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Grandma for President

By: Melissa Clark
Narrated by: Mel Brooks, David DeLuise, Susanne Blakeslee, Tucker Chandler, Danielle Nicolet
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Episodes
  • Failing Upward
    Sep 17 2020

    Bennet writes that he’d vote for his grandma, and it goes viral.

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    30 mins
  • Show Me
    Sep 22 2020
    Bennet and Jade work together to get Grandma on the ballot.
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    13 mins
  • Hamilton
    Sep 24 2020

    Grandma makes an appearance on the Timmy Allen show in New York.

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    16 mins

About the Creator

Melissa Clark is an author, instructor, television writer and podcast creator. Her novels include, Swimming Upstream, Slowly, Imperfect, and Bear Witness. She created, wrote, and produced the award-winning, animated television show, Braceface, which ran for five seasons on ABC Family Channel and starred the voices of Alicia Silverstone and Michael Cera, and has written scripts for Rolie Polie Olie, Sweet Valley High, Totally Spies, among others. She’s the creator/writer of the kid’s scripted podcast, Becoming Mother Nature, which won Gold in the 2019 Parents’ Choice Awards. When not writing, Ms. Clark teaches writing in colleges, book festivals, and writing confereces across the country. Melissa lives in Los Angeles, and is a proud dual citizen of Canada; She strongly opposes the Canadian Storm Tax. For more information please visit: www.melissaclarkwrites.com

About the Performer

Susanne Blakeslee is primarily known in the voiceover world as Wanda and Mom in The Fairly OddParents, as well as various other characters in Tangled, The Loud House, Amphibia, Winx Club, and others. She delights in providing Disney with the voices of Cruella DeVil, Maleficent, Snow White’s Evil Queen and Hag and Cinderella’s Stepmother. Video games include Kingdom Hearts, Bioshock, Diablo, Elder Scrolls, Kingdom Hearts, and Destroy All Humans. Her voice can also be heard in Shrek the Third, and Tangled. Susanne spent many years in musical theater, most notably performing in many editions of Forbidden Broadway, as well as Spamilton and Forbidden Hollywood.

About the Performer

David DeLuise is an actor, director, producer and son of legendary actor and comedian Dom DeLuise and actress Carol Arthur. His godparents are Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft. DeLuise is now perhaps the most popular dad on TV. He's won the admiration of millions of children and parents alike for his portrayal of family patriarch Jerry Russo on the hit Emmy award-winning Disney Channel series, Wizards of Waverly Place. He also starred in Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie, which aired on the Disney Channel to over 25 million viewers. DeLuise has been a familiar face to television audiences for years in the hit series Stargate SG-1 and 3rd Rock from the Sun; and guest starred in Shameless, NCIS, Hawaii Five-0, Real Rob, Rizzoli and Isles, Baby Daddy, Bones, Without a Trace, ER, Monk, Gilmore Girls, CSI, CSI: New York, and CSI: Miami. On the big screen, DeLuise has appeared in Pup Star, Unbroken: Path To Redemption, Vampires Suck, and Robin Hood: Men In Tights. He has directed episodes of How to Rock, See Dad Run, Lab Rats, and The Thundermans. David began his career at the age of 8 when he starred as Dom's son in the TV movie, Happy. DeLuise is married to German actress, director and voiceover artist Julia Stoepel.

About the Performer

Tucker Chandler is mighty busy for an eleven year old who loves to talk! He can be heard as the voice of Young Naoufel in the Oscar-Nominated animated film I Lost My Body, the title character in the animated film SamSam, and as Young Haru in the animated film NiNo Kuni. Television audiences will soon enjoy him as Alex the Lion in the new animated series Madagascar: A Little Wild, premiering on Hulu and Peacock, as Gabby’s right-hand cat Pandy Paws on the new animated series Gabby’s Dollhouse on Netflix, and on several other upcoming, yet-to-be-announced series. He has provided voices on films such as Come Play, The Grinch, Daddy’s Home 2, Wonder Park, and Immortal Hero, and can also be heard on commercials for Disney Resorts, Life Cereal, Nintendo, AT&T, Bark Thins, RxBar Kids, and Red Baron Pizza. He has voiced toys for Mattel, has a recurring role on the audio drama Adventures in Odyssey, and performed at the Hollywood Bowl as Mike TeeVee in their celebration of Willy Wonka and the Choclate Factory. When he’s not behind a microphone, Tucker enjoys drawing and animating his own comic strips, riding his hoverboard, and playing with his two dogs, Clarence and Louis Armstrong.

