Each week on Wonderful, Thanks, Brooklyn comedians Ramsey Ess and Adam Maid invite a guest to discuss the stories, facts and thoughts they have about that week's word.
Each week on Wonderful, Thanks, Brooklyn comedians Ramsey Ess and Adam Maid invite a guest to discuss the stories, facts and thoughts they have about that week's word.

Episode Twenty - Danger with Myq Kaplan

Word: Danger
Guest: Myq Kaplan
Bio: Myq is a professional stand-up comedian who has appeared on Conan, Late Show with David Letterman, Last Comic Standing and his own Comedy Central Presents. More importantly, he’s super funny. If you would like to see that for yourself, you can follow him on Twitter and check his website to see when he comes to your town. (And listen to this episode of the podcast.) 
Discussed: Jackie Robinson, brain injuries, John Byrne, and the Cranberries.

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Episode Nineteen - Cheer with Cirocco Dunlap

Word: Cheer
Guest: Cirocco Dunlap
Bio: Cirocco is a writer, performer, improviser and actor living in good ole Brooklyn, and she’s darn good at all of those things I’ve mentioned. She’s recently had a few articles posted on McSweeney’s Internet Tendency (which are wonderful), in January she will be seen in a weekly show at the UCB Theatre directed by Shannon O’Neill, and according to her resume, she speaks conversational French and Spanish!
Discussed: Siri, carolers, Cheers, and collecting TV Guides. 

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Bonus Episode One

Word: Letter
Guest: N/A
Info: Take a trip back in time and hear the test episode recorded by Adam and Ramsey without a guest, before the podcast existed! Hear us figure this thing out and hit the ground running in a super rare bonus episode!

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Episode Eighteen - Evil with Erik Tanouye

Word: Evil
Guest: Erik Tanouye
Bio: Erik is another funny man to come out of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. He has been on Harold Teams, Maude Teams and all kinds of things since 2002. He currently writes for the sketch team Neighbor Boy and has been contributing writer for the Onion’s ONN video network, directed all kinds of things as well. He’s even been known to do some standing-up comedy from time to time.
Discussed: Terminators, cartoon devils, Criterion DVDs, and lots and lots of genocide! It’s a Halloween episode!

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Episode Seventeen - Games with Frank Hejl

Word: Games
Guest: Frank Hejl
Bio: Do you enjoy comedy? Well then Frank Hejl is your man for comedy of all types. This guy writes (for the sketch team Onassis), this guy improvises (for the improv teams Dance Break, Iron Ruckus, and Kraken) and he acts (also for the sketch team Onassis, and other things). And, as proven by this episode, he’s really good at being a guest on podcasts!
Discussed: Football in Texas, Dennis Miller, the long career of The Baha Men, and a game!

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Episode Sixteen - Adventure with Michael Kupperman

Word: Adventure
Guest: Michael Kupperman
Bio: If you like things that are funny/well drawn/cool then you probably already know about Michael Kupperman. The man is absolutely killing it on Twitter, he currently makes the fantastic comic Tales Designed to Thrizzle, he has previously made the thoroughly hilarious Snake and Bacon’s Cartoon Cabaret and he has just released the great Mark Twain’s Autobiography 1910-2010. If that’s not enough, check out his live comed show he does with Kate Beaton the fourth Tuesday of each month at Luca Bar! Patronize one or all of these things!
Discussed: Twenty-ten versus two thousand ten, new Doctor Who, schooling.

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Episode Fifteen - Sharks with Brianna Jacobson

Word: Sharks
Guest: Brianna Jacobson
Bio: Brianna started out as a NBC page and worked her way up to a Production Assistant on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon! A writer, improvisor and the fifteenth in our ongoing series of nice people, Brianna is a big fan of: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Foo Fighters, being funny, and Seth Green. FUN FACT: She is learning to play the guitar.
Discussed: Preferred gummi consistencies, cool dads, and two made up people named Holly and Perry.

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Episode Fourteen - Cute with Sarah Claspell

Word: Cute
Guest: Sarah Claspell
Bio: Sarah is a writer and improviser at the Upright Citizens Brigade. You can (and should!) currently see her perform with the sketch team Neighbor Boy. On top of that, she runs the blog www.wellthatsadorable.com and her personal blog sarahclaspell.tumblr.com. Collect them all!
Discussed: Otters, castles, slaves and a baby monkey, a bunch of times.

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Episode Thirteen - Breakfast with Joe Garden

Word: Breakfast
Guest: Joe Garden
Bio: Joe Garden is currently the features editor at The Onion, and along with the rest of Action 5, the co-author of The Dangerous Book for Dogs, The Devious Book for Cats and The New Vampire’s Handbook. Actually, I kind of think this episode would serve as a pretty good bio for Joe’s life, so I would probably stop reading this and go ahead and listen to our show.
Discussed: Blowing up mailboxes, corn of all types, other people’s books, and Wisconsin.


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Episode Twelve - Voyeur with Jodi Lennon

Word: Voyeur
Guest: Jodi Lennon
Bio: Jodi Lennon’s onna dem Chicago types. She studied at the Second City and was a member of The Annoyance Theater. She did a ton of stuff out there, then moved to good ole NYC and was a writer/performer on the Comedy Central sketch show Exit 57. These days she directs, she improvises, she writes and is currently gearing up for the release of a documentary featuring Marc Maron. 
Discussed: The McDonald’s that we recorded this in, Big Brother: After Dark, looking at strangers and car theft prevention devices.


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