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  1. a long talk
    Ira Glass Just Wants to Make a Decent ShowThe pioneering radio host reflects on the legacy — and business — of This American Life 800 episodes in.
    By Nicholas Quah
  2. crossovers
    How High Maintenance Found Itself in Conversation With This American LifeFor its season premiere, the web series turned HBO anthology looked to another long-running series to find inspiration, and a path forward.
    By Vikram Murthi
  3. podcasts
    How Podcasts Learned to SpeakThe once useless-seeming medium that became essential.
    By Adam Sternbergh
  4. good one podcast
    The 7 Words That Changed Mike Birbiglia’s Comedy ForeverOn this week’s Good One, Mike Birbiglia talks about his new Broadway show, The New One, and the phrase “I know … I’m in the future also.”
    By Jesse David Fox
  5. last night on late night
    Mike Birbiglia Got Notes on His Movie From a Ludicrously Foulmouthed Ira GlassIra likes to curse a lot.
    By Jackson McHenry
  6. exclusive
    See the Cold Open for This Year’s Peabody AwardsThe Peabody Awards air Monday, June 6, on Pivot.
    By Vulture Editors
  7. Eugene Mirman, Ira Glass, and Yo La Tengo Star in a Music Video for a Cool […] Here’s “Toymageddon,” the first video from the upcoming comedy and music album, 2776. The album, from The Daily Show’s Rob Kutner and the […]
    By Bradford Evans
  8. Tig Notaro Books Doug Benson, Wyatt Cenac, Herself and More for The Betzen […]The Bentzen Ball, the Washington DC comedy festival curated by Tig Notaro, returns again this October 10 through 13 with an awesome looking […]
    By Elise Czajkowski
  9. rejections
    Jenji Kohan Did Ask Ira Glass to Be on Orange Is the New BlackBut he said no.
    By Lindsey Weber
  10. Fred Armisen Will Co-Host Next Week’s ‘This American Life’ as Ira GlassQuirky public radio program This American Life will have a very special guest this weekend: Fred Armisen as Ira Glass. The episode’s theme is […]
    By Bradford Evans
  11. the most npr thing in the world
    Fred Armisen Will Co-Host ‘This American Life’In character as Ira Glass.
    By Margaret Lyons
  12. Watch Ira Glass Interview Shelby Fero as Mike Birbiglia Twitter sensation Shelby Fero was assigned to interview Mike Birbiglia and Ira Glass about their movie Sleepwalk with Me, and she decided to […]
    By Bradford Evans
  13. Mike Birbiglia and Ira Glass Want to Have a Pizza Party with You Mike Birbiglia and Ira Glass’s new movie Sleepwalk with Me has been playing at select theaters throughout the country for a few weeks now, […]
    By Bradford Evans
  14. Start Apologizing to Stephen Colbert, Jews The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive I think Lewis Schwartz needs to […]
    By Jesse David Fox
  15. Tig Notaro Explains Exactly How Her Largo Set Happened“And so I was in New York and I met with [Ira Glass] and I had like ten pages of start to finish every detail of horrible stuff that had gone […]
    By Jesse David Fox
  16. david edelstein
    Edelstein on Sleepwalk With Me: This Comedian’s LifeThis autobiographical monologue-film stars and is directed by funnyman Mike Birbiglia.
    By David Edelstein
  17. Part of Tig Notaro’s Famous Largo Set Will be Broadcast on ‘This American […]Early this month, Tig Notaro performed a legendary set at Largo in Los Angeles. As an account from the night put it: “For the first half of her […]
    By Jesse David Fox
  18. ‘Sleepwalk With Me’ Killed It this WeekendSleepwalk With Me ran awake this weekend. On just one screen it earned $65,000. This had a lot to do with Ira Glass and Mike Birbiglia vowing […]
    By Jesse David Fox
  19. vulture reads
    Sunday Reads: Kunis, DeGeneres, and Burning ManAnother reason to stay indoors. 
