Press for Poking a Dead Frog

Excerpts

George Saunders’s Humor (New Yorker)

‘Poking a Dead Frog’ features Amy Poehler, others with Chicago ties (Chicago Sun Times)

Marc Maron’s Advice for Would-Be Comedians: “Don’t Kid Yourself” (Vanity Fair)

How to Write Jokes for the Academy Awards (Vulture)

‘SNL’s James Downey on Working with Norm Macdonald and Getting Fired for Making Fun of OJ Simpson (Splitsider)

Adam McKay on What He Learned from Working with Improv Guru Del Close (Splitsider)

Interviews

RogerEbert.com

Psychology Today

DangerousMinds 

Village Voice

Biographile

Reviews for Poking a Dead Frog

New York Times

Los Angeles Times

Chicago Tribune

San Antonio Current

Slate

Onion’s AV Club

Splitsider

McSweeney’s

Publisher’s Weekly

TV Writer

The Tusk

Book People’s Blog

Podcast Appearances

Other People with Brad Listi

It’s That Episode with Craig Rowin

Jeff Rubin Jeff rubin

Mike O’Meara

Two Book Minimum

In Papa’s Basement

Slate’s The Gist

AV Club’s Mom on Pop

Australian Broadcast Company’s The List

The Leonard Lopate Show