About the Performer

Mel Brooks, director, producer, writer and actor, is in an elite group as one of the few entertainers to earn all four major entertainment prizes–the Tony, the Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar. His career began in television writing for Your Show of Shows and together with Buck Henry creating the TV series Get Smart. He then teamed up with Carl Reiner to write and perform the Grammy-winning 2000 Year Old Man comedy albums & books. Brooks won his first Oscar in 1964 for writing and narrating the animated short The Critic and his second for the screenplay of his first feature film, The Producers in 1968. Many hit comedy films followed including The Twelve Chairs, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, High Anxiety, History of the World Part I, To Be or Not to Be, Spaceballs, Life Stinks, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, and Dracula: Dead and Loving It. His film company, Brooksfilms Limited also produced critically acclaimed films such as The Elephant Man, The Fly, Frances, My Favorite Year, and 84 Charring Cross Road. For three successive seasons, 1997-1999 Mel Brooks won Emmy Awards for his role as Uncle Phil on the hit sitcom Mad About You. Brooks received three 2001 Tony Awards and two Grammy Awards for The Producers: the New Mel Brooks Musical, which ran on Broadway from 2001 to 2006. The Producers still holds the record for the most Tony awards ever won by a Broadway musical. He followed that success with The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein, which ran on Broadway from 2007 to 2009 and opened in London’s West End in the Fall of 2017 to rave reviews. In 2009 Mel Brooks received The Kennedy Center Honors, recognizing a lifetime of extraordinary contributions to American culture. In 2013 he was the subject of an Emmy winning American Masters documentary on PBS called Mel Brooks: Make A Noise and was the 41st recipient of the AFI’s Life Achievement Award. His recent projects include three Emmy nominated HBO comedy specials Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again, Mel Brooks Strikes Back!, and Mel Brooks Live at The Geffen. In 2016 Mr. Brooks was invited to the White House, where President Obama presented him with The National Medal of Arts–the highest award given to artists by the United States government.

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Great for the kids

I listened to this with my kids, they loved it as well as me.
Unfortunately their Grandma rests in Heaven but I'm sure she would've loved it too.
Curious to see how it turns out.

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Brilliantly entertaining.

An absolute treasure and a joy to listen to. David Deluise and Mel Brooks are brilliant. Any opportunity to hear their work, especially in collaboration is not to be missed.

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Great book!!!!

Great for children over 6 because they probably won’t get it. But over all very entertaining

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funny and enjoyable.

truly enjoyed this story. wish there were more. highly recommend it. couldn't wait to see what happened.

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Great Story!

Love this so much. Great story, really creative and fun, and the voicing are good too!

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Fun listen for the whole family

Timely podcast that is a great listen for the whole family. Designed for kids, but it is enjoyable for all ages. Has some great lessons for everyone!

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Fun, educational and heart-warming!

A great story! Fun and educational with likable characters voiced by some actor legends! Can't wait for episode 2!! Way to go, Grandma!

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Perfect for online teaching

I am a third grade teacher, stuck online due to the Covid-19 pandemic. I stumbled across this just as we were wrapping up a civics unit on election 2020...what a lucky find! This reiterates/reviews all the concepts I just taught, electoral college, the issues, the candidates, the race...This is really fun to listen to with my class everyday. They BEG for the next episode. Good one, Amazon!

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A story for all ages!

An absolute joy to listen to! Cleverly written and performed! The story and characters pull you in and make you feel like you are part of the story. I can't wait for episode 2!

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Excellent Performances. Radio plays reimagined!

A great story and great acting.
Kept me interested the whole way through.
Very timely and very funny! Highly recommended.

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