Rachel Dratch isn’t just from Massachusetts, she is the voice of Massachusetts, at least for fans of Saturday Night Live from 1999 to 2006. These days, she appears often on Inside Amy Schumer and Broad City. This episode, recorded in 2013, was posted as a podcast but never broadcasted. Here it is, recut and … Continue reading »
She’s smart, she’s funny, she’s called a standup comic, but is she? She doesn’t tell jokes, she tells stories. And she doesn’t so much tell them as perform them, as a gifted actor might. Randy and Maria met by email when he wrote the Ethicist column for the Times, and she wanted to discuss the … Continue reading »
Known for his work as the bumbling PC in Apple Computer commercials and as the “resident expert” on The Daily Show with John Stewart, John Hodgman is also the author of That Is All. He joins Randy Cohen for a conversation about one person, one place, and one thing that have significance to him. This … Continue reading »