{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Cornell Woolridge on being black in American and Comedian Christian Finnegan Episode 470","description":" Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. Please subscribe now for as little as 5$&amp;nbsp;and gain access to a community of over 800 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Check out&amp;nbsp;StandUpwithPete.com&amp;nbsp;to learn more Cornell Woolridge is Founder\/President of CivicSolve, a civic empowerment firm. He has been working in the civic engagement space for nearly 20 years with a MS in Ethics &amp;amp; Public Policy. He has managed campaigns in Texas, Massachusetts, politically organized in New Hampshire &amp;amp; Pennsylvania, and managed national disability grassroots advocacy for non profits. Twitter: @civicsolve  Christian Finnegan&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;is an&amp;nbsp;American&amp;nbsp;stand-up comedian, writer and actor based in&amp;nbsp;New York City.    BUY HIS NEW ALBUM---&amp;nbsp;&quot;Show Your Work: Live at QED&quot; &amp;nbsp; Finnegan is perhaps best known as one of the original panelists on&amp;nbsp;VH1's&amp;nbsp;Best&amp;nbsp;Week&amp;nbsp;Ever&amp;nbsp;and as Chad, the only white roommate in the \u201cMad Real World\u201d sketch on&amp;nbsp;Comedy Central's&amp;nbsp;Chappelle's&amp;nbsp;Show. Additional television appearances as himself or performing stand up have included \u201cConan\u201d, \u201cThe Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson\u201d, &quot;Would You Rather...with Graham Norton&quot;, \u201cGood Afternoon America\u201d and multiple times on&amp;nbsp;The&amp;nbsp;Today&amp;nbsp;Show&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;Countdown&amp;nbsp;with&amp;nbsp;Keith&amp;nbsp;Olbermann, and on&amp;nbsp;History's&amp;nbsp;I Love the 1880s. He hosted&amp;nbsp;TV Land's&amp;nbsp;game show &quot;Game Time&quot;. As an actor, Finnegan portrayed the supporting role of &quot;Carl&quot; in the film&amp;nbsp;Eden Court, a ticket agent in &quot;Knight and Day&quot; and several guest roles including a talk show host on &quot;The Good Wife&quot;. In October 2006, Finnegan's debut stand up comedy CD titled&amp;nbsp;Two For Flinching&amp;nbsp;was released by&amp;nbsp;Comedy Central Records, with a follow-up national tour of college campuses from January to April 2007.&amp;nbsp;\u201cAu Contraire!\u201d was released by Warner Bros. Records in 2009. His third special &quot;The Fun Part&quot; was filmed at the Wilbur Theatre in Boston on April 4, 2013 and debuted on Netflix on April 15, 2014.    &amp;nbsp;    Check out all things Jon Carroll   Follow and Support Pete Coe   &amp;nbsp;  Pete on YouTube   Pete&amp;nbsp;on&amp;nbsp;Twitter   Pete&amp;nbsp;On&amp;nbsp;Instagram   Pete&amp;nbsp;Personal&amp;nbsp;FB&amp;nbsp;page     ","author_name":"Stand Up! with Pete Dominick","author_url":"http:\/\/standupwithpete.libsyn.com\/website","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/21059759\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/114936242"}