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Mar 2020
45m 27s

Zahra Noorbakhsh

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About this episode

Samara chats with the comedian and writer about how to work a crowd and how to change comedy bro culture from the inside--and how that applies to all of our work cultures. Like, who gets to decide what's funny anyway?


Host: Samara Bay

Executive producers: Catherine Burt Cantin & Mark Cantin, Double Vision www.doublevisionprojects.com

Producers: Samara Bay, Sophie Lichterman and the iHeart team

Theme music: Mark Cantin


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