Waking From The American Dream

Kelly converses with Sounds True founder Tami Simon about following the small, quiet voice of intuition, living in the big "I don't know" of life, and learning to trust yourself. Gary Stockdale and Ali Handal are the musical selections of the week.

Kelly has an intimate conversation with her sister Rain Pryor. They talk about their fathers, their own work as solo show artists, Rain's venturing into stand-up now, and the power of teaching and directing. The music selections of the week are both from Mark Silverman.

Will Arntz, producer of What the Bleep Do We Know? and Kelly discuss his new project (Ghetto Physics), the archetypal pimp/ho power dynamics of the world, and how The Secret gets it only partially right. She plays a Travis Shook and the Club Wow song, and Some People by Ross Falzone.

Kelly starts the show by reading a poignant personal essay about her family called The Liminal, and then she chats with her guest, Tracy Newman - founding member of The Groundlings, Emmy award winning sitcom writer, sister of another Newman who also happens to be quite funny, and these days a fabulous singer-song writer - while playing a few of her songs for the hell of it.

On today's show Kelly talks with one of the original Not Ready for Prime-time Players, Laraine Newman. They delve into things like the writing process, how improvisation informs motherhood, the difference between SNL and SCTV, and what it took to have a life beyond SNL. The music selections for this show are: Shadow to the Sun by Brownstein Houston Music and Hollywood Douchebag by Captain Danger.

Today, Kelly rambles on about Egypt, plays Jazz Callner's Modern World and Travis Shook's Enlightenment, and talks with Dana Gould about the difference between stand-up comedy and writing comedy, growing up in dysfunctional families, and finding one's voice as an artist.

After a few weeks of absence, Kelly is back! She spends the show with her new BFF Kathleen Madigan where they reminisce about their crazy, fun trip in November on Lewis Black's Comedy (Booze) Cruise in the Caribbean. Kelly also spins some holiday tunes from her Polymind Community of artists, the fab Gary Stockdale, and the groovy, funny ways of Amy Engelhardt and The Bobs.

Kelly shoots the shit with Lee Camp and has a play date with Rick Overton

Kelly plays a little ditty from Katie Goodman, then discusses what is really going on in America with Carter Phipps of EnlighteNext Magazine and Steve McIntosh, an Integral Philosopher, then she Shoots the Shit with Dylan Brody and finishes with a really rare item from the Carlin archives.

Kelly spends the entire show talking with Gary Shandling about TV, mindfulness meditation, taking sides, and the cosmos.

In order to begin to explore the concept of "waking up," Kelly features a clip from her father, George Carlin, Shoots the Shit with Paul Provenza and has a Deep Conversation with Zen Master Genpo Roshi.

Ben Gleib, Erin Brown and Chris Bonno join Kelly in a discussion of Persephone, Kwanza and Spider-Goat Rope. A live original song by Logan Heftel too! Merry Chanukah!