Don't Be Alone with Jay Kogen
Don’t Be Alone with Jay Kogen is a comedy/advice podcast trying to fight the isolation of modern life. Each episode, Award winning TV writer/comedian/philosopher Jay Kogen has a conversation with a friend about how to solve the problems on Jay’s mind. These friends happen to be famous comics, musicians, actors, artists, writers, and sometimes even his family. It’s an entertaining, fun, and thoughtful show meant to bond us through humor, experience, and empathy.
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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 52 minutes
- Episodes
- 104
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
Simpsons Showrunner Mike Scully Confirms Jay Will Never Be Beloved
Writer/Producer Mike Scully talks about being new in a writer’s room, Yakav Smirnoff, how he learned empathy from a non empathetic childhood, being a boss, taking over The Simpsons, how 5 daughters…
00:49:49 |
Tue 02 Sep 2025
Joely & Tricia Leigh Fisher Remind Jay His Childhood Was Boring
Joely and Tricia Leigh Fisher talk about being the kids of stars, Connie Stevens and Eddie Fisher—the allure of show business, putting on shows in their living room, and deciding at a young age to ma…
00:55:33 |
Tue 26 Aug 2025
Amy Brenneman Talks About “Normal” and How Jay Isn’t It.
Actress/writer/activist Amy Benneman talks about creating a TV show, writing plays, the pleasure of performing in front of people. Her kick-ass judge-pioneer mother, lawyer activist dad and how they …
00:55:34 |
Tue 19 Aug 2025
For Writer Felipe Torres Medina USA Has Been An Amazing Journey Until He Met Jay
Felipe talks about his new book, coming to the USA under an EXTRAORDINARY ARTIST visa, writing for Colbert, growing up in Columbia, the beauty of curious Americans, the danger of being too comfortabl…
00:49:14 |
Tue 12 Aug 2025
Jay’s Dad, Arnie Kogen, Talks About How Having Kids Held Him Back
Writing Legend, Arnie Kogen, talks with Jay and Jay’s son, Charlie, about his childhood, career, and what it’s like to be 91. Three generations of Kogens in one pod!
Bio: ARNIE KOGENComedy Writer/ TV…
Bio: ARNIE KOGENComedy Writer/ TV…
00:52:57 |
Tue 05 Aug 2025
BONUS EPISODE! Writer Turned Therapist, Phil Stark, Says Jay Should Have Given Up By Now
Phil Stark talks about writing and learning it wasn’t really his dream, telling patients to find their bliss, deciding joy wasn’t in the writers room, writing “Dog With A Blog”, treating writers who …
00:30:27 |
Fri 01 Aug 2025
Writer/Legend Carl Gottlieb Always Makes The Scene, Jay Doesn’t.
Writer of “Jaws" & "The Jerk" Carl Gottlieb talks about working with Spielberg, Steve Martin, Carl Reiner, David Crosby, Joan Baez, improv group The Committee, performing comedy in the army, how the …
00:47:02 |
Tue 29 Jul 2025
Will Forte Says, “Everyone Follow Your Dream” But Maybe Not Jay
Will Forte talks about almost being a financial advisor, his checkered writing career, SNL MacGruber, Nebraska, The Groundlings, Last Man on Earth, having kids late, seeing shrinks, frats, & Val Kilm…
00:50:00 |
Mon 21 Jul 2025
James L. Brooks Explains Why Jay’s Such A Disappointment
This week, James L Brooks talked about The Simpsons, Mary Tyler Moore ,Terms of Endearment, having a million lunches to cast parts, his difficult beginnings and how the fear of survival and women's …
00:48:48 |
Tue 15 Jul 2025
Writer/Comic/Activist Steve Skrovan Explores How Jay Isn’t Making Life Better For Anyone
Writer/Activist Steve Skovan talks about his work with Ralph Nader, his substack “Bits and Pieces”, his dad being a comic inspiration, the trouble with politics, Public Citizen a progressive consumer…
00:46:24 |
Tue 08 Jul 2025
Comedy Legend Thomas Lennon Explains Why Jay Is Lazy
Tom Lennon tells us he's not working that hard on the unbelievably large number of projects he never stops working on. From writing movies (including a “HALL OF PRESIDENTS” SciFi comedy) to acting in…
00:54:12 |
Tue 01 Jul 2025
Film Makers Byron Manuel & Justin Graves Say Jay’s Art Isn’t Worth Suffering For
Film-Makers Justin Graves and Byron Manuel talk about what it takes to make movies in 2025 being young, talented, and black. They talk about finding the dream of movies and giving up the dreams of mu…
00:49:28 |
Tue 24 Jun 2025
Rachel Bloom Found Her People & They Are Not Jay
Rachel talks about why people love or hate musicals, Crazy Ex- Girlfriend and how it would never be made today and how unlikely it was to get made back then. She also talks about growing up in Manha…
00:48:12 |
Tue 17 Jun 2025
Kenya Barris Credits Jay with The Disappointing Parts of His Career
Kenya Barris talks about his messy childhood, the do’s and don’ts of the writer’s room, laying low during covid, Larry David making Kenya take the leap to star in a show, raising kids better than our…
00:48:33 |
Tue 10 Jun 2025
Director Jon Turteltaub Explains Why Jay Shouldn’t Be Happy.
Jon and Jay talk about having writer dads, the pressure of trying to succeed as a second gen show biz kid, how to direct movies with being a jerk, being right, the value of being lucky, and the why C…
00:49:28 |
Tue 03 Jun 2025
Comic Andrea Abbate’s Hard Life Was Easier Before Jay
Andrea Abbate talks about her amazing tumultuous life, including addiction, bad partners, bad parents, bad relationships, and surviving through comedy to land in a good place.
Bio: Andrea Abbate has p…
Bio: Andrea Abbate has p…
00:46:37 |
Tue 27 May 2025
Maggie Baird Tells Jay Why He’s Ruining His Son’s Career
Maggie Baird - Actress/writer/ & mother of superstars Billie Eilish & Finneas gives Jay the recipe for not messing up your kids and letting them flourish. She also talks about living small, rewardin…
00:49:39 |
Tue 20 May 2025
Neal Brennan Says Happiness Is Possible For Everyone But Jay
We talk about deciding if you are a writer or a performer, confidence in bad joke, comedy as team sport, Neal being “groupless”, John McEnroe’s good sportsmanship, gratitude, the day the Chappelle Sh…
00:48:35 |
Tue 13 May 2025
Bruce Vilanch Tells Jay He Needs To Market Himself Better
Bruce talks about stumbling into writing and finding a home. His feud with Barbra Streisand, writing for Richard Pryor, George Carlin, and Lily Tomlin. He talks about how being your own weird self is…
00:47:55 |
Tue 06 May 2025
BONUS EPISODE! Actor Jim Turner Gets Stuff Done While Jay Doesn’t.
Jim Turner talks about doing one of our first pilots, Monkey World, being friends for 32 years, being the kind of guy who shows up at shows, makes shows, raises money for important causes, The Good D…
00:29:01 |
Fri 02 May 2025
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