Today's Guest: Sergio Bruna, host, "El Pelado de la Noche" (Ora.TV) Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Sergio Bruna, host of "El Pelado de la Noche" on Ora.TV, by clicking on the video player above! Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of men in bad wigs and false teeth surrounded... Continue Reading →
Action figures! Shelf Life is good life for Bug Boy, Hero Lass! VIDEO INTERVIEW
Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of some truly ridiculous, third-rate superheroes, including Spray Tan Man, Betty Crocker's Bitch, Scratchy McItchy and Trojan Man… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! I've gotta go with Marvel Comics' 1960s silliness, Not Brand Ecch! Stan Lee and... Continue Reading →
National Lampoon, Spy and Spinal Tap? Tony Hendra! VIDEO INTERVIEW
Part 1 of 4 Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience that includes alumni from National Lampoon: The Funny Years and Spy: The Funny Years… in the new new media capitol of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! I always knew of Tony Hendra’s magazine work, being of the generation who were teens... Continue Reading →
An X-Rated Christmas with Howard Stern favorite Red Peters! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Red Peters, comedian, singer, "It's A Red Peters Christmas! Volume 1," Howard Stern Show regular Red Peters is back on Mr. Media today to celebrate Christmas his way -- which means putting in your earbuds and getting ready to laugh your ass off. We had such a good time playing Red’s salacious... Continue Reading →
MAD cartoonist Sergio Aragones marginalizes Mr. Media! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of MAD cartoonist Sergio Aragones fans dressed up for Halloween as Groo the Wanderer… in the NEW new media capitol of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! My first issue of MAD magazine was purchased near the checkout counter at a Stop & Shop supermarket in... Continue Reading →
Dava Krause combines comedy, song, farting into a joyous noise! PODCAST INTERVIEW
What do you get when you combine comedy with singing… plus tattoos, bodily functions, sexual revelations and Judaism? Dava Krause. (Okay, Sarah Silverman would not be a wrong answer, but just not the right answer today.) Krause just released a new album, Child of the ‘80s, which will leave you laughing and singing along—all the... Continue Reading →
Ted Turner’s favorite TV host, Bill Tush, takes a swing! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Bill Tush, long-time WTBS Superstation TV personality You kids today think you’ve got it made, what with hundreds of cable TV channels, each one focused on a narrow genre like death and destruction, Herpes, and funny things you can do with string. But back when I was in college there were only... Continue Reading →
Humbug! Mad cartoonists Al Jaffee and Arnold Roth talk shop! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guests: Legendary MAD Magazine and Humbug! cartoonists Al Jaffee and Arnold Roth. My mother bought me my first MAD magazine off the newsstand at a Stop & Shop supermarket in 1969. The cover featured a Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid parody that I believe was drawn by Jack Davis. I read... Continue Reading →
Cartoonist Clay Bennett draws audio pictures for Mr. Media! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Of the nine books I’ve written, it just occurred to me that the first and last have Pulitzer Prize connections—not for my work, unfortunately, but still… The last was Will Eisner: A Spirited Life, a biography of the American master artist and writer, which featured an introduction by Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Michael Chabon.... Continue Reading →
75 Pop-Up Video? Sorta like Pop Rocks for your eyes! INTERVIEW
Originally published April 21, 1997 Just when you think you've seen it all in music videos, along come Tad Low and Woody Thompson, two 30-year-old guys who stick a pin in the genre's bloated ego. "I am so bored with watching music videos," Low says, deflating the helium balloon that feeds him. But he and... Continue Reading →