Bright lights, big city, and loads of controversy….welcome to the world we call Annie.
She’s delivered hilarious but trashy details with her friends for many Tuesdays and toured the country with some of the best comedy legends in the world. Now, one comedy’s most recognizable stars is ready to turn the U.S. comedy scene upside down all on her own in the form of a solo podcast.
Comedian Annie Lederman stars in Anniewood, a weekly podcast where the Los Angeles, CA comedian will be joined by fellow comedians, celebrities, social media influencers, and more to discuss life, entertainment, latest news, and share hilarious stories along the way.
In this week’s episode titled Embarrassed to Death, Lederman is joined by old friend and host of 2 amazing podcasts “Scared to Death” and “Timesuck” Dan Cummins.
They discuss childhood traumas, embarrassing stories involving bodily fluids, the justice system, and much, much more!
Dan also has a new special out on YouTube you can check out now called Trying to Get Better.
Annie Lederman (@annielederman): Annie Lederman is your favorite comedian. A stand-up comic, podcaster, writer & actress. She is co-host of the hit podcast Trash Tuesday along with Khahlya Kuhn and Esther Povistky. When she isn’t hosting her own podcasts she is usually talking with her friends on theirs. She can regularly be heard on The Joe Rogan Experience, Tour Moms House, The Church w/ Joey Diaz, WTF w/ Marc Maron, among many others. Most recently Annie can be seen featured in Showtime’s hit documentary miniseries The Comedy Store alongside Jay Leno, David Letterman, Joe Rogan, and many other Comedy Store legends. Additionally, Annie has been seen or heard on all your favorite TV networks including Comedy Central’s Lights Out w/ David Spade and This Is Not Happening, MTV Girl Code, E! Chelsea Lately, & Tru TV Comedy Knockout, The Soup Investigates, and Adam Devine’s House Party. After Chelsea, Annie hosted her own short lived pop-culture talk show We Have Issues. Additionally acted alongside Ron Livingston in the 2017 Cannes darling The Long Dumb Road. On the writing front, Annie starred and wrote, Stand Ups, a scripted Comedy Central pilot, produced by Dan Powell (co-creator of Inside Amy Schumer). She also wrote for Impractical Jokers as well as BORAT. Additionally, she was a producer and writer on Sacha Baron Cohen’s Showtime series Who Is America?
This Week’s Special Guest:
Dan Cummins: A year after graduating from Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington with a bachelor’s in psychology in 1999, and working briefly as crisis counselor at a residential treatment facility, Dan Cummins started doing standup in September of 2000 and was touring regularly by the end of 2001. In 2004, he was invited to the Just for Laughs Montreal Comedy Festival. After his introduction to the entertainment industry, over the next few years, Dan continued touring and was given a record deal with Warner Records, appeared on the Late, Late Show on CBS, the Tonight Show on NBC, and had his own half-hour special on Comedy Central. An hour long Comedy Central special followed in 2010 combined with a divorce and a move to Los Angeles. The special didn’t translate to ticket sales, and Dan struggled both personally and professionally for the next several years, balancing taking gigs basically anywhere that would book him with flying between LA and Spokane, Washington every month to see his two kids.
Afraid his standup career was winding down to a close, despite multiple other TV appearances including a return to the Tonight Show and becoming a regular cast member on TruTV’s popular World’s Dumbest clip show, he took multiple jobs as a consultant producer on reality shows like Duck Dynasty to supplement his minimal tour earnings. Meanwhile, Lynze was grinding hard to make a career in Film and TV production, picking up the occasional print job to make ends meet. When the free lance work she was used would dry up, Lynze would nanny for family friends. Through various connections and years of paying dues, her reputation as a hard working, organized and energetic team player put her on the production map.
Lynze landed some dream jobs working with heralded stylists, costume designers, and celebrities. She thought she had finally made it: she was madly in love with Dan, she was working on a popular TV show, and she had a few bucks in the bank. Lynze worked on shows such as Supergirl and Agents of Shield, assisted on national ad campaigns for Mattel and even toured with musician Rhianna. But then all of her success came to a bizarre and grinding halt when she agreed to let go of her ten year career to move to Coeur D Alene, ID so that Dan and her could share custody of his children from his first marriage, 50/50.
Checkout more episodes of Anniewood featuring Beth Stelling, Jetski Johnson, and Josh Potter, along with news including tour dates from Annie Lederman here.
