Get all fuzzed up on storytelling, observations, and superfun games! Hosts Jesse Nicolaus and Richard Kniazuk chit chat with Chicago comedians, illustrators, musicians, and more! 


Jesse Nicolaus

Jesse Nicolaus is a transplant from Michigan where he received a Bachelors in Reading from U of M. He is a comedian; producer and host of All Effin' Night (a comedy open mic/fun time party night) with Brandon Kirkman, Sam Gordon, and Martin Felshman; host of Fuzzy People with cohost Richard Kniazuk; and writer for Clerk & Dagger. You can follow him on Twitter @JesseNicolaus because no one else in the world has his name.

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Richard Kniazuk

Richard Kniazuk is a native of Chicago and was raised in a flat area outside the city imaginatively named Des Plaines. He has so far spent his life eating Polish food, wandering through forest preserves, going to Renaissance Faires and Revolutionary War re-enactments, and writing. Disguised as an academic, Richard studied at Loyola University Chicago, where he loved the tranquility of the nearby beach, long nights on porches, explorations of the city, and expanding on ideas. In college, he founded an ephemeral literary publication known as Lucid Riot. He has also managed the media relations for an Ohio state representative's campaign, worked in a graveyard, sliced at a deli, and put together stamps at a notary public stamp-making facility. Currently, he is developing new projects, and writing short stories and screenplays. He assembled Machine Culture to celebrate the creative endeavors of friends and neighbors, and convey the beauty of Chicago and the Midwest.

So here we are...


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