Sari Beliak

Host Tom Simes chats with comedian Dennis Regan to discuss his time as a writer on the TV show "King of Queens". Then we hear from comedian Sari Beliak about her experience working at the satirical magazine The Onion.

Recently, a Facebook post kept showing up in my timeline: “These Oakland Punks Helped Turn a Failing Bike Shop Into a Failed Bike Shop.” The photo and headline were so pitch-perfect, the subject matter such a cross-section of interests within my Facebook experience that I scrolled past it the first time, assuming it was real. Then came the realization: I was finally old and jaded enough to be the target audience for a punk satire site, and so were a lot of my Facebook friends. “Seriously, thoug

Sari Beliak is in the mansion this week! We went over ten truly tedious party jokes from Playboy's July of 1991 issue. Joke topics include a monkey getting ready to have sex with a lion, a moron who has trouble with children's jigsaw puzzles, and Mikhail Gorbachev. Enjoy! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

I’ll never be able to listen to Public Enemy’s “Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos” the same way again. Sitting at a table in July last year, I heard a storyteller at the monthly Vinyl Voices event talk about the time he almost died while it was playing. He and a group of friends had gone out drinking, and while driving late at night, they got trapped in a flooded section of road. “Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos” played on the stereo as their car sank into the water. They narrowly escaped with