You may know Ashley Tisdale from her role in Disney’s “High School Musical” but she is becoming a new woman in her acting career with her latest role as a stripper in the comedic film “Amateur Night” starring Jason Biggs. Ashley joins Deanna and Emily this week to tell us about going out of her comfort zone, what lead her to make the decision to get into producing projects, and her new makeup line Illuminate.

Join special guest host Marc Evan Jackson as he sits down with comedian Wayne Federman (Legally Blonde, The 40-Year-Old Virgin) to chat about Ted Talks, writing for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and the Wayne Federman International Film Festival.

Jack Barakat, lead guitarist of the band All Time Low joins Jensen and Matty to talk about donuts, Mac Miller’s “Dang!” feat. Anderson .Paak, the Cat-Pack, Don’t Think Twice, Marley documentary, how we were late on The Joe Schmo Show, and many other things you should know about.

This episode is sponsored by Casper Mattresses.

Hayes and Sean welcome Whit and Clay into the studio to discuss one of their favorite new games before a drama arises.

This week, comedian Emma Arnold joins Randy and Jason for lively discussions about what its like to live “out of the fray” in Idaho, how to juggle a big family with a career in comedy, and her novel about trans-dimensional necromancers. Plus, Daniel Van Kirk bring stories that include a man saving his mother’s car from a naked thief, and the Sklars give Nicholas Cage a call to ask about the new Ghost Rider.

This episode is sponsored by Squarespace, Blue Apron, and Casper Mattresses.

Tips on public speaking, how to know if someone is hitting on you, and purple tights are all covered in today’s minisode. We also hear a new tidbit of information about the knife in The Shadow from Blake Harris’ interview with the film’s director Russell Mulcahy. Plus, Corrections and Omissions for The Shadow! Send your own voicemail explanation hopes for Paul to answer by calling 619-PAUL ASK. If you want to check out the full Blake Harris’ interview with director Russell Mulcahy go over to www.slashfilm.com.

Come see How Did This Get Made LIVE in Anaheim as part of the Now Hear This Podcast Festival. Get tickets here: http://nowhearthisfest.com/

WATCH Filthy Preppy Teen$ on the FullScreen App today! Get yourself a BB-8 “What Is Its Mission?” T-shirt or Tote Bag over at http://howdidthisgetmade.bigcartel.com/ Set your DVRs for Party Over Here, a new FOX sketch comedy show from The Lonely Island and Paul starring Nicole Byer, Jessica McKenna, and Alison Rich. It airs Saturdays at 11 pm. People of the internet: Watch Paul in Fresh off the Boat on ABC. Awhile ago, Paul and Rob Huebel did a comedy special on a 60 foot glass bus that traveled around LA. Now you’ll be able to see it. Go to https://itun.es/us/3M4J9 now to buy it! You can also see Jason and June in Lady Dynamite on Netflix! Also, check out June in Grace and Frankie available on Netflix, and in all the episodes of NTSF:SD:SUV:: on HULU for free, and Jason in The Dictator (he’s still in it!).

The weekly variety show hosted by Chunt, the King of the Badgers, at the Vermillion Minotaur.

Credits:

Arnie: Arnie Niekamp

Chunt: Adal Rifai

Pizza Skull: Matt Young

Melchoir, Keeper of the Doom Horn: Alex Eilhauer

Spurt the Elder: Andy Carey

Louis A. Shark: John Patrick Coan

Lois, a shark: Jen Jackson

D’athaniel Quen’yarvin (aka “DQ”): Tim Ryder

Craig: Ryan DiGiorgi

Producers: Arnie Niekamp, Evan Jacover, Ryan DiGiorgi

Editor: Ryan DiGiorgi

Theme Music: Andy Poland

Magic Tavern Logo: Allard Laban

Audio Assistance: Jason Knox

Production Assistance: Garrett Schultz

This episode is sponsored by Cards Against Humanity and Blue Apron.

Congratulations! You’ve died in a fictional universe where the afterlife exists! How cool is that? Aren’t you happy you’re not in the Tarantino-verse? Instead of your soul escaping to the great unknown, you get to hang out and make pottery with Whoopi Goldberg, contract the exorcism services of whatever Beetlejuice is, or get treated like vermin by a team of New York City exterminators (of indeterminate gender). 

So what will it be? What would be the best pop-culture afterlife to spend your eternity in? 

To figure that out, Jack O’Brien is joined by Cracked’s Daniel O’Brien and Michael Swaim and comedian and artist Ramin Nazer. They also discuss some of the worst afterlife scenarios from ancient religions, create their own perfect afterlife and talk about who they’d haunt if they were ghosts.

Also don’t forget to buy tickets to our next live podcast taping on Saturday, August 13th at the UCB Sunset Theatre in Los Angeles!

In the muggle world, we’re not given the opportunity for a magical hat to tell us which school we should go to. Usually we just have to go to the high school closest to where we live or whatever college accepts our SAT scores and personal essay. This month, our goal is to determine what would be the best fictional school to go to.

