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ACE Broadcasting Network
Carolla Digital (formerly ACE Broadcasting Network) is an American podcast network. The flagship program of the network is '' The Adam Carolla Show'', which is released daily. The network also produces several other shows that are released on a weekly basis. History Carolla Digital (then the ACE Broadcasting Network) was launched on February 23, 2009 with the first broadcast of ''The Adam Carolla Podcast''. When Carolla's terrestrial radio show was cancelled, Carolla saw an opportunity to launch the podcast that would become the flagship show of ACE Broadcasting. Carolla and Misraje worked out of Carolla's Glendale warehouse, which is now the network's recording studio, to record the show. In 2012 ACE Broadcasting was rebranded as Carolla Digital. With the success of ''The Adam Carolla Podcast'', which was later renamed ''The Adam Carolla Show'', the network grew. In late 2009, ''Carcast'' debuted. In early 2010, ''Spider and the Henchman'', ''The Parent Experiment'', ''Daves of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Podcast
A podcast is a program made available in digital format for download over the Internet. For example, an episodic series of digital audio or video files that a user can download to a personal device to listen to at a time of their choosing. Streaming applications and podcasting services provide a convenient and integrated way to manage a personal consumption queue across many podcast sources and playback devices. There also exist podcast search engines, which help users find and share podcast episodes. A podcast series usually features one or more recurring hosts engaged in a discussion about a particular topic or current event. Discussion and content within a podcast can range from carefully scripted to completely improvised. Podcasts combine elaborate and artistic sound production with thematic concerns ranging from scientific research to slice-of-life journalism. Many podcast series provide an associated website with links and show notes, guest biographies, transcripts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Stromer
Eric Antony Stromer (born April 28, 1961) is an American actor and television personality. He was a co-host for the motoring television series, ''Top Gear'', on NBC. He was raised in Evanston, Illinois. Career Stromer started acting at the age of 7 doing a Kit Kat commercial. He lost out of the role of Henry Desmond to Peter Scolari in the Tom Hanks sitcom ''Bosom Buddies''. He is the host of ''Over Your Head'', the primary carpenter on ''Clean Sweep'', also making appearances on ''Trading Spaces''. He is also the co-host of Adam Carolla Adam Carolla (born May 27, 1964) is an American radio personality, comedian, actor and podcaster. He hosts '' The Adam Carolla Show'', a talk show distributed as a podcast which set the record as the "most downloaded podcast" as judged by ''Guin ...'s home improvement podcast, ''Ace on the House'', dispensing home improvement advice to callers. Cancer On February 28, 2011, Stromer related, on an episode of '' The Doctors'', that radiography fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terrifying Tim
Terror(s) or The Terror may refer to: Politics * Reign of Terror, commonly known as The Terror, a period of violence (1793–1794) after the onset of the French Revolution * Terror (politics), a policy of political repression and violence Emotions * Fear, the emotional response to a threat or danger ** Angst, a form of anxiety or fear described in existentialist philosophy ** Anxiety, a sense of dread ** Panic, a sudden overwhelming fear Arts, entertainment and media Fictional entities * Terror (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics character * Terror (New England Comics), a supervillain * ''Terror'', a land/sea/airship in Jules Verne's novel '' Master of the World'' Film * ''The Terror'' (1917 film), an American silent film * ''The Terror'' (1920 film), an American western film starring Tom Mix * ''Terror'' (1924 film), a French film starring Pearl White * ''The Terror'' (1926 film), an American western film * ''The Terror'' (1928 film), an American horror film directed by R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Windy City Heat
