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Theater-brained comedy for culture obsessives.
How Was Your Week? with Julie Klausner moves between solo dispatches and interview editions with performers, writers, and culture obsessives. The show favors Broadway minutiae, streaming-era commentary, downtown performance history, personal tangents, and jokes that turn quickly into real curiosity.
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How Was Your Week? with Julie Klausner is a comedy-culture dispatch with the attention span of a brilliant group text and the reference shelf of a theater archivist. It alternates between monologue editions and interviews, and both formats run on Julie Klausner’s taste for specific people, strange details, and jokes that keep opening new doors. A solo episode can begin with allergies and end up covering donuts, missed appointments, writing, painting, reality television, editing choices, and the emotional value of hobbies. The pace is loose. The references are dense. The tone can shift from cranky to generous in a sentence. Interview episodes bring that same energy to guests who know their corners of culture deeply. Seth Rudetsky is framed through Broadway expertise, variety-show knowledge, belters, disaster movies, failed productions, successful productions, Sirius XM, and the sort of archival clip talk where blinking in the 1970s becomes a legitimate topic. John Cameron Mitchell’s episode moves through Hedwig, Cole, downtown cabaret, queer punk venues, Justin Vivian Bond, Little Richard, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Bowie, the Stones, the Beatles, Yoko, and Tina. Phoebe Robinson’s conversation leans into gender, friendship, hobbies, betting apps, weaponized incompetence, self-expression, and comedy touring. Susan Orlean’s appearance is rooted in memoir, reporting, How To with John Wilson, and the comic afterlife of a pandemic Twitter episode. Mike Mikowski and Bradley Whitford bring the Netflix limited series Death by Lightning into the show’s orbit of television, history, and performance. The show has a New York sensibility, but it is less about geography than appetite: for theater, television, books, gossip, craft, grievance, and delight. It is often irreverent. It is also unusually sincere about art that makes people feel less alone. The result is a talk show for listeners who enjoy cultural specificity more than clean summaries. It rewards people who know the names, and it remains funny when they do not.
Made for: For listeners who like sharp comic monologues, Broadway and television references, New York cultural texture, and interviews with performers and writers who can follow a tangent. Best for people who enjoy specificity, speed, and a little affectionate exasperation.
What sets it apart: The show’s strength is its combination of obsessive cultural recall and conversational looseness. It treats musical theater trivia, queer performance history, streaming television, memoir, sports frustration, illness, and snacks as parts of the same lived week.
NYC comedy legend JULIE KLAUSNER looks back at the week that was with celebrity interviews, pop culture hot takes, big city stories, and more. Produced by Forever Dog
A Tony Awards clip becomes a blinking investigation; Julie Klausner invites you to care just as much.
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Seth Rudetsky turns Broadway trivia and a no-blink 1970s clip into a lively lesson in theatrical memory.
Julie Klausner's conversation with Seth Rudetsky works best as a guided ramble through theatrical memory. She frames him as a deep musical-theater mind, and he proves the point by moving from Andrew Lloyd Webber to I Love My Wife, Tony Awards footage, Broadway flops and hits,…
Julie Klausner turns allergies, one donut, and a loose week of watching into an intimate comic monologue.
Ragweed turns allergy misery into a comic monologue, with Julie Klausner moving through Flonase, Claritin, Mucinex, Tylenol, saline, repeated COVID tests, and a donut that becomes both comfort and inflammatory temptation.
John Cameron Mitchell traces Hedwig's queer theatrical charge through a deeper rock and roll lineage.
John Cameron Mitchell places Hedwig at the charged intersection of queer performance and rock and roll, following a downtown New York lineage through Justin Vivian Bond and Club Squeezebox before looking back to Little Richard and Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
A holiday-rushed comic detour into 1970s Italy finds its charge in curiosity, interruption, and loose-ended discovery.
A Passover deadline gives the installment an easy, lived-in shape, with Julie Klausner moving from holiday logistics and a dog on a neighboring balcony into a sharper question about Italy in the 1970s.
Phoebe Robinson and Julie Klausner turn men's self-loathing, thin friendships, and weaponized incompetence into sharp comedy.
Julie Klausner's interview with Phoebe Robinson takes a funny, pointed route through men's relationship to sex, feelings, and responsibility. Robinson connects self-loathing, thin friendships, and the pressure to perform leadership to habits society lets men treat as normal,…
Affectionate Doctor Who criticism with deep-cut warmth.
Star Wars fandom with close-reading instincts.
Witchy pop culture with family static.
One Chicago talk, fast and familiar.
Doctor Who chat with affectionate exasperation.
Chart nostalgia with jokes and sharp ears.
Julie Klausner interviews Seth Rudetsky, who brings Broadway history, 1970s TV clips, and a running argument that live variety performances used to be stranger and better.
Julie Klausner opens with an allergies rant, naming Flonase, Claritin, Mucinex, Tylenol, saline, and a third COVID test, then jokes that a donut was 'an inflammatory food' she still ate.
Julie Klausner interviews John Cameron Mitchell about Hedwig’s 25th anniversary, O'Mary on Broadway, and the queer performance scenes that shaped his work.
Julie Klausner opens How Was Your Week?
Julie Klausner interviews Phoebe Robinson about her social-media series #ThotNaysh, Michelle Obama’s 2019 book tour, and the way Phoebe turns pop-culture reactions into sharp commentary.
Julie Klausner takes Patti LaBelle's cupcake exchange on The Tyra Banks Show as a reason to challenge condescending remarks directly.
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Julie Klausner interviews Mike Makowsky and Bradley Whitford about the Netflix historical drama miniseries Death by Lightning.
Julie Klausner interviews Susan Orlean about her memoir 'Joyride', discussing a drunken Twitter spree and other stories.
Julie Klausner interviews Aisha Muharrar about her debut novel 'Loved One', a story of a woman's quest to recover her deceased first love's possessions.
Julie Klausner interviews Ben Rimalower about his favorite belts, touching on theater and the American songbook.