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.
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...
- EPISODES -
Join Jesse and Richard in an all-new Fuzzy People with guest Tiffany Keane, Artistic Director & Founder of Otherworld Theatre!
Join Fuzzy People as we greet the great Dylan Nelson, Co-Founder of the Few Brews Beer Club in Chicago, as we discuss college nostalgia, books, brews, and misadventures!
Join Jesse, Richard, and Tony as they interview comedian Nick Martin and talk about baby bins, the new interview space, zines, The Thread, and let's give a shout out to shout outs and more shout outs!
The Lost Halloween Episode has been found! Fuzzy People went on the road to host a live Halloween special in Jackson, Michigan! This special episode features an amazing guest list including Dylan Sodt, Justine Melville, Anthony Melville, and Jeffrey Taylor! Special thanks to Brandon Heston, Mike Smith, Bruce Oat and the Trash Cats, Anne Lusty, Mary Jane MacCready, and Brittany Kinstle!
Join Jesse, Richard, and Tony as they interview guest Brandon Heston, who is coming back from the Porcupine Mountains! Listen in as they discuss camping trips, the summer of 2014 in review, Brandon's Jackson life, talk about the idea of having a live episode of Fuzzy People, and we play a game where we guess the first sentence of books from our library!
Join us with comedian Steve Maloy as we discuss cider's potential connection to future alcoholism; Neil Gaiman's cool posse; cigarettes; nerd culture and its rise in popularity; and we play another edition of Green Glass Door!
Join Jesse and Tony in the biggest Fuzzy People yet as two bands crash on their couches! Zach Lockwood and Julian Lesse of Super Thing and Andrew Harvey and RJ Reichenbach of Group Therapy join us to talk about about shoes, musicians in hypothetical fist fights, spirit animals, band dynamics and relationships, and then, get ready for a game called "That's So Metal!"
Join us with guest Jon Brown of God and the Architects on a mystical quest through time and imagination! Hear Jon reminisce about his abolition days and how he deals with immortality; series regular and music liaison Tony Melville talks about town folk of Jackson, MI; we think back on the twists and turns of our old journeys through mysterious lands; and then we're transported into a game of Dungeons and Dragons!
Join us with Tyler Jackson of Late Late Breakfast, as we talk about the games of his show at the Hideout, learn about the desert with Tony's cousin Jason Melville, personify the Midwestern States, take on the Darkside (Skittles), and conjure up animal names for famous comedians! Also, the next sentence of Haymaker is finally revealed!
Join us with Abby Stassen of Proxy Morons as we pit Old Style vs. Pabst Blue Ribbon in a monumental taste test of okay beers, wail over Tony's need to educate himself, explore the never-ending beer and spirit of Michigan, delve into our origin stories, and enter into an imaginary forest to give many offerings to a bizarre Green Glass Door!
Join us this week as we talk with Brandon Kirkman of The Brine Weekly podcast! We get into Brandon's undying love of Godzilla, the joys of illustration and play a game of Questiny! The game of copyright infringement avoidance!
Join us as we sit down with Music Liaison Tony Melville and special guest Jason Melton! We talk about Jason's musical past, get deep with some philosophy, and in honor of Jason's podcast, "What's Good? with Jason Melton" we play a special game called, "Good, Bad, or Ugly?"
Blake Burkhart of This Is Not An Open Mic sits down with us on a beautiful summer day to talk about what's good in Chicago Comedy, why a grown man would dress up as Jeff Foxworthy, and how to deal with unsexy aliens in a game of Questiny! Also, Tony Melville joins the discussion and shows his chops as a gifted sound effects man!
Join us and comedian Kelly Opalko of Pretty Windy as we make fun of dancers, Italian theatre rituals, and talk about the weird futurescape in which we are living.
Join hosts Jesse Nicolaus and Richard Kniazuk as they meet at the round table of their guest Cailtin Checkeroski and discuss a cavalcade of topics such as old and new shows, a handsome dog named Oskar, the seemingly complex questions children ask, the real trading value of candy, graduation, and learn about where minds go during a super fun round of the Super Fun Game!
In this episode of Fuzzy People, our guest Kevin Budnik invites us into his home to talk about ghosts, movie remakes, an exhilarating tale of Improv Story Time, and a special Spanish lesson by Prof. Jesse.
Join hosts Jesse Nicolaus and Richard Kniazuk for the first episode of Fuzzy People with guest Tony Melville! Listen, as we drink Malort from a sports bottle, enjoy the story of Tony's encounter with a weirdo, journey through a segment we're now calling Improv Story Time (for potential copyright reasons), and have an exhausting round of the Super Fun Game!