After a seven-year hiatus, Emmy-winning actress Jessica Walter is back to playing the booze-soaked matriarch Lucille Bluth on the sitcom Arrested Development. She’s played more than a few villains - but while directors cast her as someone audiences love to hate, in real life Ms Walter is perfectly sweet…and she graciously offers up thoughts on favorite sons (in-law), and insufferable dolts.
Etiquette
Folk-rocker Billy Bragg Carries your Burdens
Billy Bragg, the 'Sherpa of Heartbreak,' spills on playing Trivial Pursuit with Joey Ramone - and gamely answers your (non-trivial) questions.
Chef Bobby Flay Cooks Up Answers to Your Etiquette Quandaries
We grill celebrity chef, restauranteur, and star of cooking/reality shows Bobby Flay with listener questions - and see how well he takes the heat.
David Alan Grier Returns to his Radio Roots
David Alan Grier has starred in theater, television, and movies over the course of his career - but he started out in public radio. We invited him to give back to the medium that gave him his big break by answering listener etiquette questions.
The Posts on Door Jams and Visible Underwear
The Posts return once again. This time they tackle door jams and outgoing underwear.
Julia Sweeney goes from SNL to SUV Strollers
The former SNL star turned solo-performer and author gives out unambiguous etiquette answers on child-rearing and drinking with the boss.
Talk show legend Dick Cavett channels Hitchcock and Hepburn
On his own “The Dick Cavett Show,” talk show icon Dick Cavett traded stories and witticisms with everyone from Grouch Marx to John Lennon. He’s now a featured columnist for The New York Times. Dick talks about being a little kid with an over-sized voice, and then he puts those pipes to use with killer impersonations of Hepburn and Hitchcock. There’s etiquette advice somewhere in there, too.
Etiquette that travels from globetrotting author Paul Theroux
Paul Theroux knows his way around the world. In masterful travel books, he transports readers to far-flung places with vivid prose. His new novel, The Lower River, recounts a man's ill-fated return to Malawi long after he first experienced the place as a Peace Corps volunteer. (Paul himself served there in the 60s.) He tells us about a one-time escape from Africa, then addresses listener questions about travel secrets...and epizeuxsis
Comedian Kevin Nealon blesses us with advice
Kevin Nealon was a "Saturday Night Live" cast member for almost a decade, inventing characters like Mr. Subliminal and the pumped Franz. For eight seasons on the Showtime series "Weeds," he stole scene after NSFW scene as accountant turned Ponzi-schemer Doug. And he's of course a veteran stand-up comic - his latest Showtime special "Whelmed, but Not Overly" hits iTunes this weekend. Kevin offers listeners etiquette tips on shutting town loud talkers and ending conversations -- then gives us his blessings.
Don’t ask to play catch with Andy Cohen
Andy Cohen knows a thing or two about TV. After beginning his career as a news producer for CBS, Andy went on to exec-produce Bravo's programming, including mega-hits "Top Chef" and the "Real Housewives" franchise. His own late night gabfest "Watch What Happens Live" has also won a rabid following. Andy tells us a few tales from his new memoir "Most Talkative: Stories from the Front Lines of Pop Culture" (out in paperback this week), and then muses on decibel levels, headdress protocol, and presidential pleas.