Adam Felber is an American political satirist, author,

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, actor,

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, and

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writer.

Biography

Felber attended

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, and graduated as an English major in 1989. He has lived in

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, and now lives in

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. He is a regular panel member and occasional guest host of the NPR radio

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, Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!. In July 2017, he began co-hosting the comedy podcast ''Live from the Poundstone Institute'' with comedian Paula Poundstone. In July 2018, he and Poundstone began co-hosting the podcast ''Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone'', a comedic advice show for which he is particularly renowned for the fact that he appears on every show. Mr. Felber—intent unknown—sometimes sounds like

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. Felber is the author of the novel '' Schrödinger's Ball'', which uses as a conceit the concept of

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. He has also written for several television shows including ''

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'', '' Talkshow with Spike Feresten'', ''

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'', ''The Smoking Gun'', and '' Wishbone''. He also wrote the second ''

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for

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in 2009 as part of the

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event. His mother is the late romance novelist Edith Layton.

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