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UCB Digital Podcast
by UCB Digital Podcast
A behind-the-scenes look at comedy filmmaking featuring conversations with creators about their craft in a converging digital media landscape. Expect to hear from a varied group of industry professionals (writers, directors, actors and more) who shed light on their unique creative process. New episodes bi-monthly on Tuesdays.
Episodes
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Career Tracker – Week 35
Our final Career Tracker of 2018! We check in with Marla Black, Ben Marshall, Mehdi Barakchian and Nic Stanich to see what they’re working on, how they feel as they look back on the year, and what goals they’re setting for 2018. Sean Weiner (UCB, Jacob Burns Center) is in the studio to chat with...
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Maker Book Club – Director's Six Senses
The Maker Book Club is back in session! This week Nate Russell sits down with UCB Comedy writer/directors Tessa Greenberg and Matt Starr, and actor/producer Sam Klemmer to break down everyone's thoughts on the chosen filmmaking guide, The Director's Six Senses by Simone Bartesaghi. This episode…
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Perfecting The Edit
Editing should never be an afterthought. This week we bring you a compilation of our favorite clips about the editing process, each one illustrating the ways in which every perspective of a production can have some connection to the edit, be it the writers, actors, directors, and so on. Nate...
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Jonathan Furmanski – Communicating Your Vision
Jonathan Furmanski is the DP on all your favorite comedies: Delocated, Search Party, Inside Amy Schumer, and more. This week he’s sitting down with Nate to chat about how he rose through the ranks from assisting, how his approach changes between sketch and more serialized content, and why he…
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Michela Smith and Lucien Flores – Making Short-Form as a Duo
Michela Smith and Lucien Flores are a two-person production team often known as Loose Seal Productions. This week they're in the studio to chat with Nate about how they divide their work as creative partners, how they've found a home in the New York comedy community, and their recent project for...
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Zack Phillips and Madalyn Baldanzi – Writing a Pilot
Writer/comedians Zack Phillips and Madalyn Baldanzi are in the studio to talk about their recent fellowship in the Made in NY Writers Room, a program organized by the mayoral office of New York City and the Writer's Guild of America East. Zack and Madalyn tell Nate what it was like to be in a...
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Patrick Cotnoir – Talent Booking
Our guest today is Patrick Cotnoir, talent booker extraordinaire for The Chris Gethard Show and formerly The President Show, as well as cherished UCBT stage shows like Asssscat 3000 and The George Lucas Talk Show. Patrick explains his method for booking guests big and small, and some tips and...
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Career Tracker Week 28
It's the fifth installment of our Career Tracker series! What did our four makers – Ben Marshall, Marla Black, Mehdi Barakchian and Nic Stanich – accomplish in the last seven weeks? How did their lives change? Joining Nate in-studio to chat through each check-in is writer/director/performer Matt...
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Making A Web Series That Works
This week, we've dug into the UCB Digital archive to bring you the best tips, tricks and nuggets of wisdom for making a successful web series. Host Nate Russell looks back at the best of our web content-creating guests: Jonathan Braylock, James III, Jerah Milligan(Seriously TV), Soren and Jolles...
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Hayley Kosan – Jack of All Trades
Hayley Kosan is in the studio this week to chat with Nate about what motivates her work as a multi-talented director, DP, producer and actor. Hayley was an associate producer on The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, and directed the sketch comedy series Business Work, Horrible Insane Girl (IFC)…
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Dylan Marron – Comedy for Social Justice
This week we're excited to have performer, writer and activist Dylan Marron in the studio to chat with Nate about his work for Seriously.TV and his podcast project Conversations with People Who Hate Me. Dylan explains the ideas behind his most popular video content which blends the worlds of…
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Ally Pankiw – Bi-Coastal Directing
Canadian director Ally Pankiw stops by the studio this week to chat with Nate about her work as a director in not one but two cities: Toronto and Los Angeles. Ally was a writer on the series Schitt's Creek with Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara, and recently directed the digital series Terrific...
