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Improve your Improv: Attend Columbus Unscripted October 8-11

September 30, 2014 at 9:40pm by Doug Dangler

Barbara Allen

Debby Phillips

It’s Columbus’ third annual improv comedy festival, the Columbus Unscripted Improv Festival 2014. Hosted by Columbus Unscripted, the festival will include professional-level improvisational workshops as well as performances by over 15 local improv troupes and nationally acclaimed improvisers, Jamie Campbell, The Stevens Family and Hitch*Cocktails from the Annoyance Theatre Chicago.

Listen to my talk with Columbus Unscripted performers Barbara Allen and Debbie Phillips and find out about the festival and what kind of secret addiction Debby has developed (hint: it’s related to improv).

Catch a Code

September 24, 2014 at 9:51pm by Doug Dangler

Brad Henry is a doctoral student at the Ohio State University, working with technology, as well as Director of Technology for eStudent Learning. We sat down to talk about computer programming, technology, and his project with Code.org that encourages students to work with code.

Interested in code? Work in a central Ohio school system? Contact Brad to learn more about his project.

Craft March 22 Humor Special

March 18, 2014 at 9:58pm by Doug Dangler

What’s REALLY March Madness? WCBE giving me a full hour on March 22 at 3 pm (daytime, even) to delve into the nature of humor and humor writing with an array of great writers:

PJ O’Rourke – bestselling author and Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me panelist
Dan Wilbur – Blogger, author, and stand-up comic
Andrew Hudgins – Poet, Ohio State University professor, and The Joker
Sara Barron – author and blogger
Jim C Hines – author and Twitter aficionado
Tony Cochran – nationally syndicated cartoonist of Agnes

: Jim C Hines

: Andrew Hudgins

: Dan Wilbur

: Sara Barron

: Tony Cochran

The truth about CC Finlay

March 13, 2014 at 9:25am by Doug Dangler

Ever wonder about authors like CC Finlay? Listen in for the truth about him – a sneak peek for the March 22 Craft humor special.

Listener requests granted

February 14, 2014 at 11:20pm by Doug Dangler

I value and pay close attention to feedback from Craft listeners. So this week’s promo goes out to one listener who had many illuminating observations about the emphasis that I place on certain sounds in my promos. I hope this promo meets with your approval, @griffiths44…

The Very Funny Erin Foley Educates Me About Sports and Comedy

February 5, 2014 at 7:55pm by Doug Dangler

Comic and sports podcaster Erin Foley will be in Columbus at the Woodlands Tavern on February 8. We talked sports and humor and what her summer travel plans will be (hint: they have something to do with places that end in “Hall of Fame”).

First commenter below gets two books.

Listen to the full interview

Erin Foley poster

Craft has Cracked!

January 30, 2014 at 1:07am by Doug Dangler

This week’s show features guest host Mitra Johari talking to Jack O’Brien, the Cracked.com’s editor in chief on their new book, Cracked: The Detextbook.

Listen to the show

First person to comment below wins two books: one novel of your choice and The Ballad of Barnabas Pierkel.

Cover of Cracked: The De-Textbook

Your First Illicit Reading Experience – NYTimes.com

October 3, 2013 at 7:42am by Doug Dangler

This would make a great listener call-in for Craft: Your First Illicit Reading Experience – NYTimes.com.

How well do you suppose it would go over on the radio? “My first naughty book was…”

Here’s a picture of me with mine…

Doug

8th Floor Locker Room – YouTube

September 2, 2013 at 2:29pm by Doug Dangler

Here’s the infamous “Naked Nate” sketch from this week’s guests Dan White and Nate Varrone.

Warning: humorous nudity.

8th Floor Locker Room – YouTube.

Improv guests go wild

August 29, 2013 at 2:18am by Doug Dangler

My guests on Craft for September 4 will be Nate Varrone and Dan White, two recent OSU graduates living in Chicago and performing improv whenever possible. As students at OSU, they were part of the OSU improv scene and I interviewed them for Writers Talk and worked with them on a Christmas special – one of the darkest holiday specials ever aired on WCBE. But it was funny.

Scary.

But funny.

Anyway, they’ll be on next week, so tune in to see if they can create a sketch on the spot that features the words “cider” and “pop top.” It’s sure to be creative.