Chris Bowman interviews the Los Angeles indie pop group The Submarines. Their most recent album is Honeysuckle Weeks.
Robert Popper
Robert Popper was co-creator of the British comedy series "Look Around You." He`s also the author, as "Robin Cooper" of "The Timewaster Letters," which are smash bestsellers in the UK, and have just been released in the US.
Seun Kuti
Seun Kuti is the leader of the band Egypt 80, which was founded by his father, the legendary creator of Afrobeat, Fela Kuti.
Bob Powers
Bob Powers is the author of the new choose-your-own-adventure-style book "You Are a Miserable Excuse for a Hero."
The Hold Steady
The Hold Steady are a Brooklyn-based, Minneapolis-bred rock and roll band. They`re known for grand songs about teenagers and tough times.
Chris Parnell
Chris Parnell is an actor best known for his long stint on Saturday Night Live. He`s also appeared in films like Anchorman and recently, Kabluey.
Camp Camp
Roger Bennett is co-author of "Camp Camp: Where Fantasy Island Meets Lord of the Flies." It`s a collection of reminiscences and ephemera related to summer camp.
Explorers Club
The Explorers Club are a South Carolina-based rock band, whose music recalls the Southern California rock of the 1960s and the melodramatic pop of Phil Spector.
Ze Frank
Ze Frank is an internet super-celebrity, and the principal of zefrank.com. His year-long daily video blog project, The Show, was one of the first great successes of the video blog world.
Jay Smooth
Jay Smooth is a hip-hop radio host, blogger and vlogger. This interview was recorded live at Sketchfest NYC at the UCB Theater in New York.
Live in NYC: Music & Comedy
Comedy from Michael Showalter and Pangea 3000, music from Dawn Landes. Recorded live in New York.
Kabluey
Scott Prendergast is the writer, director and star of the indie comedy Kabluey. The film, which also stars Lisa Kudrow, concerns a young man helping tend to his brother`s children while his brother is serving in Iraq.
Blu of Blu & Exile
Blu is the MC half of the hip-hop duo Blu & Exile. They released their critically-acclaimed first album, "Below the Heavens," last year.
Bomb It
John Reiss is the director of the documentary film "Bomb It". The film focuses on the world wide phenomenon of graffiti.
The Pixar Touch
David A. Price is the author of The Pixar Touch: The Making Of A
Company. The book traces the history of Pixar from technology company to entertainment behemoth.
American Nerd
Benjamin Nugent is the author of "American Nerd: The Story of My People," a combination of memoir, sociology and reportage on the nerd in American life.
Ariel Schrag
Ariel Schrag wrote the autobiographical comics Definition, Awkward and Potential while still in high school in the late 90s. The books were just re-published.
The Eels
Mark Oliver Everett, sometimes known as E, joins us. He`s the frontman of the rotating cast that makes up the rock band The Eels.
Comedy At The Edge
Richard Zoglin is the author of "Comedy at the Edge: How stand-up comedy in the 1970`s changed America".
The Chris Farley Show
Tom Farley Jr. and Tanner Colby talk about their book "The Chris Farley Show: A Biography in Three Acts."
TSOYA is Live in NY June 14th!
TSOYA is live at Sketchfest NYC at the UCB Theater in New York on June 14th, with guests Ze Frank, Jay Smooth, Pangea 3000 and Dawn Landes.
The Grouch
The Grouch is a fixture in the West Coast independent hip-hop scene, as a solo artist and as a member of The Living Legends. The group help blaze the trail for independent, underground hip-hop in the early to mid 1990s.
Jack Handey
Jack Handey is the creator of "Deep Thoughts," and now the author of "What I`d Say To The Martians (and Other Veiled Threats)."
Maximum Fun Drive
Hey! You there who reads the podcast feed with a feed reader! Have you donated to support Maximum Fun yet?
Kenny Mayne
Kenny Mayne is a long-time ESPN personality. He`s now also an author, with "An Incomplete & Innacurate History of Sport."
Reno 911 Creators
Guests Thomas Lennon, Robert Ben Garant and Kerri Kenney-Silver are the co-creators and stars of Reno 911. The Comedy Central series, which spoofs COPS-style reality shows, is entering the second half of its fifth season. The trio also...
Nellie McKay
Nellie McKay is a singer-songwriter who`s garnered broad acclaim for her spectacular singing voice and her wry, funny songs.
Mike Birbiglia
Mike Birbiglia is a standup comedian. His new special "What I Should Have Said Was Nothing: My Secret Public Journal Live" adapts stories from his popular online diary.
Kirby: King of Comics
Mark Evanier is that author of Kirby: King of Comics, a lavishly illustrated biography of comic book legend Jack Kirby. He also worked with Kirby in the 1960s and 70s.
The Ten-Cent Plague
David Hajdu is an award-winning cultural historian. His book The Ten Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How It Changed America, about the censorship of comics in the mid-1950s.
