Producer, 'The Organist'
Producer of The Organist
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Chantal McStay
Producer
FROM Chantal McStay
The Organist
Episode 70: A New Career in a New Town SNL’s Kyle Mooney on the art of crafting a three-dimensional bro impersonation and the ways in which the act of uploading a video to YouTube constitutes character development. Also: David J, the bassist of Bauhaus, follows a harmonica line from a jukebox playing "Groovin’ With Mr. Bloe” all the way into David Bowie’s afterlife.
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