It's All True!

It’s All True! is live tonight at QED Astoria with a special lineup of guests including:

Jaboukie Young-White

Eve Peyser

Jo Firestone

Langston Kerman

Tickets are $12: https://qedastoria.com/products/its-all-true-live-with-tim-barnes

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The It’s All True! Podcast features interviews with the most creative voices in comedy, writing, performance and music and asks them to tell one funny, very true story.

Recorded November of 2016 at the Chicago Podcast Festival: Che "Rhymefest" Smith joins It's All True! host, Tim Barnes, to talk politics, comic books, and Kanye.

Rhymefest is the co-founder of an organization called Donda’s House, Inc. Donda’s House, Inc. was designed to provide access to premium arts instruction to youth. Arts and music programs are routinely the first casualty in schools facing budget crises, specifically institutions in at-risk communities that directly benefit from access to safe environments and developmental opportunities.

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The It’s All True! Podcast features interviews with the most creative voices in comedy, writing, performance and music and asks them to tell one funny, very true story. 

Recorded in 2015, Comedian Ron Funches joins It’s All True! To talk about finding humor through tragedy, the inspiration behind his debut stand-up album, and what single life can really be like.

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The It’s All True! Podcast features interviews with the most creative voices in comedy, writing, performance and music and asks them to tell one funny, very true story.

Comedian Shalewa Sharpe joins Tim Barnes at a live recording in Brooklyn’s Union Hall to talk New York vs. Atlanta, the origin of her album Stay Eating Cookies and to tell a story about solid advice from a mysterious grocery store employee.

[Shout out to -  Live Show Producer: Rob Schulte, House Band: Freddie Nunezand the It’s All True! Orchestra (Jamie Ingalls on drums and mark Craig on guitar!), Venue: Union Hall]

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The It’s All True! Podcast features interviews with the most creative voices in comedy, writing, performance and music and asks them to tell one funny, very true story.

Comedic actress and writer, Robin Thede, made history when she joined Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore as head writer. She joined It’s All True! host Tim Barnes at a live show in Brooklyn’s Union Hall to talk about her late night TV experiences, what the White House Correspondents dinner was really like, growing up in a trailer park and much, much more.

[Shout out to -  Live Show Producer: Rob Schulte, House Band: Freddie Nunezand the It’s All True! Orchestra (Jamie Ingalls on drums and mark Craig on guitar!), Venue: Union Hall]

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In this special bonus interview edition of the podcast, Tim Barnes talks to artist and writer Stanley Donwood about the re-release of his comedic noir crime thriller Catacombs of Terror. 

Catacombs of Terror! is a noir crime thriller set in Bath, England, in which private investigator Martin Valpolicella receives a tip that he will soon be framed for a future murder— that of his former lover – one that is set to take place in the catacombs buried beneath the city. Can he save the girl, and himself? A drug-fueled escapade takes place in the seedy subterranean of the countryside better known for hot springs and Jane Austen.

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The It’s All True! Podcast features interviews with the most creative voices in comedy, writing, performance and music and asks them to tell one funny, very true story. 

Tim Barnes chats with Sean Rameswaram (WNYC, More Perfect podcast, Sideshow podcast) about radio, his love of Lakshmi Singh, and what happens when all of your dreams come true. Sean also shares a hilarious story about a strange tattoo that remains on his skin to this day.

[Shout out to -  Live Show Producer: Rob Schulte, House Band: Freddie Nunez and the It’s All True! Orchestra (Jamie Ingallis on drums and mark Craig on guitar!), Venue: Union Hall]

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The It’s All True! Podcast features interviews with the most creative voices in comedy, writing, performance and music and asks them to tell one funny, very true story.

This episode marks the debut of It’s All True in New York City. Host, Tim Barnes, sat down with comedian Roy Wood Jr. at Union Hall to talk about his upcoming hour special and the art of prank calling for radio.

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The It’s All True! Podcast features interviews with the most creative voices in comedy, writing, performance and music and asks them to tell one funny, very true story.

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The It’s All True! Podcast features interviews with the most creative voices in comedy, writing, performance and music and asks them to tell one funny, very true story.

Recorded in October of 2015, this episode features Tim Barnes in conversation with Chicago rapper, ShowYouSuck. They talk music, life, and pot brownies. Plus! A bonus live lie detector test conducted by comedian Erik Niewiarowski.

Review ShowYouSucks original It’s All True! podcast episode from way back when the show was produced at WBEZ here.

Comedian Azhar Usman has a new one man show premiering this week at Silk Road Rising in Chicago. In Ultra American: A Patriot Act, Usman takes to the stage with this brutally honest, unflinching one-man show exploring the tensions and paradoxes surrounding the double consciousness of American Muslims living in an ever-polarizing modern world. 

Get tickets and information here.

Issa Rae’s new HBO series INSECURE premieres October 9th at 10:30 PM. Check out the latest teaser below before revisiting her It’s All True! episode.

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The It’s All True! Podcast features interviews with the most creative voices in comedy, writing, performance and music and asks them to tell one funny, very true story.

 Recorded in October of 2015, this episode features Tim Barnes in conversation with the Puterbaugh Sisters. The Puterbaugh’s are a sister comedy duo, and here they talk about their conversational style of stand-up, why the show they created with Beth Stelling, Entertaining Julia, was so successful and tell a few Halloween hook-up horror stories.

It's All True! with Tim Barnes is leaving the confines of the recording studio and hitting the stage at Union Hall on Thursday, September 22nd. This storytelling podcast is hosted by comedian Tim Barnes, who sits down in conversation with authors, comics, musicians, and more to reveal funny, true stories.

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The It’s All True! Podcast features interviews with the most creative voices in comedy, writing, performance and music and asks them to tell one funny, very true story. 

(2015) Host, Tim Barnes, chats with musician and author Tim Kinsella about his musical and writing career. Kinsella shares an incredible true story that involves nudity and a blonde wig.

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The It’s All True! Podcast features interviews with the most creative voices in comedy, writing, performance and music and asks them to tell one funny, very true story. 

"It's All True!" host Tim Barnes had a farewell show for for Chicago before moving to New York. This is part two of that show. Enjoy conversations and stories from comedian Arish Singh and singer/songwriter Natalie Grace Alford