Mr. Media Interviews by Bob Andelman
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
  Robert Schimmel, CANCER ON $5 A DAY, author, standup comedian: Mr. Media Audio Interview
I tried my hand at stand-up comedy twice in college, once as a freshman at the University of Miami and again a year later at the University of Florida. And no, I wasn’t so bad at Miami that I was asked to leave. They were a lot more subtle than that.

Anyway, I gave up that dream early. It’s a tough, humiliating life, not for me.

Now, Robert Schimmel, on the other hand, is one of the best stand-up comedians of his generation. He, like Richard Belzer before him, is the guy other comedians watch and measure themselves against. He is naturally funny and naturally crude, rude, and not recommended for listeners under the age of 18.

That’s my way of saying if you’re too young to drink or if you’re easily offended, tune out now. The button-down mind of Bob Newhart this definitely is not.

These days, Schimmel is still out doing his job making people laugh, but there is a twist. In 2000, when his career was reaching new heights, he was diagnosed with Stage III non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, cancer. Not good. But he underwent aggressive therapy and routed the disease, even discovering a new source of material for his act in process. And he’s written a book, Cancer on $5 a Day: Chemo Not Included, How Humor Got Me Through the Toughest Journey of My Life.

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Sunday, January 28, 2007
  God is a DJ

Nice job by Rebecca, a.k.a., crackmyglowstick, for putting our lives in context with this video. (And thanks to DJ Ira A for bringing it to Mr. Media's attention.)



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INDEX

Interviews
By Bob Andelman


TV STARS

Kyle Bornheimer
star, Worst Week

Ethan Suplee
co-star, My Name is Earl

Philip Winchester
star, Crusoe

Donal Logue
Life, Knights of Prosperity, Grounded for Life actor

Josh Gomez
Chuck actor

Alana De La Garza
actress, Law & Order, CSI: Miami

Milo Ventimiglia
Heroes

Cheryl Hines
Curb Your Enthusiasm

Jeff Garlin
Curb Your Enthusiasm

Michelle Borth
Tell Me You Love Me

Larry Thomas
Seinfeld's Soup Nazi/Postal

Robert Wuhl
Assume The Position, Arli$$, Hollywood Knights

TV STAR Interview Index to Mr. Media


TV PRODUCER INTERVIEWS

Gary Scott Thompson
Knight Rider, Las Vegas show runner, executive producer; The Fast and The Furious, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Hollow Men, Split Second screenwriter

Katherine Fugate
Army Wives

Bill Prady
The Big Bang Theory; Gilmore Girls; Star Trek Voyager; Dream On; Muppets 3-D

David Simon
The Wire; The Corner; Homicide: Life on the Streets

David Fury
24, Lost; Buffy; Dream On

TV PRODUCER Interview Index to Mr. Media


MOVIE STAR INTERVIEWS

Kirk Douglas
actor/author

Ally Sheedy
Steam, WarGames, The Breakfast Club

Billy Bob Thornton
Beautiful Door/Bad Santa

MOVIE STAR Interview Index to Mr. Media


MOVIE DIRECTOR, PRODUCER, DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER, and SCREENWRITER INTERVIEWS

Michael Uslan
The Dark Knight, Will Eisner's The Spirit, Batman, Batman Returns, Batman Forever, Batman and Robin, Batman Begins, Catwoman, Constantine, National Treasure, Swamp Thing, Shazam!, The Shadow, Constantine

Katy Chevigny
Election Day, Deadline, Arctic Son, Arts Engine, Media That Matters Film Festival

Bob Balaban
Bernard and Doris

David Sington
In the Shadow of the Moon

MOVIE DIRECTOR, PRODUCER, DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER and SCREENWRITER Interview Index to Mr. Media


POLITICAL INTERVIEWS
Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich
Politifact.com; St. Petersburg Times

Bill Adair
Politifact.com; St. Petersburg Times

Pete Von Sholly
Capitol Hell

David Andelman
A Shattered Peace

John Amato
CrooksandLiars.com

Philip Shenon
The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation

POLITICAL Interview Index to Mr. Media


STAND-UP COMEDIAN INTERVIEWS
Rabbi Bob Alper
What Are You... A Comedian?

