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Friday • 5:00 p.m. • Poolside
Sklarbro Country
With guest Greg Fitzsimmons.
Friday • 7:00 p.m. • Ballroom
Sklarbro Country features the comedy world’s favorite identical twins, Randy and Jason Sklar, as they give their weekly comedic takes on the worlds of sports and pop culture. You don’t have to know anything about sports to enjoy it, as long as you like silly puns and great comedians—really! Did we mention their comedically gifted guests? Sports enthusiasts and non-enthusiasts, including James Adomian, Julie Klausner, Richard Simmons and Chelsea Peretti, and so many more, lend their delightful insights to the Sklars’ sports-nerd expertise in this Earwolf podcast network favorite. Don’t miss it!
The Long Shot Podcast
Friday • 7:00 p.m. • Espada
The Long Shot features four comedians—Eddie Pepitone, Sean Conroy, Jamie Flam, and Amber Kenny—of varying ages and backgrounds discussing their struggles through the general terrors of everyday life. There are also special guests, sketches and original songs! Eddie Pepitone of The Sarah Silverman Program and the movie Old School holds down the cranky curmudgeon angle. Sean Conroy is one accomplished comedian, having featured on Comedy Central and Late Night with Conan O’Brien. Jamie Flam, a comedy writer, producer, and performer has been featured on Comedy Central, Hulu and NPR. Amber Kenny is a founding member of the sketch teams Little Kevin Buttersmith and Dumb Babies.
Uhh Yeah Dude
Friday • 9:00 p.m. • Ballroom
Hosted by Seth Romatelli and Jonathan Larroquette, Uhh Yeah Dude is a weekly roundup of America through the eyes of two American Americans. IFC recently ranked it number 5 on their “List of 10 favorite comedy podcasts that you should be downloading,” singing its praises thusly: “Seth Romatelli and Jonathan Larroquette (yes, the son of John) have one of the most consistently popular comedy podcasts going, to the point where even podcast innovator Ricky Gervais has expressed his fandom of the show. They don’t bother with guests. They just talk about things and entertain people with their conversations, and isn’t that what we all wish we could do with our scintillating repartee?”
The Naughty Show Podcast
With guests Duncan Trussell, John Ross Bowie & Kayden Kross.
Friday • 9:00 p.m. • Espada
Sam Tripoli hosts The Naughty Show podcast – an adult comedy party on the DEATHSQUAD Podcast Network. Like Sam’s notorious live show of the same name, this series brings together the biggest comedians, actors, rock stars, rappers, hottest adult film stars & craziest characters to share their funniest experiences on live-streaming video. Sam will be joined by DEATHSQUAD founder Brian Redban, co-host Jayson “The Teeb” Thibault, producer Vicky Pezza & recurring guest Gareth Reynolds. BRING THE WOOD!!!
Alison Rosen is Your New Best Friend
With guests Greg Proops and Doug Benson.
Friday • 11:00 p.m. • Ballroom
Writer, comedian and unabashed crappy television fan, Alison Rosen—you might know her as news girl on The Adam Carolla Show—shares all the junk in her head in a fun, silly, and occasionally serious, weekly interview show. The interviews include listener interaction and touch on relationships, pop culture, current events and trying to figure out if that thing you do that you think no one else does is maybe kind of normal. Recent guests, including Andrew WK, Chelsea Peretti, Pete Holmes, the Sklar Brothers and so many more, are glad to call Alison their new best friend, and you will be too.
Cashing In with TJ Miller
Friday • 11:00 p.m. • Espada
Host Cash Levy can’t get any other guests, although he’d like to. Listen to thought-provoking nonsense as Cash interviews T.J. Miller over and over again. Aren’t you tired of everybody interviewing more than one person? A proud member of the Nerdist family, it’s the podcast no one has heard of and everyone is talking about. Philosophy, unsolicited advice, answers to questions you didn’t have… they pistol whip the world’s mysteries into submission, saving lives one podcast at a time, and ruining a life every tenth. Just listen… you need to hear this.
SATURDAY
PANEL: Podcast Marketing and Social Networking Moderated by Chris Gore
Saturday • 10:00 a.m. • Ballroom
How do you use Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc. to market your podcast? Seen any good hashtags lately? Moderator Chris Gore and his panelists will discuss this and more.
