The Kerri Edelman Show

The Kerri Edelman Show Present MAD IN THE KITCHEN Chef Madeleine Smithberg

As American went into coronavirus lockdown, Madeleine seized the stuck-at-home opportunity and cooked up the idea for a hilariously delicious YouTube cooking show, MAD IN THE KITCHEN – which instantly became must-watch TV for the quarantined cook! Foodies and friends, old and new, fell in love with Madeleine’s offbeat, silly approach to cooking. So much so, she is now a regular guest on several morning television shows, including The TODAY SHOW with Hoda and Jenna. Madeleine’s cooking aspirations are no flash in the pan. It’s the result of a good long simmer of Madeleine’s natural talent for creating stick-to-your-tickled-ribs savory television. Before The Daily Show, she spent six years at Late Night with David Letterman producing cooking segments with famous kitchen eccentrics Julia Child, Wolfgang Puck, and everyday eccentrics like the lovable oddball baker from Boise, Bev Tanner, who Madeleine plucked from obscurity. As a former TV producer, Madeleine knows how to make good TV.  As MAD IN THE KITCHEN keeps growing and expanding, her videos continue to impress, not only on YouTube, but also on Instagram (Reels) as well as quick hits on TikTok and Stories (her secret stuffing recipe became a viral hit!). Madeleine has also begun offering virtual cooking classes and events specializing in corporate team building, and is launching a bi-weekly instructional (and entertaining) Saturday night live-stream to engage with budding cooks in real time. The most important ingredient to the success of MAD IN THE KITCHEN is Madeleine herself, serving heaping portions of warm laughter and super silly enthusiasm for truly delectable and wholly original dishes. Madeleine Smithberg is now self-producing the most lovable oddball eccentric chef yet – herself! For more information, visit madinthekitchen.com and youtube.com/madinthekitchen

The Kerri Edelman Show Present Comedian, Writer & Actor Adam Mamawala

Adam Mamawala is a stand-up comedian, actor and podcaster based out of New York City. He has appeared on Comedy Central, MTV, BET, and SiriusXM, and his debut album ‘One of the Good Ones' debuted at #1 on the iTunes Comedy Charts. Adam has been a freelance contributor to Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update and Someecards. He currently co-hosts podcasts ‘Away Games’ and ‘HORSE,’ as recently featured in the New York Times! For more information, visit www.adammamawala.com

The Kerri Edelman Show Present TV Writer/Producer & Humor Illustrator John Matta

John Matta is a TV writer best known for his work on The Martin Short Show, Steve Harvey’s Big Time, Kid President: Declaration of Awesome, The Epic Adventures of Captain Underpants and the creator of Matta Napkin. It all started when his wife Rose Abdoo was going through cancer treatment, and drawing a comic on a napkin was a silly way to make her laugh every day. It both delighted and exhausted her. Finally, she told him to please share them with other people. So he uploaded them to the web and Matta Napkin was born. For more information, visit mattanapkin.com

The Kerri Edelman Show Present Mad Magazine Illustrator Ed Steckley

Wisconsin native Ed Steckley is a humorous illustrator living in New York City.  Beginning as a theme park caricature artist at multiple parks around the Midwest and the country, he’s navigated an illustration career ranging from comic books and magazine illustration, newspaper and advertising, and children's book illustration. Currently he’s the illustrator of two different series of Rube Goldberg books, published by Abrams: two kids’ picture books to date as well as the upcoming three book series of Rube Goldberg ‘Middle Reader’ books, written by Brandon T. Snider, the first of which will be published later this year. Artwork from the picture book series is currently traveling the country to various children’s and science museums as part of a long running Rube Goldberg exhibit. Other clients include Mad Magazine, lots of smaller magazines, Spin Master Toys, and more ad agencies than he’d care to shake a stick at. He's had and has artwork in art galleries and museums all over the country. In addition to his illustration career, Ed has spent the last number of years traveling around the globe with the USO to military bases with a small group of National Cartoonists Society (NCS) members, meeting and drawing for military service members and their families. Locations of these trips include Iraq, Kuwait, Afghanistan, Qatar, Germany and Turkey.  He currently serves as the liaison between the NCS and the USO. He’s the Vice President of the National Cartoonists Society and runs the Manhattan chapter of that organization.  He’s the recipient of two ‘Silver Reuben’ awards from the National Cartoonists Society, for ‘Best in Advertising Illustration’, as well as two different ‘Nosey’ awards for 'Caricaturist of the Year' from the International Society of Caricature Artists. For more information, visit: www.edsteckley.com