''Windy City Heat'' is a made-for-TV reality film produced by Comedy Central. It first aired on October 12, 2003. Background Perry Caravello is an aspiring celebrity and struggling comedian and actor who was "discovered" in 1992 by comedian Don Barris, the warmup comic for ''Jimmy Kimmel Live'' and ''The Man Show,'' during an open mic night audition at The Comedy Store in Westwood, Los Angeles, California. Barris offered Caravello a chance at stardom and, along with Tony Barbieri playing a perpetually stoned "Walter 'Mole' Molinski," befriended Caravello and has played pranks on him since 1995. Caravello's ongoing commitment to achieving this stardom, with the assistance and participation of Barris and Barbieri, is known as The Perry Project, which is noted with a title card at the beginning of the film. When performing as a trio, Caravello, Barris, and Mole are collectively known as "The Big 3." In a scene in ''Windy City Heat'', Caravello cites an unnamed source referring to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comedy Central
Comedy Central is an American basic cable channel owned by Paramount Global through its network division's MTV Entertainment Group unit, based in Manhattan. The channel is geared towards young adults aged 18–34 and carries comedy programming in the form of both original, licensed, and syndicated series, stand-up comedy specials, and feature films. It is available to approximately 86.723 million households in the United States as of September 2018. Since the early 2000s, Comedy Central has expanded globally with localized channels in Europe (including the UK), India, Southeast Asia, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand, Middle East, and Africa. The international channels are operated by Paramount International Networks. History 1989–1991: Pre-launch as The Comedy Channel On November 15, 1989, Time-Life, the owners of HBO, launched The Comedy Channel as the first cable channel devoted exclusively to comedy-based programming. On April 1, 1990, Viacom (who o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Barbieri
Anthony J. Barbieri (born August 26, 1963, in Framingham, Massachusetts) is an American comedic writer and performer. He is known for his appearances as the '' Jimmy Kimmel Live!'' character "Jake Byrd." Career Barbieri was the writer of the monthly satirical '' Monroe'' comic strip for ''Mad Magazine'' from 1997 to 2010. In 1999, he got his first writer's credit for television while working on ''The Man Show''. Barbieri went on to write for the sitcoms '' That's My Bush!'' and ''That '80s Show''. The Big Three Barbieri was part of a comedy team known as "The Big Three" with Perry Caravello and Don Barris. In 2003, the trio starred in the Comedy Central reality movie '' Windy City Heat'', directed by Bobcat Goldthwait and written by Barris and Barbieri, and Jimmy Kimmel. The movie was an elaborate prank on Caravello who was under the impression he had landed his first starring role in a major motion picture. In 2010, Caravello, Barris and Barbieri started a weekly comedy podcas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenna Kim Jones
Jenna Kim Jones (born June 8, 1986) is an American comedian and podcaster. Known for her on-camera narration in the American documentary film ''Meet the Mormons'' (2014), she currently hosts a daily podcast called ''Couple Friends''. Jones is a former Thursday gang regular on the ''Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend'' podcast. Personal life Jones was born in Seoul, South Korea on June 8, 1986. At the age of 8 she relocated with her mother and five siblings to Provo, Utah. After graduating from Timpview High School in 2004, she moved to New York City to attend New York University. In July 2012, she married Allan Moss and moved to Los Angeles. They left Los Angeles during the summer of 2017 and moved to the greater Atlanta, Georgia area. Education Jones graduated from New York University with a Bachelor of Arts in Producing and Writing for Television in 2008. Early career In high school, Jones was a park performer at Utah's Lagoon Amusement Park. While at NYU, sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garrison Keillor
Gary Edward "Garrison" Keillor (; born August 7, 1942) is an American author, singer, humorist, voice actor, and radio personality. He created the Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) show ''A Prairie Home Companion'' (called ''Garrison Keillor's Radio Show'' in some international syndication), which he hosted from 1974 to 2016. Keillor created the fictional Minnesota town Lake Wobegon, the setting of many of his books, including ''Lake Wobegon Days ''and '' Leaving Home: A Collection of Lake Wobegon Stories''. Other creations include Guy Noir, a detective voiced by Keillor who appeared in ''A Prairie Home Companion'' comic skits. Keillor is also the creator of the five-minute daily radio/podcast program ''The Writer's Almanac'', which pairs one or two poems of his choice with a script about important literary, historical, and scientific events that coincided with that date in history. In November 2017, Minnesota Public Radio cut all business ties with Keillor after an allegation of inap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Shepherd
