Andy Zaltzman in DC

I discovered The Bugle from an AV Club post about podcasts. It was a very British approach to satirizing the news. At the time it was hosted by Jon Oliver and Andy Zaltzman. Then Oliver hit it big with Last Week Tonight and didn’t have time to participate in The Bugle anymore. While Andy Zaltzman was trying to figure out how he was going to relaunch the show, he played clips from his standup show Satirize This. People email him things they want satirized and he does it. I grew to really, really enjoy it and so when I heard he was actually coming to America, I knew I had to jump on the opportunity to see him live.

Here are some bootleg recordings I did there so you can get a feel for what a show’s like:

https://youtu.be/86YaJ41dJXA

https://youtu.be/od_7HPqxke0

At the end I was able to get a photo with him. That’s always fun for the memories.

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