“Comparisons to Carlin welcome:” My interview with comedian Alonzo Bodden

I love when Alonzo Bodden is a panelist on NPR’s “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell me,” the show created by Murray Horwitz, who I wrote about in my “Be a clown” post. I talked to Alonzo recently about politics, current events, being a jet mechanic and voicing a ‘Power Rangers’ villain. Read about it here here.

The lede:

Alonzo Bodden was still a (relatively) young comedian in the early 2000s when “Playboy” magazine named him one of the five “spawn” of the legendary George Carlin. More than a decade later, Bodden still treasures that moment.

“I was talking about topics from the news and about social issues and the fact that I was completely dissatisfied with society and could still make it funny is probably why they connected me with Carlin,” Bodden said in an interview with NJ Advance Media. “It was one of, if not the, highest compliment I’ve ever received.”