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The feminist bookstore of Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen's imaginations was a wet blanket fixture of Thunder Ant, their comedy troupe, long before Portlandia existed. For NYmag.com's Vulture blog, comedienne Julie Klausner has brought the duo to a real feminist bookstore that's actually one of the raddest places in New York City.  

This week, we’re bringing you video interviews with some of the biggest and most-respected names in New York comedy. While many think of comedy shows as cheesy affairs featuring lame stand-up comics and two-drink minimums, a new crowd of performers are changing the game by hosting their own shows to showcase their own talents as well as those of their friends, colleagues, and heroes. Today, we check in with Kristen Schaal and Kurt Braunhohler, hosts of Hot Tub.

One of BlackBook's favorite funny gals Julie Klausner shares the lessons she learned from creating her hilarious podcast, How Was Your Week? [FastCoCreate]

Sally Field. Roberto Benigni. Marlon Brando (by way of Sacheen Littlefeather). There have been over eighty years of memorable Oscar acceptance speeches -- some heartfelt, some batshit crazy. With this weekend's ceremonies just around the corner (and a fair amount of speeches to be delivered in broken English by The Artist's creative team), what better way to celebrate so many decades of Oscar memories by hearing some of the greatest speeches performed live on stage? That's why Rachel Shukert (author of Everything Is Going to Be Great!) and Michael Schulman (of The New Yorker) created You Like Me: An Evening of Classic Acceptance Speeches, running on Oscars Eve at Ars Nova in New York City.

Julie Klausner, author and podcaster, will executive produce and write a comedy for NBC.

Julie Klausner, comedienne and author of I Don't Care About Your Band, hosts How Was Your Week?, a weekly podcast that features her own thoughts about the most important cultural events of the week as well as hilarious and insightful interviews with folks like Joan Rivers, Ira Glass, Sandra Bernhard, Amy Poehler, and Patton Oswalt, to name a few. Klausner, though, is at home on the stage, having performed at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre and several other venues in New York, so it was natural for her to bring her podcast to a live audience at The Bell House in Brooklyn.

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