The True Philadelphia Podcast With Matt O'donnell

Joe Conklin, A.K.A. "The Man of a Thousand Voices," is a Philadelphia institution. There is no one like him around here, and perhaps no one like him anywhere else. He can look and sound like anyone he wants: Andy Reid, Allen Iverson, Charles Barkley, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Joel Embiid, Merrill Reese, Rich Kotite...the list truly goes all the way to 1,000 and maybe beyond. I grabbed a table with Conklin at the New Wave Cafe in South Philadelphia to talk about where his abilities and comedy and impressions came from, what makes a good joke, whether his industry has become a landmine field because of society's hypersensitivity...oh, and he offers an impression. Or two. Or three. Recorded at the New Wave Cafe in South Philadelphia, February 11, 2020. In this podcast: Conklin talks about how comedy has changed (2:00), how he scripts most of his material on the radio (2:30), what the Janet Jackson Super Bowl incident has to do with that (3:00), how modern attitudes have impacted his standup routine (3:40), how