Join Jack, Daniel, the rest of the Cracked staff and some special guests as they figure out if it’s a realistic school like Degrassi or West Beverly High, or an institution from a fantasy world like Hogwarts with its ghosts and dementors, or Bayside High, haunted by a monster known only to humans as ‘Screech.’

Tickets are just $5 and are available  here: https://goo.gl/QtlWid

Footnotes:

Ray Kurzweil : The Coming Singularity: https://goo.gl/WNqGFQ

Simon Rich: “What In God’s Name”: https://goo.gl/fXA3oo

Ramin Nazer  : “After You Die”: https://goo.gl/jBeKGl

Rob Bryanton: “Imagining the Tenth Dimension”: https://goo.gl/bGPMvm

The Fox Sisters and the Rap on Spiritualism: http://goo.gl/jZPLub

Andy Weir: “The Egg”: http://goo.gl/flww

Christopher Moore: “Lamb” https://goo.gl/7CVl3P

This episode is sponsored by Squarespace, Spotify, and Loot Crate.

Comedian and filmmaker Mike Birbiglia returns along with improvisers Horatio Sanz and Mary Holland to talk about his latest film “Don’t Think Twice,” a film about a fictional New York improv group dealing with one of its members getting an audition for a Saturday Night Live type show. Later, swimming educator Lisa Taco arrives to tell us about her competitive swimming program for toddlers, young kids, and teens. Plus, Dr. Phil’s half-brother Dr. Bill Phil stops by to explain why the government has given him a robo-beard.

This episode is sponsored by Squarespace, Dollar Shave Club, Stamps.com, and Magoosh.

Paul F. Tompkins welcomes the live people of Vancouver, BC and the people of the internet to this week’s episode of Spontaneanation, recorded live from the famous Fox Cabaret! This week, Paul’s special guest is Vancouver’s legendary improv group The Sunday Service: Ryan Beil, Caitlin Howden, Kevin Lee, Aaron Read, and Taz Van Rassel! Paul chats with Caitlin about the childhood trauma that defined her as an artist, being raised in a small inuit village, and the proper disposal of sheep dogs. Paul and Caitlin are then joined by the entire Sunday Service  to improvise a story set at Summer Camp. And as always, Eban (only the best) Schletter scores it all on piano!

The next live edition of Spontaneanation happens Saturday, August 6 at Largo at The Coronet! Join Paul & Eban as they welcome improvisors Dan Ahdoot, Tim Baltz and Tawny Newsome, and special interview guest Desmin Borges from You’re The Worst! Tickets are on sale now!

This episode is sponsored by Blue Apron, Leesa.com, and Seeso.

On this week’s episode of The Canon, Devin and Amy discuss the 1926 silent film “The General.” They dive into conversation about early Hollywood’s inclination towards the Confederacy, Buster Keaton’s dignified comedy, and the tragic fate of writer/director Clyde Bruckman. Does “The General” deserve a spot in the Canon? Head to the Earwolf forums to cast your vote!

You may not know his name, but you know his work and his words. Like “climate change” instead of “global warming,” and “death tax” instead of “estate tax” — he’s really helped position policy for voters. But longtime Republican pollster and strategist Frank Luntz is not a happy camper right now, and he tells Katie and Brian why this election season is bringing him down. Let us know what you think: is our country in decline, or are you optimistic about the future? Leave a message: 929-224-4637

New York Times bestselling author Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney joins Ronna and Beverly to chat about her fabulous novel The Nest, teaching her children about safe sex, and seeing Oprah out in public. Plus, Beverly loves summer again and Ronna tells us about her big adventure to the vineyard.

This episode is sponsored by Third Love.

Ron Fournier knows the Clintons like no one else – he’s been covering them since they were in the Governor’s mansion in Arkansas. (He even once overheard an unsavory exchange with Bill Clinton in the men’s room). In this episode, he sits down with David on the final day of the Democratic National Convention to talk about who he thinks Hillary really is, and why so many of us feel like we just don’t know her.

This episode is sponsored by Trunk Club and The Great Courses.

Welcome back to The Force Awakens Minute with Phuck Cumson (Nick Wiger) from KickAssAndChewBubble.com and Dylan Panini (Mike Mitchell) from Birth.Eat.Movies.Cum. It’s the podcast where we analyze, scrutinize and eulogize the latest canonical Star Wars film, one minute at a time. This week they are joined by CGI specialist actress Angora Butterman aka the female Andy Serkis to delve deep into minute 18 of J.J. Abrams magnum opus as well as share stories from the set of the film in which her cut monkey character “Monk Monk” made several appearances. Plus, Traci Reardon arrives to help answer Twitter questions regarding Jar Jar, and other important Star Wars related inquiries in another edition of “Help Me, Rhonda.”

Benari Poulten (The Nightly Show) and Kaitlin Fontana (A&E’s Black and White) gather round to discuss another blockbuster week, including: the latest email scandals; the speeches, the tears and the A-list celebs at the DNC in Philly; and what on earth is happening over at Fox News after the resignation of Roger Ailes. Plus we have a real billionaire burn for you!

