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Chris Gethard is a comedian, actor, and author based out of New Jersey. He’s the host of the Beautiful/Anonymous podcast, the former host of the underground cult classic The Chris Gethard Show, and the writer and star of the HBO special Career Suicide. As an actor, Chris has been seen in television shows such as Space Force, The Office, Parks and Recreation, Broad City, Inside Amy Schumer, and a lot more. He’s been in films like Don’t Think Twice, The Other Guys, The Heat, Anchorman 2 and Ghostbusters. Chris is the author of three books. He’s had a number of pieces appear on This American Life. He also travels the country both with Beautiful/Anonymous and his stand-up comedy, performing to sold out crowds all over America and much of the rest of the English-speaking world.

Chris Gethard

For the last decade, Tim Heidecker — along with his comedy partner Eric Wareheim — has proven to be one of our cult-comedy greats with his Adult Swim series Tim &amp; Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! and Tim &amp; Eric’s Bedtime Stories. He’s starred in indie films and played sold out stand-up sets around the world. Heidecker&#8217;s latest show, <a href="https://www.adultswim.com/videos/beef-house" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Beef House</a>, premieres on Adult Swim on March 29. (Photo by Cara Robbins)

Tim Heidecker

Your favorite musicians, filmmakers, and other creative minds one-on-one. No moderator, no script, no typical questions. The Talkhouse Podcast offers unique insights into creative work from all genres and generations. <a href="https://pod.link/Talkhouse" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Subscribe now</a>, and explore more illuminating shows on the <a href="https://talkhouse.com/category/podcast" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Talkhouse Podcast Network.</a>

Talkhouse Podcast

Film

Chris Gethard (The Chris Gethard Show) Talks with Tim Heidecker for The Talkhouse Film Podcast

Thundercat is a multi-genre, multi-talented musician who has worked with the likes of Flying Lotus, Kendrick Lamar and more.
Born into a musical family in Los Angeles, jazz musician Kamasi Washington attended the prestigious Hamilton High School of Music followed by UCLA. He has toured and recorded with Snoop Dogg, Raphael Saadiq, Kendrick Lamar, Gerald Wilson, Lauryn Hill, Mos Def and Chaka Khan, among others. With his 10-piece band, the Next Step, Kamasi recently released his groundbreaking album The Epic and is currently on tour worldwide. Connect with Kamasi on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/kamasiw?fref=ts" target="_blank">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/KamasiW" target="_blank">Twitter</a>, his <a href="http://www.kamasiwashington.com/" target="_blank">artist website</a> and <a href="http://brainfeeder.net/kamasiwashington/" target="_blank">the Brainfeeder label website</a>.

Thundercat and Kamasi Washington

Podcast

Kamasi Washington Talks with Thundercat for The Talkhouse Music Podcast

Actress and comedian Aidy Bryant has been a cast member on NBC&#8217;s iconic Saturday Night Live since 2012. She had a recurring role on IFC&#8217;s Comedy Bang Bang, and has recently guest starred on Girls, Broad City, Documentary Now! and Horace and Pete.

Aidy Bryant

Jessi Klein is the Emmy and Peabody award-winning head writer and an executive producer of Inside Amy Schumer and has also written for Amazon&#8217;s Transparent and Saturday Night Live. She has been featured on the popular storytelling series The Moth and been a regular panelist on NPR&#8217;s Wait Wait&#8230;Don&#8217;t Tell Me! She&#8217;s been published in Esquire and Cosmopolitan, and has had her own half-hour Comedy Central stand-up special. Her first book, <a href="https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jessi-klein/youll-grow-out-of-it/9781455531189/" target="_blank">You&#8217;ll Grow Out of It</a>, is out now. (Picture by Robyn Von Swank.)

