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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

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

Podcast

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

Hutch Harris was born in New York City, raised in Silicon Valley and has resided in Portland, Oregon for the past twenty years.  Harris founded and was the lead singer/songwriter of the Thermals. He is currently working on his first solo LP. Follow Harris on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/instantanxiety" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=https://twitter.com/thethermals&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1539364798634000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFoiS1M3sGWO60C3dnqFFla-DuGbw">here</a>.
(Photo Credit: Westin Glass)

Hutch Harris

Music

What’s the Difference Between Standup and a Concert?

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

UPDATED: Please Help Chris Gethard Find This Lost J Church Single

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

Film

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

Adam Green is an award-winning writer, director, actor, and producer best known for horror films like 2010’s snowy thriller Frozen, the Hatchet franchise, 2015&#8217;s Digging Up the Marrow, and his sitcom Holliston, which is now in development on its third season. He&#8217;s also run his own production company, <a href="http://ariescope.com/" target="_blank">ArieScope Pictures</a>, for the past 17 years and every week creates original online series and short films for its website. His podcast (with fellow filmmaker and real-life best friend Joe Lynch) The Movie Crypt was ranked by Entertainment Weekly as one of the “Top 20 Podcasts To Listen To” in 2015. He’s looking for a white guy named Ja’Crispy and his favorite song is Senora Lanza’s “Shut Your Face, Grandma.”

Adam Green

Adam Green on His Very Practical Love Affair with Impractical Jokers

Comedians Tim Heidecker and Chris Gethard Are Recording a Live Talkhouse Podcast in New York

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

Stand-up comedian and actor Ari Shaffir describes his comedy as a puppet show, but way filthier and without the puppets. He grew up orthodox Jewish, spent 2 years in a yeshiva in Israel, and came back to America to lose his religion and become a comic. Now with two hour standup specials (Passive Aggressive and&nbsp;Paid Regular) and his own late night TV series, This Is Not Happening, Ari and his &ldquo;gifted comic unyielding&rdquo; are becoming &ldquo;a real force to be reckoned with&rdquo; (LA Weekly).

Ari Shaffir

Artie Lange is one of the most sought after live comedians in the business. He got his break in the mid &#8217;90s on MADtv, which helped land him acting roles in Dirty Work, The Bachelor, Lost and Found, Mystery Men, The Fourth Floor, Old School and Elf. Lange was a beloved regular on The Howard Stern Show, and now hosts the Artie Quitter podcast. He is the author of the memoirs Too Fat To Fish, a New York Times bestseller, and its follow-up, Crash and Burn.

Artie Lange

Artie Lange (MADtv) Talks with Ari Shaffir (This Is Not Happening) for The Talkhouse Film Podcast

Jim Hemphill is the writer and director of the award-winning film <a href="https://www.facebook.com/troublewiththetruth/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.facebook.com/troublewiththetruth/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1567688259834000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEfdWVn5INQ2VaFYkDfqCAJ1hDMVw">The Trouble With the Truth</a>, which is currently streaming on <a href="https://amzn.to/2Q20O6F" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://amzn.to/2Q20O6F&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1567688259834000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE0fujkM407hiTH5e2ZBjQK8VSaCA">Amazon Prime</a> and other platforms. He has written about movies and television for Filmmaker magazine, American Cinematographer and Film Comment, and is the author of The Art and Craft of TV Directing: Conversations with Episodic Television Directors. He also serves as a film historian at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and has contributed audio commentaries to DVDs and Blu-rays for Indicator, Shout Factory, the BFI, and other home video labels. His website is <a href="http://www.jimhemphillfilms.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.jimhemphillfilms.com/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1567688259834000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHaS2u3V0GTADaZ-lbaGzXANhioeQ">www.jimhemphillfilms.com</a>.

Jim Hemphill

Across the Aisle: Before Trump or Cruz, There Was The Second Civil War

Comedians Ari Shaffir (This Is Not Happening) and Artie Lange (The Howard Stern Show, MADtv) Are Recording a Live Talkhouse Podcast in New York

Kumail Nanjiani is a Los Angeles-based writer and performer who is best known for playing Dinesh in Silicon Valley, as well as his appearances in Portlandia and voice work in Adventure Time. He first gained attention for his one-man show Unpronounceable, in 2013 had a special on Comedy Central called Beta Male, and on the same channel hosts The Meltdown with Jonah &amp; Kumail alongside Jonah Ray. He is the host of the podcasts The Indoor Kids and The X-Files Files.

Kumail Nanjiani

Michael Showalter is a founding member of the New York-based comedy groups The State and Stella. As a filmmaker, he co-wrote and starred in cult comedy Wet Hot American Summer (2001), acted in and made his feature directorial debut with The Baxter (2005), and co-wrote and produced the They Came Together (2014). He co-created the Comedy Central series Michael &amp; Michael Have Issues and co-created and produced the 2015 Netflix original series Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp.

Michael Showalter

Kumail Nanjiani (Silicon Valley) Talks with Michael Showalter (Hello, My Name is Doris) for The Talkhouse Film Podcast

Stephen Cone&nbsp;is a Chicago-based filmmaker whose films include&nbsp;Princess Cyd&nbsp;(BFI London Film Festival, BAMcinemaFest) and&nbsp;Henry Gamble&rsquo;s Birthday Party&nbsp;(BAMcinemaFest, Maryland Film Festival), both of which are currently streaming on Netflix, as well as the Outfest-winning,&nbsp;New York Times&nbsp;Critics Pick&nbsp;The Wise Kids, which can be found streaming on Hulu. Other films include&nbsp;Black Box&nbsp;(Devolver Digital),&nbsp;This Afternoon&nbsp;and&nbsp;In Memoriam&nbsp;(Vimeo).&nbsp;Stephen&nbsp;teaches in the Department of Radio / Television / Film at Northwestern University.

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