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$I Can\'t Wait To Tell You$ I Can't Wait To Tell YouEpisode 6: Year of Selfish, Sensual Moisture with Claire FavretThis week, we’re thrilled to welcome the quick-witted and endlessly talented Claire Favret to the show! Known for her sharp wit and unique perspective, Claire shares her journey in comedy, from performing at Second City to her role at The Onion. We dive into the challenges of balancing a full-time creative career while touring, the joy of connecting with audiences, and redefining success in a chaotic world. Together, we reflect on the power of vulnerability, laugh about hilarious tour traditions, and revisit heartfelt moments like Claire gifting her post-surgery sports bras. Claire also reveals her love fo...2025-01-171h 34

This Is Your AfterlifeNot Everything Is a Sign + The BLT Scale with Claire Favret"Why Cleveland?" is the question I get when I tell people I moved from Chicago to Cleveland, mostly from people IN Cleveland. This Very Special Episode of This Is Your Afterlife does not answer "why" and in fact cautions against reading too much into every little detail of such a huge life transformation. My lovely pal, very funny comedian, and big TIYA fan Claire Favret helps me tease it all out.Content warning: employment, power outage, crappy apartment, COVID precautions, reckoning with the concept of sour grapes, relationship between making a living and making art, disillusionment with...2024-09-171h 35

NPC IncorporatedThirst for Adventure Live: The Dragon’s EyeGreetings, listeners! First off an update, new episodes of NPC Incorporated are on their way! Until we check back in with the Green Team, here’s another tale of adventure from our new live show, Thirst For Adventure! In this one, four heroes join a pair of tiny treasure hunters to seek out a treasure in a lost tomb. Can they dodge traps and solve the most dreaded enemy in D&D: a simple puzzle? Find out in this surprisingly horny, lava-filled adventure! Apologies for some mic trouble we had with our NPCs! With Claire Favret as Horntilda Magazine Erik Mo...2024-01-242h 08

This Is Your AfterlifeNew Year's Special: The Year Hating Went From Delicious to Sour with Claire FavretFriend, TIYA superfan, and This Is Your Aftershow cohost Claire Favret returns to the main feed for our annual New Year's Special episode. We celebrate our years of minimal and no resolutions, and we answer a series of New Year's reflection questions Claire is pretty sure came from Simi Botic of Movement Unmeasured.Content warning: YOU DON'T NEED RESOLUTIONS TO DO THINGS, relationship to the word "prayer," cooking with loved ones, CD shopping, love/frustration with your union, validation at Socialism Conference, good vs. bad hating, printing stickers, Free Palestine.Patreon supporters make This Is...2024-01-021h 19

This Is Your AfterlifeHere to Make Friends Postpartum Talk with Claire FavretFriend of the show Claire Favret helps me process the process of creating my new one-man show, Here to Make Friends.Content warning: Free Palestine, creative process, postcoital vs. postpartum, Infinite Jest version, massive amounts of navel gazing, the most powerful Afterhead, future of the podcast, Free Palestine.Patreon supporters make This Is Your Afterlife possible and get awesome bonus episodes. Become an Afterhead at patreon.com/davemaher. Download the Palestinian Feminist Collective's "All Out for Palestine" Digital Action Toolkit.Follow Claire @clairefavs on Twitter and Instagram.Follow me...2023-11-071h 26

This Is Your AfterlifeHow to Use the Sidewalk Properly with Claire Favret and Meaghan StricklandIt's September 2023, which means ANYTHING GOES in the lead-up to my third one-man show, Here to Make Friends. In this episode of the podcast, my aftershow co-hosts Meaghan Strickland and Claire Favret join me to present the one-man show that could have been: How to Use the Sidewalk Properly.Sidewalk CommandmentsYou must be willing to shift down to a single file line whenever someone is approaching.If you have odd numbers, take an Uber, or walk at your own risk.If you notice someone coming, you are the alpha in your group.If in a...2023-09-081h 26

The Ladylike PodcastEp. 187 - Ashley Ray & Claire FavretThis week I sat down with Ashley Ray to talk about the many perverts we’ve encountered in our travels. Ashley is an LA based out comic and she has a podcast called TV, I Say. Follow her here: https://www.instagram.com/theashleyray/ Our live story comes from Claire Favret. Claire talked about getting a breast reduction and then having them grow back. Claire is a Chicago comic. Follow her on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/clairefavs/ The Ladylike Podcast is produced by Gena Gephart: https://www.instagram.com/genagephart Theme song is Type of Wound by Natalie Grace Al...2023-06-2642 min

This Is Your AfterlifeNew Year's Special: Perfectionist Fantasies with Claire Favret (PATREON UNLOCKED)It's the second annual This Is Your Afterlife New Year's Special, initially recorded as a Patreon bonus episode with Claire Favret. Call it the Solstice Special. I come hard out the gate with depression and we dive into darkness and its purposes, plus all of Claire's family's solstice traditions, which are many. Thanks for spending any part of your year with me and this show. See you in 2023!Content warning: ungrateful children, Eve Bunting's Night Tree, winter solstice, resolution sprees, ongoing muffled scream.Patreon supporters make This Is Your Afterlife possible and get a...2022-12-271h 05

