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In the first episode of Series Five hear Olly Belcher, Immediate Past President of the St Edmund Hall Association, in conversation with the British Comedian, Al Murray. Al came up to the Hall in 1987 to read Modern History. Since then he has become known as the “Pub Landlord” as well as appearing on TV, recording podcasts, writing history books, playing the drums with Queen and dabbling in Politics. Spirit of the Hall podcast is produced by the St Edmund Hall Association, the voluntary alumni body independent which represents all Aularians. The views and opinions expressed in the podcast are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Association, St Edmund Hall or the University of Oxford.
Ben Elton's career began in Britain's alternative comedy scene in the 1980s - and over the last 44 years, he's since built a name for himself. He's become a recognisable name in the world of stand-up comedy and he's also written many notable works, including The Young Ones and Blackadder. He also created musicals We Will Rock You and The Beautiful Game with Andrew Lloyd Webber. Ahead of his Authentic Stupidity tour coming to New Zealand, he explained why he felt compelled to return to stand-up comedy "Stand-up is the only area of my work as a comic artist which is entirely subjective. The new youth phrase is 'to stand in your truth'...and I'm standing in my truth." LISTEN ABOVE OR WATCH BELOW See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dane Buckley is the world's only Irish, Indian, gay comedian… probably. An award-winning comedian and writer, he delivers his comedy effortlessly with cheeky charm and camp mischief. Dane burst onto the comedy circuit in 2022, making a name for himself by winning Gong Shows and was a finalist in LGBTQ+ New Comedian of the Year (2022), British Comedian of the Year (2024) and BBC New Comedy Awards (2024). Dane has supported Tom Allen and Rosie Jones on Tour, has been featured on Comedy Central, BBC THREE and BBC ONE and is a regular on the club and festival circuit. Dane co-hosts the podcast Welcome to Hell which debuted in the top 10 charts of both Apple and Spotify and has gained a loyal following. Together with Daniel Foxx, the Infernal Aunties judge outrageous confessions, celebrate the salacious and revel in a good old-fashioned gossip.Dane Buckley is our guest in episode 475 of My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he'd like to preserve and one he'd like to bury and never have to think about again .Tickets for Dane Buckley's tour and all his shows are available here - https://www.offthekerb.com/on-tour/?otk_artist=Dane+Buckley&otk_postcode=&otk_date= .Follow Dane Buckley on Instagram & Twitter/X: @danecomedian .Follow My Time Capsule on Instagram: @mytimecapsulepodcast & Twitter/X & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter/X: @fentonstevens & Instagram @mikefentonstevens .Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .Music by Pass The Peas Music .Artwork by matthewboxall.com .This podcast is proud to be associated with the charity Viva! Providing theatrical opportunities for hundreds of young people . Get bonus episodes and ad-free listening by becoming a team member with Acast+! Your support will help us to keep making My Time Capsule. Join our team now! https://plus.acast.com/s/mytimecapsule. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Morning Footy: A daily soccer podcast from CBS Sports Golazo Network
The Morning Footy crew welcome in British Comedian and Actor Russell Howard who's currently on tour to discuss his beloved Liverpool, their UEFA Champions League draw, Mo Salah, and his chance meeting with one of his heroes Jürgen Klopp. And finally, the group preview Liverpool's match against Manchester City at the weekend. Morning Footy is available for free on the Audacy app as well as Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever else you listen to podcasts. Visit the betting arena on CBSSports.com for all the latest in sportsbook reviews and sportsbook promos for betting on soccer For more soccer coverage from CBS Sports, visit https://www.cbssports.com/soccer/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ Watch UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, UEFA Europa Conference League, Serie A, Coppa Italia, EFL, NWSL, Scottish Premiership, Argentine Primera División by subscribing Paramount Plus: https://www.paramountplus.com/home/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Ben Elton is a staple of the comedy scene. He's known as a pioneer for British comedy and the Godfather of Standup, though it's his work on Blackadder and The Young Ones that he's most well known for. Elton's been in the industry for four decades, last visiting New Zealand's shores back in 2021 for his Ben Elton Live Tour. The comedian is winging his way back this year, bringing his Authentic Stupidity Tour to Kiwi audiences, exploring the emergence of AI and the “idiocy” of the human race. Elton told Mike Hosking that much of what he performs on stage is unpacking his bewilderment with the changes the new generations bring. “I don't really feel much different than how I ever did,” he said. “We all feel 21 inside, our characters are largely formed by the time we're in our twenties, and that's who we remain. Meanwhile, the world passes on.” LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Send us a text"Episode 146: Robert Did It!"This week, Lovdev shares his experience competing in the semi-finals of the British Comedian of the Year—was it a hit or a miss? In today's Conspiracy Theory segment, things get wild as we dive into the mysteries of the animal kingdom. Plus, ever heard of a spirit doll named Robert? Lovdev uncovers the eerie tale behind this haunted legend.And as for weird news, we're still on the banana theme—but this time, it's all about the fear of them. Yes, you read that right!Support the show
British comedian, actor and writer Jack Whitehall has confirmed that he and his father will stop over in New Zealand as part of their latest tour. Jack and Michael Whitehall have been exploring the world for years as part of their Netflix series Jack Whitehall: Travels With My Father - and Kiwi fans can catch them in January 2025. The pair have also joined forces for another Netflix series about Jack's own fatherhood journey and experience becoming a dad. "I've never thought Travels With My Father was over - we did stop doing it, but we all had such fun. I still think - you never know, it might come back. But with these live shows we're doing, it's come full circle." LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Stephen Fry is a man of many talents. He's an award-winning comedian, actor, presenter, director, and has claimed the title of ‘bestselling author' multiple times. His latest work is the final instalment of his Greek Myths series, ‘Odyssey' retelling the tale of Odysseus from Homer's epic poem. Along with this, Fry is bringing his live show to New Zealand stages, offering an unforgettable evening filled with entertaining stories about his journey through life and show business. He's been in the business for nearly five decades and told Mike Hosking that he still sometimes finds it difficult to believe. “I still think of myself as a little boy watching Parkinson interview comedy stars, and film stars, and so on, and just dreaming of the amazing idea of being famous." “It's extraordinary,” Fry said. “You'd think after all these years, it would have lost its lustre, but actually it hasn't.” Questions are welcome at Fry's live show, the second half of the show being entirely filled with questions from the audience. “People are free to ask questions as serious as they like, but also as frivolous as they like.” “I'm not someone who finds it difficult to talk.” LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The star of 'Little Britain' David Walliams sits down with Triple M Melbourne's Dangerous Dave to discuss his passion for music and upcoming Comedy tour!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Show Notes and Transcript We are delighted to welcome comedian Alistair Williams to share his journey of remaining authentic in the comedy industry despite pressure to conform to mainstream narratives. He integrates his Christian faith into his comedy, prioritizing faith over worldly concerns and uses his talents to spread joy and truth. Alistair discusses the impact of satire in conveying truths and highlights the challenges of balancing industry expectations with personal convictions. He emphasizes the importance of upholding moral integrity in a secular world, advocating for spreading Christian values through comedic work. The conversation delves into societal values, the decline of ethical grounding, and the need to discern biblical truths amidst challenges and industry pressures. We end this interview by discussing the struggles content creators face aligning their work with faith and values in the current economic landscape and the significance of staying true to one's beliefs and spreading messages of faith and truth. Alistair Williams, a self-proclaimed “rambling moron,” emerges as a rising star on the UK comedy scene. He's soared through the ranks, claiming the Piccadilly Comedy Club's New Comedian of the Year 2014 award, securing spots in prestigious competitions and recently he was crowned 'British Comedian Of The Year 2023'. A firm believer in Free Speech and a fearless 'Soldier of God', Alistair is a charismatic observational storyteller, combining high energy with a knack for crafting top-tier material. Whether winning awards or reaching finals, he's on a rapid ascent to comedic stardom. Connect with Alistair... X/TWITTER x.com/awilliamscomedy RUMBLE rumble.com/user/alistairwilliams Interview recorded 27.5.24 Connect with Hearts of Oak... X/TWITTER x.com/HeartsofOakUK WEBSITE heartsofoak.org/ PODCASTS heartsofoak.podbean.com/ SOCIAL MEDIA