Jason Stuart on the Proper Inflection to Have When Saying Shut Up! I’m Talking
Original Airdates: July 19-21, 2019
TVC 457.4: Ed welcomes film and TV actor Jason Stuart (My Wife and Kids, Gia, Kindergarten Cop, Birth of a Nation), one of the first openly gay stand-up comedians. Jason has been performing stand-up for more than thirty years, but he did not find his piece of ground as a comedian until he started doing stand-up material about being gay. Jason Stuart will be signing copies of his memoir, Shut Up! I’m Talking: Coming Out in Hollywood and Making It to the Middle, at Book Soup in Hollywood on Friday, Aug. 2 along with special guest Alexandra Paul (Alexandra Paul wrote the foreword to the book), and at Comedy Central Stage Sit and Spin at the Hudson Theatre in Hollywood on Tuesday, Aug. 15.
Jason Stuart on The Dating Game, The Merv Griffin Show, and the impact of That Certain Summer
Original Airdates: July 19-21, 2019
TVC 457.5: Actor, comedian, and author Jason Stuart (Shut Up! I’m Talking: Coming Out in Hollywood and Making It to the Middle) talks to Ed about his appearance on The Dating Game in the late 1970s (and why Jim Lange was the perfect host for that show); his first national TV appearance as a comic, which occurred on The Merv Griffin Show; and the impact that the 1972 made-for-TV movie That Certain Summer had on Jason’s life. Jason will be signing copies of Shut Up! I’m Talking at Book Soup in Hollywood on Friday, Aug. 2 along with special guest Alexandra Paul, and at Comedy Central Stage Sit and Spin at the Hudson Theatre in Hollywood on Tuesday, Aug. 15.