FUDGECASTNo Nut November (w/ Downpour)This week, Tim and Dan are joined by the fantastic improv team Downpour (Ollie Hobson, Claire Favret, Lawrence Collerd, and Hailey Palmer). They chat 'n prov about personal finance, budgeting, and mysterious grandparents. Downpour performs every Wednesday at the Annoyance Theater in Chicago (opening for the incredibly talented and Improv is Dead alums, Superhuman).Performers:Ollie Hobson (@ollieyourdreams)Claire Favret (@clairefavs)Laurence Collerd (@lawrencecollerd)Hailey Palmer (@miss_hap_)Tim Lyons (@TimLyons)Dan White (@atdanwhite)Hot Recs!Color for Colors...2022-09-2737 min

This Is Your AfterlifeThis Is Your Aftershow: Shalewa SharpeSomething different this week: a 3-pack of aftershows! Third and finally, Claire Favret and Meaghan Strickland join me to unpack Shalewa Sharpe's episode of This Is Your Afterlife, including such topics as:day jobs and making a living from your artthe birth of This Is Your Afterlife's newest segment2 Wigs, Ring Light or HatGet all episodes of This Is Your Aftershow, my full convos with guests, and shoutouts in future episodes by subscribing at patreon.com/davemaher.Wanna share your answer to the questions or thoughts on an episode? Leave me...2022-06-1438 min

This Is Your AfterlifeThis Is Your Aftershow: Chris GethardSomething different this week: a 3-pack of aftershows! In number two in the pack. Claire Favret and I unpack Chris Gethard's episode of This Is Your Afterlife, including such topics as:COMEDY! lots and lots of comedy talkrehearsing a TV audition that I BOOKED (I'll tell you more when I can!)Get all episodes of This Is Your Aftershow, my full convos with guests, and shoutouts in future episodes by subscribing at patreon.com/davemaher.Wanna share your answer to the questions or thoughts on an episode? Leave me a voicemail, and...2022-06-1448 min

This Is Your AfterlifeThis Is Your Aftershow: Bianca DiazSomething different this week: a 3-pack of aftershows! First, Claire Favret and Meaghan Strickland join me to unpack Bianca Diaz's episode of This Is Your Afterlife, including such topics as:believing in ghosts to placate themFran Lebowitz is overratedneeding to see reality to change itGet all episodes of This Is Your Aftershow, my full convos with guests, and shoutouts in future episodes by subscribing at patreon.com/davemaher.Wanna share your answer to the questions or thoughts on an episode? Leave me a voicemail, and I'll play it on the show...2022-06-1452 min

This Is Your AfterlifeTragedy Minus Time Equals PostingAbortion stories flooding my timeline got me thinking about how we mine our most intense experiences for art, or worse, content. As a comedian with a couple one-man shows about my coma, it's a familiar process! Why do we do this? What are we looking for? Do we need to share at all? How can we know what's right for us? Comedian and frequent This Is Your Afterlife guest Claire Favret joins me as a sidekick to sort this all out, once and for all, absolutely no more follow up required, ever, we did it, we're the ones.2022-05-101h 19

This Is Your AfterlifeAfterlife Movie Club: What Dreams May ComeWe finally did it! We recorded the first episode in a new series, the Afterlife Movie Club. Claire Favret and Bill Stern join me to talk about the movie most referenced by far on This Is Your Afterlife, 1998 Robin Williams vehicle What Dreams May Come.Why is there so much purple in this movie? Does the story measure up to the set design? Exactly how fucked up is it for a movie this horny to end with two reincarnated lovers meeting as children? Oh, and spoiler alert.If you like this episode, subscribe to my...2022-02-221h 54

This Is Your AfterlifeBirthday Cakes, Band-Aid Solutions & Poetry: Oscar Sanchez This Is Your AftershowG.O.A.T. episode here. What starts as a usual This Is Your Aftershow—with Claire Favret & Meaghan Strickland joining me to unpack Oscar Sanchez's episode of This Is Your Afterlife—becomes something entirely new to the "This Is Your" Universe when Oscar surprises Meaghan & Claire halfway through by JOINING US.With and without Oscar, we touch on topics such as:how misguided, confusing, and ridiculous this show isthe necessity of hopebirthday cake smashingband-aid solutions to systemic problemsrace jokes (Oscar and I make them)anxiety attacksthe possibility of clout organizers being secretly useful actorsPl...2021-12-071h 42

