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Tom's stardom continues to fade, so much so that he finds himself hanging out with Jared's improv team, Mr. Doubtfire.

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Tom's stardom continues to fade, so much so that he finds himself hanging out with Jared's improv team, Mr. Doubtfire.



With Tom's disease in remission, Jared visits with his own big news and finally meets Tom's mom.



Tom & Jared are joined by Justin Timberlake at a fundraiser for Tom's disease.



Jared hits it off with fellow author J.K. Rowling. Meanwhile, Tom gets ratfucked by Dr. Todd.



Tom and Jared chat with Melinda, the mother of another dying boy in the hospital. Ryan Gosling wanders in with some tips for a happy life, and Tom Waits sings a song off the soundtrack from that one movie where Tom played a dying kid in a harness.



Tom and Jared run into Sharon and Ozzy at the grocery store.



Tom and Jared compete for the affections of Marion Cotillard.



Jared tries to book a gig at the White House when Tom's old pal Barack Obama stops by for a visit.

Season 2 - Episode 2: Mr. Doubtfire

  
Jeffrey Murdoch is from the metro Detroit area where he first started his comedy career playing at Ann Arbor's Improv Inferno which encouraged him to move to Chicago to study at the Improv Olympic, The Annoyance and Second City. He has played on a number of improv teams and comedy shows at iO and The Annoyance, and at sea with The Second City, but he has enjoyed performing with no other groups as much as he likes to perform with Jo Scott on Seriously Unprepared. For more info visit jeffmurdoch.com.

Sean Keith has been performing in Chicago for over 7 years.  He performs regularly at iO with Dart and at CIC with Lancer and Warlock.  For over 5 years, Sean has loathed writing bios.

Season 2 - Episode 1: Tom's Mom

Meg Johns is an actress, writer, and comedienne who performs around Chicago and beyond. She teaches improv and theatre at The Annoyance and at The University of Chicago. Currently, she performs weekly with her improv lady trio WiseSnatch, and soon will play Jon Benet Ramsey in The Annoyance's My So Called Afterlife. Once a month at The SoHo Playhouse in New York, Meg performs in 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche - a show created and collaboratively written by her theatre company The New Colony. In March, WiseSnatch is traveling to Boston to perform in the Women In Comedy Festival. She has a dog named Lola.

Season 1 - Episode 10: Justin TImberlake

Connor Tillman has been living and performing in Chicago since 2008. He is currently performing at iO with his teams, pants dot com and Jajaja and at CIC with Warlock. He is also performing every weekend with Zombie Genius and The Final Balloon at the Annoyance. Thanks for reading all the way to the end!

Season 1 - Episode 9: J.K. Rowling and Dr. Todd

  
Amber Gerencher has been living and performing in Chicago since 2009. Past credits include: ImprovAcadia (Bar Harbor, ME), SongCo (Second City's musical house ensemble), and Season 6 of Impress These Apes. You can see her performing with the all-female, all-out improv group, SUPERHUMAN, and drinking at Clark Street Dog most Fridays and Saturdays. Follow her on twitter @amberag, because nobody else does!

Jeff Rukes is an improviser, writer, and musician who has lived in Chicago since 2006. He has worked most recently as a writer and performer for Claymore Productions' Exquisite Corpse sketch project, as one half of the sporadically performing sketch duo Jeffrey Jeffries, as a third wheel to the less sporadic sketch duo Sweathearts, and as a member of the recently discontinued iO Harold team Inkling. Jeff has also appeared on the Upstairs Gallery Podcast and on Jared Jeffries' super-sporadic serial podcast Trouble's Up in Alphabet Town.

Season 1 - Episode 8: Melinda, Ryan Gosling, & Tom Waits

  
Devin Bockrath has been a member of the Chicago comedy community since 2009. She performs regularly at iO, The Annoyance, CIC and Upstairs Gallery. She is a member of DMNK, Superhuman, Attica, A Dozen Red Roses and 2 man sketch group DumbFace. In her free time she enjoys clogging her schedule with more comedic projects.

Brandon Ogborn is from Muskegon, Michigan and performs with Sports Team at he iO Theater. His much anticipated play, The TomKat Project opens at The Upstairs Gallery in January 2013. He is represented by Stewart Talent and his brilliant wife, writer Dein Sofley. See some of his shorts here: vimeo.com/brandonogborn

Season 1 - Episode 7: Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne

  
Christine Tawfik has been performing in Chicago for the past 5 years. Most recently, she was an ensemble member of Girls Night Out, a Second City theatrical, and performs regularly at iO and the Annoyance. She enjoys cooking, obnoxious dancing, and developing deep, emotional bonds with television shows.

Brian Hurwitz is a Chicago actor/writer, and founding member of the comedy outlet Claymore Productions, best known for the The Free Improv Show ($5 Admission) and the video sketch show Exquisite Corpse. Brian performs regularly at The Playground Theater and The Annoyance Theatre.