heartsofoak.org/connect/ SHOP heartsofoak.org/shop/ *Special thanks to Bosch Fawstin for recording our intro/outro on this podcast. Check out his art theboschfawstinstore.blogspot.com and follow him on X/Twitter x.com/TheBoschFawstin TRANSCRIPT (Hearts of Oak) I am delighted today to be joined by comedian Alistair Williams. Alistair, thank you so much for your time today. (Alistair Williams) Anytime. Anytime. Good afternoon. Great to have you on. Obviously, people can follow you @awilliamscomedy, which is your Twitter or X handle. And, of course, on Rumble, it's just Alistair Williams. And on it, you talk about, I think, your two phrases, more or less, on your Twitter is, Real comedian. Soldier of God and I want to delve into both of those which are separate, but you do mix them like asking whether God wants to cut down ULEZ cameras or remember on comedy only, so you do mix them up the times, but you're some of the some of the the comments I've seen about you online Alistair Williams is quickly making a name for himself with razor sharp content and high what charm unafraid of tackling rough subject matter. He's a passionate health campaigner combining raw personal antidotes on a jam-packed gag count and slick extroverted style. Another one says he is smart, passionate, impressively quick-witted and bursting with infectious confidence. So there you go. They're just some of the... Things I wrote about myself off the internet. That was off your Twitter page, so I didn't want to say that. Alistair, before we get on to kind of your life in comedy and what that means for you maybe you could just take a moment to introduce yourself especially to our kind of half U.S audience who may not have come across you, so maybe just introduce yourself give us a bit of your background story. Sweet okay, well I'm a stand-up comedian. I would say I'm one of, if not the most censored stand-up comedian in the world. I had a YouTube channel that was pretty popular that got cancelled. Most of the comedy clubs in UK, the major ones sort of stopped booking me at the same time after I had this really viral piece piece of comedy go viral about Brexit at the time and the whole internet started sharing. Just at that time, the exact same time the comedy industry decided I did, or this guy has to never be seen again. You know, I used to have like an agent I used to, I was on the TV, but, I quickly figured out after my first TV experience that it doesn't really matter how funny you are, unless you are willing to be malleable, unless you are willing to change what you're saying to fit in with the narrative of what the television says. Like you're never going to be, a stand-up comedian, basically comedies, pretty much one of, if not the most controlled medium there is. And people were surprised about that. There was, I thought you guys would be the main guys who would be allowed to say whatever they want. It's like, yeah, that's why we're the most policed. Because, yeah, we would be the guys to say, you know, or during the pandemic, for example, if something was ridiculous and, hey, this is crazy and stupid and laughable, like we should be the people pointing it out. But where were those famous comedians during the pandemic? They were out there saying, if you haven't got vaccinated, punch yourself in the face, you know, or the famous musicians, the rock and roll guys, you know, where were they during the pandemic? You know, the stick it to the man. They were like, get vaccinated. You can't come to the show. Like, you know so very quickly sort of opened my eyes. Oh okay. Being famous, I'm such an idiot I'm so naïve I actually thought like being famous was about like being talented or being good at stuff. But very quickly I figured out; oh that has got absolutely nothing to do it's got nothing literally nothing to do with it, you know. So, my one and only T.V recording like most of the comedians on there were bombing like they were getting like no laughs they were dying on their ass out there. And then when I watched the TV recording back, they were just cutting in laughs and images of everyone next to all this awful stuff that died on its ass in the room. When was that Comedy Central piece you did? How far back was that? That was; weesh, maybe I want to say like 2017 or somewhere around there, somewhere around there, but I remember at the time the people that were managing me were trying to get me to change and say this and not say that and and I refused basically. I thought if I'm funny I'm just gonna make it, and that, that is not the case. So, they actually, if you find the clip, they actually put another comedian's name on my clip. That's how much they don't want people to know who I am. They put my piece of comedy out there on the internet. And then another comedian's name comes up after it. Because, I remember thinking this comedy is good. People are going to want to find me after this. And they were like, oh yeah, we thought of that. Don't worry. So