June 16, 2014

Joan Rivers Unmasked Taping Announcement

Ron Bennington will be sitting down with comedy legend Joan Rivers for a taping of Unmasked on Monday June 30, 2014 at 11:15 am! Do you want to be in the studio audience!? Here’s how to request tickets for your chance to be in our studio audience with Ron Bennington and Joan Rivers.
June 10, 2014

Bobcat Goldthwait Goes into the Woods in Willow Creek

Bobcat Goldthwait is no longer the angry actor and comedian you knew in the 80s. He's a brilliant film director who makes movies that are so original they often fail to easily fit into familiar genre label. His newest film follows two people who go hunting for the mythical Bigfoot in the California backcountry, but its not like any horror movie you've seen before. Bobcat stopped by the SiriusXM studios to sit down with Ron Bennington about talk about his new movie, Willow Creek, which opened on Friday June 6th in select theaters and On Demand.
June 9, 2014

Susie Essman: Jerry Lewis Never Was Funny

Comedian Susie Essman, who is best known for her role as Susie Greene on HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm, and comedy scenester Jeffrey Gurian stopped by the Ron and Fez Show last week to talk comedy. Susie had just come back from the Friar's Club, where they were interviewing her for a PBS documentary on the famous club. After reminiscing about some great Friar's Club moments, the subject of Jerry Lewis came up, and Essman revealed that she had been invited to a tribute to Jerry Lewis, but refused to go.
June 5, 2014

Amy Schumer Added to Montreal Just For Laughs Lineup

For over thirty years, the Montreal Just For Laughs Comedy Festival is one of the biggest comedy events in the world. And the 2014 incarnation of Just For Laughs once again, is promising to be one of the comedy events of the year. Today it was announced that comedian Amy Schumer will be jointing the already amazing lineup, and she will be posting her own Just For Laughs Gala event on Saturday July 26th at 7pm.
May 15, 2014

Sports Writer Rick Reilly Names Wright Thompson the Future of Sports Writing

Sports writer Rick Reilly sat down with Ron Bennington to tape an episode of Ron Bennington Interviews this week to talk about his new book, "Tiger, Meet My Sister... And Other Things I Probably Shouldn't Have Said." Reilly talked with Bennington about the state of sports journalism today, and how the media has covered the Donald Sterling incident, and Michael Sam's press coverage.
May 13, 2014

Bob Weir’s Long Strange Trip

"The Other One: The Long Strange Trip of Bob Weir" screened at the Tribeca Film Festival earlier this month, and the legendary Bob Weir stopped in to the Ron and Fez Show to talk with Ron Bennington about the documentary, along with the film's director Mike Fleiss. Weir and Fleiss talked about the film as well as some of the great stories from Weir's life. Excerpts from the interview appear below.