Kevin Pollak's Chat Show

Kevin Pollak's Chat Show
Presentation
Hosted by	Kevin Pollak
Genre	Interview
Language	English
Updates	Sundays
Length	1-2 Hours
Production
Direction	Jason McIntyre
Production	Jason McIntyre
Picture format	16:9 HD
Video format	MP4
Audio format	MP3
Publication
Debut	March 22, 2009
Website	http://www.kevinpollak.tv

Kevin Pollak's Chat Show is a weekly interview program hosted by comedian and impressionist Kevin Pollak and streamed over the web on YouTube. The show airs live most Sundays from the M.I. Westside Comedy Theater in Santa Monica, California. Episodes are then archived on YouTube, as well as on iTunes and Earwolf. The show premiered on March 22, 2009, with guests LeVar Burton and Samm Levine.^[1]

Format

The show typically opens with Pollak at the table speaking directly to the viewers, which can consist of a simple introduction, an anecdote, a joke, this portion also includes sidebars with head writer, Jaime Fox, and side kick, Samm Levine.^[2] The majority of the show is taken up with long-form interview segments, typically with actors, writers or comics. Initial episodes would feature 2 hour-long interviews, but subsequent shows typically feature one guest per episode, averaging two hours in length. There are also a number of "games" Pollak plays with his guests, created by Jaime. Some of these include "Who Tweeted," which Samm hosts and reads 8 messages from Twitter, one at a time, all of which were written by either Paris Hilton, Justin Bieber or Tyra Banks. It's a contest between the guest and Kevin to see which can ring in and answer correctly. Each episode also includes "The Larry King Game" (also created by Jaime), in which guests perform a bad impression of TV personality Larry King, exposing personal information that Larry should never, but does in fact reveal, then a throw to the phones including a funny sounding city name.^[3] In 2010 the Kevin Pollak Chat Show was nominated for several Streamy Awards and won Best Live Show on the Internet.

History

Kevin Pollak's Chat Show started after Kevin Pollak met internet entrepreneur Jason Calacanis at an underground poker game in Los Angeles. Pollak shared his vision for a web-based, live-streaming talk show with Calacanis. Mahalo.com, Calacanis' startup, had recently built a studio around the NewTek TriCaster and Calacanis offered to produce Pollak's show. The show is among the most popular podcasts for download on iTunes and had a strong following on its own website. The Chat Show is available in both audio and video format. On March 13, 2013 it was announced that they had joined the Earwolf network. The show began streaming on YouTube as of episode 165 on March 28, 2013.

Regular cast members

• Kevin Pollak: Actor and comedian Kevin Pollak hosts the show. A long-time veteran of stand-up comedy, television and film, he has starred as casino owner Phillip Green in Martin Scorsese's Casino, small-time criminal Todd Hockney in The Usual Suspects, LTJG Sam Weinberg in A Few Good Men and President Walter Emerson in Deterrence. He also appeared in the Kevin Smith film Red State, was a recurring guest star on Mom, and recently co-starred with Jane Lynch in the CBS series Angel from Hell. In addition to acting and stand-up, Kevin has recently spread his wings into the realm of directing, helming the documentary Misery Loves Comedy and the soon to be released coming-of-age comedy The Late Bloomer.
• Samm Levine: Actor Samm Levine is a regular guest of the podcast and also hangs out in the studio to watch interviews. Levine was a regular on the comedy series Freaks and Geeks and was seen in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds. Levine regularly guest hosts.
• Jaime Fox: Pollak's partner (not to be confused with Jamie Foxx, aka Eric Bishop). She runs the chat room during the show, compiles the question roster, and provides occasional fangirl commentary. Inventor of the Larry King Game.

The crew

• Jason McIntyre has been a part of Kevin Pollak's Chat Show since its inception. Both as a producer and a writer for the show, he does the research on the guests and is present Sundays to operate the TriCaster and direct the show.
• Kenny Chen has been a part of Kevin Pollak's Chat Show since episode 1, and is the floor director and co-producer. On Sundays, he makes sure the cameras are in place, the lighting is set, and the show runs smoothly from inside the studio, once the live show is launched.
• Mike Rotman a comedy TV writer, producer and director was bought in after the third episode, where he served a Director and Co-Executive Producer for 3 years and also came up with most of the end of show "crew bit." Rotman left to Head up Production at the MCN Big Frame and also went on to create his own live streaming production and podcast network, Streamin' Garage.