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Nate Dern – From Screen to Page
Nate Dern is the senior writer of Funny or Die and the former Artistic Director of the UCB Theatre. He's now also a published author with his book of essays, Not Quite a Genius, available in stores now. He stopped by UCB Comedy to chat with Nate Russell about his rise from comedian to author…
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Career Tracker Week 21
A new installment of our Career Tracker series! At week 21, our four makers are facing new challenges, successes, and some unexpected twists in their career paths. Join host Nathan Russell and filmmaker Alden Ford as they check in with our subjects Nic Stanich, Mehdi Barakchian, Marla Black and…
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Dan Erickson – Making an Indie Movie
Dan Erickson (UCB, Blue Bloods) is in the studio this week! Dan recently completed his first full-length independent feature and as a follow-up to our book club, he's chatting with Nate about his process in comparison with Reed Martin's guide to indie filmmaking, The Reel Truth. We get into the...
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The Maker Book Club
UCB Digital presents its first-ever Maker Book Club episode! We read The Reel Truth: Everything You Didn't Know You Need To Know About Making an Independent Film, by Reed Martin. In this episode, Nate sits down with members of the UCB Comedy team Sophie Yalkezian, Matthew Torres and Sonya Saepoff...
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Ryan Spears – Short Form Editing
This week Nate Russell sat down with freelance film editor Ryan Spears about his time editing digital shorts for SNL and leading the post-production team at Above Average. Ryan's now a freelancer and explains how he made contacts in the comedy world, how editing short form content has become a...
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Alyssa Limperis - Seizing Your Goals
Writer, Performer and Stand-up Comedian Alyssa Limperis (Conde Nast) chats with host Nate Russell about how her father's recent passing motivated her to pursue her career goals. Alyssa produces video content for Conde Nast's digital platform, The Scene, and performs standup across the city,...
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Rachel Roderman - Being Nimble
Producer Rachel Roderman (Bustle) joins Nate Russell in-studio to chat about her UCB Digital team Brinkman and their latest and final release, Trolls. She explains how working for an ad agency has made her a better producer, and describes ways to keep a high production standard even on low-budget...
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Lee Chin - Connecting Your Crafts
Writer, performer and editor Lee Chin joins host Nate Russell in-studio to chat about his departure from The Flama, how his work as an editor influences his pitches and timing as a performer, and his latest project for digital outlet Mas Mejor. This episode was made in partnership with the Bronx...
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Career Tracker Week 14
This week is our latest Career Tracker check-in! Host Nathan Russell sits down with writer, editor and talented multi-hyphenate Megan Stein to discuss her work and chat about the journeys of our filmmakers: Nic Stanich, Mehdi Barakchian, Marla Black and Ben Russell. From new jobs to potential...
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Trevor Williams - Freelance Directing
Trevor Williams is a director, filmmaker and actor, and one third of New York-based production company Pig Apple. His credits include ESPN, MTV, Comedy Central, IFC, and Nickelodeon. This week he and host Nate Russell chat about freelance directing as part of a collective, how to get the best out...
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Kelley Quinn and Chris Burns - Where Values Meet Comedy
Chris Burns and Kelley Quinn (UCB) are the creators and stars of the web series Straight Marriage. This week they sat down with Nate to chat about how they've infused their personal values into the production process, how they see the series evolving over time, and how they balance their work as...
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Announcing: The Maker Book Club
Happy Fourth of July! We're excited to announce our brand new Maker Book Club. Over the summer we'll be reading The Reel Truth by Reed Martin, and we're inviting you to join along with us from home so we can break it down together via livestream in August. As always, this episode is made in...
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Comedy: Do It Live! Panel at #DCM19
What makes livestream comedy work (or not work)? This week we’re chatting with early-adopter comedian live-streamers Anna Roisman (The Unemployed Show), Carly Jane Hoogendyk (Play You Guys), and Eric Yearwood (Face Taze Live) to break down their creative process, offer insights on audience...
