Hey, You Made It!

Hello, old friend! Are we still friends? Are we more? Where's this going? Maybe we shouldn't put labels on it yet. HYMI is back with Ashley Opstad, the Artistic Director of The Improv Space in Westwood! If you go to UCLA, you live within walking distance of one of the best comedy theaters in LA! You're also probably really smart! Ashley and I sat down and talked about everything from improv, balancing a corporate job with comedy, starting an improv theater, starting a family, starting an improv team, softball and my all-time favorite improv form, The Bat.  You can learn more about The Improv Space, including shows, tickets and registering for classes on their website: www.theimprovspace.com More episodes soon! Sorry about my sniffles during the podcast! I have a cold, and it's not too great!

Another new episode! Two in one week! Slow this ride down! Quick, let me off before I throw up on you! Too late! I'm so sorry! Kate Huffman is my guest this week, and oh man does she kick ass. She's been touring her incredible one-woman show I'm Too Fat For This Show around LA, Chicago, Connecticut, Indiana, and even Ireland. IRELAND. What have you ever brought to Ireland besides your love of Guiness and your desire to say "cheers" to everything? That's what I thought. Kate's show bravely deals with her own personal issues with her eating disorder and OCD that she's lived with for most of her life. It's brave, it's funny, it's sad, it's brilliantly human and realized in a way that most people don't get to see in their lives. I love everything about her and this show and what it represents. If you live in Indiana and happen to go to IU Kokomo, you're in luck! Kate Huffman will be performing her show there on February 27th.  If you live in LA, she'll be performing a short segment of the show for the LA Women's Theatre Festival on March 31st at 3pm. You can get more info on that here:  http://www.lawtf.org/   Kate also regularly performs with her sketch team Sidekick and Drug Money around the LA area, so be on the lookout for her by following her FB page:   https://www.facebook.com/ImTooFatforThisShow/   Thanks and enjoy!

Hi! I'm alive! I hope you are too! If you're not and you're still somehow listening to this, you should go back to Hell where you belong, you undead freak! Today's guest is Mike Glazer, creator of the variety show Glazed, which you can catch at The Hollywood Improv Lab every month, including this Thursday Febuary 22nd at 9:30pm. Tickets are here (it will sell out!). Mike's an exceptionally lovely dreamboat of a man, so please go out and support him. In this episode, we talk about stand-up, Second City, having your dreams be shattered, Entourage, moms and letting go to you preconceptions of what you want your life to be. Also my computer crashed during the final edit, so you're getting the RAW, UNCENSORED version of Mike Glazer you've always wanted! MIKE'S WEBSITETWITTERINSTAGRAM Thanks and enjoy!

Happy 2018! Happy Wednesday! Happy supermoon! Be sure to listen to today's intro for an important update about the future of the podcast (nothing terrible, I promise!!! SPOILER ALERT: We're doing a live show soon!) Today's guest is Janet Quinonez, creator of The Drunkalogue Show, a show featuring sober comedians that has been tearing up the LA comedy scene and selling out theaters since its creations a few months ago. Janet and I sit down to talk about her own sobriety, how comedy can be used as a tool for recovery, and how most recovering comedians are actually funnier than normal ones because of the unique truths they draw from.  You can see The Drunkalogue THIS FRIDAY, February 2nd at 7:30pm at The Clubhouse off of Vermont Ave. in Los Angeles. Reserved tickets are sold out but there may be some extras at the door! More info can be found here: FB INVITE: http://bit.ly/2rTChJ3More info on The Drunkalogue Show can be found here: WEBSITE: www.drunkalogueshow.comFACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/drunkalogueshowTWITTER: https://twitter.com/drunkalogueshow More info on Janet Quinonez and Uncaberet can be found here: www.janetquinonez.com www.uncabaret.com

