Six Degrees – August Catch Up

Welcome to the ‘Six Degrees Catch Up Edition’ featuring all the latest happenings and goings on in the world of ‘Daily Show’ and ‘Colbert Report’ staff and ‘Friends of the Show’.

In this month’s catch up we have interviews with J.J. Sedelmaier, Jessica Williams, Samantha Bee, Amy Sedaris, Conan O’Brien, David Sedaris, Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen and warm-up comic Kevin Bartini, new humour pieces from Dan Amira, Dan McCoy and David Sedaris, and Frank Lesser will be appearing at the University of Delaware’s National Agenda speaker series.

The Colbert Report

  • Frank Lesser will open the University of Delaware’s National Agenda speaker series with a presentation titled “Making Fun of Politics” at 7:30PM on Wednesday, September 10th, 2014 in Mitchell Hall.
  • Warm-up comedian Kevin Bartini talks The Boston Globe about getting into stand-up, working as a warm-up comedian for “The Colbert Report” and “The Daily Show”, and his three-year odyssey to get the city of New York to rename part of 121st Street after a hero of his, George Carlin.

The Daily Show

  • Jessica Williams and Samantha Bee talk to Glamour about writing jokes and performing for themselves and not the audience, taking risks, working in a man’s world, and having (or not having) a master plan.

Six Degrees

  • Amy Sedaris has teamed up with the New York-based dishware retailor Fishs Eddy to release a line of home ware accessories. The collection, entitled ‘I Like You’, features juice glasses, tumblers, glass bowls, dish towels, a platter, paper plates and more with patterns taken from Amy’s 2013 fabric line.
  • Amy Sedaris talks to The New York Times about her line of home ware accessories, calling it a “dream come true”, and details the inspiration behind the patterns featured on the collection.
  • Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry’s talks to Salon about his innovative new approaches to promoting reforms to the laws governing U.S. campaign finance.
  • Whilst in London promoting the British television premiere of “Conan”, Conan O’Brien spoke to BuzzFeed about his talk show, “Conan”, why he had to leave “The Simpsons”, and his classy speech at the end of his spell on “The Tonight Show”.
  • In his latest piece, “The One That Got Away” David Sedaris shares his thoughts after asking partner, Hugh Hamrick, how many people he had slept with – the population of a small town apparently.
  • David Sedaris talks to Time Out: Hong Kong about keeping a journal, and how a excerpt from his journal is morphed into a fully fledged short story.