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Hosted by Jay Kogen · comedy · EN
Don’t Be Alone with Jay Kogen is a comedy/advice podcast trying to fight the isolation of modern life. Each episode, Award winning TV writer/comedian/philosopher Jay Kogen has a conversation with a friend about how to solve the problems on Jay’s mind. These friends happen to be famous comics, musicians, actors, artists, writers, and sometimes even his family. It’s an entertaining, fun, and thoughtful show meant to bond us through humor, experience, and empathy. From Straw Hut Media
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Signup to Generate a PitchDon’t Be Alone with Jay Kogen is a comedy/advice podcast trying to fight the isolation of modern life. Each episode, Award winning TV writer/comedian/philosopher Jay Kogen has a conversation with a friend about how to solve the problems on Jay’s mind. These friends happen to be famous comics, musicians, actors, artists, writers, and sometimes even his family.
Don't Be Alone with Jay Kogen is hosted by Jay Kogen. The show has published 167 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Kliph Nesteroff Explains Why Canadians Are Funny. Jay Still Isn’t." (27 October 2026, 52 minutes), "The Simpsons Writer Who Had to Teach Himself to Be Funny | Brent Forrester" (20 October 2026, 57 minutes), and "Paul Provenza Knows Way Too Much About Comedy!" (13 October 2026, 54 minutes).
Don't Be Alone with Jay Kogen publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 55 minutes across 167 episodes.
Booking probability for Don't Be Alone with Jay Kogen is 35%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Don't Be Alone with Jay Kogen requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Don't Be Alone with Jay Kogen's contact route on record: verified email.
Jay Kogen hosts Don't Be Alone with Jay Kogen, a comedy podcast with 167 episodes published.
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Don't Be Alone with Jay Kogen
Comedy historian and author Kliph Nesteroff joins Jay to answer one of life's great mysteries: Why are Canadians so damn funny? From Jim Carrey and Norm Macdonald to Kids in the Hall, Nathan Fielder, SCTV, Michael J...
Don't Be Alone with Jay Kogen
Brent Forrester has written for The Simpsons, The Office, King of the Hill, and The Ben Stiller Show. So naturally, he says he wasn't born funny. Brent joins Jay to explain how he actually taught himself comedy by...
Don't Be Alone with Jay Kogen
Paul Provenza has spent basically his entire life thinking about comedy. Which sounds exhausting. Paul joins Jay to talk about what actually makes someone funny, why George Carlin scripted his performances like a play...
Don't Be Alone with Jay Kogen
Comedian Chloe Radcliffe gave up Target corporate for comedy club and has zero patience for people who can't say the word "birthmark" out loud. AND SOMEHOW managed to sell a movie before she really knew how to write...
Don't Be Alone with Jay Kogen
Political arguments are everywhere. Productive political conversations? Not so much. Jay sits down with writer, poet, and political analyst Robert Arnold, author of Defiance Until Death, to talk about why America has...
Don't Be Alone with Jay Kogen
David Kissinger grew up swimming in Nixon's pool, getting bad-mouthed by classmates over his dad's Nobel Prize, and hanging out with people history books call monsters — and he calls uncles. Jay sits down with David...
Don't Be Alone with Jay Kogen
Jonathan Shapiro spent years as a successful attorney, working for the Justice Department and prosecuting organized crime. Then he met Jay Kogen — and somehow ended up writing television. Jonathan joins Jay for a funny...
Don't Be Alone with Jay Kogen
What happens when two veteran comedy writers start questioning everything they were taught about writing? Jay sits down with Bill Martin and Mike Schiff, the longtime writing partners behind shows including 3rd Rock...
Don't Be Alone with Jay Kogen
Michael J. Weithorn knows a thing or two about making television work — and about what happens when it doesn’t. The creator of The King of Queens joins Jay Kogen to talk about the years of trial, error, difficult...
Don't Be Alone with Jay Kogen
Comedy historian and author Kliph Nesteroff joins Jay to answer one of life's great mysteries: Why are Canadians so damn funny? From Jim Carrey and Norm Macdonald to Kids in the Hall, Nathan Fielder, SCTV, Michael J...
Don't Be Alone with Jay Kogen
Can comedy run in the family? M*A*S*H and Laugh-In writer/producer Allan Katz and Groundlings pioneer Phyllis Katz join Jay Kogen to compare the wildly different paths that took two siblings from the same Chicago...
Don't Be Alone with Jay Kogen
When does pushing for what you want become pushing too far? Jay sits down with comedian, writer, performer, and Valley Heat creator Christian Duguay for a conversation about boundaries, bad decisions, creative...
Don't Be Alone with Jay Kogen
From Arrested Development to insubordinate rebels: John Levenstein tells all. Long before podcasting was cool, John Levenstein (Arrested Development, Kroll Show) was already doing it — mostly because he had no idea what...
Don't Be Alone with Jay Kogen
Is America really doomed or is there still a path forward? In this episode of Don't Be Alone, Jay Kogen sits down with Leigh McGowan, better known as Politics Girl, for an honest conversation about the future of...
Don't Be Alone with Jay Kogen
Barbara Heller talks about walking away from the perfect man just before her wedding and breaking down with a mid-life panic attack on stage and committing to being a Jew to find happiness and trying to live as a...
Don't Be Alone with Jay Kogen
Show Notes: On this episode legendary writer and show creator talks about being the first white guy on stage at the Apollo, getting a show about alcoholics cancelled because the network president was an alcoholic, the...
Don't Be Alone with Jay Kogen
Brilliant comic, Leah Rudick, talks about growing up in Ohio, being a drama kid, writing and doing sketch comedy, and eventually moving out to LA and becoming a stand-up. Working with her brother. She talks about how...
Don't Be Alone with Jay Kogen
What happens when two people with complicated pasts — failed marriages, sobriety journeys, and a chance meeting at a 4th of July party — fall in love but decide not to move in together? Claudia and Jonathan join us for...
Don't Be Alone with Jay Kogen
In memory of the great James Borrows we rebroadcasting this episode of "Dont Be Alone with Jay Kogen". We talk with James Burrows about his reign as Hollywood's greatest sitcom director, being the son of Abe Burrows...
Don't Be Alone with Jay Kogen
Harper Steele talks about transitioning and the differences in how she experiences the world as a woman and how the world experiences her. The differences in parenting, writing, and comedy. Trying to fight off who she...
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