We're not dead! Anyone who told you otherwise is FAKE NEWS! SAD! This episode is VERY REAL and VERY NEW!  Today we have on Julianne Simitz, Adrienne Kisson and Erika Abdelatif, the creators and hosts of Late Night With Jimmy Fallopian Tubes, an all-female late night show written and performed by women. We talk about how they met, writing for late night, and how the format of late night shows like Late Night With Seth Meyers and Jimmy Kimmel Live are slowly starting to evolve into shows hosted by Sarah Silverman (I Love You, America!) and Samantha Bee (Full Frontal). Jimmy Fallopian Tubes runs on outside submissions, so if you're a woman who wants to write jokes for the show, be sure to follow them on Facebook for notifications on how and where to submit: https://www.facebook.com/JimmyFallopianTubes/ . You can also catch their next show THIS SATURDAY, December 16th at 9pm at the Inner Sanctum at UCB. It's FREE! Use the money you'll save on Christmas presents or flights back home (holy shit I still need to do that). This is also our last episode for 2017, so see you all after the holidays! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU to everyone who's come on, and ESPECIALLY THANK YOU to you for listening (ESPECIALLY MY MOM, HELLO DOLORES, SORRY FOR ALL THE BAD WORDS). PS I was on Mythunderstood this week, talking about Greek myths (which I know nothing about) with Paul Bianchi. You can catch that here: https://www.dragonwagonradio.com/mythunderstood/2017/12/13/pelops-ponies-yall

We're back! It's Friday! Not Wednesday! Why are we fighting about this! Let's be friends again! Now that Thanksgiving is over and the Thanksgiving tree is all packed away until next year, it's time to get back into some good ol'fashioned podcastin'. Today I have the pleasure of sitting down with Heidi Lux, creator and writer on Ladies of Sketch Night at The Pack Theater in Los Angeles, happening on Wednesday, January 3rd at 10:30pm. We talk about Poland, being a woman in comedy, finding your voice in the writer's room, divorce, women's rights, and why women have a lot more interesting comedy to provide then men give them credit for (they're funnier than you! Deal with it!). More info on Ladies of Sketch Night can be found here here (NOTE: the show isn't listed on the calendar yet but rest assured, it will be there soon!): https://www.packtheater.com/calendar/ Heidi is also a contributor for Reductress, one of my favorite websites. You can read all her stuff here: http://reductress.com/author/heidi-lux/ Thanks for listening and enjoy!

Happy Wednesday! I'm so late in posting this! Things have just been crazy at work. I promise I'll work harder to be the father you deserve! Is mom seeing anyone? Today's guests are Sunanda Sachatrakul & Amrita Dhaliwal. When they're not slaying the stage at The Second City Hollywood or The Pack, they're writing and producing their own comedy that draws from their heritage together, including the Indian Wedding show. Their next live performance will be December 14th at 7pm and 9pm (two shows!) at The Three Clubs  (three clubs!) in Los Angeles, CA ($5 at the door!). You can check out a recent review of the show here: http://www.comedycake.com/archives/49512 You can also follow them on Facebook to get all the info on their upcoming shows, and check out their newest videos: http://facebook.com/indianweddingLA Hey, You Made It! is a podcast featuring interviews with local writers, performers and artists in the Los Angeles comedy scene about who they are and why they make the things they do.  Hey, You Made It! is hosted, edited and produced by Joe Hospodor. It's distributed by Podbean and can be found at heyyoumadeit.podbean.com and on iTunes.  

Katy Dolle (Comedian, Actress, Writer, Editor, Director, We'll Never Make It, The Scramble, More Impressive Shit Than Me Oh My God) is here! We talk about life, growing up, dating, haircuts, buying houses in LA and her short film We'll Never Make It, which is currently crowdfunding online! You can check out all the details and donate here: https://www.seedandspark.com/fund/wnmifilm#story (proceeds also go to fund autism research!). Next week we'll have Amrita and Sunanda, the creators of The Indian Wedding Show! And if you want to be on the podcast, shoot me a Facebook message (I'll be posting on the LA Underground Comedy Network again soon for November submissions!)   Thanks and enjoy!  

