The Podcast of No Return: Recent Episodes
Steve Monosson
The Podcast of No Return features sketch comedy and personal observations from Steve and a cast of maybe not thousands but enough to provide thirty minutes of hilarious comedy entertainment. Fans of Monty Python, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, SNL, snarky digital sidekicks, and of sometimes laughing inappropriately will want to listen to the podcast again and again, and further delay sending out resumés like you promised yourself you'd do when you went to bed last night. So, join Steve, Brennan, Carl, Mario, Meghan, Alyson & Jack as they explore the alternate comic reality of Steve Monosson's Podcast of No Return and still try to make it back home in time for dinner. *new episodes to appear approximately every two weeks
Sir Cedric Rawlings & Lord Monty Whitboro are at it again, chit-chatting about the end of the world with Sir Cedric looking to blowing up his own manor house to get the ball rolling. But then, there are unexpected visitors…
CASTBrennan Lowery as Sir Cedric Rawlings, Sheriff F, and Cuthbert Mouldywether
Steve Monosson as Sir Monty Whitboro
Claire Burgi as The Ghost In The Machine
Written, produced, directed, edited, and generally sweated out by Steve Monosson. Additional material provided by Brennan Lowery.
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Ep 17: Cuthbert's Leaving
Cuthbert Mouldywether, of Putney, UK, is 37 years old and he’s never left the house. Today, he has decided, is the day. But his mother, with whom he has lived his entire life, is not about to let go of her dear Cuthbert so easily.
CAST Brennan Lowery as Cuthbert Mouldywether
Steve Monosson as Mother Mouldywether
Christina Brown as (The) Bubbles
Written, produced, directed, edited and generally sweated out by Steve Monosson. Additional material provided by Brennan Lowery.
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Episode 16: "There's No Business Like GI Joe Business"
The Podcast of No Return visits a World War II battlefield where due to a bureaucratic mixup, Captain James “Jixy” Strayhorn, a USO volunteer troop entertainment specialist, has been placed in charge of C Company, a front line fighting unit. Always game no matter what, Captain Strayhorn leads C Company into battle.
CAST Brennan Lowery as Captain Strayhorn
Steve Monosson as Sergeant Laughner
Produced, and directed by Steve Monosson. Additional material provided by Brennan Lowery.
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Episode 15: "The King's Problem"
There's a plague decimating this medieval kingdom, but the king doesn't want to hear anything about it. It puts him in a bad mood.
CAST Brennan Lowery as The King
Alyson Cripps as Lady Fumferry
Steve Monosson as Everyone Else
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Episode 14: "Appointment with Mick Jones"
Ed Haney has a meeting with Mick Jones of The Clash -- or does he?? Find out the explosive answer to this mystery in this week's episode, which kicks off Season Two.
NOTE: This contains both audio and video materials, but you don’t have to watch the video to enjoy the episode. it’s just a little extra, that is if you define Steve’s face on your device's screen as an “extra.” So feel free to sit back and just listen to the episode or go ahead and watch the two one-minute segments of Steve fumbling with trying to incorporate video into the podcast. It’s your call.
CAST Brennan Lowery as Mick Jones
Nick Mestad as The Receptionist, and The Announcer
Steve Monosson as Mr. Ed Haney
The Podcast of No Return is written, produced, and directed by Steve Monosson. Additional material provided by Brennan Lowery and Nick Mestad.
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Episode 13: "The Stick-Up"
Hank Panky, the operator of The Last Chance Employment Agency, joins Steve this week as co-host as Hank launches his new YouTube Channel (or does he?). This week's sketch features a would-be bank robber doing his bank-robbing thing at a bank which has recently banned robberies of any kind on the premises. The finale is a literal meltdown.
CAST Brennan Lowery as Hank Panky and Mr. Perkins
Alyson Cripps as Mrs. Aougherty and The Girl with the Guck
Mario X. Soto as The Bank Robber
Jack Rokiki as Mr. Watkins
The Podcast of No Return is written, produced, and directed by Steve Monosson. Additional material provided by Brennan Lowery.
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Episode 12: "GLADYS UNCHAINED"
Gladys -- just "Gladys"-- Hank Panky's longtime receptionist at the Last Chance Employment Agency, finally gets to air out her grievances and whatnot in a therapy session with one Dr. Wallace Wentworth. Gladys delves into her childhood, her relationship with her boss, and why she has no last name. Living her life with a rare condition called "shprechen-like-ze-intercom-itosis," Gladys finally lets it all hang out.