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Moujan Zolfaghari - Getting Staffed
Moujan Zolfaghari (The Detour Season 2 staff writer) is in the studio this week to talk about what it's like making the jump from comedy production work to getting staffed as a performer and writer on big projects. Moujan tells Nate how she established herself on a UCB Digital team, created...
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NYTVF & UCB Comedy - Getting The Most In Post
This week UCB Digital Podcast has teamed up with the New York Television Festival to bring you a panel discussion about the comedy editing process with some of the city's best editors and visual effects artists. Featuring Tessa Greenberg (MTV, UCB), Nick Mougis (Inside Amy Schumer, Broad City)…
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Career Tracker - Week 7
It’s week 7 of UCB Digital’s new Career Tracker series, where we follow the careers of four emerging filmmakers: Ben Marshall, Marla Black, Mehdi Barakchian and Nic Stanich. For this week 7 check-in, we’ve got director Kris Knight in the studio to chat with us as we see how each filmmaker is…
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Doug Moe - Writing A Comedy Book
In Part 2 of a crossover episode with the UCB Long-Form Conversations Podcast, Doug Moe and Nathan Russell continue their conversation about Doug's new book Man vs Child (available now!). They discuss how the project moved from one-man-show, to blog, and eventually to its publisher and book…
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Alden Ford - Directing As A Trio
Alden Ford - Directing As A Trio by Nathan Russell
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Lisa Kleinman - Part Actor, Part Development Executive
Lisa Kleinman, Senior Director of Development at NorthSouth Productions, who started as a actor, scored her first writing/producing gigs without much prior experience, and just figured it out as she went. Her familiarity with the New York comedy scene gave her a huge Rolodex of talent to consult…
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Sean Weiner - Incubating Emerging Filmmakers
Host Nathan Russell sits down with Sean Weiner, filmmaker and director of the Creative Culture Initiative at the Jacob Burns Film Center, which is a nonprofit art house theater and education center in upstate New York. His position is focused on creating a collaborative atmosphere amongst…
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Tim Bierbaum - Making A Sh*t Ton of Short Form
Above Average director Tim Bierbaum talks about his scrappy, high-rep approach to creating short-form digital comedy. Tim started putting sketch videos online around 2005, in the early days of YouTube, and was not afraid of a rough final product, where the ‘soundtrack’ would sometimes just come...
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John Braylock, James III & Jerah Milligan - Jumping Together
In this episode we speak with John Braylock, James III, and Jerah Milligan, co-hosts of the podcast Black Men Can’t Jump (In Hollywood), creators (along with James Carr) of Seriously.tv’s new web series Projecting, and members of Astronomy Club at the UCB in New York. They talk about the details…
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Career Tracker - Week 0
Starting with today’s episode UCB Digital Podcast will be tracking the career’s of 4 emerging filmmakers: Ben Marshall, Marla Black, Mehdi Barakchian and Nic Stanich. Every 7 weeks we will be checking in with them and tracking their progress as artists, comedians and creators. In week 0, we meet...
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Chloe Smolkin - The DP
Our guest on Digital Podcast this week is Chloe Smolkin discussing her growth and process working in the camera department. From camera PA, to first assistant all the way to overseeing cinematography on features, commercials, documentaries, Chloe offers a look into her professional development as…
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Anna Drezen - Comedy Instincts
Comedian Anna Drezden (SNL, Reductress) is an accomplished comedy writer and performer. Our discussion with Anna presents a look into her writing for sketch and stand-up, the creative process of Reductress.com, starting out in NYC studying acting and learning to be patient with the slow process…
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Keith Haskel - Man on the Street
Writer, performer, producer and filmmaker, Keith Haskel (The Chris Gethard Show, Improv Everywhere) joins UCB Digital this week to discuss his impressive body of work including Keith’s passion for unscripted comedy. An example of this being that literally even his wedding was captured while...