Episode guide and guests

1. LeVar Burton^[4]
2. Samm Levine
3. Jim Gaffigan
4. Joe Mantegna
5. Jason Antoon
6. Elon Musk
7. Bobby Slayton
8. Doug Benson
9. Christopher McQuarrie
10. Paget Brewster
11. Jon Hamm
12. Alex Albrecht
13. Matthew Perry
14. Chris Mallick
15. Curt Smith
16. Felicia Day
17. George Gallo
18. Josh Malina
19. Adam Carolla
20. Dana Carvey
21. Nia Vardalos
22. Illeana Douglas
23. Dan Finnerty
24. Kevin Smith
25. Mike Binder
26. Nick Swardson
27. Jason Lee
28. Craig Bierko
29. Paul Scheer and Rob Huebel
30. Samm Levine and Steve Agee
31. Hank Azaria
32. Seth MacFarlane
33. Rob Corddry
34. Michael Gladis and Rich Sommer
35. Glen Hansard, Marketa Irglova
36. Jane Campion
37. Kevin Nealon
38. Lisa Loeb
39. Eddie Izzard
40. Paul F. Tompkins
41. "Weird Al" Yankovic
42. Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine
43. Brian Tyler
44. David Koechner
45. Robert Legato
46. Nick Kroll
47. Chris Hardwick
48. Dave Coulier
49. Cast and crew of Drones: Amber Benson, Adam Busch, Samm Levine, James Urbaniak, Marc Evan Jackson, Dave "Gruber" Allen, Dan Bern, Ben Acker and Ben Blacker
50. Billy West and John DiMaggio
51. Jason Reitman
52. James Urbaniak
53. Seann William Scott
54. Annie Duke
55. 1 Year Birthday: Jason Calcanis, Bobby Slayton, James Urbaniak, Mike Binder, Samm Levine, Marc Evan Jackson, Illeana Douglas, Ben Acker, Ben Blacker, Mike Rotman, Kenny Chen, Jason McIntyre, Josh Negrin and Emily Goodman
56. Daniel Stern
57. Henry Winkler
58. James Roday and Maggie Lawson
59. Cheri Oteri
60. Justine Bateman
61. The Sklar Brothers
62. Titus Welliver
63. Greg Proops
64. Martin Mull
65. Alan Zwiebel
66. Wayne Federman
67. Craig Ferguson
68. Paul Rudd
69. J. K. Simmons
70. Rob Riggle
71. John Slattery
72. Larry Miller
73. Rich Eisen
74. Neil Patrick Harris
75. Adam Scott
76. Steven Weber
77. Jimmy Pardo
78. Bryan Cranston
79. Fred Willard
80. Kathy Najimy
81. Andy Kindler
82. Tim Street
83. Paul Provenza
84. Rick Overton
85. Robert Morse
86. Jason Alexander
87. Bradley Whitford
88. Joel McHale
89. Leonard Maltin
90. Laura Prepon
91. Eric Balfour
92. Colin Hanks
93. Andy Richter
94. Billy Bob Thornton
95. Stephen Root
96. Paul Dooley and Winnie Holzman
97. Lisa Kudrow
98. Marc Maron
99. Adam Savage (with studio audience)
100. Nathan Fillion
101. Steve Jones
102. Lauren Graham
103. Dave Thomas
104. Robert Kraft
105. Laraine Newman
106. Fred Savage
107. Demetri Martin
108. Rob Reiner
109. Garfunkel and Oates
110. Eugene Levy
111. John Cho
112. Michael Chiklis
113. Christopher Guest
114. Stephen Tobolowsky
115. Nick Offerman
116. Oscar Nunez
117. Damon Lindelof
118. Peter Weller
119. Alison Brie
120. Michael McKean
121. John Landis
122. Phil Hendrie
123. Sugar Ray Leonard
124. Thomas Lennon
125. Harry Shearer
126. Greg Grunberg
127. Dana Gould
128. James L. Brooks
129. Virginia Madsen
130. Chris Pratt
131. Megan Mullally
132. Glenn Howerton
133. Ivan Reitman
134. Patrick Warburton
135. Ed O'Neill
136. David Krumholtz
