{"podcast":{"title":"Ian Talks Comedy","slug":"ian-talks-comedy-140290","podcast_index_feed_id":140290,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/21d579e4/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ian-fermaglich","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded/5576385/5576385-1589847499688-96aa14b6ccf94.jpg","author":"Ian Fermaglich","episode_count":330,"summary":"Join NYC teacher and former stand up comedian Ian Fermaglich as he talks comedy with some of comedy's best.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-28T12:18:37.346010+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ian-talks-comedy-140290"},"episode":{"title":"Prof. Frank Chindamo (SNL Season 6 writers assistant / creator LaughMD.com)","slug":"prof-frank-chindamo-snl-season-6-writers-assistant-creator-laughmd-com","published_at":"2026-06-20T13:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ian-talks-comedy-140290/prof-frank-chindamo-snl-season-6-writers-assistant-creator-laughmd-com","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ian-talks-comedy-140290","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ian-fermaglich/episodes/Prof--Frank-Chindamo-SNL-Season-6-writers-assistant--creator-LaughMD-com-e3kieaa","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/21d579e4/podcast/play/121239306/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-5-9%2F2a95b2cf-e67d-d505-68e8-120e4f80496a.mp3","summary":"Frank Chindamo joined me to talk about being half Ecuadorean and half Italian and can only speak English; living in Queens; Winky Dink and You; getting the writer's assistants job; Ferris Butler; Michael O'Donoghue; Charles Rocket's f-bomb; his sketch that was never produced; Bill Murray teaches him Cronkite; working on the first documentary about Mother Theresa; getting a MFA at Columbia; his shorts Cat and Mousse and Jelly Donut Saga; directing Food for Thought; creating a company Fun Little Movies that produced first internet comedy series and first comedy video for a phone; teaching at USC; learns comedy can reduce stress, pain and heart attacks; writes a book Laugh RX; medicine is the best medicine but laughter helps; Jon Stewart & Patch Adam; LaughterMD.com; worst place to watch comedy is on Tik Tok","meta_description":"Frank Chindamo joined me to talk about being half Ecuadorean and half Italian and can only speak English; living in Queens; Winky Dink and You; getting th…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2222,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/ian-talks-comedy-140290/episodes/prof-frank-chindamo-snl-season-6-writers-assistant-creator-laughmd-com/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ian-talks-comedy-140290/prof-frank-chindamo-snl-season-6-writers-assistant-creator-laughmd-com.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}