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Zach Broussard - Bringing Bits to Life
Comedian, writer, filmmaker, Zach Broussard, calls in from Los Angeles on the week of the release of a UCB Comedy show he wrote and acted in “Shooting Strangers” from digital team the Buzzards. He offers a look into the challenges and rewards of making an unscripted comedy turned reality show...
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Soren & Jolles - Making It Work As A Comedy Duo
The comedy duo Soren & Jolles join the podcast to talk about their work, but more importantly, how they work together. Jessie Jolles and Tracy Soren, based in New York, are behind the series DIBS, have produced content for THINX, The New Yorker, FLAMA, and have been featured on Buzzfeed, TIME…
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NYTVF & UCB Comedy - Developing truTV's Comedy Knockout (A POV Comedy Format)
NYTVF, truTV and UCB Comedy team up for a discussion with the folks behind Comedy Knockout, a hit television show with a point-of-view comedy format. This discussion aims to demystify the process of building and packaging a successful project from creation to series and provide emerging comedy...
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Zack Phillips - Comedy & Sports
Head writer for videos with Broadway Video’s sports humor site The Kicker and longtime member of UCB Maude, Harold and Digital teams in New York City, Zack Phillips joins host Nate Russell to discuss his personal pursuit of comedy work related to the sports world, shares his approach to…
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Zack Phillips - Comedy & Sports
Head writer for videos with Broadway Video’s sports humor site The Kicker and longtime member of UCB Maude, Harold and Digital teams in New York City, Zack Phillips joins host Nate Russell to discuss his personal pursuit of comedy work related to the sports world, shares his approach to…
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David Sidorov - The Staff Writer Path
Writer and director, David Sidorov (The Onion, Billy on the Street) joins Nathan Russell to discuss his writing and directing experience with The Onion, the importance of collaboration, and why David excels at working within a style that is not uniquely his perspective. Recorded at UCB Comedy...
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David Sidorov - The Staff Writer Path
Writer and director, David Sidorov (The Onion, Billy on the Streets) joins Nathan Russell to discuss his writing and directing experience with The Onion, the importance of collaboration, and why David excels at working within a style that is not uniquely his perspective. Recorded at UCB Comedy...
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Whale Thief - A ‘Cram’ Oral History
Two of the members of comedy collective Whale Thief, Matt Mayer (Funny or Die) and Matt Klinman (The Onion), join Nathan Russell to discuss their new* web series out on UCB Comedy, as well as, an in-depth look into the New York City revival of Sketch Cram and the evolution from stage show to the...
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Whale Thief - A ‘Cram’ Oral History
Two of the members of comedy collective Whale Thief, Matt Mayer (Funny or Die) and Matt Klinman (The Onion), join Nathan Russell to discuss their new* web series out on UCB Comedy, as well as, an in-depth look into the New York City revival of Sketch Cram and the evolution from stage show to the...
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Cardinal Goose - Looking Back at #2016Week
Team members, Boris Khaykin and Evan Altshuler, join host Nathan Russell to discuss their new series #2016Week including, the development process, collaboration and deciding when jokes are just for the room versus the viewing audience.
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Cardinal Goose - Looking Back at #2016Week
Team members, Boris Khaykin and Evan Altshuler, join host Nathan Russell to discuss their new series #2016Week including, the development process, collaboration and deciding when jokes are just for the room versus the viewing audience.
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The Explosion of Digital Media - Internet Comedy Creators Panel
Kelsey Balance (Seeso), David Ingber (The Kicker), Dan Chamberlain (Above Average), Lou Wallach (Comedy Central) join Nathan Russell for look into the current state of digital comedy content. Together the panelists discuss working for start-up companies, the pros and cons of measuring success by...
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A behind-the-scenes look at comedy filmmaking featuring conversations with creators about their craft in a converging digital media landscape. Expect to hear from a varied group of industry professionals (writers, directors, actors and more) who shed light on their unique creative process. New episodes bi-monthly on Tuesdays.
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