Episode 684 Writer, Activist, Funny Person Maura Quint and Comedian Lenny Marcus
Release Date: 09/19/2022
Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. and gain access to a community of over 700 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls is an associate professor of politics and journalism in the School of Global Journalism & Communication at and author of the book Political Consultants and Campaigns: One Day to Sell. He focuses on campaign politics, political communication, strategy and popular culture. He hosts a podcast on He is a political analyst for MSNBC, SIRIUS XM Satellite...
info_outline 1086 Maz Jobrani and the News From Earth OneStand Up! with Pete Dominick
Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. and gain access to a community of over 700 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Today I have your news from Earth One and my conversation with Maz begins at 24 minutes is a comedian, actor and LA Times best-selling author of I’M NOT A TERRORIST, BUT I’VE PLAYED ONE ON TV. His new standup comedy special THE BIRDS & THE BEES was filmed in the Main Room at the Comedy Store, and is now available for streaming on YouTube. As an actor, he has made many...
info_outline 1085 Ray Suarez / We Are Home Becoming American in the 21st Century: an Oral HistoryStand Up! with Pete Dominick
Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. and gain access to a community of over 700 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Today I have your news from Earth One and my conversation with Ray begins at 21 minutes is a visiting professor of Political Science at New York University in Shanghai and the co-host of the podcast and public radio program WorldAffairs, and covers Washington for Euronews. Over the course of a long career in journalism, he has been the host of Al Jazeera...
info_outline 1084 CNN Climate Correspondent Bill Weir and NEWS FROM EARTH ONEStand Up! with Pete Dominick
Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. and gain access to a community of over 700 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Today I have your news from Earth One and my conversation with Bill begins at 21 minutes is a veteran anchor, writer, producer, and host who came to CNN in 2013 after a decade of award-winning journalism at ABC News. In 2019, he was named the network’s first Chief Climate Correspondent, drawing on his experience creating and hosting the primetime CNN Original Series “The...
info_outline 1083 Mike Sacks Esq and the News from Earth OneStand Up! with Pete Dominick
Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. and gain access to a community of over 700 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls The Stand Up Community Chat is always active with other Stand Up Subscribers on the Discord Platform. Join us Thursday's at 8EST for our Weekly Happy Hour Hangout! On today's show I have your news from Earth One and Lawyer and legal / political expert commentator and old friend joins me at about 21 minutes in to today's show Mike is a Duke and Georgetown...
info_outline 1082 David Rothkopf on Iran's Attack on IsraelStand Up! with Pete Dominick
As soon as I heard the news of Iran's drone and missile attack on Israel I knew I wanted to talk to my friend David Rothkopf Read his piece on the developing story at The Daily Beast David Rothkopf is CEO of , a media company that produces podcasts including Deep State Radio, hosted by Rothkopf. TRG also produces custom podcasts for clients including the United Arab Emirates. He is also the author of many books including , Superclass, Power, Inc., National Insecurity, Great Questions of Tomorrow, and Traitor: A History of...
info_outline 1081 Dr. Aaron Carroll / Academy Health President and CEOStand Up! with Pete Dominick
Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. and gain access to a community of over 700 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Today, the announced their selection of nationally recognized thought leader, science communicator, pediatrician, and health services researcher, Aaron Carroll, M.D., M.S., as the next President and CEO of AcademyHealth. "Dr. Carroll is a fantastic choice to lead AcademyHealth into the next era of advocating for the use of evidence to improve the delivery of health care and...
info_outline SUPD 1080 Anti Racist Tim Wise and The News from Earth One!Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. and gain access to a community of over 700 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls whom scholar and philosopher Cornel West calls, “A vanilla brother in the tradition of (abolitionist) John Brown,” is among the nation’s most prominent antiracist essayists and educators. He has spent the past 25 years speaking to audiences in all 50 states, on over 1000 college and high school campuses, at hundreds of professional and academic conferences, and to...
info_outline SUPD 1079 The News from Earth One Author, Scholar, Psychiatrist Dr Jonathan MetzlStand Up! with Pete Dominick
Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. and gain access to a community of over 700 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls is an acclaimed physician and sociologist who speaks, teaches, and writes on a range of topics including mental illness and gun violence, race and whiteness in America, health and healthcare, and diversity and structural competency in higher education. Jonathan Metzl is the author of the groundbreaking book, Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing...
info_outline SUPD 1078 The News from Earth One and Reporter and Author Helaine OlenStand Up! with Pete Dominick
Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. and gain access to a community of over 700 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls I'm thrilled to announce I'm going to be a 2024 Reporter in Residence with the Omidyar Network. My work on politics, economics, workplace culture and women’s issues has also been published in numerous other print and on-line publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Salon, Pacific Standard, and The Los...
info_outlineStand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day.
Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 800 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls
Check out StandUpwithPete.com to learn more
Maura Quint is a humor writer and activist whose work has been featured in publications such as McSweeneys and The New Yorker. She was named one of Rolling Stone’s top 25 funniest twitter accounts of 2016. When not writing comedy, Maura has worked extensively with non-profits in diverse sectors including political action campaigns, international arts collectives and health and human services organizations. She has never been officially paid to protest but did once find fifteen cents on the ground at an immigrants’ rights rally and wanted to make sure that had been disclosed. She was the co founder and executive director of TaxMarch.org
She is now the Wealth Tax Campaign Director at the Americans for Tax Fairness
Originally from Oceanside NY, Lenny Marcus has been a mainstay of the New York City comedy scene for over for twenty years. He is currently a regular performer in every major comedy club in New York City.
Currently, Lenny has been traveling the world with comedian Leslie Jones (Saturday Night Live), writing and performing. They have collaborated on recent projects such as her Netflix special which Lenny co-wrote entitled Time Machine, ABC's Supermarket Sweep which Lenny executive produced, TV Commercials, Olympics appearances, movie scripts, The MTV Video and Movie Awards, NBC's New Years Eve show in Times Square, and the upcoming Fckry podcast with Lenny and Leslie.
Lenny has performed stand-up comedy on television multiple times. He has not only performed on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, he also performed on The Late Show with David Letterman three times to amazing reviews. He has also appeared on Comedy Central’s Live at Gotham and AXS TV’s Gotham Comedy Live. You may also have seen him in commercials for Wendy’s or Marriott or heard him on the radio in spots for Southwestern Bell Telephone or Priceline.com.
He has performed at both the prestigious Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal, Canada three times, HBO’s US Comedy Arts festival in Aspen Colorado, Clusterfest in San Francisco, and the Great American Comedy festival in Norfolk, Nebraska.
Lenny appeared on TruTV on the show TruInside in the episode about the world famous Comedy Cellar in NYC where you can see him perform regularly. You may also have seen Lenny on Louie, on the FX network, Amy Schumer Show or The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore on Comedy Central, or in the short film The Unimportance of Being Ernest.
Lenny has recently directed and starred in his second short film entitled The Walker, which was screened at the Big Apple Film Festival, in New York City. His first short, A Condom Moment, has been shown at the PSNBC short film festival. Lenny is also the creator/co-star of Superstar Talent (www.SuperstarTalentAgency.com), an online sitcom, and a long time ago he also wrote and co-produced a show for Comedy Central’s web site called Crash Course in Comedy.
Currently, Lenny has four comedy CD's, "Home and Away" being the most recent. He also has ”You’re Getting A Zero“, ”Idiots, Toasters, Meredith And Other Things Hazardous To Your Health” and "Vegan Cupcakes", which are played on Sirius radio and will keep audiences laughing for years to come.