State Your Message
Catherine Reitman and Philip Sternberg of Workin' Moms face off in a game where they create words out of postal abbreviations.
Arts
You're A Good Jokerman, Charlie Brown
Catherine Reitman and Philip Sternberg join house musician Jonathan Coulton for a game that tests their knowledge of two famous Minnesotans: Bob Dylan and Charles Schulz.
Baron Vaughn
Baron Vaughn discusses his new Funny or Die web series Call & Response. Then, Vaughn gets quizzed about Black playwrights and plays a game inspired by his SyFy Wire show The Great Debate.
Black Playwrights
Inspired by his love of theatre and per his request, actor and comedian Baron Vaughn is challenged to a game about Black playwrights.
Jon Stewart's Disappointing New Political Satire Is Hardly 'Irresistible'
Steve Carell stars as a Democratic strategist running for mayor of a small Midwestern town in a film that feels exasperatingly out of step with the present moment.
LGBTQ Activist Cleve Jones: 'I'm Well Aware How Fragile Life Is'
Jones lost countless friends to the AIDS epidemic. He became an activist after Harvey Milk's assassination: "Meeting Harvey, seeing his death, it fixed my course." Originally broadcast Nov. 29, 2016.
'Fresh Air' Marks Pride Month With Novelist Marijane Meaker
Meaker wrote the lesbian pulp novel Spring Fire in 1952, and was surprised when it sold 1.5 million copies. She went on to write other lesbian-themed books under pen names. Originally broadcast 2003.
Furloughed Washington State Resident Gives 1,200 Lasagnas To Neighbors
When Michelle Brenner was furloughed, she used her extra time – and her stimulus check – to feed her community with her grandma's classic lasagna.
HBO's 'I'll Be Gone In The Dark' Brings The Golden State Killer To The Small Screen
Comedian Patton Oswalt helped finish his late wife Michelle McNamara's true-crime book about the Golden State Killer, I'll Be Gone in the Dark. Now, it's being adapted into a six-part series for HBO.
Jenny Slate And Kristen Bell Will Stop Playing Biracial Cartoon Characters
The white actors will no longer play characters on Big Mouth and Central Park. Instead, they ask that Black voice actors be cast. Nick Kroll, co-creator of Big Mouth, apologized and agrees.