Podcast episode 374ish: Diana Bang

Bang (right) with WSF?'s
first ever guest Paul Bae

Diana Bang makes her podcast debut with this episode. That's probably almost as exciting for her as getting a supporting lead role in The Interview with Seth Rogan and James Franco. Yes, Bang starred as Sook, the communications/propaganda minister under a fictionalized Kim Jong Un (don't want no trouble 'round here so I want to stress it's fictionalized). Prior to this star-making vehicle, Diana was known for her roles as Coffee Shop Server in No Clue, Barrista in Miracle in Manhattan, and Market Cashier in Guess Who's Coming to Christmas. We talk about her surreal ascent to the red carpet, her Vanity Fair photoshoot, Seth Rogan's luscious lips, her work with local sketch troupe Assaulted Fish, and she tells us why you should never trust an acting teacher.

Help celebrate her first podcast by listening to it. You can click below to start your journey or you can download it at iTunes, on Stitcher, PodcastLand, etc., etc. Get moving!

Jan. 11: Diana Bang

Regular listeners to What's So Funny? might know about my fascination with North Korea. I've seen all the documentaries on it, have read a couple books, and follow the relevant Twitter feeds. And over the holidays, I watched the controversial new comedy The Interview, written and directed by local boys-gone-big Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg. Nevermind that Pyongyang was played by Vancouver, the breakout star of that movie was Diana Bang. Diana is a sketch performer and actor. I've seen her with her troupe Assaulted Fish and I've seen her in a staged reading of a Shauna Johannesen play at Pacific Theatre. Yet it took for her to star in the controversial comedy The Interview and be featured in Vanity Fair magazine for me to invite her on the show. What the hell is wrong with me?! My bad. That's all I can say. Anyway, we'll talk about all of the above on the show tonight. It will be a propaganda-free hour, I promise.

We are on the air, as usual, at 11 pm on CFRO 100.5 FM. You can livestream us anywhere in the world (except, I'm guessing, North Korea) at coopradio.org.