Hot Tub with Guest Host Adam Newman

Kristen Schaal is one of the rising stars of the alternative comedy scene, with glowing reviews and multiple awards marking her ascent. Her two-person show, with her comedy partner Kurt Braunohler, was nominated for the If.Comedy Award (Perrier Award) at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She won the award for "Best Alternative Comic" at HBO's 2006 U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, the Andy Kaufman Award hosted by the New York Comedy Festival and the 2006 Nightlife Award in New York for "Best Female Stand-Up." She was included in New York Magazine's "Ten Funniest New Yorkers You've Never Heard Of" and Variety's "10 Comics to Watch."

Kristen is the Senior Women's Correspondent for "The Daily Show" and was a writer on Comedy Central's "South Park." She is a series regular on HBO's "Flight of the Conchords" and can also be seen in "Penelope Princess of Pets," which she co-created with Kurt Braunohler.

Maybe the dilapidated garages and all-ages clubs of the East Coast post-hardcore scene of the late 80s is a fitting place to begin our story. That’s where the chronicle of our era’s ever-humble valedictorian, Ted Leo, really gets interesting, anyway. It was here in bands Citizen’s Arrest and Animal Crackers (and later as the main song writer in Chisel) that Ted developed a sharpened political prowess, an assiduous commitment to his Gibson ES-335, an ear for melody, and charisma contagious enough to be considered chemical weaponry. A mod-punk savant in an age where punk (like practically everything intangible we’ve ever expressed interest in) has been replaced by product. With his latest, "Living with the Living," Ted Leo delivers that existentialist ethos to a new crop of rude boys.

For their fifth full-length release (and first with Touch and Go Records), Ted Leo and the Pharmacists met up with Brendan Canty (Fugazi) at Long View Farms to iron out a new set of anthems that arrive with a confident and outspoken immediacy. With "Living with the Living," Ted & Co. wipe clean the slate that once held names like Weller, Strummer and Bragg and indulge some of their farthest-reaching musical ambitions.

Sara Schaefer is a critically acclaimed stand up comedian, writer, and producer based in New York City. She won two Emmy awards for her work as the Head Blogger for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, was one of Comedy Central’s Comics to Watch in 2010, and has written for BestWeekEver.tv and Who Wants to Be A Millionaire. She has appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Best Week Ever, E!, Fuse, and AOL. She co-hosts a podcast called You Had To Be There with comedian Nikki Glaser, and is currently working on a pilot for MTV with Nikki.

Jeffrey is an Emmy nominated comedy writer, an accomplished Stand Up Comedian and an award winning Actor. He starred in the feature film The Wrong Mr. Johnson and has appeared opposite such stars as Will Smith, Whoopie Goldberg and Bill Murray. On TV Jeff was a regular on The Popcorn Kid, HBO's Dream On, Fox's The Late Show, Haywire and Comic Strip Live. He’s also written and developed television pilots for Fox, ABC, MGM, Imagine and Castle Rock. As a stand up comedian, he has appeared on national television dozens of times including on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Jeffrey also finds the time to work as a Teaching Artist in under-served NYC High Schools.He spends his spare time writing flossy Bio's in the third person and brushing his hair.

Matt Koff is a stand-up comedian and comedy writer in New York City. nHe is the winner of Time Out NY's 2011 Joke of the Year. He has written for the Onion News Network and Michael Ian Black's WitStream. He co-wrote and co-voiced the webseries, 9 AM Meeting, which won "Best Animated Pilot" at the 2010 New York Television Festival. He has also written for The Newlywed Game on GSN, Onion SportsDome on Comedy Central, "Plot Summary" on Cinemax, and Cosmopolitan Magazine. He recently won an arm-wrestling match against his 8-year-old nephew.

Adam Newman is a very funny Brooklyn-based comedian. He has appeared on John Oliver's New York Stand-Up Show on Comedy Central, was named one of Comedy Central's Comics to Watch, won Carolines' Comedy Madness competition, and released his debut stand-up CD, Not for Horses, via Rooftop Comedy Productions. His new web series, My Dad is in a Boy Band, comes to The Warner Sound January 2013. Adam's TV appearances include MTV's The CollegeHumor Show and F'nMTV, various talking head shows on TV Guide Network, the Tyra Banks Show (weird), and dozens of CollegeHumor Originals on CollegeHumor.com, including their popular series Very Mary Kate, Hardly Working, and High Times Editorial Office. Adam has been featured in Time Out New York and The New York Daily News, wrote for Run it Back on Cartoon Network, and starred in an Animal Planet pilot called Cute Hunters.