Chris Gore is a comedian and writer who appears weekly on G4TV’s Attack of the Show. He is the founder of Film Threat magazine, the author of the Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide, and his podcast is PodCRASH with That Chris Gore. He loves Batman, zombies and long walks on his back.
Panelist Amy Ellis is the Head of Integrations and Partnerships at MailChimp and serves as a marketing strategy consultant for a handful of small creative businesses. Her professional background stems from marketing and public relations for non-profit theater.
Panelist Darrin McAfee is a digital media and marketing innovator who heads up Molotov/ECB, the digital marketing division of Levity Entertainment Group. With almost a decade of experience at the helm of e-Comic Branding, Inc., Darrin oversees digital management for more than 85 comics, 25 comedy clubs, and several television personalities and brands.
Panelist and famed comedian Jackie Kashian knows about Social Network marketing because she is on facebook and has a twitter account. She is the host of The Dork Forest and supports you in all your endeavors.
Panelist Graham Elwood is one of the founders of Comedyfilmnerds.com and an actor, comedian, and filmmaker. He can frequently be found online tweeting about movies and fights between wild animals.
Superego
With guests Colin Hanks, Paul F. Tompkins and Andy Dick.
Saturday • 11:00 a.m. • Espada
Profiles In Self-Obsession. Improvised, analyzed and brought to you by Drs. Jeremy Carter, PhD and Matt Gourley, PyT, with Resident Spcialists Mark McConville and Jeff Crocker. This little podcast was conceived in much the same way as an illegitimate child; someone scribbled something to someone on a cocktail napkin and a few months later a baby was born. The expert cast of hosts named it Superego, and though it’s a little deformed and walks with a limp, they love it very much. Guest appearances by Paul F. Tompkins, Patton Oswalt, Drew Carey, Jason Sudeikis, Greg Proops, John Hodgman, Andy Richter and many more.
The Smartest Man in the World
Saturday • 12:00 p.m. • Ballroom
Kittens McTavish! It’s the Grand High Badassador himself! Comedian, actor, improviser extraordinaire, and gifted analyst of all things cultural, both pop and otherwise, Mr. Greg Proops is far, far smarter than you. Listen in rapt awe as the Proopmaster waxes philosophical and hilarious on topics as diverse as the relative f*ckability of various rock bands, the grandeur of Negro League baseball and, of course, the so-called boring, preachy parts, all of which illuminate the bright, swirling universe of The Smartest Man in the World. Guests? Never. As Whistler said, “If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.” And, we wouldn’t want to anger his Proopness, now would we?
Growing Your Podcast, Moderated by Jake Fogelnest
Saturday • 12:00 p.m. • Cabrilla
So you have your podcast. Now what? How do you grow it internally and externally? Do you bring in guests, more shows, and how do you grow your audience with your podcast? Comedian Jake Fogelnest of the Fogelnest Files Podcast on the Earwolf Network moderates a discussion that will attempt to answer these questions.
Moderator Jake Fogelnest started a television show from his New York City bedroom when he was fourteen years old. Now he’s a little older… and he’s grown a beard (which he often shaves off depending on the day). Since those early days, Jake’s career has carried onward and upward, and has earned credits as an actor, writer, director and producer.
Panelist Amy Ellis is the Head of Integrations and Partnerships at MailChimp and serves as a marketing strategy consultant for a handful of small creative businesses. Her professional background stems from marketing and public relations for non-profit theater.
Panelist Paul F. Tompkins is the creator, host and co-producer (with Eban Schletter) of The Pod F. Tompkast. He is a comedian, actor and writer. He lives in Los Angeles with the rest of the people who live in Los Angeles.
Panelist Jeff Ullrich is the co-founder and CEO of Earwolf Media, a podcasting network featuring comedy, music and lifestyle content.
Panelist Ryan Stansky is an entrepreneur, marketer and multimedia professional who leads Squarespace’s podcast marketing channel amongst several other business responsibilities.The podcast channel is a major component of Squarespace’s media spending, and in the last 2 years, he has worked with podcasts of all sizes and content types to grow the channel significantly from both a brand and direct revenue perspective.
RISK! Podcast
With guests Greg Fitzsimmons and Aubrey O’Day.
