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Ian Talks Comedy

Join NYC teacher and former stand up comedian Ian Fermaglich as he talks comedy with some of comedy"s best.

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All Episodes

01:12:59

1985 with podcast Shari Fesko

Ian Talks Comedy ·

2025/09/20

Podcaster Shari Fesko (Saturday Night Ladies) and I discuss the TV, movies, and music of 1985

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00:49:42

Paul Linke (CHiPs, Motel Hell)

Ian Talks Comedy ·

2025/09/13

Paul Linke and I discuss his one man shows; how his eulogy for his first wife turned into a one man play on HBO; how his second wife inspired his second show and his friendship with Charles Nelson Reilly his third; his new show, The Summer I Got Old; watching Kate Smith and Howdy Doody on an early TV; his love of the Doors turns into a performance piece based on "The End" at USC; appearing in The Baby Makers with Barbara Hershey; hosting, acting in and promoting The Golden Theater

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00:50:30

Harper the Fox (song parodyist, online content creator)

Ian Talks Comedy ·

2025/09/06

Harper the Fox joined me to discuss Mr. Rogers and his unintentional role in the porn industry; people using VR to go to their childhood homes; being an English lit major; teaching herself guitar; parodying Paul Simon with "Pound in Silence"; being a writer; the Onion; being a geek; meeting her husband, an extroverted improv comedian; the c word; her writing process; how her fans write parodies; an example of her poetry from her book, Wandering Lust; trying to get known; how showing your

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00:50:47

Tommy Ruben (CPO Sharkey, son of Aaron Ruben)

Ian Talks Comedy ·

2025/08/30

Tommy Ruben joined me to discuss the closed knit cast of CPO Sharkey; growing up in Larchont, NY and his dad working for Sgt. Bilko; his dad Aaron, writing for Fred Allen, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, The Andy Griffith Show and creating Gomer Pyle USMC; Don Rickles getting booed on Comic Relief; Sharkey's scripts scripts had ad-libs written in; being a class clown; guest starring on MASH; going to the Oakwood School; his dad''s film, The Comic; his father liked to build sitcoms around

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00:59:54

Larry Charles

Ian Talks Comedy ·

2025/08/23

Larry Charles joined me to talk about his early heroes, The Little Rascals, 3 Stooges, and Abbott & Costello; trying stand up as a duo; the bimmies; portraying rabbi on stage; selling jokes; Darrow Igus buys jokes & leads to Fridays; the parakeet; Diner of the Living Dead; The Clash; Ronnie Horror Picture Show; 2nd Amendment sketch; Joe Shulkin; not all Fridays writers on drugs; harsher political satire than SNL; Men who Hum; more edgy music, then Kim Carnes; pause after Fridays; writing for

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00:37:39

Michael S. Baser (Good Times / Three's Company)

Ian Talks Comedy ·

2025/08/16

Michael S. Baser joined me to discuss watching Sky King as a kid; using comedy as a deterrent to bullies; starting a stand-up duo as a teenager; meeting Kim Weiskopf; his father not helping them; A Year at the Top; writing the first transgender character on TV in the Jeffersons; writing the Barbara's Friend suicide episode of One Day at a Time; creating Mr. Furley on Three's Company; creating 9 to 5; working for Glen Larson; working with Janet Jackson on Good Times; giving Michael Moye his

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01:18:44

Ricky Blitt (writer, The Ringer / Family Guy)

Ian Talks Comedy ·

2025/08/09

Ricky Blitt joined me to discuss sports; Monty Python; pitching The Ringer about fixing the Special Olympics; weed helping him know who his friends are and work harder; his last 32 years being better than first 32; college work gets praise from his father; working up to ones potential; John Cleese; comedy is harder and less prestigious than drama; Seinfeld & Friends will will stay because they were mainly for laughs; Seth MacFarlane asked him to write his current script; both fans of of All in

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00:58:02

Eddie Brill (comedian, Letterman warm up / comedian...

Ian Talks Comedy ·

2025/08/02

Eddie Brill joins me to discuss watching Jackie Gleason, Ernie Kovacs, & Bill Dana as a kid; going to Emerson college; Andy Kaufman; creating a comedy major at Emerson; trying stand up, quitting, and going back four years later; running the Paper Moon Comedy Club; Fright Night; Bill Gonzalez' Cable Comedy Show; watching the '86 World Series in Boston; minor league stadiums; his dad catching Sandy Koufax; hockey; 1969 - year of 3 NY championships; friendships with Sam Kinison & Robert

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00:37:47

Jameel Saleem (South Park / Disenchantment / Bob's...

Ian Talks Comedy ·

2025/07/26

Jameel Saleem and I discussed his watching Cheers and MASH as a kid; Jimmy Stewart; going to Hampton College with DJ Envy; wanting to be an FBI agent, then realizing he wants to be playing an FBI agent; getting small roles on Hack & The Wire; being in TV reenactments; his film, Exit Strategy; persistence; writing a freelance Ricky Smiley Show; getting first first job on Manhattan Love Story; doing a sitcom Telenovela for Eva Longoria and NBC; getting hired by South Park for a video game and

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00:50:31

Rob Kutner (Dennis Miller Live / Daily Show / Conan)

Ian Talks Comedy ·

2025/07/19

Rob Kutner joined me to discuss Lost in Space; Letterman; writing; the Far Side; writing for the Princeton Tiger; applying to write for MAD; writing spec scripts; getting hired as an intern on Dennis Miller Live; the shows format; writing the rants; how 9/11 changed Dennis and comedy; going to The Daily Show; doing "Is America Ready for a Black President?" with Larry Wilmore; Buck Henry; getting burnt out; getting hired as a monologue specialist at The Tonight Show Starring Conan

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01:14:50

Allan Katz (Laugh In / M*A*S*H* / Rhoda / Blossom)

