Episode 13 - Writer & Comedian Kevin Avery (The Great North) / Writer & Comedian Hanna Dickinson (Comedy Central)

J. Claude Deering (Twitter/Instagram) spoke with comedian and Emmy winning television writer, Kevin Avery (Last Week Tonight with John Oliver). Kevin served as head writer for the TV series, Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell. Kevin and Kamau also had a popular podcast on Earwolf, called Denzel Washington Is The Greatest Actor Of All Time Period. Kevin currently writes for the FOX animated series, The Great North. He chats day jobs, stand up, being part of the Emmy winning team at Last Week Tonight, and running a writers room.

Followed by a second interview with comedian Hanna Dickinson (Get Money/Comedy Central). Hanna is a comedian and a breakout star of Comedy Central’s Inaugural Creators Program. Where she was creating sketch videos, doing stand up spots, and hosting The Comedy Central Roast red carpets. Comedy Central also produced her Snapchat series, Get Money, a satire of a gig economy worker. Hanna’s debut half hour comedy special is on Epix’s Unexpected Sets series. Hanna chats about her stand up, strict parents, sobriety, and being on the team at Comedy Central.

Also, Winston Carter (Twitter/Instagram) and Claude chat the 20th anniversary of September 11th.

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