Andrew Wollman joins Jen to talk about everybody’s favorite parody artist, Weird Al. On Billboard’s charts at number one for the first time, Weird Al’s latest album Mandatory Fun has gone over like gangbusters with comedy nerds as of late. But lifelong fan Andrew also chats about the original content and more offbeat work Weird Al’s done over the years, and enlightens Jen about some of the source material getting parodied. Did everyone but her know what Blurred Lines is about?!
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Episode 98: Weird Al
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Episode 93: The Sophomore Slump
Writing, filmmaking, art, and music are just some of many fields in which people contend with the threat of their second piece of work not living up to their first. In this episode Jen talks with Danny Mastrangelo and James Mulholland in search of what a sophomore slump really is, and why it’s so easily applicable to so many different endeavors in art, entertainment, and pop culture.
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