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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  • Billy Ray Details How Jay Could Lose The Election for Kamala

    Billy Ray Details How Jay Could Lose The Election for Kamala
    Jul 30 2024
    Billy and I discuss being writing partners in Jr High, why MAGA loves to be afraid, why Kamala has a shot, why Biden didn’t have a shot, how to make the campaign work, writing for candidates, why we should fight to keep our democracy, how America agrees with Democrats even though some of them don’t know it, dirty tricks from the bad guys, and Lynn Swann.

    Bio: Billy Ray wrote the Oscar-nominated screenplay for Captain Phillips, for which he won the WGA award. Ray's films as writer, co-writer, or writer-director include "The Hunger Games," "Richard Jewell," "Shattered Glass," and Showtime's "The Comey Rule," which had the biggest debut of any limited series in that network's history. He is an activist in the Democratic Party, providing messaging help to 85 sitting Members of the House and Senate. He believes in democracy, justice, and the Dodgers.
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    47 mins
  • Matt Groening Says, The Simpsons Aside, Jay’s Life Is Meaningless

    Matt Groening Says, The Simpsons Aside, Jay’s Life Is Meaningless
    Jul 23 2024
    Blurb: Matt and I talk about the legacy of The Simpsons, what it means to go from super fan to icon, always knowing he wanted to draw cartoons, having kid are better than making great art, how music makes The Simpsons great, how Jay could come back to work if he came back crawling on his knees, and how Jay agreed to crawl.

    Bio: Matt Groening was born in Portland, Oregon, on February 15, the third of five children. His father, Homer, was a cartoonist and filmmaker. From an early age, Matt created his own cartoons, amusing his friends and annoying his teachers. Groening attended Evergreen State College in Washington State, where he studied philosophy and continued his interest in cartoons, comics and music.

    After his graduation in 1977, Groening headed to Los Angeles where he struggled in immobilizing but irksome poverty. Increasingly frustrated by the traffic, smog, and his landlords, Matt began to vent his angst to his friends by sending them cartoons starring a bug-eyed rabbit named Binky. Groening soon began to publish and sell these cartoons at the record shop where he worked. Their popularity encouraged Matt to syndicate, and in April 1980, Life In Hell® formally debuted in the Los Angeles Reader and ran successfully in more than 250 newspapers around the world and half-dozen languages before Groening concluded it's production in 2012. Life in Hell® has also been collected in a best-selling series of books with over two million copies in print, including Love is Hell, Work is Hell, School is Hell, Childhood is Hell, Akbar & Jeff’s Guide to Life, Greetings From Hell, The Big Book of Hell, With Love From Hell, How to Go to Hell, The Road to Hell, Binky’s Guide to Love, and Love is Still Hell.

    In 1987 James L. Brooks approached Matt about creating animated shorts to fit between sketches of “The Tracey Ullman Show.” Matt agreed, but instead of using the Life in Hell® characters, he created an entirely new cast: The Simpsons, which bear the names of his family members, Homer, Marge, Lisa and Maggie (Bart is an anagram for brat).

    The Simpsons were soon spun off into a half-hour animated series which first aired on December 17, 1989 with a Christmas special, followed by the series premiere on January 14, 1990. It has since gone on to become the longest running prime-time animated show in television history. An international hit, the series has also spawned a licensing and merchandising empire.
    It has spanned a hit feature film and a revolutionary virtual coaster ride at Universal Studios. He also created the Emmy Award-winning animated series “Futurama.” As a cartoonist, Groening began his “Life in Hell” weekly comic strip series in the 1980s, and concluded it in 2012. In 1993, he formed Bongo Comics Group, and continues to serve as publisher. Winner of multiple Emmy Awards, the prestigious Peabody Award, Annie Awards and the Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year, the highest honor presented by the National Cartoonist Society, he also received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in February 2012 and was personally honored with designing five U.S. postage stamps.
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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • Jade PettyJohn Tells Jay How He Destroyed The Lives of Child Actors

    Jade PettyJohn Tells Jay How He Destroyed The Lives of Child Actors
    Jul 16 2024
    Blurb: Actor Jade PettyJohn who was 14 years old when she first worked for Jay on School of Rock talks about her journey becoming an actor at 7 and being an actor at 23. They talk about what was good and bad about working as a child actor and how to make the lives of child actors better. They also talk about dreams, candles, the weirdness of growing up, dreams of a music career, and joys of cooking with friends, Jay throwing spaghetti on Jade’s head, Jay spraying nacho cheese on Jade’s head, how headbands hurt Jade’s head, and they mystery of why Jade’s head hurt alot during productions.


    Bio: Jade Pettyjohn is a well known professional actress who has been working in the industry for well over a decade. She starred in Nickelodeon’s twice Emmy Nominated School of Rock. She moved on to work with the top artists of the industry starring alongside Laura Dern in Trial by Fire, Nicole Kidman in Golden Globe nominated “Destroyer” and Reese Witherspoon in Emmy nominated “Little Fires Everywhere.” More recently, Pettyjohn stars in Marcus Dunstan’s new film All My Friends Are Dead produced by John Baldecchi premiering at the TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL.Jade is currently working on Ryan Murphy’s Monsters, the Lyle and Erik Menéndez Story portraying the role of Jamie Pisarcik.
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    47 mins
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funny authentic and for me very relatable, but I'm Jay Kogen so...

I like it. the guests. the connection. The host had his heart in the right place.

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