Saturday • 1:00 p.m. • Espada
Have you ever wondered what it might be like to keep a rooster in an urban neighborhood, or fall down an elevator shaft to your surprising non-death? Look no further than the RISK! podcast. Kevin Allison of the comedy group The State hosts this uncensored show where writers, performers and everyday folks tell true stories they never thought they’d dare to share. If you like The Moth or This American Life, take a walk on the wilder side and dare to check out the RISK! Podcast.
Fitzdog Radio
Saturday • 2:00 p.m. • Ballroom
Twice a week, you can count on seasoned comedian, award-winning writer and host of television and radio, Greg Fitzsimmons, to bring laughs, intensity and some of the best guests around straight into your ears via his hugely popular podcast, FitzDog Radio. Can’t place Fitzsimmons? Sure you can. He’s prolific! A regular on David Letterman, Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Kimmel and Jay Leno, Greg has made more than 50 visits to The Howard Stern Show. Listen in for insightful and laughter-inducing interviews with guests from Margaret Cho to Dave Navarro to Sarah Silverman, and everyone in-between.
Minivan Men
Saturday • 2:00 p.m. • Cabrilla
Comedians Chris Spencer, Al Madrigal and Maz Jobrani all have kids. They also have wonderful wives, friends and neighbors who sometimes drive them to the brink of insanity. Parent vicariously through these comedy all-stars and listen in on their domestic adventures and misadventures as you travel through the wonderful world of family in the roomy comfort and convenience of Minivan Men, a podcast with plenty of leg room, made by fathers, for fathers…and everyone else who’s ever been part of a family. If it matters, none of them own a minivan, which doesn’t mean they don’t necessarily want one.
The JV Club
With guest Lizzy Caplan.
Saturday • 3:00 p.m. • Espada
Remember what it was like to be an awkward teenager? And remember how some things haven’t really changed that much for you since then? Join proud dork Janet Varney as she explores the highs and lows of the bygone years with some of her favorite women like Alison Brie, Maria Bamford, Melanie Lynsky and Christina Hendricks, among many lovely others. Listen in on the cringe-worthy histories and happier highlights of these ladies’ lives as they talk their way through the terrible teens into adult-lescence. Warning: This Podcast Contains Sincerity. The JV Club is a proud member of the Nerdist podcast network.
Best of the Fest Podcast
Saturday • 4:00 p.m. • Ballroom
Join Graham Elwood, Chris Mancini, Dave Anthony, Andy Wood, and guests from the Podcast Festival in this special drop-in show. So… drop in.
Comic on Comics
Saturday • 4:00 p.m. • Cabrilla
Where do the greatest comic minds meet the greatest minds in comics? We’re glad you asked! The Comics on Comics podcast is a live show/video podcast recorded in Los Angeles, where host Juan-Manuel Rocha brings professional stand-up comedians and comic book creators together for round-table discussions about the very latest in comic book news. Basically, it’s like Politically Incorrect for comics. Comics on Comics is a proud member of the Comics Podcast Network where comic book podcasts abound.
Walking the Room
With guest Wil Anderson.
Saturday • 5:00 p.m. • Espada
Greg Behrendt and Dave Anthony talk about comedy, their lives and, well, whatever. Seriously, the far-flung chats between these two meandering comedy minds can range from the L.A. County Fair to the merits of the Ford Motor Company. Known as a podcaster’s podcast, Walking the Room gives its listeners a surprising education on what it’s like to navigate a successful life in comedy and how having a podcast can boost both your spirits and your career. Behrendt is a lifelong comedian who accidentally became the best selling co author of the inescapable He’s Just Not That Into You. Anthony is a founder of the LA Podcast Festival.
FOOD TRUCK FIESTA!
Saturday • 5:00 p.m. • Barnum Hall
Featuring: Don Chow Tacos (They’re famous!), CreativEats & Dogtown Dogs. Git you some!
Doug Loves Movies
Saturday • 7:00 p.m. • Barnum Hall
Whether you hunger for games, laughs or just to hear twisted takes on your favorite movies, Doug Loves Movies is the podcast for you. Veteran comedian Doug Benson, who you know from Last Comic Standing and Super High Me, not to mention Captain EO and Friends, invites his pals from the worlds of comedy and cinema to sit down and discuss his first love: movies! You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll learn the rules of the hottest game around—the Leonard Maltin Game—which is more than we can say about some of Doug’s guests, but most of all, you’re going to love Doug Loves Movies.
