18 August 2014 | 5:35 pm
Length: 1:33:26

062: Kelly Talks with Listeners about Failure

In today's live call-in show Kelly examines the issue of failure from multiple angles. The personal toll and gifts of it, the culture's difficulty with it and how ultimately when we make friends with it, it is an agent of transformation. Her callers include Dylan Brody, Paul Myers and Judith Cohen.


18 August 2014 | 5:34 pm
Length: 1:32:03

059: Carlos and Kelly Do Not Get Herpes

Carlos Kotkin reads a few stories from his new book of hilarious autobiographical essays, "Please God, Let It Be Herpes." Kelly also plays some very funny snippets from her father's 75th birthday party from Garry Shandling, Daryl Wright, Dana Gould and Paul Reiser's sets at the celebration.



18 August 2014 | 5:34 pm
Length: 1:26:03

056: Kelly Turns the Table on Chris Douridas

Chris Douridas of KCRW music fame talks with Kelly about discovering new music, what it is like to talk to your musical heroes and whether the B52s Dirty Back Road is really about anal sex. Kelly also has a nice quick chat with Rain Pryor about her Off-Broadway debut of Fried Chicken and Latkes.

18 August 2014 | 5:34 pm
Length: 1:34:19

055: Kelly Laughs and Loves with Dylan and Dennis

Dylan Gadino of Laughspin.com and Author/Psychologist Dennis Palumbo are Kelly's guests this week. Kelly picks Dylan's brain about his love of comedy, and then talks about what it takes to connect to unconditional love in the creative process and how life is not a test.



18 August 2014 | 5:34 pm
Length: 1:31:17

052: Chuck Wendig and Kelly Bleed in Front of Each Other

Kelly speaks with the author and pen monkey Chuck Wendig. They discuss letting characters write the story, finding one's unique voice as a writer, and what it's like to bleed on the page for all the world to see. The show starts with Kelly's cousin Dennis Carlin coming by and chatting with Kelly about the word "retard," why it's offensive to some and the whole problem of trying to control speech.


18 August 2014 | 5:34 pm
Length: 1:27:29

051: It's Storytelling Day!

Kelly has Charles Freericks read from his book "My Imaginary Friend Was Too Cool to Hang Out with Me," and she plays a cut from Dylan Brody's new CD Chronological Disorder, and she even reads a bit of her own writing!




18 August 2014 | 5:34 pm
Length: 1:30:54

047: Kelly Hangs Out with Two Chicks

Kelly talks with Suzanne Whang about her inspirational journey of making cancer her bitch, and then she talks with the daughter of Joseph Heller, Erica Heller, about how her life was a Catch-22.

18 August 2014 | 5:34 pm
Length: 1:29:47

044: Daryl Wright and Kelly Kill the PC Police

Kelly begins the show musing about the Winter Solstice & floats some questions to ponder this time of year. Then she and Daryl talk about race, what it means to live in a victim mentality and what it means to be an adult in this culture.

18 August 2014 | 5:34 pm
Length: 1:30:30

045: Dan Perkins and Kelly Give Up

Kelly and Dan (aka Tom Tomorrow of This Modern World) talk about this modern over-mediated world, how comic strips are like haikus, and that the right-wing wish they could elect the Man in the Reagan Mask.


18 August 2014 | 5:34 pm
Length: 1:31:05

043: Ted Alexandro and Kelly Occupy Comedy

Kelly and Ted discuss his style and approach to comedy, and then his involvement in the Occupy Wall Street movement. Kelly's second guest Spencer Mills, or @OakFosho, talk about his courageous participation in the Occupy movement as a citizen journalist.