Jessi Klein

Aidy Bryant (Saturday Night Live) Talks with Jessi Klein (Inside Amy Schumer) for The Talkhouse Film Podcast

Kid Cudi is a hugely successful recording artist and actor from Cleveland, Ohio. Since 2009, he has released a number of hit albums, including Man on the Moon: The End of Day, Man on the Moon, Vol. 2: The Legend of Mr. Rager and Indicud. He is also a member of the band WZRD and the bandleader on IFC&#8217;s Comedy Bang! Bang! As an actor, he has appeared under his birth name, Scott Mescudi, in the HBO show How to Make It in America and movies such as Need for Speed and James White (for which he also wrote the score).

Kid Cudi

Paul Reubens is the legendary creator and performer of Pee-wee Herman, who he has portrayed in the TV shows The Pee-wee Herman Show and Pee-wee&#8217;s Playhouse and the movies Pee-wee&#8217;s Big Adventure, Big-Top Pee-wee and 2016&#8217;s Pee-wee&#8217;s Big Holiday. Reubens has played numerous other roles on the big and small screens, including in the films Batman Returns, Matilda, Mystery Men, Blow and Life After Wartime and the TV shows Reno 911!, 30 Rock, Portlandia, The Blacklist and Gotham.

Paul Reubens

Kid Cudi Talks with Paul Reubens (Pee-wee’s Big Holiday) for The Talkhouse Film Podcast

Vanessa Bayer is a member of the Saturday Night Live cast. She&#8217;s also appeared in several films, including Trainwreck and Office Christmas Party.
Jonah Bayer is the guitarist in United Nations, host of the podcast Going off Track and co-creator of the Web series Sound Advice. He is also a regular contributor to Playboy, Noisey, The AV Club, Inked and Revolver.
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Vanessa and Jonah Bayer

Jonah Bayer is the guitarist for the screamo act United Nations. He is also a writer, producer and podcaster with two decades of experience in the music industry. He has written for Rolling Stone, Travel + Leisure, and Stereogum and worked on podcasts for clients such as HBO Max, iHeartMedia &amp; Sonos. He is currently an adjunct professor in the English &amp; Communications department at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts as well as a graduate student in Antioch University’s Clinical Mental Health Counseling program.

Jonah Bayer

Vanessa Bayer (SNL) Talks with Jonah Bayer (United Nations) for the Talkhouse Music Podcast

Best known for his sixteen years as songwriter-performer-producer with Tracey Thorn in multi-million-selling alt-pop UK duo Everything But the Girl (1984-2000), London-born Ben Watt is also a prize-nominated non-fiction writer, record label boss and DJ. In 2014, he returned to his earliest folk-jazz roots as a solo singer-songwriter with the award-winning album, Hendra, his first for thirty-one years. The follow-up Fever Dream was released in April 2016. He has also written two memoirs; the first, Patient (1996), was a New York TimesNotable Book of the Year, the most recent, Romany and Tom (2014), was long-listed for the UK’s premier non-fiction award, the Samuel Johnson Prize.
Bernard Butler is an English musician and record producer. He has been noted as one of Britain&#8217;s most original and influential guitarists. In 1989 he forged a songwriting partnership with Brett Anderson forming the group Suede and co-writing and playing guitars on every recording until 1994. From there, Butler continued to play music and produced/played on records for the likes of Aimee Mann, Duffy, Black Kids and the Libertines.

Ben Watt and Bernard Butler

Music

Ben Watt (Everything But the Girl) Talks with Bernard Butler for the Talkhouse Music Podcast

Wyclef Jean is a rapper, musician, activist and actor. He&#8217;s best known as one of the founding members of the Fugees.
Will Butler is a member of Arcade Fire. His debut solo record, Policy, came out spring 2015. You can follow him on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/butlerwills" target="_blank">here</a> and like him on Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/butlerwills?fref=ts" target="_blank">here</a>.