yeah, you know, and you never saw me on television again. And at the television recording, like literally I smoked that recording. Like it was it was clear like: whoa this guy's really funny you never saw me on TV again, because it's not it's not about that. It's not about it certainly isn't about being funny, hasn't been for a long time. Well back, it was your, was it the Edinburgh festival 2016 then which is just obviously before that comedy central and you read that was your first debut solo show. I mean, maybe what led what led up to that, because people have really no idea what happens in the comedy circuit behind the scenes, it is quite cutthroat. I assume just like probably music a very cutthroat, but what led you to to getting that gig at the Edinburgh festival and then what followed on from there? Well, it's a good question and this is how they control comedy in this country right. They say: if you want to be a famous comedian. If you want to be good you want to be professional. You have to go to the Edinburgh comedy festival. Okay, because they tell you this is the only place comedy industry ever go; it's like one week a year or sorry one month a year in August. I was like, aren't they going to be in the comedy clubs like watching me do really well? They're: oh no no they're never going to see that. That's ridiculous, I'm like what do they do the rest of the year apart from August? Anyway, they say: you've got to go to Edinburgh, right, and that's where the tv people might see you and you have to get a good review, okay. Then people that write for the newspapers have to like you and this is how they control it, so all the comedians go to Edinburgh and if you're on narrative, if you're like a rabid left wing. You know, the time when I was coming up, it was like, men are toxic. You know, if you did a show about, you know, men being rapists or whatever, it didn't have to have any jokes in it. You know, the, the lady that won one jokes in an hour, all the guardian journalists and stuff were like: Oh, this is incredible. It's a future in the comedy. You know, this is amazing. And your agent or manager at the time would tell you to go to Edinburgh and you had to do an hour and they would tell you, you know, what's the worst thing that ever happened to you. What's the most traumatic thing like, you know, oh your mom died, I said right that's that's your hour, you know, and they turn comedy into like this half drama, half emotion. They just sort of get the spine and rip it out of there and you know mix it with acting and they just decimate the up comedy industry from Edinburgh, because they pull everyone into Edinburgh and they get all the journalists to review the show. And if it's anything, you know, right wing or off narrative they either don't come to review it or if they do they give it two stars, and you know, that so they can control it by this small group of journalists who control who gets to be you know a stand-up comedian in the united kingdom. It certainly doesn't work. I used to think well if everyone's laughing in the crowd, I'm you know, I'm gonna make it. And the more I focused on that the more I realized; hey these people in Edinburgh they literally they hate me. These journalists and stuff they hate me, because I'm not on their narrative and I quickly realized oh they're using comedy to control the way people think. But, before I was even a Christian, I never wanted to compromise on what I thought, because at the time it was all feminism and racism and stuff. And basically what I figured out they were doing, it's like, you're getting men to hate women. You're getting women to hate men. You're getting black people to hate white people. You're getting white people to hate black people. And I never wanted to contribute to that. Instead, I wanted to try and bring both both sides together, always. And that just, you know, made me so unpopular with the comedy industry, essentially. They were always telling me to change the way I think, because the way I think was wrong. You know, and when I wouldn't change, they just sort of kicked me out of the comedy industry. And, you know, they made it very clear that, you know, you're never going to get anywhere going it this way. So then I filmed my own stuff, put it out myself, made it go viral myself. And that's when they were like, okay, now you can't do comedy. But now we're going to stop you just getting anywhere near the microphone. If you're going to record it yourself and put it out now, you're not allowed, you're not allowed to work anymore. So, then I started live streaming and doing YouTube videos for a couple of years. Built myself up a big YouTube channel. Then they're like, right: you're not allowed to do YouTube either. It's like, okay, you guys really, really are a bunch of losers. You know what I mean? Like they can win. When did you get taken off YouTube? What was it for? They never tell you what it's for. Never ever tell you what it's for. But what happened