This Is Your AfterlifeThis Is Your Aftershow: Rob AutonClaire Favret and Meaghan Strickland join me to unpack Rob Auton's episode of This Is Your Afterlife, including such topics as:needing subtitles for British accentsThe Agreement Zonehard work + talent + luck in creative/entertainment careersGet all episodes of This Is Your Aftershow and the extended episodes of This Is Your Afterlife at patreon.com/davemaher.Follow me @thisisdavemaher on Instagram and Twitter, and subscribe to my weekly newsletter, Hella Immaculate, at thisisdavemaher.com.Follow Meaghan on Twitter: @MeaghanStrick and Instagram: @stricklygram, and go to her website: meaghanstrickland.com.Follow...2021-11-1337 min

This Is Your AfterlifeThis Is Your Aftershow: Ariel EliasClaire Favret (comedian, friend, fan) professes her newfound love for pretty much everything about Ariel Elias in our debrief of Ariel's This Is Your Afterlife episode.Get all episodes of This Is Your Aftershow and the extended episodes of This Is Your Afterlife at patreon.com/davemaher!Follow me @thisisdavemaher on Instagram and Twitter, and subscribe to my weekly newsletter, Hella Immaculate, at thisisdavemaher.com.Follow Claire @clairefavs on Twitter and Instagram.Transcript: This Is Your Afterlife on Podscribe 2021-11-1339 min

This Is Your AfterlifeThis Is Your Aftershow: LowNew show alert!!!Comedians, friends, former guests, and fans of the podcast Claire Favret and Meaghan Strickland join me for This Is Your Aftershow, a new, sporadically released This Is Your Afterlife debrief show.On this Low Aftershow, we talk about:worst parenthood fearsour exact yearly earningsholiday supremacyprison abolitionGet all future episodes of This Is Your Aftershow at patreon.com/davemaher!Follow me @thisisdavemaher on Instagram and Twitter, and subscribe to my weekly newsletter, Hella Immaculate, at thisisdavemaher.com.Follow Meaghan on Twitter: @MeaghanStrick and Instagram: @stricklygram...2021-10-1133 min

This Is Your AfterlifeReversaroo! Part 2 with Me, Dave MaherPart 2 of the best or worst introduction to this podcast is here! Comedians, past guests, and friends of mine Meaghan Strickland and Claire Favret continue the utterly, definitely-everyone's-saying-it's-classic-and-not-just-a-word-we-made-up "reversaroo" format asking my own questions of me, Dave Maher (This American Life).In this part, I give the most horrific response to "Paint Your Hell" I can, give away the secrets of my future "How to Use the Sidewalk" one-man show, and stand in awe of Claire and Meaghan asking me, "Is your coma still your 'coma'?"Check out the extended episode, with an extra segment...2021-09-2843 min

This Is Your AfterlifeReversaroo! Part 1 with Me, Dave MaherThis episode is either the best or the worst introduction to this podcast. I, Dave Maher (This American Life), talk to my friends, fellow comedians, former guests and still-current fans of the show, Meaghan Strickland and Claire Favret, as they turn the tables and ask me all the questions I normally ask guests. A classic "reversaroo," of course!The episode comes in two parts. In this one, I relay an embarrassing childhood anecdote that explains my personality and invent the "destination funeral." This was seriously a blast. I hope you enjoy it. I hope you...2021-09-2154 min

Please Make ThisHis & Hurricane (w/ Claire Favret)It’s the day of Grandpa Benji and Grandma Penny’s third or forth wedding (who’s counting) and their family has assembled in Myrtle Beach for the occasion. As the ceremony begins, life changes for everyone very quickly, and everyone has to come together to pick up what’s left. Tune in for a tale of love, catering, and second (or third or fourth) chances.Scripts start @ 01:10:29Starring:Claire FavretChas LillyHobert ThompsonLaura PetroAnd Chance N...2021-09-171h 59

This Is Your AfterlifeYoung Sweaty Student Energy with Claire FavretClaire Favret (Cigarette Sandwich) is a warm, super-talented comedian and such a fan of the show that she becomes my first co-host of the intro and outro. She shares her habit of added to her will while sick that dates back to childhood, plus the coma moment that redefined her relationship to food and eating, and the hell of endless notes after a terrible improv show. Check out Claire's extended episode at patreon.com/davemaher.Transcript: This Is Your Afterlife on Podscribe---Follow Claire on Twitter: @clairefavsFollow...2021-07-1342 min

The Gunkhole State Park PodcastEpisode 27: Stupid as a Pack of Salami (with Claire Favret)En route to Hollywood, the rangers stop in Las Vegas to sample everything it has to offer: entertainment, gambling, and getting robbed at gunpoint multiple times. Then, they welcome casino manager Gina Tortellini (Claire Favret), who's been dealing with a celebrity-related problem of her own. 2021-03-081h 09

The Department of Promethean ScienceEpisode #125 - Claire FavretClaire Favret and Jorin take a study break, and take the opportunity to talk about what really, really, matters. From the suggestion 'Lafayette', care of Derek Shoemaker. Send suggestions (for scenes, with subject line Suggestion) and for the podcast to prometheanscience@gmail.com. Vote! For the 2nd Somewhat Annual Awards: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PTXFWTC 2015-10-1100 min