The Kerri Edelman Show Present Cartoonist, Illustrator & Writer Bob Eckstein

Bob Eckstein is an award-winning illustrator, cartoonist, writer and snowman expert. He creates cartoons for places like the New York Times, MAD magazine and The New Yorker. Eckstein wrote The History of the Snowman (Simon & Schuster, 2007) and Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores (Penguin Random House, 2016) which became a NY Times bestseller. His work has been exhibited in: The Cartoon Art Museum of San Francisco, Smithsonian Institute, The Cartoon Museum of London and in 2018 and The Sordoni Art Gallery at Wilkes University. He’s been nominated Gag Cartoonist of the Year (twice) by the National Cartoonists Society. Eckstein has written columns, Op-Eds and features for: New Yorker, New York Times, New York Daily News, NY Newsday, Reader's Digest, SPY, Playboy, Details, GQ, MAXIM, National Lampoon, Village Voice, and McSweeney's. I am a Contributing Editor at Writer's Digest. He also speaks publicly against online shopping to raise awareness for independent bookstores and teach writing at NYU. His two new books include  taught at Pratt Institute and School of Visual Arts for a dozen years. His new book is All’s Fair in Love & War: The Ultimate Cartoon Book by the World’s Greatest Cartoonists and The Elements of Stress and the Pursuit of Happy-ish in this Curren Sh*tstorm. He can also be heard with New Yorker Cartoonist Michael Shaw on their new podcast ‘The Cartoon Pad.’ For more information, visit bobeckstein.com

The Kerri Edelman Show Present Comedian, Writer & Impersonator John Di Domenico

John Di Domenico is an Emmy Nominated, Actor, Writer, Comedian and Impersonator. He is currently best known for his Award-Winning Donald Trump impersonation as winner of Best of Las Vegas Silver, ABC’s The View’s National Trump Contest and The Laugh Factory’s International Trump Competition. Di Domenico was immortalized as Trump on the Las Vegas Wall of Honor. Di Domenico has been performing Trump since 2004 and is the official Trump for Conan O’Brien, Slate’s Trumpcast, Chelsea Handler on Netflix, TBS’ The Heckler, Fox News Redeye, Planet America, Fox & Friends, Randy Rainbow, Glen Beck’s Blaze Network and many more diverse outlets. John has been heard as Trump on The Howard Stern Show, James Corden’s Show and Stephen Colbert. Di Domenico is also the voice of Trump on the bestselling audio book The Method to the Madness. John has made hundreds of live appearances as Donald Trump around the globe including the European Parliament in Brussel, London’s famed Dorchester Hotel, The Rainbow Room in NYC and headlined in Totally Outrageous Brunch at the Sahara/SLS on the Las Vegas Strip. John has appeared as Trump in four feature films, the 13 episode Canadian Comedy Awards Winning web series, “You Got Trumped: The First 100 Days” and his Amazon Prime show, “Fake News: A Trump Story,” which he co-wrote. John has made an appearances on TODAY in Australia and on Britain's #1 rated This Morning. You can see and hear Di Domenico on TikTok with over 4.5 million followers & YouTube with over 19 million views of his own content along with commercials, animated series, voiceovers, virtual reality, apps and even toys. John attended East Stroudsburg University and graduated from Temple University with a BA in Speech Communications. He overcame a severe speech impediment as a child to become a performer. For more information, visit www.thejohnnydshow.com

