Cort Webber

Cort Webber is the co-host of Cort and Fatboy, a radio show that airs every Monday through Friday from 9 to 10 AM on Cascadia FM in Portland, Oregon.
Career
After working in Portland radio throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s, Webber, along with ' became the host of The Cort and Fatboy Show, which initially debuted on Portland radio station KUFO in 2005. The average broadcast was a mix of pop culture commentary and modern hard rock music featuring celebrity interviews, news, and trivia games. The show received a runner-up "Favorite DJ" award in a "Best of Portland" poll hosted by the local weekly Willamette Week.

On October 24, 2009, The Cort and Fatboy Show was permanently cancelled from the station's airwaves. Despite the popularity of the show, it was canceled shortly after the station was acquired by Alpha Broadcasting, with the reasoning that it would not fit in with the revised format of the station. In an interview on local NBC affiliate KGW, Webber stated that the station would remain the same, "minus the geek factor."
The show, rebranded as Cort and Fatboy, briefly recorded podcasts at Errorfm.com, then jumped to PDX.FM (since rebranded as Cascadia FM), shortly after its cancellation on KUFO. The show's website now has links to their broadcasts, which air every Monday through Friday on the Portland-based internet talk radio station. A typical daily broadcast can draw upwards of 10,000 listeners.
In addition to guests involved in area businesses and events, along with actors including Bruce Campbell and 's Katee Sackhoff, the show has a series of regular guests that work in other areas of Portland media. Local journalist and podcaster Aaron Duran typically appears on Mondays. The Oregonian movie reviewer and cartoonist Mike Russell co-hosts on Fridays.
Screenings at the Bagdad Theater
For several years, Webber and Roberts have hosted a series of monthly film screenings at the Bagdad Theater in Portland. The selections tend to be movies from the 1980s and 1990s, including Dirty Dancing, Independence Day, The Big Lebowski and The Lost Boys. The hosts, along with several of their regular guests, record DVD-style commentaries for each month's selection, which are posted on the Cort and Fatboy website a few days prior to each screening. In addition, Webber and Roberts spearheaded weekly screenings of and at the theater during their final seasons.
Prior to the hosts' December 2010 screening of the Bill Murray comedy Scrooged, their weekly guests appeared with them on stage for a lengthy presentation. The event was dubbed Faces of Meh and was later posted on the internet as a podcast.
Cort and Fatboy and the Secret of the Buried Unicorns
In December 2010, Mike Russell released Cort and Fatboy and the Secret of the Buried Unicorns, a illustrated book starring Webber and Roberts.

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