Jeff Kreisler
My Wall Street Journal; Indecision 2008

Robert Schimmel, Part 1
Cancer On $5 a Day

Robert Schimmel, Part 2
Cancer On $5 a Day

STAND-UP COMEDIAN Interview Index to Mr. Media


HEALTH INTERVIEWS

Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin
Skinny Bitch book series co-authors

Brian Frazer
Hyper-Chondriac

HEALTH EXPERTS Interview Index to Mr. Media


MAGAZINE EDITOR INTERVIEWS
Jason Snell
Macworld

Chris Napolitano
Playboy

Kim Kleman
Consumer Reports

Seth Bauer
The Green Guide

Mary Kay Culpepper
Cooking Light

Carey Winfrey
Smithsonian Magazine

MAGAZINE EDITOR Interview Index to Mr. Media


RADIO STAR INTERVIEWS

Alec Foege
Right of the Dial: The Rise of Clear Channel and the Fall of Commercial Radio

Tom Leykis
The Tom Leykis Show

RADIO STAR Interview Index to Mr. Media


BLOGGER, PODCASTER and WEB SITE PRODUCER INTERVIEWS

Laurel Touby
Mediabistro.com founder, socializer-in-chief

Haroon Mokhtarzada
Webs.com CEO

Tommy Duncan
Stocks of Fire blogger

Will Jerro
MonkeySee.com

Alan Levy
BlogTalkRadio.com Founder

Jim McBride
Mr. Skin

BLOGGER, PODCASTER and WEB SITE PRODUCER Interview Index to Mr. Media


NOVELIST INTERVIEWS

Jodi Thomas
Tall, Dark and Texan, western romance author

John Darnton
Black & White and Dead All Over, Neanderthal, The Darwin Conspiracy, The New York Times

James Sheehan
The Mayor of Lexington Avenue; The Law of Second Chances

Kristin Harmel
How to Sleep With a Movie Star; The Art of French Kissing; When You Wish

Sara Zarr
Story of a Girl; Sweethearts

Tim Dorsey
Hurricane Punch

NOVELIST Interview Index to Mr. Media


MUSICIAN INTERVIEWS

David Wild
author, He Is�I Say: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Neil Diamond, Friends� �til the End: The One with All Ten Years, And the Grammy Goes To�, The Showrunners, Friends: The Official Companion Book, Heart Full of Soul (Taylor Hicks autobiography)

Billy Bob Thornton
Beautiful Door/Bad Santa

Legs McNeil
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored History of the Porn Film Industry, Punk Magazine

Bob Gruen
John Lennon, The Clash, New York Dolls rock �n� roll photographer

MUSICIAN Interview Index to Mr. Media


SEXUALITY EXPERT INTERVIEWS
Chip Rowe
Dear Playboy Advisor: Questions from Men and Women to the Advice Column of Playboy Magazine

Jenny Block
Open: Love, Sex, and Life in an Open Marriage

Jim McBride
Mr. Skin

Chris Napolitano
Playboy

SEXUALITY EXPERT Interview Index to Mr. Media


CULTURE & SOCIETY INTERVIEWS
Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin
Skinny Bitch book series

Roger Bennett,
Camp Camp, Disco Bar Mitzvah

Mike Edison
I Have Fun Everywhere I Go, High Times, Screw, Cheri, Main Event, Penthouse

Julia Roberts
Motherhood to Otherhood

Rick Smolan
America at Home, A Day in the Lie of America, America 24/7

CULTURE & SOCIETY EXPERT Interview Index to Mr. Media


FOOD EXPERT INTERVIEWS
George Motz
Hamburger America

Joe Ariel
Eats Magazine, College Eats, Eats.com

Ed Droste
Hooters Restaurants

FOOD EXPERT Interview Index to Mr. Media


BIOGRAPHER, HISTORIAN and A.J. JACOBS INTERVIEWS

Cheryl Crane
daughter of actress Lana Turner, author of Lana: The Memories, The Myths, The Movies, Detour: A Hollywood Story