MONDAYS AM I RIGHT?! Guys that was my impression of Garfield, and I think I killed it. We got a new episode of HYMI on Monday this week because last week got super crazy with all the Halloween spookiness around town. We're also gonna have another episode this week on Wednesday! Two HYMIs for the price of one!Today's guest is Hunter Altman, LA's favorite crash test dummy (he gets injured a lot onstage, which we talk about during the podcast). We talk about concussions, MRIs, Facebook bits, horr movies, writing and being true to yourself in LA and how Tony The Wonder Llama came to be and where it'll head next. Speaking of, Tony The Wonder Llama is on YouTuber now! (I misspelled YouTube and refuse to change it because it made me think of my aunt reading it and made me laugh). You can check it out here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX42PNxMNaIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt0bJ72M8ZEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi81z_beYbgYou can check out Go Sketch Yourself, LA's hottest sketch open mic, every Friday at The Pack Theater at midnight! More info here: https://www.packtheater.com/event/go-sketch-yourself/ Coming up later this week we'll have Katy Dolle and next week we'll have Amrita & Sunanda from The Indian Wedding Show in LA! Thanks again for listening and see you Wednesday!

No intro again this week because a) it's 2am and Sarah is sleeping and b) it's almost Halloween & it's WAY SPOOKIER THIS WAY! Speaking of spooky, we've got Lizze Gordon on this week's episode. She wrote and produced the horror movie #Captured, a movie she admittedly hated making and writing! We talk about the similarities between making bad horror and bad comedy, paying your dues in the production industry, stealing bibles from a church, Yahoo Answers and sex dreams about Molly Shannon. Coming up next week we'll have Hunter Altman (Tony The Wonder Llama, Half-Man, Half-Pee). After that we'll Katy Dolle (The Scramble) and a ton of other super cool people doing super cool projects! If you're looking for another horror movie to watch for Halloween, #Captured is on Amazon now. You can find it here: http://amzn.to/2z5HHmS Hey, You Made It! is a podcast featuring interviews with local writers, performers and artists in the Los Angeles comedy scene about who they are and why they make the things they do.  Hey, You Made It! is hosted, edited and produced by Joe Hospodor. It's distributed by Podbean and can be found at heyyoumadeit.podbean.com and on iTunes.

I didn't record an intro for this one because THESE TWO NEED NO INTRODUCTION!!! (Also I have a cold and lost my voice). Slychum is a comedy duo consisting of Jay Pichardo (iO, CBS Diversity Showcase) and Jenny Polania (Second City). You may have seem them in their recent run of Hispanic Attack! at The Second City Hollywood, or just around Hollywood, because they live in the area! You can catch Slychum perform THIS WEEKEND (October 21st) at The Second City Hollywood Diversity Festival! Tickets to their show can be found here: http://bit.ly/2hNuuEo. Can't make that? They have another performance of Hispanic Attack! the very next day (October 22nd)! Tickets to that can be found here: http://bit.ly/2yqNSRS. Can't make that? They have ANOTHER show going up at the Lyric Hyperion on Monday October 23rd! Info on that can be found here: http://bit.ly/2yxMSeq. Can't make that? I give up. You cleary just hate them. Hey, You Made It! is a podcast featuring interviews with local writers, performers and artists in the Los Angeles comedy scene about who they are and why they make the things they do.  Hey, You Made It! is hosted, edited and produced by Joe Hospodor. It's distributed by Podbean and can be found at heyyoumadeit.podbean.com and on iTunes.

