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Podcasting’s top 1 percent — the professional community of advertising networks and distribution platforms — and the fans that fuel the industry will converge at Los Angeles Podcast Festival Oct. 6-8 at the Millenium Biltmore Hotel. Some of the elite voices behind the mic (and those that rule Apple’s charts) include comedy champ Marc Maron, Jon Lovett (one of the breakouts from the Obama alums “Pod Save America”), T.J. Miller, Bert Kreischer and Alison Rosen, who has built her own lane after leaving “The Adam Carolla Show.” It’s a lineup tilted towards comedy. Also Read: 20 Podcasts to Make Your Run or.

Comedians, YouTubers and members of Hollywood are mourning the loss of Stevie Ryan.

The late YouTube star passed away at the age of 33 on Saturday, July 1, in what the L.A. County Coroner’s Office has ruled a suicide by hanging. They did not immediately respond to People’s request for additional comment.

The actress first rose to fame through her YouTube series called Little Loca, and later transitioned to doing celebrity parodies on the video platform.

After learning about her death, there was an outpour of love and penned condolences on social media from those who worked alongside Ryan and revered her work.

Lisa May has been at her new job for nearly one month now. To match her last high-profile radio gig as sidekick to popular talk show hosts “Kevin and Bean,” she’ll just need to stick around 95.5 Klos-fm for another 23 years and 11 months. The upbeat, fan-favorite traffic reporter and entertainment-minute chatterbox was rather unceremoniously-yet-famously canned from mega-station Kroq in February. May detailed what she called the “story no one has really heard” on the “Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend” podcast shortly thereafter. She and Rosen had much to discuss — and bond over — as Rosen had recently been fired via email following four years.

Talk about anticlimactic.

As many Happy Endings fans had speculated, the mysterious countdown clock tweeted by the show’s writers in February was ultimately nothing more than an April Fool’s Day prank — and a pretty lame one at that.

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On Feb. 7, the Twitter handle @HappyWrites published the link to a website, which merely stated the words, “It’s almost a new day,” alongside a clock ticking down the seconds until April 1.

Though the cryptic tweet sparked a flurry of rumors about a Happy Endings reunion, movie...

Former “Kevin & Bean Show” Kroq traffic reporter Lisa May took to “Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend” to open up about her recent firing, which was similar to Rosen’s split with “The Adam Carolla Show.” May admitted on the podcast that she wasn’t as “rung through” as Rosen was by Carolla, but placed herself in the same “unceremoniously dumped” pile. “Ok, so this is the story no one has really heard,” May began on Rosen’s podcast. “We were on vacation, I think it was President’s Day. We came back on Tuesday and everything was fine.

It's safe to say that comedian Richard Pryor's widow, Jennifer Lee Pryor, is not a fan of Bill Cosby.

In an interview on Alison Rosen's podcast, Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend, Lee goes off on the 77-year-old comedian in light of the numerous sexual assault allegations against him. Lee served as a manager for Pryor, and wasn't shy about sharing her insight.

"It was a well-kept secret that Bill f*cked everything that moved," she claimed. "This kind of s**t that we're finding out about is beyond. I wasn't aware of this kind of business. There are people in the business who were aware of it and they're coming out now too."

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"The condescension that was going on and the holier than thou. It got so over-the-top," she said about his attitude.

She then pointed...

Not holding back. Jennifer Lee, the widow of comedian Richard Pryor, sounded off on Bill Cosby and called him names in a revealing new interview during Alison Rosen's podcast, Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend.  Lee, who served as a manager for Pryor and was married to him twice, spoke to Rosen about her marriage and her late husband before turning the conversation to Cosby, asserting "I'd like to address the whole Bill Cosby thing." "Richard was dirty on the outside, but he was a good person, [...]...

Not everyone who's known Bill Cosby for years is standing by him. The widow of actor-comedian Richard Pryor—who like Cosby (or unlike him now, depending on who you ask) is considered a master at stand-up, but whose material ultimately became more fiery, profane and cutting-edge than Cosby's—did not mince words when giving her opinion of her late husband's fellow entertainer in a recent interview. Talking about the dynamic between the two on the podcast Alison Rosen Is Your Next Best Friend, Jennifer Lee Pryor said, "Richard was dirty on the outside, but he was a good person on the inside. Bill, f--k. Clean. Oh, 'clean.' He hated Richard because he 'worked dirty.'...

Jennifer Lee Pryor, wife of deceased comedian Richard Pryor, over the weekend blasted Bill Cosby, who stands accused of raping, drugging or sexually assaulting over 30 women. “Richard was dirty on the outside, but he was a good person … he was clean on the inside. Bill — fuck,” she told Alison Rosen on her podcast “Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend.” “He hated Richard, because Richard worked dirty. Bill worked clean,” she added. See Photos: Bill Cosby’s NBC Sitcom Is Dead: 10 Other TV Dads Who Adopted a New Family Pryor went on to say that Cosby had a reputation for promiscuity over.