Ian Talks Comedy ·

2025/07/12

Allan Katz joined me to discuss Kukla, Fran & Ollie; joining the National Guard; becoming a copywriter; Screaming Yellow Zonkers; George Schlatter calls him; staying in a hotel and writing writing on legal pads; teaming with Larry Siegel on monologues; Laugh In skits almost like an ad; Bill Richmond; meeting Orson Welles; Lily Tomlin; writing freelance All in the Family and Sanford & Son episodes; creating the character of Julio; working on Thicker and Water and pilot Lampoon; ABC Comedy

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00:50:00

Comedian Helaine Witt

Ian Talks Comedy ·

2025/07/05

Helaine Witt joined me me to discuss watching Bonanza in color; Ed Sullivan Show; her mom not liking Jack Benny; going to Elmont High School; John Mulaney; seeing the Beatles on Ed Sullivan and earlier on Jack Paar; Ringo not playing live at Shea; Elton John; teaching in 1970's NY; bad neighborhoods; being laid off by NYC; going to a stand up club in SF and taking classes; selling jokes to Joan Rivers; coming back to NY in 1991; working with Gladys Simon; working with Vanessa Hollingshead as a

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00:51:03

Rose Abdoo (Josephina on Hacks / Gypsy on Gilmore Girls)

Ian Talks Comedy ·

2025/06/28

Rose Abdoo joined me to discuss us being birthday buddies; The Flintstones; staying up to watch The Tonight Show; going to Michigan State; moving to Chicago to join Second City; ETC with Stephen Colbert & Amy Sedaris; seeing seeing Mike Meyers & Geena Davis; Chris Farley "Whale Boy" sketch; Tim Meadows; Happy Happy Good Show with Conan O'Brien, Bob Odenkirk & Robert Smigel; winning a Joseph Jefferson Award; creating one person shows; performing in Utah; her TV debut Johnny

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00:55:21

Barry Nichols (p.a./music producer, SNL, Friday Night...

Ian Talks Comedy ·

2025/06/21

Barry Nichols joined me to discuss his love of the Smothers Brothers; how his brother Nils got an internship at SNL in 1978; being the drummer from Jeannie Cunningham; getting hired to work on Nothing Lasts Forever; being hired by Dick Ebersol; Nick Nolte backs out; an average an average week for him' being in charge of cast tickets; a four hour dress rehearsal; Eddie Murphy, Drew Barrymore; having to bring around Duran Duran; singing backup to Randy Newman; having Stevie Wonder play his bongos;

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00:45:46

Steve Bleustein

Ian Talks Comedy ·

2025/06/14

Legendary comedian Steve Bleustein joined me and discussed his autobiography Memoir of a Nobody; watching Howdy Doody & Peter Pan; going to Emerson College w/ Henry Winkler; Dave Madden & Albert Hammond taking him to try out stand up at the Comedy Store; Sammy Shore saying he has the sound; his work at The Groundlings with Tracy & Laraine Newman and Jack Soo; Tom Dreeson; being on The Merv Griffin Show with Laraine and getting ribbed about a nose job; Liz Torres; Brady Bunch Variety

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00:47:48

5 Favorite Sketches from The Credibility Gap

Ian Talks Comedy ·

2025/06/07

Included: 10 minutes of my conversation with Harry Shearer, the sketches: "Where's Johnny", "Tom Snyder", "Who's on First",, "Senator Kennedy's Next Speech", "The Night the Nights Stayed on in Pittsburgh"

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00:58:00

Marc Sheffler (actor / comedian / writer)

Ian Talks Comedy ·

2025/06/01

Marc Sheffler joined joined me to discuss watching 50's children's TV; his father getting The Three Stooges for his tenth birthday; seeing Jerry Lewis in a movie and his dad telling him "Why not you?"; his dad getting him him a limo to the premiere of "The Last House on the Left"; going to college with David Duke; his dad sending sending him to the Catskills; working for comedian London Lee; having to pretend to be a conductor; selling a script to NBC; watching Dick Van Dyke and partnering with Sam

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00:59:09

Ellie Barancik (SNL script coordinator 1991 - 1993 /...

Ian Talks Comedy ·

2025/05/24

Ellie Barancik came on and discussed her last name; her father being the last surviving Monuments Men; growing up with Bozo the Clown & getting to go to the studio with Bonnie Hunt; Clutch Cargo; watching Carol Burnett and surprising her with a tribute thirty years later; finding SNL and crushing on Dan Aykroyd; meeting him on the set of Dr. Detroit; discovering Letterman; dating Steve Koren when he was trying to get on SNL staff; meeting Dan Aykroyd again in 1991; going to BU with Greg

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01:03:10

Tom Dreesen

Ian Talks Comedy ·

2025/05/17

Tom Dreesen joined me to discuss his half white / half black comedy team and the racism they encountered; how he and Tim Reid started as an anti-drug program; first saw TV at 17 (Honeymooners); being a pin boy, caddie, insurance salesman but wanting to be a comedian; The Tonight Show; getting bumped four times; his first appearance; working with Sammy Davis, Jr.; game shows; the exhilaration of working in front of 20,000 people not there to see you; Frank Sinatra always being on time, rising for

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00:54:50

Top 5 Sketches Not from SNL P. 1 (Fridays, The New Show)

Ian Talks Comedy ·

2025/05/10

1. Fridays - Michael Richards as "Frank Zappa" (1/8/82) 2. New Show - Scabs Meeting (4/23/84) 3. Fridays - 2nd Amendment Debate (4/10/81) 4. Fridays - The Ronnie Horror Picture Show (12/12/80) 5. New Show - Roy's Food Repair (1/13/84)PlusAndy Kaufman and Kathie Sullivan (9/18/81)

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