Fresh Air Just For Laughs, Terry Gross
Fresh Air Just For Laughs, Terry Gross
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Fresh Air: Just For Laughs

Author: Terry Gross, Terry Gross, Various

Narrator: Terry Gross, Various

Unabridged: 3 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/01/2010

Synopsis

Terry Gross brings out the best in the greatest minds on the planet—including the funny ones. Drawn from her long-running, award-winning public radio show, this new collection features in-depth interviews with the bright, shining wits of our time. One of the nation’s leading interviewers, Gross is incisive, respectful, and always well-informed. She puts her guests at ease, which makes for rewarding listening. Insights abound and the humor is unstoppable.

About Terry Gross

Terry Gross is the host and co-executive producer of Fresh Air, an interview-based radio show produced by WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and distributed throughout the United States by NPR. She has been in this position since 1975 and has conducted thousands of interviews over her 42 years at the job.

Gross has won praise over the years for her low-key and friendly yet often probing interview style and for the diversity of her guests. She has a reputation for researching her guests' work largely the night before an interview, often asking them unexpected questions about their early careers.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kathy

I listened to the audio book, so this was as if I was listening to the NPR podcast. Only difference was several interviews of the comedians are grouped together. Terry Gross is a superb interviewer and asks the best questions and her back up questions are even better. Terry does not back down on the......more

Goodreads review by Doris

Terry Gross is the Empress of interviewing. She selected of interviews with comedians. As usual the cuts to the core of the interviewee with sharp questions that are respectful and insightful. Get a copy to listen to as the clips of the comedians.......more

Goodreads review by Jon

A collection of interviews that are interesting, but too short to provide breadth or depth.......more

Goodreads review by Tarah

Fun little blurbs. Like the reader's digest version. Not really enough to be juicy but enough to laugh. The ending was abrupt!......more

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