Alison Rosen finally provided her account of the events that led to her dismissal from “The Adam Carolla Show” on Saturday and she says it came down to what most male-female breakups do: miscommunication. During a special Saturday episode of the “Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend” podcast, host Rosen blamed a lawsuit fundraiser and a flap over cross promotion for her ouster. She says she felt compelled to come forward with her side of the story after comments made by Carolla on his show. “He says he did this because he owed his audience the truth, but he apparently.

Everyone wants to know what to expect from Guardians Of The Galaxy 2 despite the fact we are still two years away from seeing the film. But, with Marvel plotting out their projects years in advance, writer/director James Gunn already has his plans developing for the follow-up to the second highest grossing film of 2014. On a recent appearance on Alison Rosen's podcast, Gunn was asked what Guardians Of The Galaxy 2 will be based on to send fans on a furious reading binge of old...

Guardians Of The Galaxy 2 isn't going to be heavily based on an existing comics story, James Gunn has revealed...

Arriving in cinemas on 5th May 2017 is the sequel to Guardians Of The Galaxy, which will see James Gunn returning to direct, and also to pen the new movie.

Gunn has been teasing a few bits and bobs regarding the film over the past few months, and he's now been a guest on the Alison Rosen podcast, where he's been chatting about the film some more.

So what did we learn? "The story for Guardians 2 is an original story that I came up with, that I started working on actually while I was shooting Guardians 1", he said. "And it'll answer some of the questions that were put forth in the first movie about Peter Quill's father, and who he is, and what's going on with that".

Gunn further teased that...

As Adam Corolla’ “Take a Knee” podcast got the scoop for Mel Brooks’ “Spaceballs 2,” his former co-host Alison Rosen had “Guardians of the Galaxy 2” director James Gunn in the upcoming podcast on Monday.

In her “Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend” podcast, Gunn revealed the sequel will not be based on any storyline from the Marvel comic books.

Here’s what he said:

“It’s not really based on anything. The story for Guardians 2 is an original story that I came up with that I started working on actually while I was shooting Guardians 1, and it’ll answer some of the questions that were put forth in the first movie about Peter Quill’s father and who he is and what’s going on with that. We’ll get to know some of the characters a little bit more and then we’re going to meet a couple of...

After the critical and commercial success of Guardians of the Galaxy last year, it.s no wonder that Marvel Studios brought back James Gunn to not only direct the sequel, but write the screenplay as well. With the film several years away, there.s still not much we know about what.s in store for the band of rogue adventurers outside of some minor revelations. However, one surprising element that we can expect from the 2017 follow-up is that it won.t be based on a specific storyline from the comics, and to Marvel, this could be a risky development. While appearing on the podcast Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend (via Uproxx), Gunn revealed that Guardians of the Galaxy 2 will be an original story that he worked on while directing the first movie. The sequel will answer key questions and introduce new characters who will be important to the...

When James Gunn took part in a recent podcast episode of Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend earlier this week, the co-writer and director of Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy had teased new developments on the highly-anticipated space epic sequel. “It’s not really based on anything,” said Gunn when asked if there are any comics that inspired the sequel's plot. “The story for Guardians 2 is an original story that I came up with that I started working on actually while I was shooting Guardians 1, and it’ll answer some of the questions that were put forth in the first movie about Peter Quill’s father and who he is and what’s going on with that. We’ll get to know some of the characters a little bit more and then we’re going to meet a couple of new characters who will be very important to Guardians...

Writer-director James Gunn recently took a break from working on the script for Guardians of the Galaxy 2 to appear on the Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend podcast, where the filmmaker revealed new details about the highly-anticipated sequel. The filmmaker already confirmed in August that Star-Lord's father, whose identity was left a mystery in Guardians of the Galaxy, will not be the same as the comic books, where J'Son was Peter Quill's dad. During this new interview, James Gunn revealed that the sequel will feature an original story he came up with, that is much different from the comic books and was described as "risky" by Marvel executives.

"It's not really based on anything. The story for Guardians 2 is an original story that I came up with that I started working on actually while I was shooting Guardians 1, and it'll answer some of the questions that were put forth...

Considering the phenomenon the first movie has become, there is no doubt that Guardians of the Galaxy 2 is high on everyones most anticipated list, but it turns out director James Gunn had planned for a sequel long before the first movie became a hit. Speaking on an upcoming episode (out this Monday) of the podcast Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend (via uproxx) revealed what he has planned for the further adventures of Marvel's lovable bunch of a-holes, and that he began working on it during filming on the original movie: “It’s not really based on anything. The story for Guardians 2 is an original story that I came up with that I started working on actually while I was shooting Guardians 1, and it’ll answer some of the questions that were put forth in the first movie about Peter Quill’s father and who he is and what’s going on with that.

