College Stories

Writer Jack O’Brien comes in from L.A. to talk about his time at Quinnipiac University. We talk $3 bills, apologies, embarrassing college tours with parents (his dad is basically Randy Quaid from Vacation movies). Jack totally killed it in his first lead acting role in college (with a little help from a giant dildo), he...

On this episode, our starting five of Kevin, Shane, Jaimie, Jon, and Elizabeth talk about their favorite stories from working at The Late Show with David Letterman, which wrapped up its legendary run on May 20th. All of us were lucky enough to work at the show in a bunch of different jobs, and it was our...

In screenwriter Chris Galletta’s return appearance, he talks about how writing jokes for Letterman got him into Columbia film school, how he became a film professor, and about one of the most horrifying, profane email snafus ever. Shane counters with a story of a terrible accidental IM sent in college, Chris judges us by our...

This week we celebrate Mother’s Day the best way: with Kevin’s mom, Ev. Kev’s mom was in the first class of women at the University of Notre Dame when they went co-ed in the ’70s, and she tells us all about it! Joined by guest co-hosts Joe and Pat McCaffrey, Mom talks about going to...

“Late Show University” w/ Meghan Maguire (Actress/Late Show staffer) Our friend Meghan Maguire comes by the show to talk about our stay at both NYU, and Late Show University (not technically a college). She’s done a bunch of jobs at the show, and she tells us how she originally got hired, and about some of...

Any college kid can go streaking, but it took a biopsychology major to take it to the next level. Jono and his roommate Skippy were part of the most involved, character-based streaks through classes in college history. He attended the beautiful UC-Santa Barbara, which is as much of a party school as you’d expect, where...

Kara Klenk went to Trinity College which is (surprisingly) a big time party school, that throws school-sponsored keggers in a campus gym. As Kara says, Trinity is like the “cool mom” of colleges. She gives the inside scoop on the scam that is getting alumni donations, and we dive deep into the pre-21 predicament of...

Dan St. Germain went to Evansville University on an acting scholarship, and left a trail of tears. Banging teachers, hooking up under bushes, sleeping under bridges, showing up drunk and shoeless at the opera and cheering his ass off — Dan calls college as “a good time to get crazy out of your system,” and...

Michelle Jung can’t say her own name, but she says a lot of other fun stuff! After graduating high school at 16, a planned gap year in Switzerland got weird when she lived with her dad’s ex-girlfriend, who turned out to be an insane spider-whisperer. It gets REAL weird. Michelle is a comic, actor, and...

Kristen Lavin joins to talk about her very first legit hangover — the beginning of a tradition, unlike any other. “F*ck the people here, but really, f*ck the people over there” is how Kristen compares her experience between two colleges, one in the South and one in the North. Shane talks about an early 2000s...

Comedian Will Miles tells us about his insane experience moving to New York (it involves fraud, and incredible racism!), and one particularly harrowing college party in a bad Atlanta neighborhood that’s basically straight out of a rap video. Will also details how he got started in comedy, going from improv in Chicago to stand up....

Ken Schultz’s Kenyon College a capella group brought him to a Texas house full of cats, and a host family that included a couple of screaming, recovering heroin addicts — one of whom was a dead ringer for a specific ’80s hair metal frontman. It’s like Pitch Perfect, but way grosser! He also regales us with...

Muncie Gras — it’s like Mardi Gras, but grosser! Kevin, Shane, Elizabeth, Jon & Jaimie recall boobs, and starting a riot at Muncie’s Fat Tuesday celebration in 2004. Put ’em on the glass!

Greg and Katie Volk join us on a romantic episode of College Stories to talk about meeting in college long before they re-met in New York…and got married. Kevin and Jaimie also tell the story of getting together in college, after one crazy summer, 11 years before they ended up getting married. Also, Shane’s there! All...

Comedian Nate Fridson talks college sports, on-campus celebratory rioting, and ultimately, the headlining story is about a strip club on 9/11. Do NOT miss that story, which comes toward the end. Shane also talks about his first strip club experience, which may or may not have happened at the 9/11 place’s sister club. Follow the...

Giulia Rozzi (comedian/actress) takes us back to her days at Ithaca College to talk fake IDs, blackouts, hysterical fits at bars, incredible Halloween parties, and a terrible acting audition for NYU. Giulia is currently touring with her acclaimed one woman show, Bad Bride, and you can find her on Twitter @GiuliaRozzi. All performance dates can be...

In the sequel to Andrew Collin’s first episode, we talk ethnicity, the good half of Korea, the power of Jewish-ness, and arson. Specifically, frat house-related, accidental arson. Andrew also claims he learned literally nothing in college, and he simply cannot handle finding out what FDR’s middle name was. It’s another ridiculous, insane, hilarious story from...