I'm Not Joking
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I'm Not Joking
Glimpse into the lives of comedians, improvisers, comedy writers, and other funny people from business, science, and the arts. Host Dr, Peter McGraw—a behavioral scientist, business school professor, and Director of the Humor Research Lab (aka HuRL)—sits down with funny people for a wide-ranging dis...
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Curtain Call
Welcome to the final episode of I'M NOT JOKING. Comedian JD Lopez returns from Episode 1 to debrief and reflect on Peter’s experience building a podca...
Dropping Babies With Anthony Jeselnik
Anthony Jeselnik is a comedian, writer, actor, and producer. His most recent Netflix special is Fire in the Maternity Ward, and you can see him on his...
Answering Business Questions With Shane Mauss
Welcome to the second special dual taping of I’m Not Joking, and Here We Are, Shane Mauss’s science podcast. This episode coincides with the launch of...
Shtick to Business with Shane Mauss
Welcome to a special dual taping of I’m Not Joking and Here We Are, Shane Mauss’s science podcast. This episode coincides with the launch of Peter’s n...
Creative Help From The Masters Of Comedy
Did you know that you can hire the world’s funniest people to help you with your company’s creative work? Meet the founders of a new company that help...
All Your Single Friends With Daliya Karnofsky And Avra Friedma
Welcome to a special dual taping of my podcasts. Both episodes are coming out just before my book, Shtick to Business, which launches on April Fool’s...
Man In Cargo Pants
Alex Berg is an LA-based comedian, actor, writer, and producer. Before coming to LA, he studied psychology at Vassar College. You may have seen him on...
Man In Comedy Suit With Ryan Stout
Ryan Stout is a comedian who has appeared on CONAN, HBO’s Funny as Hell, Comedy Central’s @Midnight, and his own half-hour special: Comedy Central Pre...
Developing A Character With Emily Pendergast
Emily Pendergast is a member of the prestigious Groundlings Main Company. She was most recently seen in the final season of the Emmy Award winning HBO...
The Irishman With David Nihill
David Nihill is the author of the best-selling book Do You Talk Funny? and the Founder of FunnyBizz Conference. His work has been featured in Inc., Li...
Unverified with Ari Shaffir
This episode was taped prior to Ari Shaffir’s controversial tweet about Kobe Bryant.
Ari Shaffir is a stand-up comedian. He is pro...
Curating Comedy With Jake Kroeger
Jake Kroeger is a comedian, producer, and writer. Nobody knows what’s going in comedy in Los Angeles better than Jake. He created and runs The Comedy...
Thinking Scientifically with Shane Snow
Shane Snow is an award-winning journalist, entrepreneur, and the author of three books—including the #1 business bestseller Dream Teams. He speaks abo...
Looking for the Illogical with Merrill Markoe
Merrill Markoe is a comedian, comedy writer, author of ten books, and Emmy award Winning writer and producer of the Late Show with David Letterman.
Things Are Gonna Get Easier with Jeff Kreisler
Jeff Kreisler is a lawyer turned comedian, author and champion for behavioral economics. His first book, Get Rich Cheating, was a satirical look at ch...
People Stories with Kristin Newman
Kristin Newman has been writing and producing television for over 20 years, on shows including “That ’70s Show,” “How I Met Your Mother,” “Chuck,” “Ga...
Relationships And Other Things With Stephanie McHugh
Stephanie McHugh is a comedian, speaker, voice over artist, and humor coach. She has been part of the Denver Comedy scene for over 16 years. She was o...
Talking About Jokes with Jesse David Fox
Jesse David Fox is a writer who works at New York Magazine, first as a blogger and then a comedy columnist for New York Magazine’s pop culture site Vu...
Thinking about Class with Madison Shepard
Madison Shepard is a stand-up, writer, and actor. She’s appeared on Comedy Central’s The New Negroes. She’s performed at The S.F. Sketch Fest, Broke L...
Cheap Transformations with Todd Glass
Todd Glass started comedy at age 16. He has performed stand-up on The Daily Show, Jimmy Kimmel, and Conan O’Brian. You can see his recent special “Act...
Experiential Science with Troy Campbell
Troy Campbell is a social scientist, marketing professor at the University of Oregon, professional designer, and researcher at Netflix Insights. He ha...
Collaborating With Lisa Chanoux
Lisa Chanoux is an Arab-American writer and comedian. She has performed all over the U.S. including here in Los Angeles at the Improv, Comedy Store, L...
Stunt Journalism with Joel Stein
I got to know Joel Stein when he was a staff writer for TIME magazine. He has been on the writing on staff for two television shows and has written si...
Working (It) Out with Tony Horton
Tony Horton is the creator of P90X, the famous fitness series, and an array of follow-up workout programs. He is a professional speaker and the author...
Working Hard Enough with Solange Castro
Solange Castro is a stand-up comic and published playwright. She recently released a comedy album, “A Journey of Self Discovery,” under a new comedy l...
Animating South Park with Jack Shih
Jack Shih is an Emmy Award-winning animation director and producer known most notably for his work on South Park. He also has a side hustle as a voice...
Raising Eyebrows with Steve Stoliar
Steve Stoliar is the author of Raised Eyebrows: My Years Inside Groucho’s House, a bittersweet memoir of the last years in the life of Groucho Marx. H...
Working On Spec with Claire Downs
Claire Downs is a comedian, writer, and producer who lives in Los Angeles. A graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts, she does a bit of everything, s...
Getting The Price Right with Danielle Perez
Danielle Perez is a stand-up comedian, writer, and actress best known as the woman in a wheelchair, with no feet, who won a treadmill on The Price Is...
Smiling All the Time with Mike Reiss
Mike Reiss has won four Emmys and a Peabody Award during his 28 years writing for The Simpsons. He ran the show in Season 4 which Entertainment Weekly...
Making Friends with Nicole Blaine
Nicole Blaine is a stand-up comic. She has been seen on NBC’s Today Show, E’s That Morning Show, San Francisco Sketchfest, Laughing Skull Comedy Festi...
Being Healthy with Will Hines
Will Hines has been a performer and teacher at Upright Citizens Brigade since 2000. He’s appeared on television shows such as Broad City, Inside Amy S...
Ignoring The Pettiness with Esther Kustanowitz
Esther Kustanowitz is a writer, editor, and consultant. She is a contributing writer at the Los Angeles Jewish Journal and a columnist at J. The Jewis...
Fighting Boredom with Adam Barsky
Adam Barsky is an Associate Professor of Management at the University of Melbourne. His research focuses on how people use emotions to make ethical de...
Fearing Failure with Kym Terribile
Kym Terribile is a writer, Reiki practitioner, and a certified yoga teacher. She is a graduate of the University of Hawaii with a degree in English Li...
Searching For Magnificent Obsessives with Joel Warner
Joel Warner is an award-winning former staff writer for Westword and International Business Times who’s been published in Esquire, WIRED, Newsweek, Me...
Being A Professional with Mark Masters
Mark Masters is a comedian based in Denver, Colorado. He specializes in clean material and has performed in showcases in New York City and Miami. He i...
Moving Cheese with Chester See
Chester See has been nominated for 6 Streamy Awards with one win for Best Original Song. He has starred on Broadway as Rock Star Stacee Jaxx in Rock o...
Transformations with Gia Cognata
Gia Cognata is a makeup artist, stylist, photographer and writer from Los Angeles. She loves pickles and finding a balanced between the arts and analy...
Roast Battles with Julie Seabaugh
Julie Seabaugh is the only full-time freelance comedy journalist in the United States. She has contributed to Rolling Stone, The Hollywood Reporter, G...