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
Matt Groening Says, The Simpsons Aside, Jay’s Life Is Meaningless
Blurb: Matt and I talk about the legacy of The Simpsons, what it means to go from super fan to icon, always knowing he wanted to draw cartoons, having kid are better than making great art, how music …
01:11:07 |
Tue 23 Jul 2024
Jade PettyJohn Tells Jay How He Destroyed The Lives of Child Actors
Blurb: Actor Jade PettyJohn who was 14 years old when she first worked for Jay on School of Rock talks about her journey becoming an actor at 7 and being an actor at 23. They talk about what was good…
00:46:37 |
Tue 16 Jul 2024
Actor Craig Bierko Warns Jay To Never Ride A Horse
We talked about: Finding community, doing The Stump, Not doing Chandler on “Friends”, the wonderful and difficult friendship of Matthew Perry, doing theater as a kid, “easy” comics who took their tim…
00:51:51 |
Tue 09 Jul 2024
Jim Colucci & Frank DeCaro Explain Why Jay Alienates Stars
This is our most gossipy episode ever! Jim and Frank, one of my favorite couples, spill the tea on the icons you want to know most if it were 1983. Sarah Mills, Andy Warhol, and yes, humiliating your…
00:46:40 |
Tue 02 Jul 2024
Stephen Markley, Accuses Jay Of Destroying The Earth
Novelist/Environmental Activist, Stephen Markley talked about the coming environmental disaster and other laugh out loud subjects. Stephen thinks there’s hope but mostly it’s by applying pressure to…
00:45:13 |
Tue 25 Jun 2024
Larry Wilmore Tells Jay He’s Podcasting Wrong.
On this week’s episode the versatile writer, creator, actor, & comic Larry Wilmore talks about growing up in Pomona, CA and finding comedy and magic, hanging with President Obama. We compare notes on…
00:43:44 |
Tue 18 Jun 2024
Sklar Bros Defend Jay’s Moronic Love of Sports
Bio: Randy and Jason Sklar can currently be seen in the fourth season of FX’s WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS playing fictional Property Brothers ‘Bran and Toby Daltry’. The Sklars produced, wrote, and sta…
00:45:30 |
Tue 11 Jun 2024
Conan O’Brien Explains That Jay Needs to Just Shut Up
Conan O’Brien and Jay discuss the neurotic need to constantly make jokes at the peril of personal relationships and true communication. They also talk about their kids and wives putting up with them…
00:45:32 |
Tue 04 Jun 2024
Weird Al Perfects His Craft While Jay Clearly Doesn't
Jay smothers Weird Al with love and appreciation for Al’s perfection in his parody. We talk about Mad Magazine, Looney Tunes, pizza, travel, doing what you want, the power of an orchestra, the two pu…
00:42:53 |
Tue 28 May 2024
Tony Shalhoub Declares Jay’s Too Shallow
Tony and Jay meet for the first time. We talk about the depth of his character, Primo, in “The Big Night” and why Jay can’t find that depth in real like. We also chat about growing up the 9th of 10 k…
00:43:25 |
Tue 21 May 2024
Toby Huss Explains Why Jay Can’t Handle Adventure
Toby and Jay talked about art and trying to see art (and life) from unique perspectives. Jay calls Toby a weirdo. And, like a weirdo, he accepts it as the compliment which is what it was actually mea…
00:46:44 |
Tue 14 May 2024
Author Kliph Nesteroff Tells Jay He's Remembering His Life Wrong
Entertainment Journalist and all around funny guy Kliph Nesteroff talks about a Canadian kid who got into collecting stories of strange and eccentric show business events. We both talk about our shor…
01:26:40 |
Tue 07 May 2024
David Wild’s 30 Year Party With Music’s Biggest Names & Why Jay’s Not Invited
David, fresh off of a weekend with Donny Osmond talks about a lifetime of celebrities. Idolizing them, meeting them, interviewing them, befriending them and eventually making them stars once again on…
00:46:23 |
Tue 30 Apr 2024
Writer Eugene Garcia-Cross Explains Why Jay Isn’t Happy Enough
Eugene Garcia-Cross talks about growing up in Pennsylvania, losing his dad early, and becoming a literature professeur only to give it all up to be a Hollywood comedy writer. Only to wind up writing …
00:59:12 |
Tue 23 Apr 2024
Singer Nicole Atkins Tells Jay He’s Been Squandering His Creativity
Nicole talks about the difference between creation and nervous activity and how hard it is to distinguish between the two. We also talk about procrastination, Elvis Costello, the need to let ideas si…
01:07:28 |
Tue 16 Apr 2024
John Ross Bowie Explains Why He Can Meet His Heroes and Jay Can’t
We talk about how to pronounce Bowie, the love of Monty Python, Elvis Costello, growing up in New York, the Ramones. John’s new play, Brushstroke, my love of John’s wife, Jamie Denbo, John’s possible…
00:44:50 |
Tue 09 Apr 2024
Director Paul Feig Encourages Jay To Completely Remake Himself ASAP!
Paul and Jay discuss looking like losers and feeling like winners, and wearing clothes to match your goals and garner respect, being authentic, Mt. Clemens, Michigan, directing, collaborations, why P…
00:46:24 |
Tue 02 Apr 2024
Millennials Tell Jay Why The Youngs Will Never Love Him.
We talk about trying to stay positive in a down comedy market, how Jay did or didn’t fit in writing a pilot with much younger people, what started the desire to perform, inspirations, Boy Meets World…
00:49:57 |
Tue 26 Mar 2024
Writing Legend Rob Edwards Exhorts Jay To Avoid Showbiz Disaster
We discuss our friendship since 1985, teaching at USC, the graphic novel “Defiant” about slave Robert Smalls who stole a southern ship and gave it to the north, Rob’s analytical brain, being teamed w…
01:02:23 |
Thu 21 Mar 2024
Kevin Nealon Explains Why Jay’s Son Will Never Respect Jay
Comedian Kevin Nealon talks about being an older dad, and the butt of all jokes, bad impressions, secret to stand-up comedy, stumbling into SNL and making Weekend Update and how good Germany smells.
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01:08:08 |
Tue 12 Mar 2024
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