It's Wednesday! It's Hey You Made It! It's not butter! Shit, I can't believe it! This week's guest is Erika Curry. Erika will be hosting Your TPT Late Night Show Tonight this Friday the 13th (SPOOKY!) at 10:30pm. We talk about Vlogging, BuzzFeed, Szcheswan sauce, writings staffs, divorce, breaking up, and using comedy to get through personal tragedy. LINKS! More info on Your TPT Late Night Show Tonight can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/events/367353107055329/. And more info on The Scramble can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/scramblecomedy/. You can follow Erika on Twitter at https://twitter.com/gillygal and on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/erikamcurry/. Go see shows and support live comedy! Hey, You Made It! is a podcast featuring interviews with local writers, performers and artists in the Los Angeles comedy scene about who they are and why they make the things they do.  Hey, You Made It! is hosted, edited and produced by Joe Hospodor. It's distributed by Podbean and can be found at heyyoumadeit.podbean.com and on iTunes.

Episode Ten of Hey You Made It is here! That means we now officially have more episodes than Star Wars! Eat it, George Lucas! Today's episode features Jonathan Blake, host and creator of The Calm Comedy Hour at The Clubhouse in Los Angeles. Jonathan is a Christian turned Buddhist who focuses on using breathing as a way to connect with the audience and reflect on the inner self while performing. He focuses on using the idea of "you're enough" while performing in a room with people. Jonathan's journey from studying religion to performing comedy and using it as a tool to better the world around him and bringing people together using laughter made for one heck of a great interview. We talk about breathing, comedy, spirituality, religion, the concept of self and getting propositioned for sex in a Bible study group. LINKS! You can find out more info on The Calm Comedy Hour and Catsby here: http://bit.ly/2fIz3PE and here: www.facebook.com/thisidiotlife Hey, You Made It! is a podcast featuring interviews with local writers, performers and artists in the Los Angeles comedy scene about who they are and why they make the things they do.  Hey, You Made It! is hosted, edited and produced by Joe Hospodor. It's distributed by Podbean and can be found at heyyoumadeit.podbean.com and on iTunes.

Go to your closet and bust out your flannel coat and your pumpkin spice lattes, because Fall is here! And so is a new episode of Hey You Made It! The podcast where we ask the hard questions, like "Hey, why do you keep pumpkin spice lattes in your closet?" Today's guest is Royce Shockley, producer and creator of The Color Collective, a monthly show at The Pack Theater that celebrates diversity. We talk about the state of comedy, the issue with reboots in the film industry, shitty scene partners in improv scenes and pizza. Royce is a good man and a better interviewer (jk he's equally amazing at both). LA Weekly even interviewed him! You can read that here: http://bit.ly/2fritU9. You can catch The Color Collective at their next show at The Pack Theater on Saturday, October 7th at 10pm. Head to their Facebook page for more info: https://www.facebook.com/colorcollectivecomedy/?ref=br_rs Hey, You Made It! is a podcast featuring interviews with local writers, performers and artists in the Los Angeles comedy scene about who they are and why they make the things they do.  Hey, You Made It! is hosted, edited and produced by Joe Hospodor. It's distributed by Podbean and can be found at heyyoumadeit.podbean.com and on iTunes.

Episode Eight of Hey, You Made It! thinks you're beautiful JUST THE WAY YOU ARE!!1! Today we've got Jake Fallon (DADDIO, The Justin Timberlake Show) to talk all about improv, life and the meaning of JT. If you want to check out The Justin Timberlake Show, they've got a show this Friday (September 22nd)! Head on over here for more info: http://bit.ly/2hfokjV. And be sure to like Daddio Improv on thefacebook (sorry JT said it's just "facebook" now): http://bit.ly/2wF0TT8 Hey, You Made It! is a podcast featuring interviews with local writers, performers and artists in the Los Angeles comedy scene about who they are and why they make the things they do.  Hey, You Made It! is hosted, edited and produced by Joe Hospodor. It's distributed by Podbean and can be found at heyyoumadeit.podbean.com and on iTunes.

