College Stories

Jay Nog is the comedian you’re not surprised was part of a fraternity that got kicked off campus. He went to SUNY-Albany (9-time #1 party school according to Princeton Review), pledged a frat immediately, had messy breakups with just about every roommate he ever had, and has a cautionary tale about having a long-term “friend...

Jason Kanter attended THE Ohio State University, and his stories are so nuts that he can’t include last names in almost any of them. Except NFL hall of famer Lynn Swann — that dude gets NAMED. Jason was president of his fraternity in college, and around him, cars were lit on fire (allegedly), beers exploded...

Oh boy, where do we START with this one? Subhah Agarwal (comedian/TV writer) drops by to talk about being a quasi-valedictorian, snorting things so she could work harder, and working as a clown, on a boat, in Pittsburgh. WHAT? Right. Subhah is an NYC-based stand up comic and regular at The Stand, and she has...

Patrick Monahan is a comedian who is one of the absolute best follows on Twitter. He’s got that blue checkmark, son! Check him out @pattymo and enjoy. Patrick is NOT the guy from Train (of the same name), but he IS the guy who helped popularize the “Ted Cruz is the zodiac killer” online, a Georgetown...

The junior year of College Stories kicks off with producer Nick Pride, who talks about a Florida summer camp he worked at in college where he got buff and found a wife. With Nick as a guest, we get the bonus of appearances of a bunch of camp weirdos via impressions. We caught up with Nick...

To celebrate the end of our Summer Series, and this particular time of year: it’s our first ever episode, where Kevin, Shane, Jon, Elizabeth and Jaimie talk about their first day at Ball State University. We’re back with ALL NEW episodes next Thursday! But for now, kick off the year with our most downloaded episode...

Doug Smith (comedian, Montreal Just For Laughs Festival) grew up a Jehovah’s Witness, but then quit, HARD. He went to art school in NYC, 9/11 turned into his Home Alone 2 (we explain), he dropped out but didn’t tell his dad, and he was present for some serious arson. Doug brings the stories for real...

Gary Vider tells us everything about his time at U of Buffalo: pledging a frat, the insane hazing (and how that led to no particular lasting friendship), and his creative side-job that made him a lot of money and got his room broken into. We also talk about Gary’s run to the finals on America’s...

George Gordon accidentally ended up in ATO at Memphis University, lived on a dorm floor with one of country music’s biggest talents, and hit the biggest “college spring break locales”: Panama City and South Padre Island, with a pit stop over in Mexico. We talk cheap, awful liquors (cheap vodka is the best, relatively speaking),...

Alison Leiby (comedian/writer) is, in her words, “a monster.” She started at Cornell on the rowing team, and after injuries derailed that career, she took the athlete’s mentality to college partying. Alison and Kevin compare notes on blacking out and leaving class to go heave in sinks (incredibly similar stories, actually), Alison talks about the...

Josh Gondelman (comedian/web producer) talks about the weirdness of Brandeis, fake protests, his first buzz, and talking to R.L. Stine on the phone. It’s cardigans all the way down! We talk about what kinds of ways we’ve been bad boy/girlfriends, and Josh gives everyone one of his classic, semi-drunk, personal pep talks. Hit him up...

Kris Knight failed 7 different foreign languages in college, and now is a producer/director for Univision. Suck it, school! Kris attended Ball State University, just like our hosts, and helped produce another sketch comedy show on campus. He also worked as an RA, dealt with dummies (including a fog machine addict), and on one special...

Kim Reynolds helped bring you 6 years of VMAs (basically, she knows Jay-Z) and today she tells us about how she creatively paid for college spring break, how she chose a college (Rowan University), and she does it all while providing snacks and wine for the whole crew. What a gal! Follow Kim on her travels...

Part 2 of the “What I did instead of college” extravaganza with the story-filled Steve O’Brien. Steve tells us about growing up in the Chicago sketch & improv comedy scene, starting drinking, and getting electrocuted. Oh, and basically doing a Pee Wee Herman impression across the country. Also, if you haven’t heard part 1 with...

Steve O’Brien (actor/comedian, “Team Submarine”) is our first College Stories guest who straight up bailed on college, and instead, used that time to live some of the craziest stories we’ve had on this show. His age 18-22 college era involved running away from home, across the country, and not telling ANYBODY about it, and eventually...

Kevin has known Lance Weiss (comedian) for eight years, but only on this episode found out he was a kicker for his college football team. WHAT?! Lance shares the story about kicking for Georgetown’s (awful) football team, growing up in the deep South and wanting to get the F out, and his surprising romantic history....

Producer of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Matt Passett talks about the mini-college that is paging for the Letterman straight out of NYU, and NYU’s supposed reputation of being “filled with d-bags.” During college, Matt interned at Conan while majoring in politics, and rode that into a career of producing TV, obviously. He also...

Episode #69, dudes!!! We’re wrapping up 2015/beginning 2016 with our third deleted scenes episode. We’ve got talk about our biggest regrets, drugs, Nic Cage, and possibly Shane’s most epic story of all time. CHECK IT! (Appearances by: Kevin, Jaimie, Jon, Shane, Elizabeth Kuchta, Kristen Lavin, Matt Wayne, Pat Driscoll, Mike Trainor, Andy Bond)

On Christmas Eve, we do a #TBT to a previous episode, originally aired last Christmas, with Kevin and his two brothers, Joe and “Owen” (a med student, who should not be super-searchable via Google for, you know, professional reasons). The newest of the McCaffreys — Jaimie — is along for the hang as well. “Owen”...

Matt Passet, former Letterman Page, Conan intern, current John Oliver producer, talks about starting stand up in college, trying to be a serious writer in grad school at Columbia, his “very Jewish” fraternity at NYU, and a smoking-related throwdown with the NYPD. Oh, and Jon Daly shows off his incredible acting skills. Follow Matt on...