We already know that James Gunn has a plan for Guardians of the Galaxy 2, and that he's writing the script. But we don't really know what exactly it will be. Don't expect to find anything in the comics though, because the director confirmed that the story is new, original, and not based on anything. It will also introduce new characters who will be important not only to the Guardians of the Galaxy, but the Marvel Cinematic Universe as a whole. Gunn also explains that when he shared his idea for the sequel with Marvel they said, “Whoa, that’s risky.”

Hopefully they follow through with the risk, because I like it when Marvel makes risky choices! It usually pays off for them. Gunn was recently on Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend (via FilmDrunk) and this is what he had to say about Guardians of the Galaxy 2:

It...

When the first Guardians Of The Galaxy hit theaters, you might have thought director James Gunn would be multiplex-hopping to check how his first Marvel movie was registering with audiences. But no, Mr. Gunn was busy working on his first draft of the follow-up, Guardians Of The Galaxy 2, which landed the greenlight around the same time. And it’s no wonder, as he’s recently confirmed that the sequel will boast new characters, locations and a new story Not seen in the comics.

In a chat on the Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend podcast (thanks to /Film), Gunn actually verified that his script is original and not culled from the Guardians comic run:

It’s not really based on anything. The story for Guardians 2 is an original story that I came up with that I started working on actually while I was shooting Guardians 1, and it’ll...

Major comedy players like Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel are now part of the Wme-img family, with the acquisition of their collective rep Dixon Management by the sports and entertainment agency.

Company head James Dixon will remain autonomous and stationed in New York, where he’s operated since 2001, serving other clients like Adam Carolla and “Last Call!” host Carson Daly.

“James has built his business on two core philosophies that are intrinsic to Wme-img,” Co-ceo Patrick Whitesell said in a statement: “a belief in great talent and applying an entrepreneurial approach to representation.”

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Fired Adam Carolla sidekick takes her talents — and ads — to company that handles sponsorships for “Serial” and “This American Life”

Ousted “Adam Carolla Show” sidekick Alison Rosen is taking her own show’s sponsorship control and ad sales away from PodcastOne, TheWrap has learned exclusively.

“Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend” is heading to Public Media Marketing, the company that represents the wildly popular “Serial” podcast and its parent program “This American Life,” among others. On the comedy side — which is where Rosen plays — Pmm boasts relationships with “The Joe Rogan Experience” and “Judge John Hodgman.”

After being fired...

Known complainers Dennis Miller and Adam Carolla are teaming up for a new one-hour weekly podcast titled “Po’d.”

The show will focus on current events, pop culture and other general life issues; the duo will welcome celebrity guests on their latest show as well.

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“Po’d With Dennis Miller and Adam Carolla” debuts Saturday, Jan. 17 on PodcastOne, the leader in advertiser-supported, on-demand digital audio. PodcastOne carries more than 200 programs that are downloaded over 120 million times monthly, the company boasted.

Among those shows are the wildly popular “Adam Carolla Show,” as well as...

Alison Rosen may be off “The Adam Carolla Show,” but she still has her own platform — and the now-ex news girl plans to address her unceremonious termination on Thursday’s “Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend” podcast.

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“I’m really excited to see everyone because it’s been since before the break that I saw them,” Rosen told TheWrap. “I’m not quite sure what I’m going to say yet, but obviously I plan to address it because it’s a...

Adam Carolla addressed the fallout from his firing of Alison Rosen on Wednesday morning’s podcast.

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Carolla began by acknowledging: “I know everyone thinks there’s something all the time.”

He continued, “People are like, ‘Why didn’t you have the decency of having her on to say goodbye?’ And I’d had this conversation in no certain terms with Alison many times where we agreed — on the air, possibly off the air — that if something like this was going to go down we’d...

Adam Carolla‘s “News Girl” Alison Rosen was fired by the prolific podcaster roughly a week before the news made headlines Monday, and the host of “Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend” told TheWrap exclusively that she is as puzzled as most.

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“I am as confused as the fans are,” Rosen told TheWrap via a Monday night telephone interview, her only conversation on the matter with the media. “I think there’s this sense that there’s all this stuff happening behind the scenes,...

Adam Carolla rang in the New Year with a huge announcement: News girl and sidekick Alison Rosen is gone from popular podcast “The Adam Carolla Show.”

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Filling in — for now, at least — is Klsx’s Gina Grad, in kind of a long-term “audition” role, Carolla admitted.

On his Monday podcast, which was recorded on Sunday, Carolla said: “Alison Rosen is not gonna be part of this program in 2015. Why? Nothing personal. I like Alison Rosen. I think Alison Rosen is very talented and very funny. I think she...

The second Los Angeles Podcast Festival is happening this weekend, and The A.V. Club won’t be there, unfortunately. You probably won’t be, either, but Dailymotion will be streaming much of it starting tomorrow. Some of the biggest podcasts at the festival—Wtf, Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend, Sklarbro Country, Welcome To Night Vale—will be available via the streaming window below. Check the schedule, also below, to see when it’s all happening, and come back to hear Reginald Veljohnson tell you to wake up and smell what you shovelin’ during Pop My Culture Saturday ...