Category Archives: Feature

Barbara and Esther

This is the most personal story I’ve ever performed. And somehow got some of the biggest laughs I’ve ever received. My new video for NPR Snap Judgment, this is a true story about my great-grandma, my wife, and abortion rights across the generations..

Trumbo and Dorothy: A Cinematic Trip for Old Comrades

I finally saw Trumbo last night, the amazing movie about the blacklisted communist & Oscar-winning screenwriter Dalton Trumbo…who was a good friend and comrade of my grandma Dorothy Healey.

What the Frack, Jerry Brown?!

The battle over fracking in California just got a whole lot funnier. Watch and share these new comedy videos that poke fun at the dirty drilling industry and demand to know of our supposedly green governor: “What the Frack, Jerry Brown?!”

As the World Burns // new video

How do you enjoy life as the world burns? That’s the simple, totally-easy-to-answer question at the heart of my newest video with NPR Snap Judgment. This is a story about drought in California, police violence across America…and water slides. Lots and lots of water slides.

Snap Judgment LIVE…in Brooklyn!

Snap Judgment LIVE is coming to the BAM Opera House this Friday night, May 8. And we’re bringing a powerhouse lineup: Black Thought from the Roots, Mike Daisey, James Judd, and Glynn Washington. Oh, and me.