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Josh Gondelman And Catherine Cohen: Brooklyn Famous

Ask Me Another

NPR

Comedy, Society & Culture, Leisure

4.55K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Josh Gondelman, talks about why he gives strangers pep talks on Twitter, and Catherine Cohen explains how she makes her cabaret comedy into fashion. This episode originally aired June 14, 2019.

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Ask Me Another.

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I'm Jonathan Colton.

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Now here's your host, Ophira Eisenberg.

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Hey, everybody.

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Thank you for joining us.

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Nice to see you.

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We have two amazing guests on the show,

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both comedians,

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Josh Gondelman and Catherine Cohen.

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Yeah.

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June.

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June is also Pride Month. celebrating Pride, yeah? You know, Pride has gotten a lot more corporate in the last decade.

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I would say, like, if I did not know and I just had to decide what was being celebrated by watching the parade,

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I would be like, rainbow financial institutions.

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And it's Father's Day. Father's Day. I know. I know. My special day. I know. But I kind of say

1:22.4

dads get off pretty easy on Father's Day. I mean, really, you pick up the right kid from the

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playground. Everyone's like, what a great dad. What a great dad. Do you get like a big day at home, Big Father's Day? I don't know. I could have to do the same amount of work I always have to do. Oh. Just kidding. I'm just kidding. Please don't put that on the radio. It's a job. What kind of gift do you get? What kind of gift do I get? You know, the kids, they're a little old for this now, but they used to do the thing where they would be like, ooh, let's make daddy breakfast, you know. Yeah. And then they would bring me breakfast and it would be like, chocolate chip omelette. And like, bread that they made. Bread that they made.

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