Jean Parker 'Shep' Shepherd Jr. (~July 21, 1921 – October 16, 1999) was an American storyteller, humorist, radio and TV personality, writer, and actor. With a career that spanned decades, Shepherd is known for the film '' A Christmas Story'' (1983), which he narrated and co-scripted, based on his own semiautobiographical stories. Early life Born in 1921 to Jean Parker Shepherd and his wife, Anna, on the South Side of Chicago, Shepherd Jr. briefly lived in East Chicago, Indiana, and was raised in Hammond, Indiana, where he graduated from Hammond High School in 1939. '' A Christmas Story'' is loosely based on his days growing up in Hammond's southeast side neighborhood of Hessville. As a youth, he worked briefly as a mail carrier in a steel mill and earned his amateur radio license (W9QWN) at age 16, sometimes claiming he was even younger. He sporadically attended Indiana University, but never graduated. During World War II, he served stateside in the U.S. Army Signal Corp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Miller (entertainer)
Lawrence John Miller (born October 15, 1953) is an American comedian, actor, podcaster, and columnist. He is primarily regarded as a character actor, with ''The A.V. Club'' noting that he "can be counted upon to improve every film or television show he appears in". His better-known roles include Lou Bonaparte in ''Mad About You'' (1993–1998), Pointy-haired Boss in ''Dilbert (TV series), Dilbert'' (1999–2000), Edwin Poole in ''Boston Legal'' (2004–2008), Mr. Hollister in ''Pretty Woman'' (1990), Dean Richmond in ''The Nutty Professor (1996 film), The Nutty Professor'' (1996) and ''Nutty Professor II: The Klumps'' (2000), Walter Stratford in ''10 Things I Hate About You'' (1999) and Paolo Puttanesca in ''The Princess Diaries (film), The Princess Diaries'' (2001) and ''The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement'' (2004). Miller has also served as one of the regular players in Christopher Guest's mockumentary films. Early life and education Miller was born in Brooklyn and grew u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Goudeau
Michael Carey Goudeau (born May 11, 1959) is a juggler and an ex-circus clown who graduated from the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College. He is a writer and was an executive producer for the Showtime series '' Penn & Teller: Bullshit!''. Goudeau juggled for the Lance Burton Show at the Monte Carlo Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. Goudeau served as co-host of Penn Radio with Penn Jillette which aired weekdays on Free FM until March 2, 2007. He currently serves as co-host of Jillette's weekly podcast, ''Penn's Sunday School'', with Matt Donnelly. Goudeau is married to Theresa Goudeau and is the father of two adopted children, Joe and Emily. Goudeau divorced and remarried his wife. Their second wedding ceremony was performed in a Vegas drive-thru church. Goudeau says "I got married in a drive thru. My mother-in-law and my mom were in the backseat of my Suburban. We had classical music on the radio. My wife had a Subway napkin taped to her head as a veil. As crazy a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penn Jillette
Penn Fraser Jillette (born March 5, 1955) is an American magician, actor, musician, inventor, television presenter, and author, best known for his work with fellow magician Teller as half of the team Penn & Teller. The duo has been featured in numerous stage and television shows, such as '' Penn & Teller: Fool Us'' and '' Penn & Teller: Bullshit!'', and is currently headlining in Las Vegas at The Rio. Jillette serves as the act's orator and raconteur. Jillette has published eight books, including the ''New York Times'' Bestseller, '' God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales''. He is also known for his advocacy of atheism, scientific skepticism, the First Amendment, as well as previously identifying as a libertarian, and supporting free-market capitalism. Early life Jillette was born in Greenfield, Massachusetts. His mother, Valda Rudolph Jillette (née Parks; 1909–2000),Ancestry.com. Social Security Death Index atabase on-line Provo, UT, USA: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