Wyclef Jean and Will Butler

Wyclef Jean Talks with Will Butler (Arcade Fire) for the Talkhouse Music Podcast

Vince Clarke is an English synth pop musician who has written and performed with the likes of Erasure, Depeche Mode and Yaz.
Jean-Michel Jarre has been one of the pioneering forces throughout the electronic music scene over the last four decades, having originally made his name in the 1970s for his critically acclaimed album OXYGENE. OXYGENE 3 is out now.

Vince Clarke and Jean-Michel Jarre

Vince Clarke (Depeche Mode, Yaz, Erasure) Talks with Jean-Michel Jarre for the Talkhouse Music Podcast

Jason Schwartzman made his film debut in Wes Anderson&#8217;s 1998 Rushmore and has since collaborated with Anderson on The Darjeeling Limited (which the pair wrote with Roman Coppola), the short film Hotel Chevalier, his animated feature Fantastic Mr. Fox, Moonrise Kingdom and, The Grand Budapest Hotel. Schwartzman recently starred in Alex Ross Perry&#8217;s Listen Up Philip and Tim Burton&#8217;s Big Eyes, and his other movie credits include Judd Apatow’s Funny People, Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette and David O. Russell’s I Heart Huckabees. He currently serves as a co-creator/executive producer and writer of the Amazon series Mozart in the Jungle and makes music under the name Coconut Records.

Jason Schwartzman

Robert Schwartzman is a filmmaker and accomplished musician. He formed the band Rooney in 1999 and signed with Interscope/Geffen records in 2002. He studied film at the Oxford Media School and has acted in multiple films, including The Princess Diaries and The Virgin Suicides. He made his directorial debut in 2016 with the drama Dreamland, which he also produced, co-wrote and scored, and followed it up with the comedies The Unicorn (2018), starring Lauren Lapkus and Nicholas Rutherford, and The Argument (2020), starring Maggie Q and Danny Pudi. He has two new films that have premiered in 2023: Hung Up on a Dream: The Zombies Documentary, about the seminal English rock band, and The Good Half, a comedy drama starring Nick Jonas, Brittany Snow, David Arquette.

Robert Schwartzman

Jason Schwartzman Talks with Robert Schwartzman (Dreamland) for The Talkhouse Film Podcast

Recording both as Parliament and Funkadelic, George Clinton revolutionized R&amp;B during the ’70s, twisting soul music into funk by adding influences from several late-’60s acid heroes: Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa and Sly Stone. The Parliament/Funkadelic machine ruled black music during the ’70s, capturing over forty R&amp;B hit singles (including three number ones) and recording three platinum albums.
Soul Clap is Boston DJ duo Eli Goldstein and Charles Levine. Follow them on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/soulclap" target="_blank">here</a> and like them on Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/soulclap/?fref=ts" target="_blank">here</a>.
(Photo credit: Bill Kennedy)

George Clinton and Soul Clap

George Clinton Talks with Soul Clap for the Talkhouse Music Podcast

Meredith Graves is a musician and writer. She also runs a small record label called <a href="http://www.honor.press/" target="_blank">Honor Press</a>. You can follow her on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/gravesmeredith" target="_blank">here</a> and on Instagram <a href="http://instagram.com/gravesmeredith" target="_blank">here</a>.

Meredith Graves

Rose McGowan is an activist, author and artist.

Rose McGowan

Meredith Graves (Perfect Pussy) Talks with Rose McGowan for The Talkhouse Film Podcast

Tori Amos has sold over twelve million albums, played over a thousand shows and had multiple Grammy nominations. A pioneer across multiple platforms, she was the first major label artist to offer a single for download, has had her songs turned into graphic novels and a successful musical, and has produced pioneering videos throughout her career. She is renowned for her passionate and broad fan-base, her critically and commercially successful tours, and her ever-evolving live show. Amos is also a noted humanitarian and co-founder of RAINN (Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network), which is the United States’ largest anti-sexual assault organization.
Shirley Manson is a singer, songwriter, musician and actress. She is the lead singer of the alternative rock band Garbage.
(Photo credits: Joseph Cultice, Cindy Palmano)