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Author Archive | Alison Rosen

ARIYNBF 130 with Myq Kaplan

Myq Kaplan, comedian and host of the forthcoming Hang Out With Me podcast, stopped by this episode of Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend to discuss non-monogamy and polyamory, drugs, atheism, comedy, divorce, music and an array of other things. We also did a round of Topic Sombrero, Just Me Or Everyone and an especially magnificent HGFY. (Special thanks to Carl Lybecker for the use of his studio and talents.)

This show is brought to you by  Amazon (clear your cookies first and what the hell, make a bookmark!) and Endless and NEW SPONSORS ALERT: Go To Meeting with HD Faces! (use promo code Alison) and The New Squarespace (use promo code bestfriend9).

Credits? If you insist:

Executive producer: Alison Rosen

Producer: Gary Smith

Music: Trapp Dog Tom Rapp

Logo: Kezilla

follow @alisonrosen and @ariynbf for updates. Don’t use iTunes? Subscribe to the show’s RSS feed or listen on the Adam Carolla app!

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And watch this silly video Gary and I made for GoToMeeting and read this review of ARIYNBF!

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ARIYNBF 129 with Bert Kreischer

Comedian Bert Kreischer stopped by this episode of Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend to discuss social anxiety, relationships, therapists, the Russian mob, his inability to say no, Hurt Bert, Trip Flip, The X Show and various other TV gigs, Joe Rogan, Deathsquad, Olive Garden, pot, marriage, children and an array of other important things. We also did a round of Just Me Or Everyone? (click here to see the JMOEs we put on screen) and sang a little at the end.

This show is brought to you by  Amazon (clear your cookies first and what the hell, make a bookmark!) and Endless and NEW SPONSORS ALERT: Go To Meeting with HD Faces! (use promo code Alison) and The New Squarespace (use promo code bestfriend8) and Audible.

Credits? If you insist:

Executive producer: Alison Rosen

Producer: Gary Smith

Music: Trapp Dog Tom Rapp

Logo: Kezilla

follow @alisonrosen and @ariynbf for updates. Don’t use iTunes? Subscribe to the show’s RSS feed or listen on the Adam Carolla app!

ALSO ALSO: like us on Facebook!

And watch this silly video Gary and I made for GoToMeeting and read this review of ARIYNBF!

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ARIYNBF 128 with Pete Holmes and Michael Rosas, LIVE from Nerdmelt

Comedian Pete Holmes was the guest and Michael Rosas was the musical guest at this special live version of Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend, recorded Aug 9, 2012 at Nerdmelt. Pete and Alison discussed sex, relationships, twizzlers, talk shows, Pete’s upcoming talk show pilot being produced by Conan, sperm, breasts, crotchless panties, ducks, duck hats (thanks to Tony for the starter hat!), feeling like a fraud, Al-anon and an array of other things which Alison is possibly already regretting. Go here to see how excited everyone was before the show!

This show is brought to you by  Amazon (clear your cookies first and what the hell, make a bookmark!) and Endless and NEW SPONSORS ALERT: Go To Meeting with HD Faces! (use promo code Alison) and The New Squarespace (use promo code bestfriend8).

Credits? If you insist:

Executive producer: Alison Rosen

Producer: Gary Smith

Music: Trapp Dog Tom Rapp

Logo: Kezilla

follow @alisonrosen and @ariynbf for updates. Don’t use iTunes? Subscribe to the show’s RSS feed or listen on the Adam Carolla app!

ALSO ALSO: like us on Facebook!

And watch this silly video Gary and I made for GoToMeeting and read this review of ARIYNBF!

Some photos from the live show? Well, okay:

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ARIYNBF 127 with Jeff Dye

Jeff Dye, comedian and host of MTV’s Money From Strangers stopped by this episode of Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend to talk about his perfect teeth and chiseled jaw line as well as his tousled hair and lanky physique. Actually, that’s not true, and he thinks he’s only good looking “for a comedian,” but please. Anyway, we discussed his turbulent upbringing in the Seattle area, a health scare, religion, Ashton Kutcher, relationships, self-sabotage, dogs and flirting. We also shared our google search histories and then Alison told an embarrassing story while Gary shook his head at her and quietly judged her. Plus we tried to peel back some layers of the onion that is Gary and what did we find? More layers! The man is a riddle wrapped in stoicism wrapped in hair gel. Also Alfred Schulz stopped by to offer more Things You Never Hear People Say (with more dairy) and we did a round of Just Me Or Everyone (click here to see the JMOEs we put on the screen) and HGFY.

This show is brought to you by  Amazon (clear your cookies first and what the hell, make a bookmark!) and Endless and NEW SPONSORS ALERT: Go To Meeting with HD Faces! (use promo code Alison) and The New Squarespace (use promo code bestfriend7).

Credits? If you insist:

Executive producer: Alison Rosen

Producer: Gary Smith

Music: Trapp Dog Tom Rapp

Logo: Kezilla

follow @alisonrosen and @ariynbf for updates. Don’t use iTunes? Subscribe to the show’s RSS feed or listen on the Adam Carolla app!

ALSO ALSO: like us on Facebook!

And watch this silly video Gary and I made for GoToMeeting and read this review of ARIYNBF!