Once again joining Steve in navigating the byways of the episode, Eugene Crowley recounts his experiences on the "Let's Date A Weirdo" game show, and why so much depends on him doing his laundry on Sunday.
CASTMeghan Partridge as Gladys
Jack Rokiki as Dr.Wallace WentworthBrennan Lowery as Hank Panky and Eugene
Alyson Cripps as Mother Gladys
Mario X. Soto as Father Gladys
Steve Monosson as Steve
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Episode 11: "LET’S DATE A WEIRDO” Game Show!
For this week’s tantalizing and terrifying episode Let’s Date A Weirdo!, Steve’s old pal — veteran dater, rock star, and 100+ times husband/divorcee White Floyd joins Steve to comment on the action. Let’s Date A Weirdo! is the ONLY game show which presents a thoroughly ineligible group of bachelors to a slightly less unbearable bachelorette. You’re not going to want to miss this play of perverse passion (even if it means DVR’ing Game of Thrones so you end up watching it twelve minutes later)!
CAST Brennan Lowery as Jerry Attrick and Eugene
Alyson Cripps as Etta Feely
Mario X. Soto as Johnny The Voice Guy and Gug Keenwa
Jack Rokiki as Jar Face Credenza
Steve Monosson as Steve and White Floyd
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The Burning Question: Would You Still Love Me If...?
Eugene Crowley (Brennan Lowery) once again joins Steve to introduce the featured sketch "Would You Still Love Me If...?", which finds a young man out to a romantic French dinner with his beloved, wanting to know just how deep his beloved's love is for him. Or so it seems...
And The Podcast of No Return welcomes a new sponsor: GO GO B-O, the first non-isolating solution to that nagging Toxic Body Odor Syndrome problem.
CAST Brennan Lowery as Eugene Crowley and The Man In Love
Meghan Partridge as The Woman and GO GO B-O Announcer
Steve Monosson as Steve, Paul, and The French Waiter
The Podcast of No Return is written, produced, and directed by Steve Monosson. Additional material provided by Brennan Lowery.
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Who Will Be This Year's Coal Holding Champ?!
Episode Nine of The Podcast of No Return follows all the action at the 129th Annual Burning Coal Holding Championship in Kuala Lumpur. Will the Cinderella Samoan -- Gug Keenwa -- prevail, or will the stony Estonian take the crown this year? You'll have to listen and find out!
Also, "tech archaeologist" Eugene Crowley debuts as co-host and tells his tech tales, testing the endurance of human listenability!
CAST Brennan Lowery as Eugene, Tim Holesworthy, Mort Snodroy, and Mamam Gug (also furnishing additional material)
Mario X. Soto as Gug Keenwa (also furnishing additional material)
Meghan Partridge as Cheryl Klotzinger
Steve Monosson as Steve
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Is There Comedy In Space, And If So What Kind Of Car Would It Drive?
Episode Seven of Steve Monosson’s Podcast of No Return is Ready for Lift-Off!
- Alfonse returns as Narrator, doing a bang-up job as he works through the uncomfortable memory of an aunt whose loud sundresses with begonias on them disturbed him as a youth.
- This week's sketch, "DRY CLEANING DETROIT," is a lunar laugh-fest for the ages -- the space age or any other age you care to think of.
CAST
Mario X. Soto as Alfonse and Phil
Jessica Webb as Natalia
Brennan Lowery as Tex the Dry Cleaning Car Dealer
Meghan Partridge as the Alien Space Hippie
Steve Monosson as Steve
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Episode The Eighth of The Podcast of No Return is here!
On this week's Special Edition episode: We Answer Student Questions!
- Alfonse, Hank, and Steve take questions from students in Liberty, NY in one of the more offbeat question-and-answer sessions you might ever hear.
- In the BONUS MATERIAL section, Alfonse recounts days-gone-by in NYC where he once frequented a nightclub where his evening involved getting in and out of cardboard boxes. You heard it here first.
- CAST Mario X. Soto as Alfonse
Brennan Lowery as Hanky Panky
Steve Monosson as Steve Monosson
Laurie Burke-Deutsch as The Gatherer of Questions
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Episode Six of Steve Monosson's Podcast of No Return has arrived!
On this week's episode:
- Steve hopes to make Alfonse (from the “Boys From Bay Ridge” sketch) feel better by employing him as narrator for this week’s episode. Alfonse, who proclaims to have 326 feelings, seems to appreciate the gesture.
- Our old friend Hank Panky encounters a new client in one Mr. Bussmo Squantini in this week’s sketch HERE COMES MR. SQUANTINI. Neither man will ever be the same.
