Jonathan Katz and Tom Snyder
The Writers Panel
Ben Blacker
4.6 • 799 Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2012
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
An in-depth chat Jonathan Katz and Tom Snyder, co-creators of Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist. We talk about that watershed show for Comedy Central, as well as the Snyder-produced Home Movies, Squiggle-vision, Katz's stand-up and the WB sitcom he created starring Bob Saget, and Katz and Snyder's latest collaboration, Explosion Bus, which can be seen at http://www.explosionbus.com/ (the new season of which begins Sept 18).Enormous thanks to Tom Wickersham, of Katz's team, who tracked me down while I was in Boston and arranged this interview before anyone could decline.
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| 0:00.0 | Last minute party, what will I bring them something unexpected? |
| 0:06.2 | Let's play scratch cards. |
| 0:09.3 | Trying to find something a bit different. |
| 0:11.4 | Why not add some play to Christmas with scratch cards from the National Lottery? |
| 0:15.4 | Pick them up in store now. |
| 0:16.6 | Please gift responsibly. |
| 0:17.6 | Rules and procedures apply. |
| 0:18.5 | Players and gifters must be 18 or over. |
| 0:22.4 | Hey everyone, it's me, Ben, and I'm so excited to bring you this interview with some of my comedy heroes, Jonathan Katz and Tom Snyder, who created with him the Dr. Katz professional therapist show. If you are young and have not |
| 0:41.2 | seen Dr. Katz, check it out. The whole series, I believe, is on Netflix. And it's just really fun. It has a lot |
| 0:48.2 | of comics you know and love and will recognize. Their new endeavor explosion bus, I think it's the new season starts up |
| 0:57.4 | next week, and you can go to YouTube.com slash explosion bus to check it out. I was told to give you |
| 1:06.5 | that address because the website is being revamped and it may not be up in time, but |
| 1:11.6 | you can also go to Explosionbust.com and see if it works there. And there's a lot of stuff to |
| 1:16.5 | check out if you just kind of go to the site and poke around, uh, provided it's backup. Uh, but |
| 1:21.5 | YouTube.com Explosion Bus and check out episodes of their new series, which is really |
| 1:26.5 | fun and funny and totally charming. |
| 1:29.8 | I have to thank Tom Wickersham, who hunted me down while I was in Massachusetts this summer |
| 1:37.6 | and said, hey, I listen to the podcast. Do you want to interview Jonathan Katz? |
| 1:42.6 | And I'm so thankful because it was a really fun conversation that we had at Katz's |
| 1:49.8 | house, which is also where the studio is. |
| 1:52.9 | And he lives very close to my parents. |
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