Stand-up comedian Josh Wolf (Chelsea Lately) makes landfall in Sklarbro Country this week, where he joins Randy and Jason for discussions about the pessimism of being a Boston sports fan, which of his jokes his son hates, and taking a trip to Guantanamo Bay. Later, they talk about Chris Sale’s jersey tampering, and Johnny Depp calls in to remind the Sklars to read his new scripts.

This episode is sponsored by Loot Crate.

A sneak peek of Hamilton fan podcast “The Room Where It’s Happening,” coming to Earwolf on August 15th! Join hosts Travon Free and Mike Drucker on a song-by-song journey through the biggest musical of all time. Superfan guests include Kristin Chenoweth, Adam Savage and John Hodgman plus Hamilton biographer Ron Chernow and cast members Anthony Ramos and Jasmine Cephas Jones. Subscribe now and you won’t miss a thing.

Greg Bennett (Real Housewives of New Jersey) joins Casey and Danielle for a LIVE episode of BITCH SESH recorded at the world famous Largo at the Coronet in Los Angeles! They delve into his recent pilgrimage to Andales, his involvement and status with black water, and going to The Posche Fashion Show with Teresa Giudice of RHONJ. There’s hot goss from the lovely audience, a Tipsy Girl taste test, and a special dramatic reading of a classic Real Housewives of New Jersey scene by Jessica St. Clair and Melissa Rauch.

This episode is sponsored by PaintNite.com, Club W, and Adam and Eve.

Bryan regales us with old family stories of his great aunt Annie and her basket, while Erin tells us a tale of her macgyver skills of creating dog baskets for adventuring, watch out REI! Also, a teacher named Chris Richeson was fired after helping his students create the school’s first Gay/Straight Alliance. Because, you know, fisting and rimming runs rampant when people promote acceptance. Also class action lawsuits against girls who were robbed of awards have started popping up, Lady attorney, where you at girl? And Sam Lansky is here to talk about his book The Gilded Razor, K-POP drama, and Carly Rae Jepson.

What did Negin Farsad discover when she and a group of other Muslim-American stand up comedians toured the “American Heartland”? The further removed she was geographically from bleeding heart liberals, the more open people were to discuss race relations without worrying about giving PC answers. Today, Negin discusses the issue with James and Stephen, and gets their “liberal white guy” views on the subject.

This episode is sponsored by Allstate.

Shutting up your face with CeCe Pleasants.

This episode is sponsored by Loot Crate and NatureBox.

Intrepid film, television, and theater actor Chris Chalk joins Kevin and Kamau for this week’s episode, where they talk about DC comic diversity and what it was like working onstage with Denzel in Fences. They get into the racial specifics of various hot sauces before diving into a double-Denzel countdown with Chris’s Top 5 Denzel Films/Performances.

This episode is sponsored by Harry’s.

Andy Daly and Bob Dassie join Matt Besser this week for improvised scenes about a restaurant with lax standards on what constitutes fish, avoiding cheating through subjective truth, and a couple of Disney screenwriters with a fixation on parental death. Later, we meet the Hundred Acre Wood’s resident extortionist and listen to the musings of a table-to-table poet.

This episode is sponsored by Mack Weldon.

Use promo code LOVECITY to listen to the full series of Love City with Toure. This is a show that will explore the life story of our favorite cultural items and ask what are the things we love and why do we love them and who are the major influencers who led these things to cultural prominence. In episode one, we take a look at PRINCE. Why did everyone fall in love with Prince in 1984? Purple Rain was the #1 album and the #1 movie. Before that year Prince had never sold more than 2 million albums. In 1984 he sold 16 million. What made the difference? We’ll talk to a slew of his friends and bandmates—including his guitarist Dez Dickerson, his saxophonist Eric Leeds, his engineer Susan Rogers, and singer Susannah Melvoin, the first woman he got engaged to. She tells the story of how he proposed. Also, an amazing story about Prince, Elizabeth Taylor, and a courageous audio technician from Quincy, Massachusetts.

Sheaun McKinney (HBO’s Vice Principals) joins Andrew this week to discuss current trends including Michelle Obama’s DNC speech, the black Iowa football player who was stopped by cops with guns while playing Pokemon Go, and Jennifer Murphy’s racist Ninja song. As always, leave us a message about anything you think is racist at (323) 389-RACE.

Bernie Sanders (James Adomian) joins Mark and Pete live from the Democratic National Convention to explain why he might still be the nominee, and how he defended his wife from Ronald Reagan’s declaration of prima nocta. Plus: Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Jen Bartels) shares her latke recipe.

Radiolab’s Latif Nasser learns how to turn a placenta into pills, and why it’s become a trend for new moms to consume this organ. To join the conversation about this episode, go to longestshortesttime.com! This episode is sponsored by Horizon Organic, Hooked on Phonics, Havenly, Icon Undies, Bumby Box, and Thirdlove.

Negin Farsad joins Stephen and James again today, and we learn that while all three are some sort of professional public speaker, it remains the group’s greatest source of social anxiety. Listen on as our hosts self-deprecate while extolling their fears, including a traumatizing experience James had in the first grade. Also, Stephen throws back to last week’s episode 156 by remembering something else he learned in college!