Apple's got a brand new iPhone, and we've got a brand new episode of Hey, You Made It!  We don't cost a thousand dollars to listen to! Today we've got Brian James O'Connell, co-founder of The Pack Theater, member of Dr. God, and all-around wonderful human being. I got to sit down with BOC inside The Pack Theater this afternoon and talk about what the future holds for his new theater and its training program, and what steps an improviser should take in moving forward with his or her career when moving to LA. This man is a well of beautiful metaphors and knowledge and I'm so glad he made time to do this interview. More info on Brian James O'Connell can be found here: http://itsboc.com/. More info on The Pack Theater can be found here: https://www.packtheater.com/. More info on Dr. God can be found here: http://www.drgodcomedy.com/. Go see shows at The Pack! Take classes at The Pack! Confess your heart's true feelings to The Pack! They love you too! Enjoy! Hey, You Made It! is a podcast featuring interviews with local writers, performers and artists in the Los Angeles community about who they are and why they make the things they do.  Hey, You Made It! is hosted, edited and produced by Joe Hospodor. It's distributed by Podbean and can be found at heyyoumadeit.podbean.com and on iTunes.

Nobody puts Episode Six of Hey You Made It in a corner! I got to sit down with Phil Pirrone, the creator of the Desert Daze Music Festival in Joshua Tree, California and talk about music festivals, starting a band in LA, spirituality and makin' babies (he's a dad now!).  This year's festival runs from Oct. 12th to 15th at the Instutute of Mentalphysics in Joshua Tree California, and features workshops, meditation, yoga classes and a steallar music lineup including Iggy Pop, Panda Bear, Courtney Bartnett & Kurt Vile, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Ty Segall and more. Tickets and camping info can be found on their website: http://desertdaze.org/. And be sure to follow them on Twitter (https://twitter.com/desert_daze?lang=en) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/desertdazemusicfest/). Hey, You Made It! is a podcast featuring interviews with local writers, performers and artists in the Los Angeles community about who they are and why they make the things they do.  Hey, You Made It! is hosted, edited and produced by Joe Hospodor. It's distributed by Podbean and can be found at heyyoumadeit.podbean.com and on iTunes.

It's episode five of Hey You Made It! Shoutout to all the haters who said we couldn't make it to five episodes! They're all dead now! Today we've got Kyle Helf and Seth Alison ("Sethward" if you're his friend/not a cop). Together they host the "Show And Tell Screening Spectacular," a monthly gathering of fellow comedians and content makers to screen their YouTube sketches before they get put online for notes/feedback. It's free, open to the public (unless you're weird) and is usually filled with the best/funniest people on earth. Today Seth and Kyle peel back their creative curtain to reveal their artistic loins to me, and oh man, do these boys have lions (#BoysLoins #HeyYouMadeIt #CONTENT #itsoneinthemorning).  Be sure to follow Show Tell Show on Facebook to get all those hot sexy updates about when the next show's gonna be (the next one's on my birthday! Guys! You shouldn't have!): https://www.facebook.com/showtellshow You can follow Kyle Helf on Instagram here:https://www.instagram.com/kylehelf/?hl=en You can follow Sethward on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/squeth/?hl=en And here are the sketches we talked about on the podcast: The Human Show: https://youtu.be/yaUrjWFrpHsDPS Rap: https://youtu.be/ScG4xWmhFqICollegiate Jesus (Part I): https://youtu.be/1FDVryJiVoQCollegiate Jesus (Part II): https://youtu.be/iQihKTgZyHgThanks for listening and enjoy! Hey, You Made It! is a podcast featuring interviews with local writers, performers and artists in the Los Angeles community about who they are and why they make the things they do. Hey, You Made It! is hosted, edited and produced by Joe Hospodor. It's distributed by Podbean and can be found at heyyoumadeit.podbean.com and on iTunes.

