The National Lampoon Radio Hour is back tomorrow. We talk to head writers ColeEscola and Jo Firestone about the new podcast.
, though self-effacingly Escola says of their editing, “I would say we hurt people’s sketches more than we helped.”
The cast, which Escola and Firestone helped assemble, is rounded out by celebrated New York comedians Brett Davis, Alex English, Maeve Higgins, Aaron Jackson, Rachel Pegram, Lorelei Ramirez, Megan Stalter and Martin Urbano. The group wrote the sketches in Bushwick over the course of five weeks, then spent a week recording at Vinegar Hill Sound in DUMBO.
Shapiro, who has recently placed himself at the cross streets of streaming services and podcasts with Seeso programs like“It just felt really organic and natural and nice and fun and different and there’s just nothing—I haven’t heard anything like this,” he says. “I also don’t know a group of people collectively like this,” he says. “It’s actually, I think, a snapshot of comedy on the whole right now. It’s much more, I think, a community-based thing than it’s ever been.
The lead writers met about a decade ago at the alternative theater company Ars Nova, an occasion which neither remembers very clearly . Escola hosted, which he admits was not his forte at the time.
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