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Funny as Tech is comedy & conversation for our brave new world! Special guests join our hosts each month for this live show taped for a podcast.
Co-hosts David Ryan Polgar (tech ethicist) & Joe Leonardo (comedian) are joined by experts & comedians to help unpack our absurd present & uncertain future. Whether it's selfies, self-driving cars, or post-death communication, we'll laugh all the way to our eventual replacement by robots.
Previous guests include:
Chuck Nice (co-host of Star Talk Radio with Dr. Neil Degrasse Tyson)
Manoush Zomorodi (host of WNYC's Note To Self Podcast)
Douglas Rushkoff (author of Program Or Be Programmed & Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus)
YOUR HOSTS FOR FUNNY AS TECH
Some people are the future of comedy. These guys are the futurist comedy
David Ryan Polgar is a frequent speaker (3-time TEDx, The School of the New York Times), tech commentator (SiriusXM, CNN.comcom, HuffPost), & contributing writer for Big Think, Quartz, & IBM Think Leaders. He is currently focused on whether we are becoming "botified" online, along with the ethical concerns facing emerging tech. Polgar co-founded the global Digital Citizenship Summit & currently works with the virtual world startup Friendbase.
Joe Leonardo is a comedian, improviser & writer who has been featured on ESPN, Travel Channel, NPR, Anderson Cooper LIVE, Cafe, & Prank Academy to name a few. He is currently a house team performer at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York & co-host of their WednesdayNight Improv Jam. Joe is also the creator/host of The Flying Blind Sketch Show, which plays bi-monthly at The People's Improv Theater & is one of the founders of Sea Tea Improv.
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