No Laugh Track is Acme Comedy Company’s offical podcast.
Host Justin Severson chats with Acme’s current headlining comedians every week. Get to know your favorite comedians a little bit better.
This week Justin sits down with Tim Slagle and Liz Miele to talk about this year’s Crash and Burn. The show is where four comics come together to write and perform a brand new twenty-minute set over the course of one week.
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Tim Slagle: Tim Slagle is a political satirist with a penchant for the controversial and has spent twenty-five years touring the biker bars, bowling alleys, and Holiday Inn lounges of America making a living telling jokes to the proletariat. Actually, the only dogmas that Tim clings to, are the inalienable rights outlined in the first ten Amendments to the Constitution, otherwise known as the Bill of Rights. (Especially the right of Free Speech.) Fascist governments have never acknowledged the existence of these rights. Tim Slagle deals more with political concepts than politicians. Some people actually leave a show without ever realizing it was political. Things that touch our everyday life like warning labels and vegetarian frozen dinners, have political implications, but are not necessarily thought of as political. Tim’s most memorable bit is his Halloween/Tax bit, where he suggests teaching children about taxes on Halloween, because “…they just put in eight full hours of power Trick or Treating, and they’ve got a nice big bag of what should be, take-home candy!”Liz Miele: Liz Miele, originally from New Jersey, started doing stand-up at 16 in New York City. At 18 she was profiled in The New Yorker Magazine , at 22 she appeared on Comedy Central’s “Live at Gotham.” She’s also appeared on Comedy Central’s “This Week at the Comedy Cellar,” NPR’s “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me ,” Hulu’s “Coming To The Stage ,” AXS TV’s “Gotham Comedy Live ,” and was profiled in the March 2015 issue of Runner’s World . She has several viral videos on Youtube , Instagram and Tiktok including jokes Feminist Sex Positions , F*ck Finland , and London Cops Are Better Than American Cops She regularly tours internationally and has three albums out on Spotify and iTunes. She will be releasing her next special, The Ghost Of Academic Future , Sept 6th 2022. Her first book, Why Cats Are Assholes was released in March of 2021 is now available everywhere. She wrote and produced season one of her animated web series Damaged , voiced by great comics including, Maz Jobrani, Hari Kondabolu, Ted Alexandro, Jermaine Fowler, Dean Edwards, DC Benny, Joe Machi and so many more. She also co-produced and co-starred in 40 episodes of a web series called Apt C3 with fellow comic, Carmen Lynch and fashion photographer, Chris Vongsawat. Along with her new comedy special, checkout a recent Tedx convention where Miele discusses how she used stand-up comedy to get herself through the dark times of life.