Classic Conversations: Pop culture Interviews with Jeff Dwoskin

Ari Lehman The First Jason Voorhees on the Friday the 13th Ending That Almost Never Happened

Ari Lehman, the first Jason Voorhees, tells the story behind the Friday the 13th ending that almost never existed, and what Sean S. Cunningham whispered to a 14 year old

How Dylan Brody Went From Road Comic to Award Winning Storyteller

Dylan Brody tells the story of the phone call he got from George Carlin, the one he performed at Kelly Carlin's tribute to her father at the New York Public Library. Four

Jackie Kashian on The Dork Forest and 40 Years of Comedy

Comedian, podcaster and actor Jackie Kashian has been doing stand up since 1984, when she got thrown out of a Madison, Wisconsin comedy club for heckling Sam Kinison and

Rhonda Shear on Up All Night, Mel Brooks, Chuck Barris and Playboy

Rhonda Shear hosted more than 400 episodes of Up All Night on USA Network from 1991 to 1998, and she is one of the only hosts from that era who still owns the name. She t

Rebeca Arthur on Perfect Strangers, Bill Murray and Her Years as a Private Eye

Rebeca Arthur was hired for one week on Perfect Strangers and stayed eight years. Before that she was a working private investigator in New York, and one of her agency's

Steve Meyers and Shawn Johnson: How to Rob a Bank, The Treehouse, and the Hollywood Bandit

Thirty years after the last shot was fired, the bank robber and the FBI agent who chased him are sitting down together. Steve Meyers helped Scott Scurlock pull off the Ho

Douglas M. Wilson on Running LA Ink, My BFF with Paris Hilton, Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher

Douglas M. Wilson has been in the room for some of the strangest and most memorable television of the last thirty years. A four time Emmy nominee, he went from being an a

The Warden Speaks, Bob Gunton on Shawshank and 50 Years of Character Work

Bob Gunton has spent five decades building one of the most quietly essential careers in American acting, from originating Juan Perón in the first Broadway production of E

John O'Hurley on Seinfeld J. Peterman Dancing with the Stars and the National Dog Show

John O'Hurley has spent forty years in television as J. Peterman on Seinfeld, the host of Family Feud and To Tell the Truth, a season one finalist and eventual champion o

Jack Pesin Host of Dark Passengers on Getting Inside the Dexter Universe

Jack Pesin, co-host of Dark Passengers (the deep-dive Dexter podcast he runs with his wife Diana), joins for a wide-ranging conversation on the Dexter universe, from the

Michael Pressman The Director Behind Ninja Turtles II, Bad News Bears 2 and Some Kind of Hero Shares Behind the Scenes Stories

Some careers you can trace on a shelf of movie posters, and Michael Pressman has one of the great ones. Across forty years he moved from a scrappy Roger Corman debut to a

Chris Hummel of the Dreamboats on Building a 50s and 60s Rock and Roll Band

Chris Hummel packed up his life, loaded a trailer, and drove his band from Mississauga, Ontario to Palm Springs on the bet that the world still needed rock and roll. As t

Marta Kristen: Adopted From a Secret Wartime Orphanage and Became a Sci-Fi Icon

Marta Kristen spent three seasons drifting through the stars as Judy Robinson on Lost in Space, but her real story started years earlier in a hidden wartime orphanage in

How the Snapple Lady Turned Fan Mail Into a Pop Culture Movement

Before there were influencers, before comment sections, before anyone thought to scroll through customer letters for content, there was Wendy Kaufman, doing it all from a

Jim Meskimen: A Man of a Million Voices on Landman, Hippos, and What Makes an Impression Great

Jim Meskimen is one of those rare performers who can disappear into a thousand different voices while somehow remaining completely himself. In this return visit to Classi

Roddy McDowall: The Man Behind the Mask from How Green Was My Valley to Lassie to Planet of the Apes

Author Samuel Garza Bernstein returns to dig into his new book, Roddy McDowall: An Actor's Life, How Green Was My Valley to Lassie to Planet of the Apes, the first full b

The American Idol Season That Changed Everything According to Clay Aiken

Clay Aiken is back. After 18 years away from recording, the American Idol Season 2 fan favorite has released "Rewind," a high-energy comeback single that proves every yea

Kathy Garver on 60 Years of Family Affair and Never Looking Back

Kathy Garver has spent 60 years as one of television's most beloved figures, and she shows no signs of slowing down. Best known as Sissy Davis on Family Affair, Kathy ref

Jan Brady Tells All: Jennifer Elise Cox on The Brady Bunch Movie and Beyond

Jennifer Elise Cox didn't just play Jan Brady in The Brady Bunch Movie, she became her. From landing the role on her very first film audition to sharing a wig with RuPaul

Rich Little: A Thousand Voices and the Stories Behind Them

Rich Little has done impressions of presidents, Rat Pack legends, and Hollywood royalty for decades, but the stories behind those performances are even more entertaining