Standup PodSMASH!
Saturday • Immediately after Doug Loves Movies • Barnum Hall
A full standup show for your belly-laughing pleasure.
SUNDAY
The Todd Glass Show
Sunday • 11:00 a.m. • Espada
If you like grilled cheese served on your finest dishes and lit by candlelight, camping out in the living room with all your pals, courageously discussing the issues that matter most in your life and over-explaining and re-tooling bits midstream, give The Todd Glass Show a listen, why don’tcha?! You know him from The Sarah Silverman Program, and from his courageous coming-out on Marc Maron’s WTF Podcast earlier this year. But, did you know that Todd Glass has about a million funny, warm friends? He does! Join in their fun conversations and bits on Todd Glass Show, a proud member of the Nerdist family of podcasts.
Harmontown
Sunday • 12:00 p.m. • Ballroom
Self-destructive writer Dan Harmon, the mind behind Community, Monster House and Heat Vision and Jack, claims he will one day found a colony of like-minded misfits. He’s appointed suit-clad gadabout Jeff Davis who you know from Whose Line is it Anyway, as his Comptroller. Join in this confederacy of jolliness to listen in on Harmon doing, well, whatever he wants (perhaps you’d be into that). It could be stories drawn from his real life, making Donald Glover read an e-mail from a weird relative who’s not a big fan of Community, or anything else percolating in that brilliant Dan Harmon coffee pot of a brain, aided by his inimitable comptroller Jeff Davis.
The Technology of Podcasting, Moderated by Dean Haglund
Sunday • 12:00 p.m. • Cabrilla
Which mics do I use? Do I need a mixing board? Which hosting platform? Garage Band or Audacity? Can I even learn all this stuff? Getting your head around the pieces and parts of podcasting can be a challenge. Dean Haglund moderates a discussion in which our panelists assist with these questions and more.
Moderator Dean Haglund is probably best known for his nine seasons playing Langly, one of the computer geeks known as “The Lone Gunmen” from the hit FOX TV series The X-Files. Now he paints amazing work. He is also a writer, filmmaker, painter, Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy and podcaster.
Panelist Matt Belknap produces a lot of podcasts, including Never Not Funny with Jimmy Pardo, Doug Benson’s Doug Loves Movies and Greg Proops’s The Smartest Man in the World. He is also a co-founder of ART19, a new platform for talk radio and podcast distribution that is launching in 2013.
Panelist Darrin McAfee is a digital media and marketing innovator who heads up Molotov/ECB, the digital marketing division of Levity Entertainment Group. With almost a decade of experience at the helm of e-Comic Branding, Inc., Darrin oversees digital management for more than 85 comics, 25 comedy clubs, and several television personalities and brands.
Panelist Brian Redban is the producer and co-host of the Joe Rogan Experience Podcast and founder of the DeathSquad podcast network.
Comedy Film Nerds
Sunday • 1:00 p.m. • Espada
Graham Elwood and Chris Mancini are both professional, award-winning filmmakers and comedians, who have screened and spoken at film festivals all over the world, including Slamdance and Comic-Con in San Diego. They created the Comedyfilmnerds.com website and podcast to mind-meld the idea of real movie talk and real funny. And they called in all of their professionally funny and filmy friends to help them. Comedians and writers from The Tonight Show, Late Night with David Letterman, The X-Files, Comedy Central, HBO, and Showtime tell you what’s what on all things film.
Who Charted?
With guest Thomas Lennon.
Sunday • 2:00 p.m. • Ballroom
Howard “Wie-Wie” Kremer and his trusty chart keeper Kulap “Ku-Ku” Vilaysack are here with the charts of the week. Learn what is hitting in music, movies and more, and learn about some of your favorite comedians with games like Chart Roulette and Chart Goose. Zach Galifianakis, Nick Kroll, Natasha Leggero and Sarah Silverman are all recent guests. Expect high-energy laughs and up-to-the-minute chart talk as Howard and Kulap represent Earwolf by bidding a fond farewell to summah and warm welcome to the first ever LA Podcast Festival on its opening day.