137. Rachael Harris (with studio audience)
138. Garret Dillahunt
139. Joe Lo Truglio
140. David Wain
141. Drew Carey
142. Ed Begley Jr
143. Ben Schwartz
144. Zachary Levi
145. Jason Biggs
146. Adam Brody
147. Richard Kind
148. Danny Masterson
149. Tony Hale
150. Dan Harmon
151. Johnny Knoxville
152. Richard Schiff
153. Phil Rosenthal
154. Bob Odenkirk
155. Tom Everett Scott
156. Mark Valley
157. Stephen Collins
158. Alan Arkin
159. Matt Walsh
160. Micky Dolenz
161. Shawn Ryan
162. Scott Aukerman
163. Josh Gad
164. Mark Duplass
165. Jon Favreau
166. Barry Sonnenfeld
167. Gillian Jacobs
168. Paul Feig
169. Eli Roth
170. Peter Farrelly
171. Stephen Merchant
172. Michael C. Hall
173. Rob Delaney
174. Jason Mantzoukas
175. Freddie Wong
176. John Larroquette
177. Bryan Fuller
178. Jon Lovitz
179. Danny Strong
180. Jim Norton
181. Dick Van Dyke
182. Kumail Nanjiani
183. Tom Papa
184. Ken Marino
185. Ben Folds
186. Greg Proops
187. Jim Rash
188. James Leighton
189. Bobcat Goldthwait
190. Tom Hanks
191. Jon Daly
192. Mark Sanger
193. Larry David
194. Taran Killam
195. Michael Showalter
196. Curtis Armstrong
197. Nate Corddry
198. Jim Jefferies
199. Anna Faris
200. Jenny Slate
201. Dom Irrera
202. Jordan Peele
203. Kelly Carlin
204. Matt Jones
205. Marc Evan Jackson
206. Adam DeVine
207. John Carroll Lynch
208. Vinnie Jones
209. Todd Glass
210. Will Forte
211. Jim Norton
212. Bill Burr
213. Bill Hader
214. Jon Heder
215. Alex Winter
216. Craig Cackowski
217. Mars Callahan
218. Wayne Federman
219. Kristen Schaal
220. Cary Elwes
221. Allison Janney
222. Jake Kasdan
223. Joel Murray
224. Toby Huss
225. Harland Williams
226. Anthony Cumia
227. Rainn Wilson
228. Sam Rockwell
229. Jim O'Heir
230. Lauren Collins
231. Will Sasso
232. Matthew Perry
233. Will Forte and Dana Carvey
234. Horatio Sanz
235. Phil LaMarr
236. Peter Gould
237. Saul Rubinek
238. Dean Cameron
239. Skylar Astin
240. Jon Cryer
241. Missi Pyle
242. Josh Charles
243. Jack Kenny
244. Zoë Bell
245. Seth Green
246. Mae Whitman
247. Kyle Bornheimer
248. Brittany Snow
249. Don Cheadle
250. Matt Mira
251. Richard Benjamin
252. Kelly Carlin
253. Vince Gilligan
254. Al Jean
255. Sam McMurray
256. Jere Burns
257. Stuart Pankin
258. Clint Howard
259. Carol Leifer
260. Jay R. Ferguson
261. Jane Lynch
262. Jamie Lee Curtis
263. Greg Fitzsimmons
264. Colin Hay, Jeff Goldblum, and Bill Burr (with studio audience)
265. Timothy Omundson

Notes

1. "Kevin Pollak's Chat Show". Mahalo.com. 2010-02-23. Retrieved 2014-07-27.
2. "Welcome to Kevin Pollak's Chat Show". Kevinpollakschatshow.com. Retrieved 2014-07-27.
3. Archived October 19, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
4. Archived September 26, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.

External links

• Kevin Pollak's Chat Show official site
• Kevin Pollak's Chat Show on YouTube
• Kevin Pollak's Chat Show on UStream
• Kevin Pollak's Chat Show on blip.tv
• Kevin Pollak's Chat Show at the Internet Movie Database