Season 1 - Episode 6: Marion Cotillard

Before arriving in the city of big portions, Katie Klein lived in DC where she performed with "Comedy Sportz" and "iMusical." In Chicago she has trained with iO and The Second City, and can be seen playing with the UP comedy club's “Improv Extravaganza Explosion.” At iO with "The Late 90's" and "Superhuman" and all over town with "Ed and Kath". She likes this podcast..

Season 1 - Episode 5: Barack Obama

Patrick Rowland has studied at iO Chicago and Second City. He performs around the city and can be seen performing at the iO Theater in the Improvised Musical Showcase, with his Harold team pantsdotcom and hosting his own late night talk show as the POTUS in Barack All Night Saturdays midnight, he also performs at Chemically Imbalanced Comedy with their house team A Dozen Red Roses and with independent team 3Peat. He is represented by Aria Talent.

Season 1 - Episode 4: Harvey Fierstein

Brian Hurwitz is a Chicago actor/writer, and founding member of the comedy outlet Claymore Productions, best known for the The Free Improv Show ($5 Admission) and the video sketch show Exquisite Corpse. Brian performs regularly at The Playground Theater and The Annoyance Theatre.

Season 1 - Episode 3: Chris Rock and Keith Keegan

  
Micah Sterenberg is an actor and comedian living in Chicago, and one of Chris Rock's biggest fans. He can be seen performing sketch and improv regularly at the iO, CIC, Upstairs Gallery, and Playground Theaters. He is also one fourth of the independent improv supergroup, DMNK. You can hear Micah's real voice on anotherpodcastpodcast.com, which he co-hosts with Jo Feldman.

Conner O'Malley has been performing and writing comedy in Chicago since 2005. He can be seen improvising at the iO theater on Sports Team and at the Playground with Out of Character. O'Malley has written and performed in over 20 original shows at The Annoyance Theater, including An Aerosmith Christmas, Swear Jar and The Holy Fuck Comedy Hour. He is also a founding member of the video sketch group, Sad On Vacation.

Season 1 - Episode 2: Ira Glass

Spencer Ham is a writer for the humorous trivia game You Don't Know Jack and a regular performer at the iO theater. He means no disrespect to Ira Glass.

About Tom
Hi! My name is Tom Teagan and I’m America’s favorite dying boy, which means I’m America’s favorite boy because we’re all dying right? But seriously, I am awesome (ask Rihanna for details). I was diagnosed with a terminal illness 6 years ago – don’t ask me the name, I’m just a kid! After I got thin and stuff I wrote a letter to Julia Roberts asking to be in her next big flick. Three weeks later I’m on the movie set of “The Cell Phone” with J-town, making everyone cry. Six years later, here I am thinner than ever, a handful of movie credits under my belt, and a couple of People's Choice nominations on my shelf. Living. The. Dream! I like fun and pudding. My dream would be to live forever but no one can do that so I’m good chilling and having people love the shit out of me and stuff. I own a dolphin I’ve never seen. Scarlett Johansson’s boobs are real.

About Jared
Jared says he's a comedian, but really he just does weird stuff like write blogs and perform at empty bars with his improv team. His voice cracks pretty often. He’s the only guy I know who owns a cat.

About Us
Jared is writing my biography. He's broke and all his friends died in a fire, so I'm throwing him a bone. I try to teach Jared about life cause he never does anything cool and some days I feel like he's dying faster than I am.

The real Jared and Tom...

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Jared Jeffries

Jared writes, and directs, and improvises in Chicago, mainly with the iO and Chemically Imbalanced Comedy theaters. His other podcast, Trouble's Up in Alphabet Town, has an ending (I promise). You can see a bunch of random stuff he's made at jaredjeffries.blogspot.com.

Jo Scott

Jo Scott has trained at iO, Annoyance, and Second City. When she's not working on dyingboy.com, she can be found improvising with her iO Harold team Henrietta Pussycat, her Chemically Imbalanced Comedy (CIC) house team, Meow Meow Ruff, her Upstairs Gallery house team, WiseSnatch, or with Jeff Murdoch in Seriously Unprepared. (She likes improv.) Jo is a regular player in the Holy Fuck Comedy Hour at Annoyance Theatre, where she was also in Splatter Theater, The Tragedy of Balloon Boy, Jimmy of Nazareth, Frostbite, Hardcore Dad, the annual Christmas Pageant, and several Triple Features. She was the winner of 2011’s Impress These Apes season (she’ll stop mentioning that in 2014). After you’re done listening to all the dyingboy.com episodes, visit Jo’s other pet project at ourparentsaredead.com – a show called Family Heirloom that Jo is working on with her best friend, Jeff, and their bad-ass crew (Bonk, Bambie, Bruiser, and Beast).


dyingboy.com is edited by Peter Scott.

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