was they gave me two strikes for, you know, nonsense. I think one of them was like cyber bullying or something. I think i'm out there cyber bullying, something ridiculous, so at that point I would just read the Bible on my live stream every Sunday. So, it's kind of like; okay so you've got to give me one more strike here, I'm just going to read the Bible. It's like your move you want to strike me for reading the bible, you know, that'll be why people are like why did you get kicked off YouTube? I'm like well I was reading the bible they kicked me off, because no one believes that. Everyone's like no it can't have been, that it's like that bro that's all I was doing on two strikes. You know and I would just do that every week and that's turned into one of my favourite things that I do now. Church on Sunday live stream every week. And it's and it was sort of born out of that, so yeah. You tube's the same. I mean you're fully aware. Your audience is probably fully aware that you know they used to control everything on television and then we were like; oh we're on YouTube we're free. Now, they just control everything on YouTube, you know. Like everything out there is is controlled pretty much even the alternatives to YouTube, you know, it's very difficult if you want to give people something new to think about to get it out there. I know, it is and I want to delve into that Christian aspect, because I remember having James Delingpole on talking about; I mean he does regularly does a video on the Psalms going through it. You do that Sunday evening just reading through scripture and it's something which stands out as something quite different. I think the only other person I've seen doing it regularly is is dry Sherry Tenpenny and actually fitting that into not a separate thing not this is my Christian persona, but hey, here's my comedy or here's my journalism or here's my activism But actually, putting that all together is intriguing. I think, quite different, but I want to delve into that. But I want to ask you more about, just being a comedian, doing the live shows, it must be... It looks bloody difficult and nerve-wracking. I mean you're there, you present yourself, you put yourself out there on a live thing in front of the audience. If they don't find your set funny that's going to be a very long set for you that's going to last for eternity. Tell me about that, because you're really you're putting yourself out there to be ridiculed and mocked if not then if not laughed at you're going to be ridiculed. That's the easiest part of the job. Me, I don't ever worry about that. You know, I tell people that's the easy bit. The hard bit is if you make room for people to laugh, it's surviving the attacks that are going to come to knock you out if you're, you know, trying to tell people the truth in today's day and age, which is what comedy is. Good comedy is true. It always is. People, oh, that's so true, especially if you're coming up with some observation that was right in front of them and they didn't see it before. Oh, that's so true. Isn't that true? Everyone's laughing because they're like, oh, what he's saying is true, and we never realized it. That's what comedy is. That's what good comedy is. And if you're actually out there, so much of what people have in front of them now is deception, right? And if you're actually out there trying to, you know, open people's eyes and show people how they're lying to you about this and they're lying to you about that, you know, you're going to have, I have so much trouble off, off the mic, on the mic. And it's actually made me better if anything, because I very quickly realized it doesn't matter how much I make these people laugh, you know. They're never going to let me do this properly. They're never going to give me a Netflix special. They're never going to do it. So, it doesn't matter. So, I go on there just like, hey, you know, I literally don't care. I literally don't care. It's like even like the comedy clubs, I quickly realized it doesn't matter how good I do. You know, some of the comedy clubs where I used to do my best work, they just never had me back one day. You know, they just didn't want me back. And I never upset a single audience member. You know, I never did anything. It was right after the Brexit booking thing. That obviously, there is a single entity somewhere that controls the whole of the entertainment industry. And you could tell that during the COVID pandemic. Where was the one person who was famous, who had a slightly different point of view to what the whole world was told was the case? There wasn't one. And if there was one, Matt Le Tissier is a good example. They're straight out of there, and all of a sudden it's a, this guy's a nutcase and he's now a maniac. And, you know, there's, and that shows you how controlled this whole thing is. Music, film, comedy, anything like anyone who is not saying what they want. You just, you'll never hear of them. You'll never