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Don't Be Alone with Jay Kogen

Don't Be Alone with Jay Kogen

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 Don’t Be Alone with Jay Kogen is a comedy/advice podcast trying to fight the isolation of modern life. Each episode, Award winning TV writer/comedian/philosopher Jay Kogen has a conversation with a friend about how to solve the problems on Jay’s mind. These friends happen to be famous comics, musicians, actors, artists, writers, and sometimes even his family. It’s an entertaining, fun, and thoughtful show meant to bond us through humor, experience, and empathy.

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  • Actor Gary Anthony Williams Can Get Alone With Anyone Except Jay

    Actor Gary Anthony Williams Can Get Alone With Anyone Except Jay
    Oct 7 2025
    Gary Anthony Williams talks about his remarkable ability to fit in when he wants to, how growing up poor in Georgia gave him optimism for everything else, how he got skinny, the connection between skinning rabbits and vegetarianism, how he’s uncomfortable at a party yet makes strangers comfortable at coffee shops, falling into acting through computer error, how nerds are his people, and how it’s still shocking he makes a living acting and being funny.


    Bio: Gary Anthony Williams' film credits include "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows," "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle," "The Internship," "Undercover Brother," "Soul Plane," “Outlaw Johnny Black” and "The Factory." An accomplished voice actor, Williams is best known for voicing Uncle Ruckus on "The Boondocks." Additional voiceover credits include the newly released shows “Batman: Caped Crusader,” “Wondla” and “The Second Best Hospital In The Galaxy.” Other shows include "The Lion Guard," “Hailey’s On It!,” "Star Wars Resistance," Puppy Dog Pals," "Love, Death & Robots," "Star Wars: The Clone Wars," "Batman: The Brave and the Bold," "Bob's Burgers," "Rick and Morty," "Family Guy," "American Dad," "Rugrats,” and "Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur "On television, Williams just wrapped the reboot of “Malcolm In the Middle!” He currently recurs in “Night Court.” He also starred in "The Crew," "Reno 911! The Hunt for QAnon," and as Santa in the Disney Channel Original Movie "Christmas…Again?!" His additional television credits include "I'm Sorry," "Whose Line is it Anyway?," "Boston Legal," "Blue Collar TV," "The Neighborhood," "The Soul Man," and "Weeds." He is also the voice of the award-winning music show "Unsung." Gary tours the country with “Whose Live Anyway” and is a proud member of the all-Black improv show, "The Black Version." Born in Fayetteville, Georgia, Williams currently resides in Los Angeles.
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    48 mins
  • Ken Marino: Being Present Works For Everyone Except Jay

    Ken Marino: Being Present Works For Everyone Except Jay
    Sep 30 2025
    Actor/writer Ken Marino talks about The State, how cases of booze made him popular at college, the best way to be present when you are acting, opening your heart to others just for the fun of it, parenting, how Catholic Camp made him an actor, The Courtship of Eddie’s Father, Role Models, the joy of singing in your car, and Voo Doo Donuts!

    Bio: Kenneth "Ken" Joseph Marino is an American actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter known for his work in sketch comedy and a wide range of television shows and films. A founding member of the influential MTV sketch comedy series The State, he is also a frequent collaborator with his former castmates.
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    48 mins
  • ”Wicked” Scribe Winnie Holzman Attributes Her Success To Mentors, Drive, Luck, & Not Working with Jay

    ”Wicked” Scribe Winnie Holzman Attributes Her Success To Mentors, Drive, Luck, & Not Working with Jay
    Sep 23 2025
    The amazing writer Winnie Holzman talks with Jay about hard word and being lucky, Wicked the Musical, Stephen Schwartz, My So Called Life, laying in bed depressed about writing, fighting your fear, tricks of staying in the creative process, Marianne Williamson, studying Broadways musicals even when she didn’t know she wanted to, being driven towards showbiz at 13, taking the train to acting classes, mentors: Arthur Laurents, Stephen Sondheim, loving acting, being married to the great actor, Paul Dooley, how her daughter Savannah is a great writing partner, and Jay’s feud with Ted Danson.

    Bio: Winnie Holzman is the writer (with renowned composer/ lyricist Stephen Schwartz) of the musical Wicked, which is now the 4th longest running show in Broadway history, and has been performed in over a hundred cities around the world. After graduating from Princeton University, she studied acting, joined a comedy group, got accepted into the newly formed NYU Musical Theatre Program, (where she studied with such luminaries as Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein, and Stephen Sondheim) wrote a musical (Birds of Paradise, which had a short run off-Broadway) then joined the writing staff of the TV drama thirtysomething, and went on to create the series My SoCalled Life, starring Claire Danes. Other TV credits include Once and Again, (reuniting with her mentors, Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz) Huge (with her daughter, Savannah Dooley) and Roadies (with Cameron Crowe.) She’s written two plays with her husband, actor Paul Dooley: Post-its: Notes on a Marriage, and Assisted Living. Most recently, she completed both screenplays for the movie adaptations of Wicked
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    50 mins
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