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Memphis – The Memphis Comedy Festival features stand-up comedy, improv, podcasts, open-mics, seminars and shows at venues across the city with headliner Lizz Winstead, co-creator of The Daily Show and co-founder of Air America Radio. Knoxville – Boaters can get inspiration for spring and summer ...

Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): What is your career-defining moment? Janeane Garofalo: It's a two-fold answer. I'd say looking back, I feel like one of the important things I've done was working at Air America Radio during the Bush era. That's where Rachel Maddow worked. It was trying to ...

Feraru earned a bachelor's degree in English writing from Guilford College in Greensboro, N.C. A lady from High Point, N.C., and her family heard of Feraru's story during an Air America radio broadcast when he was in his early 20s. The family legally adopted Feraru, who changed his last name, when he ...

Conservative radio is a behemoth in terms of business and political influence, and Fox News is America's most-watched cable news outlet. Attempts to replicate that kind of success on the left have not fared well – from Al Gore's Current TV to the Air America radio network, which declared bankruptcy in 2010 ...

That honor may instead rest with his fellow Minnesota Democrats, who smell blood in the water, and have a deep bench of up-and-comers who would just love to replace the former Air America Radio and "Saturday Night Live" star in the nation's capitol. There is of course Democratic National Committee ...

Last week, radio host Leeann Tweeden accused Franken, then hosting a show on Air America Radio, of aggressively kissing her during a skit on a 2006 USO tour and groping her while she slept, posting a picture of the latter incident. After his original response to the allegation was widely condemned, ...

“This is my life now,” Rachel Maddow quipped with a certain melancholy Thursday evening, kidding on the square as she recounted the latest on Roy Moore and, later, the new revelation about Senator Al Franken. She didn't get to Franken until 29 minutes into her show—there was no such reluctance at ...

U.S. Sen. Al Franken says he welcomes an ethics investigation after a radio host says he forcibly kissed her and mockingly groped her while she slept. Leeann Tweeden, a radio host at KABC in Los Angeles, told her listeners Thursday that this happened while the two were on a USO tour of the Middle East ...

It is not an easy transition from the comedy end of show business to politics, and I met Alan Stuart “Al” Franken during his transition, after he had departed from his fifteen-year career as a writer and actor on Saturday Night Live and had become the flagship program on Air America Radio. Air America Radio ...

The chairman of Air America Media, Charlie Kireker, said in a statement that the company would file under Chapter 7 bankruptcy “to carry out an orderly winding-down of the business.” In a troubled time for advertising-driven media businesses, “our painstaking search for new investors has come close ...