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New Podcast – Danny Cohen

dan — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:06:44 +0000

Gay comic Danny Cohen stops by to discuss his failed attempt to become straight. Plus, we play the gaydar game where Danny and my co-host Rob tried to guess whether someone was gay based on a short clip. Does Danny, as a gay man, have better gaydar than Rob? Listen to the Podcast. Plus, our weekly news roundup and more!

New Podcast – Jeff Nichols

dan — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 01:10:37 +0000

Jeff Nichols stops by to let us know how his life is going. Of course we talked about what everyone is talking about – Mel Gibson. Jeff, Rob and I analyze the three rants thus far released. We also talk about Steinbrenner’s death and other news items.

New Podcast – The Dubbed TV Show Challenge

dan — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 02:56:40 +0000

This week Rob played “The Dubbed TV Show Challenge”. I played Rob a clip of a beloved American tv show dubbed into another language and Rob tried to guess which show it was from a master list of shows. Here is the list so you can play at home: “The Fresh Prince of Bel Air”, “Saved by the Bell”, “Knight Rider”, “Sex and the City”, “Alf”, “LA Law”, “The Facts of Life”, “The Love Boat”, “Dallas”, “The Cosby Show”, “Baywatch”, “Cheers”, “Laverne & Shirley”, and “Married with Children.” On the podcast I called it “The Dubbed Sitcom Challenge”, but not all the shows were sitcoms, so I mispoke. Rob did surprising well getting more answers correct than I would have predicted. After the “Dubbed Sitcom Challenge” I talked a little about my upcoming trip to France and my plan to do stand-up in French, a language I’ve been studying for several years in my free time, of which I have too much. Why do I want to do stand-up in French? Well, why not? I’ll be the first American comic to do it, as far as I know. Of course we ended the podcast with our weekly news roundup which included a discussion of the passing of Robert Byrd.

New Podcast – Keren Margolis

dan — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:53:43 +0000

New comic Keren Margolis stopped by this week for advice on the comedy business. I think she should get a respectable career but since she refuses, I figured I’d help her navigate her way in comedy. We discussed the best way to succeed, which in my opinion is to have the right friends. I of course have never been good at that. We also did our weekly news roundup where we discussed the oil spill, Israel’s easing of the Gaza blockade, Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart’s marriage and more.

New Podcast – Rob’s Yankee Cartoon

dan — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 03:01:30 +0000

Just for fun we played clips of German versions of popular t.v. show and Rob tried to guess which shows they were. God bless him, he got two out of three. We also talked about Rob’s YouTube cartoon which parodied how baseball has become all about $$$. We played a clip from the cartoon in which I (who play the voice of Hank Steinbrenner in the video) sing a song about how the Yankees have ruined baseball sung to the tune of feniculi fenicula. Then we did the news as usual. It was a slower news week than last week. We talked about Helen Thomas and the Taliban’s horrific execution of a 7-year-old. By the way, here’s Rob’s video:

New Podcast – Morgan Murphy

dan — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:36:10 +0000

My friend Morgan Murphy took advantage of her week off as a writer for the Jimmy Fallon show to join Rob and I on the podcast. Morgan told us how she got her job writing for Fallon via a personalized Mad Lib that I wrote for the occasion. Then we got right to our weekly news roundup. It was a wicked heavy news week.How heavy? Gary Coleman, Dennis Hopper and Rue McClanahan all died this week. Not enough? How about the Israeli raid on the flotilla in the Mediterranean. Not only that, Al and Tipper announced their separation and Joran Van Der Sloot is on the run. Yep. As heavy a news week as I can remember, and we discussed it all on the show. Have a listen.

New Podcast – Name that Movie!

dan — Thu, 27 May 2010 18:08:52 +0000

Friend and fellow comedian Sandy Marks stops by to play “Name that Movie”. Rob and Sandy compete to see who can name the most movies based on a short clip. Who won? Listen to the podcast. The sound quality of the film clips varies. Something to work on for next time. Then we had our weekly news roundup where we discussed the American Idol finale. We played of clip of Dane Cook’s tribute to Simon where Dane said the the only way Simon’s shirts could be tighter is if Randy was in there with him. A decent joke IMO.