- CAST Mario X. Sotoas Alfonse and Bussmo Squantini
Brennan Lowery as Hank Panky (who else could it possibly be?)
Meghan Partridge as Gladys and The Great Spirit of Panky Benevolence
Steve Monosson as himself.
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Episode Five of Steve Monosson's Podcast of No Return is here again (we had some engineering difficulties and so technically this is episode 5.1)!
On this week's episode:
- Brennan and Steve try to decide which genre the film GOODFELLAS belongs to.
- Carl La Fong makes his final appearance as narrator. A sad nation mourns the loss.
- We’re proud to present the first installment of THE BOYS FROM BAY RIDGE, a tale of mobs, men, and things that go hop in the night. The cast:
Mario X. Soto as the hard-thinking Thirty-Knuckles Gambone, along with the hard-to-think Alfonse.
Skeet McHam as the iron-fisted Boss Totale.
Meghan Partridge as the put-upon Vincenzo Flensing.
Steve Monosson as enforcer Jar Face Credenza. - Finally, Steve & Brennan wrap up the show and don’t get tattoos this time.
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Episode THE FOURTH of Steve Monosson's Podcast of No Return is here!
On this week's mind-jiggling episode:
- Brennan Lowery once again joins Steve to provide commentary for the math-defying number of parts of the finale of THE BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF HANK PANKY. This is one battle you really don't want to miss.
- New announcer Waldo Slackman joins the cast and lets his feelings be known about his would-be predecessor, Carl La Fong.
- "The Battle for the Soul of Hank Panky (Parts 2A & 2@&^!)" concludes, featuring (in order of appearance):
Brennan Lowery as the socially challenged Eugene Crowley, as well as the perhaps more self-aware Hank Panky
Meghan Partridge as the ever-glamorous Gladys
Mario X. Soto as (possibly) Waldo Slackman and the ever-excitable Widow Egmont
Jessica Webb as the increasingly take-charge Miss Jiblets and the swingingly seductive Susan Lucci
Meghan Partridge again as the inexplicably histrionic Mrs. Mugsy - Finally, Steve & Brennan wrap up the show – absolutely.
Episode The Third of Steve Monosson's Podcast of No Return is here!
On this week's hilarious episode:
- Brennan Lowery joins Steve to talk about pontoons, the Turkmenistan waterways question, and his featured role in the new Dorothy Lyman play "In The Bleak Midwinter."The show -- which is getting rave reviews-- runs through September 23rd and tickets are available here.
- Announcer Carl LaFong returns and is showing signs of stress, hitting the bottle perhaps a bit too hard.
- "The Battle for the Soul of Hank Panky (Parts 1A & B)" debuts, featuring (in order of appearance):
Brennan Lowery as the dubiously self-aware Hank Panky
Meghan Partridge as the ever-glamorous Gladys
Mario X. Soto as Hank’s no-nonsense father Frank Panky
Jessica Webb as the eternally resilient Miss Jiblets
Meghan Partridge again as the inexplicably histrionic Mrs. Mugsy
And Brennan Lowery doing double duty as the voice of the technically savvy yet socially maladroit Eugene Crowley. - Finally, Steve wraps up the show and tries to figure out what to do for the next episode.
PS. Check out the BONUS MATERIAL as Johnny Mathis almost joins Steve for a probing interview.
Episode The Second of Steve Monosson's Podcast of No Return is here!
On this week's episode: The Hanoi Mailman intrepidly delivers the mail through crossfire on the front lines of the Vietnam war circa 1969. And The Doctor of Unnecessary Surgery assesses the condition of John Q. Patient and plots an unorthodox plan of action.
Also returning is beleaguered announcer Carl LaFong, along with Steve's digitally synthesized and unstoppably snarky sidekick, Graham. Among the items on Graham's agenda are a demand for a new dressing room couch for and the opportunity to sing a Cole Porter tune on the show.
EPISODE: THE FIRST Welcome to the very first episode of Steve Monosson's Podcast of No Return (And Other Reasons For Living), sketch comedy and personal observations from Steve and a cast of maybe not thousands but enough to provide almost thirty minutes of slam-dunk entertainment, the likes of which you've probably not heard before.
Fans of Monty Python, Whose Line Is It Anyway, snarky digital sidekicks, and of just laughing in general, will want to listen to the podcast again and again and further delay sending out resumés like you promised yourself you'd do when you went to bed last night.
So join Steve, Graham, Brennan, Jessica, Carl, Rosetta and Rosko, as they explore the alternate comic reality of Steve Monosson's Podcast of No Return and try to make it back home in time for dinner.
*New episodes to appear approximately every two weeks.