Kathryn Hahn and David Letterman Biographer Jason Zinoman

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Photo: Matt Winkelmeyer / StringerKathryn Hahn on her new Amazon series, I Love DickKathryn Hahn is an actor and has been in comedy films like Step Brothers, the Anchorman movies, and a bunch more. She’s also starred in the NBC series Crossing Jordan and was also on Parks and Recreation, playing Jennifer Barkley, the political consultant.

Lately, she’s been working a lot with the writer and director Jill Soloway. She was in her 2013 film Afternoon Delight, she plays Raquel the rabbi on Amazon’s Transparent, and now she’s starring in another Amazon series called I Love Dick, based on the Chris Klaus book by the same name.

Hahn and Jesse talk about the inherently feminist space that I Love Dick inhabits, and the deeply complex character that Kathryn plays on the show. She talks about working with Jill Soloway on many of her most recent projects, and the special and deeply creative environment that Soloway creates on her sets.

You can catch Hahn in I Love Dick on Amazon now.

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Jason Zinoman on “The Last Giant of Late Night”, David LettermanJason Zinoman is a writer and a critic covering comedy over at the New York Times. He also writes for Slate and Vanity Fair. He’s got a new book out – it’s called Letterman: The Last Giant of Late Night. More than a biography of David Letterman, it is about one of the funniest TV hosts of all time and why so many people are fascinated with him.

Jason and Jesse talk about the span of David Letterman’s career, from parodying regional radio on his college radio station, to his time working as the weekend television weatherman, to his late night show segments that appealed to really basic comedic instincts in the audience (i.e. “Dropping Stuff off a 5 Story Tower” and “Stupid Pet Tricks” and “How many Guys in Spider-Man Suits Can Fit Into a Jamba Juice”).

Jason’s book Letterman: The Last Giant of Late Night is out now.

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The Outshot: Concrete the SuperheroJesse tells us about Concrete, one of the saddest and most honest superhero comics he’s ever read.

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