The Kerri Edelman Show Presents Hard Rock Band Any Given Sin

The Maryland-based rock band ANY GIVEN SIN spent much of 2019 turning heads with the release of their single, "Dynamite," which quickly became the #1 most spun song on SiriusXM's Octane. The band soon solidified its position on the channel, landing the coveted 'Accelerator Artist' title, and blazing past some of the biggest names in Rock on their weekly 'BIG UNS Countdown', becoming the #2 Most-Requested song on the channel and landed them at #29 of SiriusXM Octane's Top 100 Year end countdown. The band quickly followed that up with the release of their next single "Another Life," which in turn also became another #1 most spun song on SiriusXM Octane. Any Given Sin has since just recently released their new single "Insidious" in the midst of the Covid- 19 pandemic. Although given the pandemic at hand the band never stopped moving forward and had to become more creative in the filming of the video for "Insidious." With social distancing a huge hurdle to overcome, they forged their way by each member being filmed separately in the shadow's of their images and brought together to create the video which was done with the magic of videographer Tom Flynn. The band has been working with some heavy-hitters in the Rock world including Trevor Kustiak (Evans Blue), John Moyer (Disturbed), and most recently, Chris Dawson (SAUL, Seasons After), who produced the single, "Another Life" and "Insidious." Every once in a while, a singer comes along that single-handedly re-sets the bar for what a Rock vocalist should be. Someone with such raw emotion and power it makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up - ANY GIVEN SIN's Vic Richie is that singer. Complete with epic, crunchy guitar riffs and put-a-hole-in-your-soul, massive drums, this is a true-blue American rock band with both authenticity - and POWER.

The Kerri Edelman Show Presents Screenwriter, Novelist & Comedian Peter Mehlman

Peter Mehlman grew up in Queens, NY and graduated from the University of Maryland. He started his career as a sportswriter for The Washington Post and worked with Howard Cosell where he produced a TV series titled, ‘SportsBeat.’ His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, GQ, Esquire, LA Times and practically every Conde Nast women’s magazines. In 1989, he moved to Los Angeles, CA where he bumped into his friend, Larry David. After showing Larry David a humor piece he wrote for the New York Times Magazine, it was passed on to Jerry Seinfeld who absolutely loved it. Upon writing a script for Seinfeld’s first freelance episode titled, ‘The Apartment,’ Mehlman was hired as a writer and over the next 6-years worked as a writer and co-executive producer where he was associated with the show through nearly all of its 9-year run. Mehlman is best known for his ‘Yada Yada’ episode (which has been included as an entry in the Oxford English Dictionary) and his classical Seinfeld-isms: ‘Spongeworthy,’ ‘Double-Dipping’ and ‘Shrinkage.’ In 1997, he joined DreamWorks and created the TV show, ‘It’s Like, You Know…,’ a scathing look at life in Los Angeles. Mehlman also punched up the animated kid flick, Madagascar, where a hypochondriacal giraffe was named after him. He continues to write essays, screenplays, NPR commentaries and hosts the Webby-nominated YouTube series, 'Narrow World of Sports.' He also dabbles in stand-up comedy and doodles subconsciously under the concept of ‘Bravely Oblivious.’ Mehlman has published numerous books including, ‘Mandela Was Late,’ ‘It Won’t Always Be This Great,’ and his most recent one, ‘#MeAsWell, A Novel.’ For more information, visit www.petermehlman.com

The Kerri Edelman Show Presents Comedian, Actress & Writer Fielding Edlow

Fielding Edlow is an LA based comedian/writer and native New Yorker. She was recently named one of “the six funniest women in Los Angeles right now.” (Pure Wow) Fielding voiced the recurring character, “Roxie” on Bojack Horseman and hosts her own hit monthly show ‘Eat Pray F*ck’ at the Hollywood Improv. Her solo show, Coke-Free J.A.P, (Backstage’s “Best of Fringe Award”), was followed by a four-month, sold-out run in LA at the McCadden Theatre and was subsequently developed as a half-hour comedy pilot at Showtime. She recently created & starred in her award-winning web series Bitter Homes & Gardens which is based on her scary real-life marriage. Her first half-hour comedy special, “Can’t Say Sl*t” is now streaming on Amazon. For more information, visit www.fieldingedlow.com and follow her @fieldingedlow!

The Kerri Edelman Show Present NYT Bestselling Author Jennifer Keishin Armstrong

Jennifer Keishin Armstrong is the New York Times bestselling author of Seinfeldia: How the Show About Nothing Changed Everything; a history of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted; and Sex and the City and Us: How Four Single Women Changed the Way We Think, Live, and Love. Most recently, she published her book, 'Pop Star Goddesses: And How to Tap Into Their Energies to Invoke Your Best Self.' She spent a decade on staff at Entertainment Weekly and has since written for many publications, including BBC Culture, The New York Times Book Review, Vice, New York magazine, and Billboard. She also speaks about pop culture history and creativity and hosts the podcast #Authoring. For more information, visit www.jenniferkarmstrong.com and follow her @JMKArmstrong.