New Podcast – Real Books/Fake Excerpts

dan — Sat, 22 May 2010 05:15:20 +0000

I was looking forward to playing “Name that Movie” this week where Rob competes with another contestant to see who can name a movie based on a short clip. I couldn’t coordinate Rob’s schedule with any potential contestants. I can’t just pick anyone to play against Rob. It has to be someone that I think would be fun to have on the podcast as well as someone who knows enough about movies to be a good competitor. Instead I decided to do the best of my popular Real Books/Fake Excerpts segment where I take a real book, which I didn’t write, and read a fake excerpt, which I did write. The books I read fake excerpts from were “Labradoodles, A Complete Pet Owner’s Manual”, “The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget’s Thesaurus”, “Here’s Johnny: My Memories of Johnny Carson, The Tonight Show and 46 Years of Friendship, “Emily Post’s Etiquette”: The Definitive Guide to Manners” and Shakespeare’s “Henry V”. After this we did this news where we discussed, among other things, Rima Fakia, the first Arab American to win the Miss USA pageant, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal’s bogus claims of having been in Nam, and motorcycle mogul Jesse James’ interview where he discussed his failed marriage to Sandra Bullock. Next week – “Name that Movie”.

New Podcast – Things I learned on Wikipedia

dan — Sat, 15 May 2010 21:55:02 +0000

On the latest episode of “The Dan Naturman Show” podcast we bring back a segment called “Things I learned on Wikipedia”. Did you know that Hitler’s dog Blondi has her own Wikipedia entry? Well she does. And why not? She’s probably the most famous dog of the twentieth century. Can you name one more famous? Lassie you say. Sorry. Lassie is fictional. Anyway, I learned on Wikipedia that Blondi’s pups were all shot in the garden of the bunker shortly after Blondi herself died from a cyanide pill administered by Hitler’s physician. The Fuhrer’s beloved German Shepherd thus has no living descendants. I also learned on Wikipedia that the word “Dirty Sanchez” is considered indecent by the FCC and that giving someone “the finger” goes back to Roman times where it was called digitus impudicus (impudent finger). After “Things I learned on Wikipedia” we discussed the news as always. Both Rob and I agreed that Grayson Chance (the kid who sang “Paparazzi” on YouTube) will be huge. We discussed the death of jazz icon Lena Horne and Elin Nordegren’s apparent imminent divorce from Tiger Woods.

New Podcast – My call to The New Yorker

dan — Sat, 08 May 2010 13:52:47 +0000

Just posted a new episode of The Dan Naturman Show. In this episode I play a call I made to “The New Yorker” magazine on my friend Dan Lobell’s radio show. Why did I call “The New Yorker”? Because they rejected a comedy essay I wrote that I felt was perfect for the magazine. I end up locking horns with a guy that sounds a lot like Bill Cosby, although I picture him looking more like Al Roker. Not the thin Al, but the older, fatter Al. Of course I could be wrong. He may not look anything like Al Roker. Hell, he may not even be black. I wasn’t able to get my essay in the magazine, but a good time was had by all. The show ended, as alway, with our weekly news roundup. Rob and I talked about Justin Bieber’s New Zealand interview where he appeared to not know what the word “German” meant. On his twitter page he claims he thought the Kiwi interview said “Jewman”. What do I think? Listen to the podcast. We also talked about Lawrence Taylor’s arrest for allegedly raping a 16-year-old girl. I made the point that LT was such a great player, even I had heard of him before the alleged rape. I pay such little attention to sports that I usually only hear of these guys when they run afoul of the law. We discussed the big oil spill as well and Rob and I wondered whether the spilled oil was still usable and if it’s worth going down there and trying to collect some of that spilled “black gold”. All in all, a fine podcast and worth a listen.