How To Be Amazing

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In this in-depth interview show, Black takes listeners into the minds of some of today’s most fascinating celebrities and newsmakers to discuss the process of how they became, well, amazing. Black’s trademark wit and natural inquisitiveness offers a behind-the-scenes viewpoint, along with laugh-out-loud humor and valuable advice from guests who are at the top of their game.

How To Be Amazing: Your handy-dandy guidebook for that thing you do, only better. 

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8 Pieces

In this in-depth interview show, Michael Ian Black takes listeners into the minds of some of today’s most fascinating celebrities and newsmakers to discuss the process of how they became, well, amazing.


Pieces

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John Leguizamo tells Michael how a Latin boy from Queens was able to carve out his own career in what he calls “Hollywon’t.”

  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 38:16
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The best selling author and speaker makes the big subjects like global warming and unfettered capitalism understandable and simple and even offers ...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2016
  • Length: 01:01:49
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After years of covering wars oversee, it was reading the news on Good Morning America that nearly did in newsman Dan Harris after he suffered a maj...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2016
  • Length: 47:01
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Michael talks to the funny, charming and insightful Baratunde Thurston, the co-founded of Cultivated Wit and the About Race podcast, and the author...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2016
  • Length: 01:02:37
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With the publication of her memoir, “You’re Never Weird On The Internet,” Felicia Day walks Michael through how she made her own success on her ter...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2016
  • Length: 01:04:34
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In Part 2 of Michael’s interview with Best-selling Author David Sedaris, they talk about growing up Sedaris and how his relationship with his fathe...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2015
  • Length: 34:48
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NPR Humorist and Best-selling Author of “Me Talk Pretty One Day” and “When You Are Engulfed in Flames” talks to Michael about his rise to success

  • Added: Dec 22, 2015
  • Length: 43:00
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In his early 20's Alexis Ohanian and his partner Steve Huffman started the popular social media site Reddit.com making him a millionaire at a time ...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2015
  • Length: 59:50
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At the height of his so-called success being one of the top comedians in the US, Goldthwait chucked it all and decide to focus on writing, directin...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2015
  • Length: 59:19
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The best-selling recording artist of such hits as "Girls Chase Boys" and "The Way I Am" talks about not saying yes to the established recording ind...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2015
  • Length: 01:02:19