This week's focus group edition of Arts & Crass included me and fellow Minneapolis comic Anil Bandhakavi. We talk with Jesse Irvin and John Dick Winters of the Race to the Coffin Comedy crew from Pittsburgh. We talk jokes, suicide, white guy comedy, race, and more. It's a good one!

Host of TOFOP/FOFOP, Australia's The Gruen Transfer, guest on Chelsea Lately, multiple fringe festival award winner, and world class touring standup comedian. Wil Anderson.

Peace and kindness, mostly puppies, and good thoughts

Focus Group: group conversation at its most chaotic

This podcast features the late great Bill Young and the very much alive Nick Piontek. Unless you're listening to it in the far future, in which case Nick is also dead. Everyone's dead. Spoiler: Everyone was dead all along. Brought to you by geekiana.com

Leah Mansfield came to the Casket Arts studio for a funny and serious chat. We also welcome local bilingual labor mediator James Wells! Leah takes time from her busy road schedule to mix it up with local Minnesota comedians, share comedy insights, and get us into a serious conversation about child rearing. This show was recorded right after comedian Adam Richmond was charged with sexual assault here in Minnesota. So trigger warning, the subject of rape comes up. Leah also shares a great Adam Richmond story. Today's podcast is sponsored again by Geekiana. Crasstians can support the show when you visit Geekiana.com or geekiana.etsy.com and save 20% with the coupon code CRASS.

This week we tried a new experiment. Instead of the usual focus group, I asked the question: what if comedians could have a conversation with each other's ideas through sets? So a few brave souls came to the Casket Arts Studio 314 for a special edition of Arts & Crass where we played a kind of game. The winner is YOU. Guests include Patrick Ryan Bauer, Justin Colucci, Jun Sung, and David Sitrick. Arts & Crass is still sponsored by Geekiana. Use the coupon code CRASS to save 20% at Geekiana.com or on etsy at Geekiana.etsy.com.

Phil Kolas and David Harris join us for a night of classic Borscht Belt humor and magic.* This was a really fun episode as we get deep with two of Minneapolis' truly funny guys who also happen to be nice (being nice without being funny is basically the worst thing you could ever be, take it from your host). This episode is again sponsored by Geekiana. *podcast contains no Borscht Belt humor, nor magic

Spoiler: the twist ending was simply breaking the episode into two parts so we could include the complete Alvin Irby performance and interview. It's a good one, so get into it!

The Arts and Crass studio stage is seized this week by Alvin Irby, Kait Varkados, and Benjamin Hoffman. We get to laugh, get to know the limits of medical diagnostic terminology, and get to catch up with an old friend. Kait sets the appearances record for the show's short history, and Ben says farewell after we just barely meet. It's a night of dichotomies... and THEN we make a groundbreaking format leap! We're still proud to be sponsored by Geekiana.com where listeners can use the coupon code CRASS to save 20%.