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'Fresh Air' Favorites: Joan Rivers

1:32pm December 31, 2019

by Terry Gross

This week, we're listening back to some favorite Fresh Air interviews from the past decade. Rivers, who died in 2014, spoke to Terry Gross in 2010 about the sacrifices she made as a female comedian.

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'Fresh Air' Favorites: 'Book Of Mormon' Creators Trey Parker And Matt Stone

1:36pm December 27, 2019

by Terry Gross

This week, we're listening back to some favorite Fresh Air interviews from the past decade. In 2011, Terry Gross spoke to the creators of South Park about their Broadway hit.

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'Fresh Air' Favorites: 'Hamilton' Creator Lin-Manuel Miranda

1:36pm December 27, 2019

by Terry Gross

This week, we're listening back to some favorite Fresh Air interviews from the past decade. Terry Gross spoke to Miranda in 2017 about how his "mixed tape" musical came together.

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Highly Specific Superlatives: The Best Bits Of Stand-Up Comedy In 2019

5:42pm December 25, 2019

by Elizabeth Blair

All Things Considered's Best of 2019 lists are going highly specific. Up next: the best bits from stand-up comedy specials, from Best Joke about the Immigrant Experience to Best Bit about Pregnancy.

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Red Hot Chili Peppers Perform At Snowboard Grand Prix

Jingle Sells, But Who's Buying? (Rebroadcast)

4:34pm December 25, 2019

Holiday music is big business.

Long-Running San Francisco Musical Revue 'Beach Blanket Babylon' Nears End

7:48am December 22, 2019

by Chloe Veltman

After 45 years, a staple of kitsch in San Francisco is closing. The show Beach Blanket Babylon ends Dec. 31.

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Avery Pearson On Helping Struggling Comedians

7:53am December 21, 2019

NPR's Scott Simon talks to comedian Avery Pearson about the song he wrote to help raise funds for working comedians through the charity Comedy Gives Back.

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Anna Karina, the French New Wave actress who in the 1960s established herself as a fixture in films directed by Jean-Luc Godard, died on Saturday in Paris. She was 79.

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Anna Karina, Acclaimed French New Wave Actress, Dies At 79

6:30pm December 15, 2019

by Bobby Allyn

Danish-born Karina hitchhiked to Paris at the age of 17. Before long, she would establish herself as one of the most prominent actors in the French New Wave film scene of the 1960s.

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John Leguizamo On 'Latin History For Morons'

8:03am December 15, 2019

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with John Leguizamo about the evolution of his one-man show after performing it for six years. Its national tour has just wrapped up.

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Bill Irwin On Samuel Beckett

5:08am December 13, 2019

Bill Irwin is an old-fashioned baggy-pants clown who happens to be fascinated with Nobel-winning playwright Samuel Beckett. Irwin talks with NPR's David Greene.