The Sound of Young America: The American Dream

29th September 2008

We continue our journey into The Sound of Young America’s vast audio archive with this program from The Sound of Young America Classics. Guests Louis CK, Florian Keller, and Neil Hamburger. Louis CK is one of America’s best standup comics — we talk with him about his new kind of old-fashioned sitcom. Florian Keller writes […]

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We continue our journey into The Sound of Young America’s vast audio archive with this program from The Sound of Young America Classics.

Guests Louis CK, Florian Keller, and Neil Hamburger. Louis CK is one of America’s best standup comics — we talk with him about his new kind of old-fashioned sitcom. Florian Keller writes in his book “Andy Kaufman: Wrestling with the American Dream” that Kaufman’s work was a satire of that cherished ideal. Also, America’s Funnyman, Neil Hamburger stops in to talk about his sad, sad, sad life.

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