“HEY WE’RE BACK!” Episode 8
The first scene is a reunion I have with an old Hebrew school friend. The guy was a natural athlete and it was great hearing that he still competes. My next stop is with directory assistance. This is a...
View Article“HEY WE’RE BACK!” Episode 9
In this episode, I introduce a new segment called Housecalls. This time, I am visiting a neighbor — my neighbor. I spend some time trying to help out an old friend — Bob Saget, who has fallen on hard...
View Article“HEY WE’RE BACK!” Episode 10
n Episode Ten we meet two guys who have opened a venison-only restaurant in midtown Mahattan; a real life hero of mine, two-time United States table tennis champion Marty Reisman, who tells us about...
View Article“HEY WE’RE BACK!” Episode 11
In this episode, I take an online test that tries to answer the question: “How Smart Are Computers?” I am lucky enough to spend some time on the phone with superstar Hannah Montana. After that, another...
View Article“HEY WE’RE BACK!” Episode 12
In Episode Twelve, I try and help out a friend trying to promote her yoga business, I lend my support to the telephone sex industry, and I also get to spend some time on Death Row for a crime I …...
View Article“HEY WE’RE BACK!” Episode 13
We begin the episode with a visit to the office of Nick Delicato, the overcautious detective from the old radio show Better Safe than Sorry. From there, to the inside of a rental car where I...
View Article“HEY WE’RE BACK!” Episode 14
The first piece is about moody microchips. I am not sure if it’s me or them. Then we go to San Francisco where we staged Dr. Katz live with H. Jon Benjamin, Laura Silverman, Tom Snyder (as my...
View Article“HEY WE’RE BACK!” Episode 15
TOUGH ROOM Once in a while I show up at a stand-up gig but when I get there I am clearly not who they had in mind. OLD FRIENDS About a year ago I visited an old college friend in a South American...
View Article“HEY WE’RE BACK!” Episode 16
his episode is about scams: I get scammed by a young woman on the phone, just by dropping my guard for one second. Then I try and scam a guy who works for The Geek Squad. They gave me some very bad...
View Article“HEY WE’RE BACK!” Episode 17
In this episode, I explore my shortcomings as a soul singer, my success with weddings and bar mitzvahs, and some of the more subtle differences between me and James Taylor. Soon, in Episode 17, I will...
View Article“HEY WE’RE BACK!” Episode 18
The first stop is my favorite cafeteria in NYC, at the Cornell medical building. I used to meet my dad there for lunch. After lunch I decided to take the day off. I walked home and caught my wife in...
View Article“HEY WE’RE BACK!” Episode 19
This episode was recorded live at Logan Airport in Boston — until airport security realized I wasn’t going anywhere. They suggested that I go home. I did, but I made one stop on the way: The Orpheum...
View Article“HEY WE’RE BACK!” Episode 20
This episode was actually recorded in front of an audience in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was a group of people so willing to laugh it was depressing. They were sweet, playful and most important,...
View Article“HEY WE’RE BACK!” Episode 21
The first segment of episode 21 is a conversation with Wendy Liebman—a woman who has been making me laugh for years. Wendy reminded me how much fun we have talking to each other—a lot of fun. Comedians...
View Article“HEY WE’RE BACK!” Episode 22
In this episode I pay a visit to a dentist. I learn, once again, that my comedy is not for everybody. She feels the same way about my teeth, but is surprised to learn that my comedy comes with a fee...
View Article“Good Dreams Sidney Katz” Episode 23
This episode, number 23, begins with a relapse. I fall back into my “city and listing” habit and I do it all in the name of one of the dopeyest jokes I have ever made. Then I get in the car and call my...
View Article“Growing up Franklin (Ben Jr.) and my Jewish Roots.” Episode 24
In this episode, I explore my Jewish roots, tracing all the way back to New York City in 1959. I am also proud to introduce “America’s Next Top Optician”. At least once a week, I pretend that Benjamin...
View Article“Women’s Lib and Pop Music” Episode 25
Where do I start? Thanks for your patience. In this episode I have strayed from my usual format because of an interview I did with singer/feminist Helen Reddy. We met years ago in NYC and I interviewed...
View Article“The Work Force.” Episode 26
In this episode I deal with the subject of THE WORK FORCE from three different angles; I talk to many hardworking Americans with “thankless jobs.” I also asked my old friend Sandy Briscoe — the British...
View Article“When bad things happen to good ideas.” Episode 27
“Worst Case Scenario” is an old radio show I loved as a kid. Tom Silver, the host, is interviewing Arthur Köeppler, a leading expert on traffic safety. “Bring Your Cousin To Work Day” is Sid Steiber’s...
View Article“Then and Way Back Then.” Episode 28
I don’t live in the past, but if you are trying to find me, I don’t recommend the present. In this–my last audio only episode–I return to an old radio show from the ’40s that helped form me as a young...
