Comedy: It's No Laughing Matter - With (actually funny!) Comedian Jason Salmon

Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world, and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. If you still remember the theme song to Fraggle Rockword-for-word, then you probably still remember a spotlight on a fake brick wall, or a one hour HBO special, or at least one of the Comic Relief  telethons, or maybe a young Jay Leno in a blazer with shoulder pads, or perhaps how Marc Maron looked before he could grow a real mustache and turn morose. On today’s show we talk to stand-up comedian Jason Salmonabout his new album Force of Nurture(download or stream it now from iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, or wherever Google tells you to; this guy really knows his ha-ha's from his LOL's!) and then Grim, Marke, and Johnny get serious about comedy. Seriously serious. Stand-up comedy always seemed to have a special license in popular culture to be extra free -- to get away with saying things about society that couldn’t be said anywhere else -- but is that now changing with the age of social media and digital activism? And what of the fallen greats? Can we still laugh at a punchline if the wrong person said it? And what's the deal with airplane food? Hello, is this thing still on? Follow us @StayClassySDCC and catch up with us on mattypradio.com for articles, interviews and more!🥣Saturday Morning Cereal — the show that celebrates the themes of Saturday Morning TV that we not only grew up with, but that grew up with us.We talk with the talent and creatives who continue to shape the pop culture we love.🎙️ Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and visit mattypradio.com for more episodes, interviews, and Comic-Con and pop-culture coverage.