Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker's TV critic, came on The Interview Show, hosted by Mark Bazer, to talk her love for Enlightened, the plight of the networks and more. Filmed at Union Hall, in Brooklyn, on May 16, 2013. Yes, we know this is in black and white.

The next Interview Show is Friday, June 7, 2013, at The Hideout, in Chicago. More at...

Scottish novelist -- and now Chicago resident -- Irvine Welsh talks with The Interview Show host Mark Bazer about his latest novel, "Skagboys," the Scottish independence movement and how sex, drugs and violence are different in the U.S. and the U.K. (Filmed at The Hideout April 5, 2013.)

The next Interview Show is at The Hideout, June 7. More info

"The Tooth Fairy didn't come" were the first things out of the boy's teeth-deprived mouth this morning. He said it in that tiny voice he usually reserves for phone conversations or saying he doesn't want to eat salmon.

The boy is our eldest son. The Tooth Fairy...

Longform improv masters TJ Jagodowski and David Pasquesi return to The Interview Show to talk with me about some of the same exact things he asked last time -- only this time they give completely different answers! Plus: Other topics are covered! (Filmed April 5, 2013, at The Hideout in...

Derek Fawcett, longtime Down the Line member, stopped by The Interview Show to perform and talk about his solo album, The Winter Clothes, touring with Blues Traveler and why an upbeat guy writes some awfully sad songs. Derek's next show is at Martyr's on June 2.

(Filmed at the Hideout April 5, 2013)

There's no CEO I'd rather talk to than Julie Smolyansky from Lifeway Foods. At the risk of shilling, Lifeway kefir has come to my digestive aid more times than I can count. And Julie took time out of her crazy schedule to be on the very first Interview Show at...

Author John Green (The Fault in Our Stars, Paper Towns, Looking for Alaska) makes his annual appearance on The Interview Show at The Hideout in Chicago. Green talks hating pennies, loving the world and everything in between. Please, please excuse the continual screwing up of the title of The Two...

Robert Falls, the Artistic Director for the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, stopped by The Interview Show to talk with me about his new production of Measure for Measure, why Shakespeare is usually boring, how to direct Brian Dennehy, plays for Ron Jeremy and lots more.

Measure for Measure is at the Goodman now through April 14.

@markbazer www.theinterviewshowchicago.com (Filmed March 1. 2013 at The...

Bill Zehme interviews the people who don't do in-depth interviews with anyone else: Frank Sinatra, Johnny Carson, Woody Allen. He has collaborated with Sinatra and Hugh Hefner, written a biography of the elusive Andy Kaufman and is now in the middle of writing an epic Johnny Carson bio. Here, he...

Stephanie Izard, chef/owner of Girl and the Goat and now Little Goat, stopped by the fifth anniversary of The Interview Show, hosted by Mark Bazer, at The Hideout, in Chicago. Stephanie, a former Top Chef winner, talks her success over the last four years, what makes a great diner ......

Nobody told me about the trap I was falling into. Not my friends, not my wife, certainly not the person who rang me up at the store.

My hope here is I can provide for you what wasn't there for me.

If you're an adult -- or,...

Wilco's Jeff Tweedy stopped by The Interview Show at The Hideout -- and, as you will see, so did the Chicago Fire Department -- on Feb. 1, 2013. Tweedy talked with me about music, crime shows and ... fire codes. Plus: a performance of Washington Phillips' "What Are They Doing in...

The Interview Show, which I host at The Hideout (in Chicago) and Union Hall (in Brooklyn), celebrated its fifth anniversary on Feb. 1.

Below is a highlight reel from the past five years, featuring, among many others, novelist John Green, chef Stephanie Izard, writer Chuck Klosterman and comedian Eugene...

Homaro Cantu, chef/owner of Moto and iNG restaurant, wants to tell everyone about miracle berries -- and their power to make sour foods taste sweet. It's easy to be skeptical. Until the berry allows you to bite into the sweetest lemon in the world. Here, Cantu, author of The Miracle Berry...

Rebecca Skloot stopped by The Interview Show, hosted by Mark Bazer at The Hideout, in Chicago, to talk about life after writing The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, her childhood and her next book. (Filmed January 4, 2013.)

The next Interview Show is Friday, February 1, at The Hideout. More info

Director Henry Wishcamper stopped by The Interview Show, hosted by Mark Bazer at The Hideout in Chicago, to talk Jon Robin Baitz' Other Desert Cities, New York vs. Chicago, and the origin of his name. Wishcamper is directing Other Desert Cities at the Goodman through Feb. 17, 2013. (Video filmed...

Trenchermen chefs/owners Michael and Patrick Sheerin stopped by The Interview Show to talk running their Chicago restaurant together, fighting in the walk-in and a lengthy sit-down with an annoying table. (Filmed at The Hideout in Chicago, Dec. 7, 2012).

The next Interview Show is Feb. 1, 2013, featuring chef Stephanie Izard, musician Jon Langford, writer Bill Zehme and more. More info

Craig Benzine, aka YouTube star Wheezy Waiter, stopped by The Interview Show, hosted by Mark Bazer at The Hideout in Chicago, to talk all things Wheezy ... and Waiter. (Filmed Dec. 7, 2012)

Check out Wheezy Waiter here.

The next Interview Show is Jan. 4 at The Hideout. More info at

John Williams is a hero of mine. And a good friend, so I kind of hope he doesn't see that I just called him a hero, because that will embarrass him. He just left WGN Radio, and Chicago is for the worse. I know I'll be listening to him on...

Adam Burke, whose new comedy album, Universal Squirrel Theory, is out now, talks the meaning of "time is money," why political humor is now dead and more on The Interview Show, hosted by Mark Bazer. (At The Hideout, in Chicago, on Dec. 7, 2012)

The next Interview Show is Jan. 4 at The Hideout and features Rebecca Skloot (author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks), Homaro Cantu (chef at Moto and author of The Miracle Berry Diet Cookbook) and more.