episode 11: one on one part 1

This week’s conversation was so fantastic we went on and on! Lucky you, now you have TWO episodes with the amazing Kevin Avery. We consider the intimate sports metaphor hit One on One as we begin to dig into Hall and Oates’s deep connection to The Temptatations. Our guest, comedian, writer, and vocalist/dancer (who we believe holds an honorary doctorate in New Edition studies), Kevin Avery, shares his expertise on singing groups and their important distinction from boy bands.

KEVIN AVERY is a comedian, actor and two-time Emmy award-winning writer whose writing credits include such shows as HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and Comedy Central’s The Jim Jefferies Show. He’s also served as head writer for and appeared regularly on the FX series, Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell and on Comedy Central’s The New Negroes. Currently, Kevin is a co-executive producer on the FOX animated series, The Great North, where he can also be heard voicing the character “Jarvis Dufraine.”

The cocktail this week is The Americano, which is Bond’s first drink order in “Casino Royale,” the 1953 book by Ian Fleming that kicked off the series, and the cocktail again makes an appearance in later novels. The man was onto something, but the cocktail predates Bond by nearly a century.

Sorry to say, not one of our favorites…sorry, Bond.

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 ounces Campari

• 1 1/2 ounces sweet vermouth

• Soda water, chilled, to top

• Garnish: orange twist