Awkwafina Quotes

You probably know me as a producer for 'This American Life', a top podcast in iTunes.

Dick Mills was in charge of sound effects and all the rest then, and he put the voice through a ring modulator or whatever gizmos he'd got at the time to make it sound a little more electronic.

I know Jonathan Van Ness from comedy, and he's got this wonderful show on Funny or Die called 'Gay of Thrones.'

When I make music, I often sound better singing as a woman, go figure, so I like to tweak the format and pitch and suchlike of my recorded voice. Sounds better.

Welcome to The Daily Show, I'm John Oliver. Jon Stewart is still not here. He is currently living out a live-action Lord of the Rings role-playing experience deep in the New Zealand wilderness.

Thank you for listening to Comedy Bang Bang! My name is Scott Aukerman and I will see you next week.

My radio show, I'd show up, I'd read the data, and I would have sound bites and stuff like that.

Well I think effects are tools.

I'd like to do radio just like pictures - leave the imperfect stuff on the cutting-room floor.

I like radio because you can do an hour-long interview and then three days later have a finished piece.

I would love to do a podcast because I've done so many of them, guesting on them. Plus, anything goes, which I love.

'SCTV' was the concept of a group ensemble doing satirical things. 'Saturday Night Live's sketches were broader than ours, more universal.

I record a podcast, 'Shondaland Revealed,' every week while we are shooting.

When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily manipulate that in different ways. It is what it is.

My dad was the original announcer on The Goon Show.'

When Joe Rogan started his podcasts he'd have me, Joe Diaz, and all our friends help him for the first few. And I told him 'Dude, no one will listen to audio that's over an hour long. You've got to end it at 59:59 or less.' And I was way wrong.

I love, for example, 'Full Frontal with Sam Bee.' I just love her show.

The 'PBS NewsHour' podcast is the audio version of the nightly TV broadcast.

When I started my own podcast, I realized I definitely wanted to do characters.

I really want to do what 'Veep' did. 'Veep,' in a very comical way, gave us a look inside the political machine, but I want to do it for the average American family.

I was on the outside of the industry. So I started a podcast early in the podcast boom and that caught on a little. I made an album that went to No. 1 on the iTunes charts. I made my own special. I started my own storytelling show.

Yes, because as composers we are looking for textured voices, and often the singers we find are not trained to perform in a studio environment. So we need technology to doctor their voices to suit the format.

'MADtv' was a network show, so we would come across the people that we were lampooning - a lot.

Radio people can't entirely shake off radio habits when they start doing podcasts. They sometimes bring with them things we don't need, like producers and explanatory voiceovers.

On CBC Radio, the Canadian national radio, there's a show called 'WireTap.' The host is Jonathan Goldstein. It's amazing.