And to be able to do it on such a small staff – we're talking five people that work on the show all week, and I'm the head writer, too, so I do probably 70 percent of the writing – to be able to put out this product – we're 23 episodes in – with such a small staff, I'm pretty proud of that. I think our show is very good and is going after some really important issues that don't get covered anywhere else. We have a small live audience because that's all the studio will hold – about 20 people in our live audience.
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LC: It's a real, professional shoot in a studio. GM: So the show, Redacted Tonight, is a multi-camera show, you've got an audience, it's on once a week, but your staff isn't quite as big as the Comedy Central or HBO guys, is it? I mean, sometimes, and more so recently, we even do our original reporting so we go and get information about protests and aren't even quoting some of the news sources so I definitely feel like a reporter during those times. LC: I guess, if you would say Jon Stewart and John Oliver are reporting. GM: Do you call what you're doing 'reporting' even though it's comedy? I grew up outside of DC until I was 8, then the rest of the time in Richmond, Virginia. LC: Well, I've been in New York City for the past 12 years. LC: Yeah, we tape in DC so I'm here pretty much all the time now, about three blocks from the White House. GM: Is the office you're calling from for your show? GM: We spoke two years ago when you were in Vancouver. For years now I haven't had a landline and it's always a disaster. Lee Camp: Luckily there are landlines at the office.
My pet peeve is phone interviews with someone on a cell phone.
Guy MacPherson: Thanks for calling back on a landline. "There's not a lot of comedians doing political comedy to begin with, and the kind of the full-throated activist political comedy that I do is incredibly rare." – Lee Camp
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