An Hour with Kasper Hauser: A Sound of Young America Special

Required weekend listening. Jesse Thorn of The Sound of Young America shares word that a special TSOYA feature episode on The Kasper Hauser Comedy Group is now up.

[The] San Francisco-based sketch comedy group [have] been mainstays of The Sound of Young America, and have appeared on Comedy Central and on This American Life. They're the authors of three hilarious books: "SkyMaul: Happy Crap You Can Buy From A Plane," "Obama's Blackberry," and "Weddings of the Times." They also wrote the website Wonderglen for former Onion editor and Daily Show executive producer Ben Karlin.

On this special hour-long Sound of Young America special, they talk about their careers, and we hear their comedy -- both sketches produced for The Kasper Hauser Comedy Podcast and all-new pieces.

Go have a listen here, or click the embed below.

[#1 posted by Axx, September 18, 2009 8:49 PM]

Pretty much unrelated: The Enigma of Kasper Hauser is one of my favorite movies. You might like it if you are into Werner Herzog.

Kasper Hauser was a feral child found in Germany under suspicious circumstances in the 19th century.

[#2 posted by mdh, September 18, 2009 9:30 PM]

Jesse Thorne is required listening. Great podcast.

[#3 posted by BassTooth, September 19, 2009 11:00 AM]

skip to around 39:00 minutes. the cragslist e-mails are the best!

[#4 posted by Anonymous, September 20, 2009 5:21 PM]

I have been a fanatical devotee of the 3/4 of Kasper Hauser movie "Fishing With Ghandi" for almost ten years. Unfortunately, about 17 people have seen the movie. It is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.