    By Andre Tartar and Caroline Bankoff
  20. chat room
    Ira Glass and Mike Birbiglia Are Now Little Fish“Everyone is laughing at us. Like, ‘Hey, look at your teeny gills!’”
    By Bilge Ebiri
  21. sleepwalk with me
    Watch Mike Birbiglia and Ira Glass Answer Joss WhedonSleepwalk with this!
    By Eliot Glazer
  22. Mike Birbiglia and Ira Glass Sure (Don’t?) Know How to Promote a Movie With the Internet and all its doohickies there must be 14 zillion ways to promote a movie yet Mike Birbiglia and Ira Glass  (aka Team Big […]
    By Jesse David Fox
  23. exclusive
    See a Short Film by Mike Birbiglia and Ira GlassIt’s promoting their acclaimed film Sleepwalk With Me.
    By Kyle Buchanan
  24. Please Sleepwalk with Mike Birbiglia at a Movie Theater This looks fun, right guys? Marc Maron is in it and he’s acting! Sleepwalk With Me is based on Mike Birbiglia’s one-man show and book of the […]
    By Jesse David Fox
  25. unlikely unions
    Ira Glass and Owen Wilson Are Making an HBO SeriesBased on an actual man who found his life dull and went to Mexico to rescue kidnapped kids.
    By Zach Dionne
  26. Trade Roundup: Horrible Bosses 2, Paul Rudd, Kristen Wiig, Owen Wilson, […]- Horrible Bosses 2 is a thing that is happening. Luckily, it will probably have the original’s writers and directors, and the […]
    By Hallie Cantor
  27. radio
    Ira Glass Was Really Freaked Out by That Sex Tape Parody“His imitation of my writing and delivery are so dead-on, it was hard to keep listening.”
    By Kyle Buchanan
  28. clickables
    Listen to an Ira Glass Sex-Tape Parody“If you donate now, Carl Kassell will leave a dirty — and I mean really filthy — message on a loved one’s answering machine.”
    By Margaret Lyons
  29. Fox Buys Pilot Based On This American Life SegmentSomeday soon comedy pilots will be based on single excellent tweets, but until then Fox’s new show based on a This American Life segment is […]
    By Halle Kiefer
  30. casting
    Paul Rudd Will Star in a Movie From Errol Morris and Ira GlassAbout a guy really into cryogenics.
    By Kyle Buchanan
  31. stuff white people like
    Ira Glass Sings!The “This American Life” host does an Elliott Smith cover with Lucy Wainwright Roche.
    By Willa Paskin
  32. Ira Glass at His High School Reunion“Ira Glass Tries To Explain This American Life At High School Reunion,” from The Onion: “According to sources at Milford Mill High School’s […]
    By Adam Frucci
  33. adaptations
    ‘This American Life’ Segment to Become a MovieA proper feature, not a documentary.
    By Willa Paskin
  34. music
    Watch OK Go’s Grueling Staring Contest With a MuppetWith cameos from Zach Galifianakis and Ira Glass.
    By Edith Zimmerman
  35. quote machine
    Unlike Jean-Claude Van Damme, William H. Macy Has Nothing to HidePlus: Liam Neeson rationalizes his decision to star in ‘Taken.’
    By Stan Park
  36. quote machine
    Jean-Claude Van Damme: Business in Front, Party in the BackPlus, Jason Bourne is no fan of James Bond.
    By Tammy Oler
  37. in the magazine
    Sarah Jessica Parker Heralds Triumphant Return of ‘Sex’What’s happening in this week’s issue of ‘New York’?
  38. the take
    ‘The Atlantic’ Declares War on QuirkinessHey, you! Yeah, you, the “Gen-X indie” guy in Austin, Madison, or Adams Morgan with the ironic facial hair! Michael Hirschorn at The Atlantic has a problem with you and your insufferable quirkiness.