It's episode four of Hey, You Made It! Only two more episodes until you ask me to meet your parents! This week's guests are Pumps Comedy, an all-female improv team based out of the iO West Theater in Los Angeles, CA. For the past year and a half, they've hosted "It's A Match," a cagematch featuring two indie improv teams fighting for improv glory (aka beer and the chance to come back another week to perform). "It's A Match" is coming to an end, but we talk about the process behind the show, how the group formed and what's next for Pumps Comedy. Their last show at iO West is THIS MONDAY August 28th at 11pm. And it's FREE! They might even make you do shots of tequila with them after the show at the theater bar! (Just kidding, they definitely will make you do shots of tequila with them after the show at the theater bar).  You can find more info about the show and Pumps Comedy on their Facebook page: www.facebook.com/pumpscomedy Thanks so much for listening! Next week we've got Phil Pirrone (creator/curator of the Desert Daze Music Festival in Joshua Tree, CA). And if you're in the LA comedy scene and have a show, project or thing you want to talk about, email me at joe.hospodor@gmail.com. Enjoy! ________ Hey, You Made It! is a podcast featuring interviews with local writers, performers and artists in the Los Angeles community about who they are and why they make the things they do.  Hey, You Made It! is hosted, edited and produced by Joe Hospodor. It's distributed by Podbean and can be found at heyyoumadeit.podbean.com and on iTunes.

It's the third episode of Hey You Made It! We're finally a trilogy! Up yours, Star Wars! This week's guest is Erin Gabbard, fellow dog enthusiast and host of Copper Still Comedy, a weekly variety show at the Copper Still bar in Los Angeles. More info can be found on their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/CopperStillComedy/ Thanks so much for listening! We've got some really exciting guests coming up, including Brian James O'Connell (founder of The Pack Theater) and Phil Pirrone (creator/curator of the Desert Daze Music Festival in Joshua Tree, CA). If you have a project that you'd like to be featured on the show, email me at joe.hospodor@gmail.com. Thanks and enjoy! ________ Hey, You Made It! is a podcast featuring interviews with local writers, performers and artists in the Los Angeles community about who they are and why they make the things they do.  Hey, You Made It! is hosted, edited and produced by Joe Hospodor. It's distributed by Podbean and can be found at heyyoumadeit.podbean.com and on iTunes.

We're back with the second episode of Hey, You Made It! The audio is improved! The sound isn't as echoey! I found a great parking spot this morning! This week we're sitting down with Conor Hanney, the writer and producer behind Divorce: The Hip-Hop Musical. We talk about divorce, writing characters for modern audiences, and having weird last names. Divorce: The Hip Hop Musical premieres on Thursday, August 10th at 8pm at El Cid in Los Angeles, with weekly performances each Thursday night for the next couple months. Tickets can be purchased on Ticketfly here: http://ticketf.ly/2tLzsGt Also, here's the show's Facebook page: http://facebook.com/DivorceTheHipHopMusical  Thanks for listening! ________   Hey, You Made It! is a podcast featuring interviews with local writers, performers and artists in the Los Angeles community about who they are and why they make the things they do.    Hey, You Made It! is hosted, edited and produced by Joe Hospodor. It's distributed by Podbean and can be found at heyyoumadeit.podbean.com and on iTunes.

It's the first episode of Hey, You Made It! For our first show, I talk with my good friend and fellow LA sketch comedian Stacy Rumaker. Stacy is the creator of The Night Cap, a monthly political-themed talk show at The Pack Theater in Los Angeles. We talk about moving to LA, writing politcal comedy, and living in motels. Buckle up! You can catch Stacy and The Night Cap the third Friday of every month at The Pack Theater at 10:30pm (not 9pm like I said! Sorry Stacy!) More info here: https://packtheater.com/event/the-night-cap-2/?instance_id=17509   ________   Hey, You Made It! is a podcast featuring interviews with local writers, performers and artists in the Los Angeles community about who they are and why they make the things they do.    Hey, You Made It! is hosted, edited and produced by Joe Hospodor. It's distributed by Podbean and can be found on their website and iTunes.