Made Possible by Pop Culture

Comedian Katie Compa just dropped her second standup album, Incurable Optimist, and she's on Made Possible by Pop Culture to talk about it! But first, she dives deep into a 1992 episode of Saturday Night Live with Rob Morrow, which she watched over and over when she was a kid but can acknowledge doesn't hold up to today's standards (especially because the streaming version leaves out a lot). And she also dives into some hot topics in the world of comedy, including reusing jokes from one special to another and AI.

You know Emily Pendergast from Groundlings if you live in LA and VEEP if you watch critically-acclaimed, hilarious TV. But now you know her as one of the stars of Jury Duty: Company Retreat, which she reveals behind-the-scenes filming details about on her episode of Made Possible by Pop Culture. She also looks back on how quoting Dumb and Dumber as a kid earned laughs from her older cousins and sent her on her way to be a comedian.

Writer and animal advocate Isabel Klee introduces her memoir, Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I've Cried About, to Made Possible by Pop Culture. In the episode, she reflects on 101 Dalmatians, marrying her love of dogs and her love of writing not only for her book but also for her carefully crafted social media content, important lessons from being a dog mom and a foster dog mom, and finding the right tone and voice to tell tales of relationships past.

Author Jess H. Gutierrez just dropped her second memoir, Adulting for Amateurs: Misadventures of a Geriatric Millennial, which includes an ode to Twilight. But for her past pop culture pick on Made Possible by Pop Culture, she chose to revisit Titanic, something she wrote about in her first memoir. There's so much to reflect on in this episode, and some surprising new things to consider about the '90s.

The Testaments just dropped its first three episodes on Hulu, and creator/EP/writer Bruce Miller is on Made Possible by Pop Culture to dig into them! This special bonus episode for the week also features Bruce talking about how Spotlight influenced him when working on his first Margaret Atwood adaptation, The Handmaid's Tale.If you want more The Testaments discussion, Made Possible by Pop Culture host and producer will be covering it here: https://www.goldderby.com/author/danielle-turchiano/

TV writer and author Hallie Cantor joins Made Possible by Pop Culture to talk about her debut novel, Like This, But Funnier, which follows a TV writer as she develops a show based on patient notes she finds on her therapist husband's desk. Plus, she looks back on the comedic characters and multiple endings of cult classic Clue.

Actor/writer Austin Basis created a graphic novel, The Kinetix, about kids with disabilities who become superheroes, and he joins Made Possible by Pop Culture to talk about it. He also goes back in time to recall the first movie he ever saw in theaters, ET!

Writer/director Thom Harp's latest feature film, Home Delivery, is out March 27, so he stops by Made Possible by Pop Culture to talk about telling the tale of a tense family reunion during a home birth and how the David O. Russell's Flirting With Disaster seeped into his DNA so much after seeing it when he was in college, it not only influenced Home Delivery, but also another project he has in the works.

Producer and philanthropist Therese 'Tag' Goulet previews her artist competition reality show brainchild, The Gift (fka The Sugar Mama), which is coming to screens very soon and reflects on her love of storytelling that was inspired by Mr. Pine's Purple House and even led her to run her own publishing house.