It’s a sad day for people who like great interviews with great actors and comedians. Paul F. Tompkins announced in a Tumblr post today that he’s decided to end his web series Speakeasy, which he’s hosted since 2012, to focus on other projects:
In an effort to devote more time, energy and focus to fewer projects, I’ve had to make some tough decisions, and one such decision was “retiring” from Speakeasy. As much as I’ve enjoyed doing the show for the last few years, I have had to face facts and realize that if you burn the candle at both ends, you will get so close to the middle of the candle that you can see the middle of the candle is no more candle. And they should not sell those double-wicked candles! They are, at best, IMPRACTICAL! I will miss interviewing people in this setting. I will miss having often intimate conversations with interesting artists. But most of all I will miss spending a day with my producer/director Rebekka Johnson, a wonderful human being and lovely friend. I hope we get to work together again someday. Thanks to all of you who liked the show and told other people about it.
Speakeasy delivered consistently funny and insightful interviews, so to mark Tompkins’s retirement we’ve rounded up some of our favorite Speakeasy episodes below:
Sarah Silverman
Weird Al Yankovic
Scott Aukerman
Zach Galifianakis
Key and Peele
Alison Brie
Reggie Watts
David Cross
John Mulaney
Hannibal Buress
Cameron Esposito
Gillian Jacobs
Andy Daly