The Dork Forest
With guests Murray Valeriano and Paul Adelstein.
Sunday • 2:00 p.m. • Cabrilla
“Shameless confessions about our obsessions will make us laugh and smile,” in Jackie Kashian’s very own Dork Forest. Kashian, of course, is a touring standup comic, but you might not know that she is interested in whatever dorky thing you want to talk about. After all, everyone has at least one dorkdom—a topic of study or practice about which one is embarrassingly enthusiastic. It’s dork-on-dork dialog where guests speak to their love of books, TV, movies, comic books, websites, food, wrestling, cars, action figures and bees. There is room for all in the friendly and fascinating Dork Forest.
For Crying Out Loud
Sunday • 3:00 p.m. • Espada
TV executive Lynette Carolla, wife of comedian Adam, along with comedy writer and best-selling parenting author of Sippy Cups are Not For Chardonnay, Stefanie Wilder-Taylor are two mothers of twins breaking it down parenting style. In this raucous hour of conversations they cover a range of topics from their marriages and kids, to the pros and cons of ferberizing to pop culture topics. Punctuated by stop-ins from a variety of guests, including friends of The Adam Carolla Show, big names in parenting, personal friends and anyone else they find interesting, For Crying Out Loud surely become your favorite hour of the week.
Girl on Guy with Aisha Tyler
Sunday • 4:00 p.m. • Ballroom
Join the beautiful and brilliantly hilarious actor, comedian, director, author, activist and ultimate guys’ girl, Aisha Tyler (Archer, Friends, Talk Soup) and her guests as they rant about stuff guys love: video games, action movies, comic books, sex, small batch spirits, bar fights, and blowing sh*t up. Speaking of guests, where else can you hear interviews with UFC president Dana White one week, and famed drag queen RuPaul Charles, the next? Nowhere, that’s where! You’ll look forward to the weekly installments of self-inflicted wounds and “The Apologia”. Girl on Guy: Stuff. Guys. Love.
The 40 Year Old Boy
With guest Aubrey O’Day.
Sunday • 4:00 p.m. • Cabrilla
The 40 Year Old Boy is a popular podcast from the mind of comedian Mike Schmidt, who got his podcasting start on Jimmy Pardo’s famed Never Not Funny. The 40 Year Old Boy has been called, “the funniest answering machine message you’ll ever receive,” and Mike agrees… unless, of course, Paul F. Tompkins has ever called you. That guy is hilarious. Mike himself calls the podcast a brutally funny and profane stream-of-consciousness monologue about his life. Why not subscribe, and then let Mr. Schmidt know what you call it? Hard to top those first two, but give it a shot.
Never Not Funny
Sunday • 6:00 p.m. • Ballroom
Never Not Funny is a party conversation with one of the funniest men on the planet: comedian and TV personality Jimmy Pardo (The Tonight Show, That ’70s Show, The Surreal Life). Every week, he sits down with producer Matt Belknap and a guest from the world of comedy to shoot the breeze, share stories and laugh at life. The free-flowing discussion can lead anywhere, but whether Jimmy’s talking about growing up in the ’70s and ’80s, his unbridled love of classic rock or facing the trials of modern life, it’s bound to strike a chord with listeners of all ages, and it’s guaranteed to make you laugh. For their live PodFest performance, Jimmy and Matt are joined by the always-hilarious “third chair” Pat Francis, and if fans are lucky, they may even get a visit from Paul Stanley.
RISK! Storytelling Workshop
Sunday • 6:00 p.m. • Cabrilla
Have you ever wondered what it might be like to keep a rooster in an urban neighborhood, or fall down an elevator shaft to your surprising non-death? Look no further than the RISK! podcast. Kevin Allison of the comedy group The State hosts this uncensored show where writers, performers and everyday folks tell true stories they never thought they’d dare to share. If you like The Moth or This American Life, take a walk on the wilder side and maybe even try telling a few stories of your own at the RISK! Storytelling Workshop.
Moderator Kevin Allison is the creator and host of the wildly popular true storytelling podcast RISK!, and a member of MTV’s legendary sketch comedy troupe, The State. Kevin is also the founder and head instructor of The Story Studio, where he teaches storytelling to writers, performers, professionals and more in New York City.
Closing Night Party
Sunday • 8:00 p.m. • Ballroom
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