tough room
Two of the four segments of the Feburary 8th This American Life (#348: Tough Room) had me laughing out loud like a total goober on the metro when I was listening to the podcast:
Act One: Make 'em Laff.
Host Ira Glass spends time in perhaps the toughest room on earth, the editorial meeting at the satirical newspaper, The Onion, where there's one laugh for every 100 jokes.
Act Four: Tough News Room.
Malcolm Gladwell is a best-selling author and famous journalist at the New Yorker magazine. But not always. Witness his story-which was recorded live, on stage at the Moth theater in New York-about his first job in journalism, and how terrifying it was.
The business of being funny: *really* funny. Malcolm Gladwell: *really* entertaining speaker!
Episode info (you can stream the whole episode)
Podcast info (but I think you missed your chance to download)
Act One: Make 'em Laff.
Host Ira Glass spends time in perhaps the toughest room on earth, the editorial meeting at the satirical newspaper, The Onion, where there's one laugh for every 100 jokes.
Act Four: Tough News Room.
Malcolm Gladwell is a best-selling author and famous journalist at the New Yorker magazine. But not always. Witness his story-which was recorded live, on stage at the Moth theater in New York-about his first job in journalism, and how terrifying it was.
The business of being funny: *really* funny. Malcolm Gladwell: *really* entertaining speaker!
Episode info (you can stream the whole episode)
Podcast info (but I think you missed your chance to download)