest: Norm Feuti, cartoonist, "Gil," "Retail" Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of real people whose lives only make it seem like they’re trapped in a comic strip… in the new new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! Does anyone else think that daily comic strips are a... Continue Reading →
918 Scott Krinsky’s parting gift from NBC’s Chuck: Sanity! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Scott Krinsky, actor, "Chuck" Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of carbon monoxide-fueled psychopaths who probably won’t go on living after the last new episode of “Chuck” airs… in the NEW new media capitol of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! If you don’t think most TV shows are very... Continue Reading →
It’s the Stan Lee Universe; we’re just superhero fodder! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guests: Roy Thomas and Danny Fingeroth, former Marvel Comics editors, co-authors, The Stan Lee Universe. Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of former Marvel Comics editors lounging around in their Spidey Underoos… in the NEW new media capital of the world, St. Petersburg, Florida! Every Marvel Comics fan knows the names... Continue Reading →
The House! The House! The House Is On Fire! A Play by Bob Andelman
And now for something completely self-indulgent... Thanks to a suggestion by my friend Raffi Darrow, I was invited to participate in the inaugural event of a new St. Petersburg nonprofit, Tampa Bay Plays. Founder and executive director Lora Hogan asked 25 non-playwrights in our community to each create an original, one-minute production. This is mine.... Continue Reading →
Artist Drew Friedman, minus liver spots, draws for me! VIDEO INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Drew Friedman, artist, Old Jewish Comedians, Too Soon? and Warts and All Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of actual, working caricaturists gathered here for their annual convention… in the NEW new media capital of the world, St. Petersburg, Florida! Drew Friedman is BETTER than Picasso! So says Howard... Continue Reading →
Chelsea Handler’s ‘After Lately’ writers sling zingers! VIDEO INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Sarah Colonna, Brad Wollack, writers, comedians, "Chelsea Lately," "After Lately" Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of standup comedians who would give their left punchline for a shot on the Chelsea Lately panel… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! A casual viewer... Continue Reading →
Natasha Leggero: On Chelsea Lately, this woman is funny! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of standup comedians who can’t remember if they’re headlining at Zany’s, Coconuts, Crazy’s, Psycho’s or their mother-in-law’s house this weekend… in the NEW new media capitol of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! Natasha Leggero has multiple fall-back positions. She’s a stand-up comedian, so she can... Continue Reading →
889 Is Chuck’s Morgan Grimes the most evolved 2nd banana ever? PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Joshua Gomez, actor, "Chuck" Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of Best Buy Geek Squaders who’d trade their employee discounts for 10 minutes of Morgan Grimes’ new life as the Intersect… in the NEW new media capitol of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! Find me a TV character who... Continue Reading →
869 The Smothers Brothers Still “Take It”! 1983 CONCERT REVIEW
NOTE -- I only got to meet, not interview, Tom and Dick Smothers -- The Smothers Brothers -- after their performance at Le Club, a long gone nightclub in Tierra Verde, Florida, just south of St. Petersburg. But it was great fun so I am posting this review I wrote at the time; it... Continue Reading →
Whitney Cummings’ sweet Lily smells good to Mr Media! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of secondary NBC characters hoping to break out and earn your love – just like Grizz and Dotcom did… in the NEW new media capitol of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! Tonight on NBC: Maulik Pancholy’s character gets the girl! That’s right, Jonathan from “30 Rock”... Continue Reading →