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Torey Malatia

Torey Malatia: This American Laugh Radio Humor

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  • ABOUT Torey Malatia

    Torey Malatia is president and CEO of WBEZ in Chicago. He is also co-founder, with Ira Glass, of This American Life, for which he received a George Foster Peabody Award. He is also the creator of a number of award-winning local programs, including Metropolis, Odyssey, and Eight Forty-Eight.

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President of Chicago Public Radio and cofounder of the hit radio series This American Life, Torey Malatia is the butt of Ira Glass’s radio jokes on a weekly basis. Listen and laugh as Malatia, having scoured the audio archives, shares humorous radio stories, jokes old and new, and a cornucopia of laugh-out-loud audio playfulness.

Presented in partnership with Chicago Public Radio and generously sponsored by Carol Rosofsky and Robert Lifton

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