The Funny People Talking Podcast
2021 Bronze Winner for New Zealand Podcast Awards “Best International Podcast”
2019, 2020, and 2021 finalist for People’s Choice Podcast Awards “Best Comedy Podcast”
Marc Raco and co-hosts interview entertainers, influencers, icons, innovators, and incredible people who have one thing in common: they are funny!
Episodes feature improv games, the latest and funniest news, plus unusual food and dead-pan delivery zingers from Elsie the Producer. From celebrity star stories and what’s wrong with the world to deep and memorable interviews, “Funny People Talking” delivers a whole universe of things to discover, and to laugh at and with.
Marc Raco
Marc is a podcast pioneer and has also performed improvisational comedy professionally and even tried his hand at standup.
His podcast “Monkey Radio with Marc” published more than 100 episodes with more than 600k downloads, featuring such guests as Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood (Who’s Line Is It Anyway), Melissa Villasenor (SNL), Jamie Lissow (The Real Robon Netflix), Michael Park (As the World Turns, Dear Evan Hansen), and Alfa Anderson (Chic).
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He also hosted the podcasts “Fashion Is Your Business”, “Retail is Your Business”, ”Grocery Is Your Business”, “Naked Entrepreneur”, and produced more than 40 shows earning millions of downloads.
Marc co-founded the B-toB podcast/audio company MouthMedia Network, was Head of Audio for Linktree and works for a marketing content agency. He was a featured blogger for ComedyPop.com and a regular contributor to Conscious Magazine, has appeared in more than 25 films and 50 stage productions, and has played several television roles, including on Limitless (CBS), Blue Bloods (CBS), Law and Order SVU (NBC), As the World Turns (CBS), and “Onion News Network” (IFC). He also has been recognized with numerous awards as a filmmaker and produced/directed the animated film “Zero Patience: A Night of Monkey Radio.” Plus, he served as an NYPD Auxiliary police officer and is a real-life Kentucky Colonel.
Elsie
Before transitioning into podcasting, Elsie has produced radio shows over the decades in the US, UK, and Tanzania. Favorite booked guests have included Elvis, Chewbacca, Michael Jackson, Cindy Lauper, and Vincent Kigosi. Elsie was also instrumental in the success of the UK drive time radio hit “The Mickey and Billy Show” before joining the “Monkey Radio with Marc” podcast.
When she is not in the studio, Elsie’s focuses are her cat Nunyabizness, amateur kickboxing, searching for vintage jazz albums, and eating her way through an extensive culinary bucket list. She is also working on an ongoing project involving bacon, chocolate and salsa
Former Hosts:
Dresden Engle
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Dresden Engle is a comedian, actress, singer, playwright, and an award-winning author and communications professional. In spring 2020 she published the first and only biography of rock star Eddie Money, with whom she wrote the script for his world premier autobiographic musical Two Tickets to Paradise: The Eddie Money Musical, in which she also starred in 2018. In 2021 she will debut her original musical The Cougar and the Cabana Boy.
For more than 20 years she has been a performer and writer with sketch-comedy troupe EstroFest, which has performed Off-Broadway and with Barry Williams (aka Greg Brady). Under much-larger hair she fronted the rock band Dresden in her 20s and throughout her career has performed in numerous theater productions and in films, music videos, and TV commercials (including one that went viral where she starred opposite “Bachelor” Juan Pablo).Dresden owns and operates Dresden Public Relations Inc. and has worked with major media outlets throughout her career, as well as many fun and fabulous celebrities. At home, she resides with two Tik-Tok-watching teenage daughters and a husband who inspires hourly eye rolls
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Danielle Beckmann is a comedic actress, producer, writer, and creative coach. Backstage called her a comedienne who “attacks with impressive commitment”. Her films have screened at over 40 film festivals internationally. She played the title role in the short film Liza Anonymous that premiered at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival , and stars in the dark comedy short Tiki Bar Funeral Home and horror comedy short Sam & Kiki, both on the festival circuit, plus stars alongside SNL vet Bobby Moynihan in the new dark comedy Ex-Husband. And, Danielle hosts panels at WonderCon and San Diego Comic-Con with her company Brooklyn Quarter. Her TTRPG YouTube show is Novel Chronicles.
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FUN FACT
“Funny People Talking” is inspired by the universe created in the
previous podcast “Monkey Radio with Marc”. One of our favorite moments was recording live from an NYC bacon bakery called Baconry!
Elsie, Marc, cohost Ben Rose, and Baconry founder Wesley Klein
Guest musician Steve Benson, Marc, and cohost Ben Rose