View Article“Creating Problems I Don’t Really Have.” Episode 29
The long anticipated 29th episode of “Hey We’re Back!” A talk about problems I don’t really have, and how they’re not really solved.
View Article“a rolling stone…” Episode 30
In this episode I am trying to discover why my band, Katz and Jammers, never got the recognition it deserved. I also share a short clip from a romantic comedy I made (one of several) with the actress...
View Article“Talking out of both sides of my couch” Episode 31
in episode 31 I make a live appearance courtesy of Eugene Mirman at the Paradise in Boston, I find myself, Jonathan Katz, in therapy with Dr. Katz and the episode features a special guest, Susie Essman...
View Article“What’s in a name?” Episode 32
In episode 32 I reveal the limitations of the web and look into refinancing our home.
View Article“The Human Spirit” Episode 33
In this episode I pose the question, “What would you do if you got a collect call from the Pope?” I ask whether it’s possible for a man to be too compassionate, and I talk to a woman who is … Continue...
View Article“The Quiet Before the Storm” Episode 34
In Episode 34 two women let me down gently and one woman not so gently.
View Article“Stranger Than Fiction” Episode 35
In this episode comedian, producer, and writer David Feldman takes a break from comedy. We also get to see a side of David, the loving son, that might surprise you.
View ArticleEpisode 36 “Pushing Myself”
In this episode I try to live up to three different ways I have challenged myself. One of them includes a massage from comedian David Feldman, a truly gentle man.
View ArticleEpisode 37 “Musical Ambivalence”
I’ve been apologizing for my music for the last twenty years and I’m not planning to stop anytime soon.
View ArticleEpisode 38 “Misplaced Sympathy”
In this episode I am talking to my good friend, comedian Paula Poundstone, and even though I am on the wrong side of this “argument” I can’t seem to stop myself.
View ArticleEpisode 39 “Old Habits Die Hard”
I explore how some people use technology to keep other people at a distance. I take a look at the upside and downside of being placed on hold and I also return to my on-again off-again “affair” with...
View ArticleHey We’re Back Live:
Special Guest Comedian Jenny Zigrino and Singer/Songwriter Frank Morgan. Frank Morgan, “Solid Ground”
View ArticleWilla Mamet and Paul Miller
A clip of musical guests Willa Mamet and Paul Miller performing their song Louisiana off their album East Hill Road. http://willamamet.bandcamp.com/album/east-hill-road Also. Here’s a teaser for the...
View ArticleEpsiode 40 “Friends and Strangers”
http://jonathankatz.com/podcast/media/2014/12/episode-40-2.0-Render.mp3 In this episode I turn the tables on some guy in tech support, I ask BJ Novak and Todd Barry about geography, we hear comedian...
View ArticleEpisode 41 “Frugal and Friendship”
This episode is called Frugal and Friendship. The first half deals with a really cheap way to make a voice over demo and the second half is road stories with a comic named Mark Schiff. Maybe I should...
View ArticleThe Hollywood For Which We Root
http://jonathankatz.com/podcast/media/2015/05/HOME-FOR-RE-ENACTORS-001.mp3 Hollywood is known for taking care of their own but they have really gone the extra mile this time.
View ArticleEpisode 42 “The Gifted Child”
In this episode, I talk about three ways in which I consider myself “gifted”: My ability to hear dead people, to write a catchy tune, and to invent the very thing we need to make our lives better. I...
View ArticleEpisode 43 “Unrealistic Expectations”
In Episode 43, I make Andy Kindler an offer he can refuse, and together we discover the amateur inventor that is him.
View ArticleEpisode 44 “Assisted Living”
Episode 44 is called “Assisted Living”, but is not as sexy as that sounds. In this episode you’ll hear the voices of David Cross, Bob Odenkirk and Erica Rhodes. I talk about my need for assistance and...
View ArticleEpisode 45 “The Courage to Fail”
This is an unedited recording of an event that took place in April at the Kelley Writers House at UPenn. There I was enjoying the hospitality of my good friend, Lew Schneider, and my new friend, Mingo...
View ArticleEpisode 46 “Telephony”
Phone sex? I like the phone part. My guests are 2 real phone sex operators, Lewis Black, and a partridge in a pear tree.
View ArticleEpisode 47 “Miss Information 1985”
For most people 411 are numbers. For me, it has become a way of life.
View ArticleEpisode 48 “Lucky Guy”
This episode is about a guy who has been lucky enough to “succeed” in the restaurant business, in comedy, and to meet the late great Barry White.
View ArticleEpisode 49 “Audio Roulette”
In this episode I try and rely on luck and the enormous audio archive in my home. Sometimes it’s the sound effects that win in the end.
View ArticleEpisode 50 “Tough Questions”
In this episode, I discovered that by simply asking a tough question, I might reveal more to myself than to my audience.
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