David Wild
author, He Is... I Say: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Neil Diamond, Friends... 'til the End: The One with All Ten Years, And the Grammy Goes To..., The Showrunners, Friends: The Official Companion Book, Heart Full of Soul (Taylor Hicks autobiography)

David Michaelis
Schulz and Peanuts

Bob Eckstein
author, The History of the Snowman

Larry "Ratso" Sloman
The Secret Life of Houdini

BIOGRAPHER, HISTORIAN and A.J. JACOBS Interview Index to Mr. Media


ATHLETE AND SPORTS EXPERT INTERVIEWS

Brandi Chastain
soccer player, U.S. Women�s Olympic gold medal winner

Kerri Strug
gymnast, U.S. Women�s Olympic gold medal winner

Peter Golenbock
In the Country of Brooklyn, Tony Curtis author

Harvey Frommer
Remembering Yankee Stadium author

Pete Williams
The Draft

Peter Golenbock
7: The Mickey Mantle Novel

ATHLETE and SPORTS EXPERT Interview Index to Mr. Media


PHOTOGRAPHER INTERVIEWS

Bob Gruen
John Lennon, The Clash, New York Dolls rock 'n' roll photographer

Rick Smolan
America at Home, A Day in the Lie of America, America 24/7

PHOTOGRAPHER Interview Index to Mr. Media


JOURNALIST INTERVIEWS

Clay Bennett
Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist

Alberto Ibarguen
Knight Foundation

Sree Sreenivasan
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism; WNBC-TV

JOURNALIST Interview Index to Mr. Media


CRIME EXPERT INTERVIEWS
Joe Pistone
Unfinished Business: Donnie Brasco

Norman Pardo
O.J. Simpson friend, publicist, documentarian

Craig Glazer
author , The King of Sting

CRIME EXPERT Interview Index to Mr. Media


BUSINESS EXECUTIVE INTERVIEWS
Ed Droste
Hooters Restaurants

Dave Hagan
Boingo Wireless CEO

Laurel Touby
Mediabistro.com founder, socializer-in-chief

Haroon Mokhtarzada
Webs.com CEO

BUSINESS EXPERT Interview Index to Mr. Media


COMIC BOOK CREATOR INTERVIEWS

Gene Colan
Marvel Comics, Iron Man, Daredevil, Howard the Duck, DC Comics, Batman

Bill Schelly
author, Man of Rock: A Joe Kubert Biography

Darwyn Cooke...
The Spirit

Wendy Pini and Richard Pini
Elfquest; Masque of the Red Death

Joe Sinnott
Fantastic Four/Brush Strokes with Greatness

Chuck Dixon
The Simpsons Comics

David Hajdu
The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare

COMIC BOOK CREATOR Interview Index to Mr. Media


CARTOONIST INTERVIEWS

Patrick McDonnell
Mutts cartoonist

Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman
Baby Blues

Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman
Zits

Mort Walker
Beetle Bailey, Hi & Lois

Jules Feiffer
Feiffer, Popeye, Carnal Knowledge, The Man in the Ceiling

Stephan Pastis
Pearls Before Swine

Mark Tatulli
LIO

Ray Billingsley
Curtis

CARTOONIST Interview Index to Mr. Media


WILL EISNER: A SPIRITED LIFE INTERVIEWS
Howard Chaykin...
On Fighting with Will Eisner

Drew Friedman...
On What�s Wrong With the Biography, Will Eisner:A Spirited Life

Andrew D. Cooke...
On Producing the Documentary, Will Eisner: Portrait of a Sequential Artist

WILL EISNER Interview Index to Mr. Media

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