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Review of ARIYNBF in The A.V. Club

The Onion’s A.V. Club reviewed Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend and I couldn’t be happier. I am truly humbled, and by that I mean I’m very full of myself. Here’s the review:

NEW (TO US)

Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend

Dick Cavett is fond of quoting Jack Paar’s comment about how the ideal talk-show appearance should be a genuine conversation rather than a scripted and controlled Q&A. Cavett embodied that advice on his television talk show, and the cream of the current crop of podcasters share Paar and Cavett’s commitment to advancing the lost art of conversation. Among them is Alison Rosen, the newsgirl on the wildly popular podcast The Adam Carolla Show and the host of her own Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend on Carolla’s podcasting network.

Pete Holmes was the first guest on Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend and Rosen has appeared as a guest on You Made It Weird, which is fitting, since the podcasts have a lot in common. Rosen and Holmes both combine big personalities with genuine curiosity about both their guests and the world around them. On Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend, Rosen exposes her neuroses, anxieties, and insecurities in a way that never overshadows her guests. The latest episode features Greg Proops, a popular presence in podcasting as both a host and a guest, but Rosen gleans some new insights from the familiar face and effete voice. Proops is loose and lively as he discusses how he’s able to not just function but thrive while being essentially high all the time, shares the rare stoner anecdotes of genuine interest to people other than those involved, and examines the ego-threatening perils of reading comments on the Internet. In the best Cavett/Paar tradition, this is a true meeting of complementary minds. [NR]

–The A.V. Club

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ARIYNBF 126 with Greg Proops

Or maybe you’d like to see the photo with more logo?

Comedian and podcast host Greg Proops stopped by this episode of Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend to discuss shorts and culottes, introducing Doug Benson to pot, The Wizard of Oz, his podcast The Smartest Man in the World, wifely duties, Orange County audiences, email etiquette and so much more. We also did a round of Just Me Or Everyone (click here to see the JMOEs we put on the screen) and HGFY.

This show is brought to you by  Amazon (clear your cookies first and what the hell, make a bookmark!) and Endless and NEW SPONSORS ALERT: Go To Meeting with HD Faces! (use promo code Alison) and The New Squarespace (use promo code bestfriend7).

Credits? If you insist:

Executive producer: Alison Rosen

Producer: Gary Smith

Music: Trapp Dog Tom Rapp

Logo: Kezilla

follow @alisonrosen and @ariynbf for updates. Don’t use iTunes? Subscribe to the show’s RSS feed or listen on the Adam Carolla app!

ALSO ALSO: like us on Facebook!

*****And see ARIYNBF live August 9 with Pete Holmes and Michael Rosas!

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ARIYNBF 125 with Chelsea Peretti

Hating this photo of myself

Comedian and writer Chelsea Peretti (Parks & Recreation, The Sarah Silverman Program, Portlandia) stopped by this episode of Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend to discuss poodles, relationships, keeping things positive, social media, having developed the viral hits Black People Love Us and The Rejection Hotline with her brother (Buzzfeed‘s Jonah Peretti), her recent decision to leave Parks & Recreation, moisturizing, Pete Holmes, 50 Shades of Grey and the way her bathroom cannot cage her. We also took a call, did round of Topic Sombrero, Just Me Or Everyone (click here to see the JMOEs we put on the screen) and HGFY.

This show is brought to you by  Amazon (clear your cookies first and what the hell, make a bookmark!) and Endless and NEW SPONSORS ALERT: Go To Meeting with HD Faces! (use promo code Alison) and The New Squarespace (use promo code bestfriend7) and Audible.

Credits? If you insist:

Executive producer: Alison Rosen

Producer: Gary Smith

Music: Trapp Dog Tom Rapp

Logo: Kezilla

follow @alisonrosen and @ariynbf for updates. Don’t use iTunes? Subscribe to the show’s RSS feed or listen on the Adam Carolla app!

ALSO ALSO: like us on Facebook!

*****And see ARIYNBF live August 9 with Pete Holmes and Michael Rosas!

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ARIYNBF 124 with Dave Holmes

Comedian, writer, host and all around awesome guy Dave Holmes, whom you may remember from his former gig as an MTV VJ, stopped by this episode of Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend to chat about pestering people til they give you a job, Jesse Camp, All My Children, reading in the bathroom, Real World and Road Rules, his shows DVD on TV and A Drink with Dave, sexuality, monogamy and an array of other assorted things including punctuation and grammar. We also did a round of Just Me Or Everyone (click here to see the JMOEs we put on the screen) and Topic Sombrero.

This show is brought to you by  Amazon (clear your cookies first and what the hell, make a bookmark!) and Endless and NEW SPONSORS ALERT: Go To Meeting with HD Faces! (use promo code Alison) and The New Squarespace (use promo code bestfriend7).

Credits? If you insist:

Executive producer: Alison Rosen

Producer: Gary Smith

Music: Trapp Dog Tom Rapp

Logo: Kezilla

follow @alisonrosen and @ariynbf for updates. Don’t use iTunes? Subscribe to the show’s RSS feed or listen on the Adam Carolla app!

ALSO ALSO: like us on Facebook!

*****And see ARIYNBF live August 9 with Pete Holmes and Michael Rosas!

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