hear of them. Like there's probably a couple of exceptions, but I can't think of any during the pandemic who put their neck on the line and said, I disagree with what's being done here. No, but I think people are quick to rewrite history as well, because now you've got many people who say, I was always against the woke agenda. I was always against the COVID tyranny. And you're kind of thinking, well, you've come at the 11th hour. I'm really happy you've woken up. This is great. But I didn't realize you were there in the trenches with us back in the first couple of months. Have you seen that same thing in comedy? I mean, in comedy, I mean, there was probably a few more people in comedy is with my circle that were like, Hey, wait a minute, something's up with this, you know, Tanya Edwards, Abi Roberts. There's more, you know, there was probably a few more in comedy, which I would expect. Cause it's like, hey, you guys are supposed to be. You're observant for a living. You know what I mean? You're pointing out absurdity for a living. It's like, come on, it must be a few more of you, who are, like wait a second this is nonsense. So, I think there was more there was more in comedy than than anywhere else, but it's still very rare for someone to, because they just take everything away from you, you know, in in any walk of life; whether you're a doctor or a policeman or whether you're in the army or the navy or whatever, you know. Like I heard this chap who's you know a fighter pilot guy on The Delingpod and he started saying. You know, basically, hey, wait a minute. We're not really hiring people on, you know, how good they are at flying planes. We're just trying to get black lesbians in here. It's like, you're out. You know, someone who has a genuine concern for like, wait a second, the security of the country might be at risk here. It's like, right, get him out of there. You know, and it's not just, that's what I'm saying. There's one entity that controls it all because the same thing is happening across every single industry. It can't be possible that the same guy that runs comedy runs the RAF, can it? You know what I mean? Why are the same things happening everywhere? Especially as most people that you meet on the street, they don't agree with any of this crap. It's not like everyone's like, oh, yeah, I totally agree with that. You've struggled to find one maniac that agrees with 90% of the stuff that's being done, but yet it's all still being done. People are too cowardly to say, I disagree with that, because they know what happens if they do disagree with that. Thankfully, being a man of faith, I know that everything I have comes from God's hand and I don't need to worry about what the world wants to scare me we might take away your income or do this. It's like God gives me that, everything I need comes from him. So, you know there's nothing you can do to me that he won't allow, so I'm actually just going to do whatever what he wants me to do and, you know, that's why I think you see a lot of people of faith who don't go along with this stuff, because it's it's actually a bit of a paper tiger if you like you know these people. They're not really as in charge of the world as they pretend hand that they are. Well, how's that fit? I want to keep until later, but let me just touch on that point, because one of the pastors I really like in the UK, one of his favourite verses is from John, where you seek men who seek the praise of other men, seeking the praise of God. And everyone wants that public adoration and seems to, as even many Christians seem to forget, that actually you should be looking to God for that praise or that viewpoint, that value. How does that affect you as, again, someone who is out there, who's putting themselves out? And most comedians, I guess, they live or die on those laughs of an audience or those clicks. But there's a Christian you're enjoying this, but that's not where your value lies. No, but I've everyone's been given certain talents by god and god is expecting a return on these talents. I know the talents that god's given me i know which area they're in. I know what he made me to do and he is expecting a return on this investment. And one day I will stand before him and all the other work I've done will be burned up apart from the stuff that I did for Jesus. So, this is one of the reasons I'm so keen on keeping church on Sunday going. You know what I mean? I'm keen to use whatever talents I have to let people know about him, basically. And that's what keeps me going. Because I've realized it doesn't matter how funny I am or how good I am at this. They're never going to let me have a career. That's quite freeing in a way, more than anything else. It's like, well, then I don't have to worry about it. I've already burned all those bridges there. You know what I mean? Like not that they were ever going to let me over those bridges, but you know really sort of on my Brexit Burger King video; I really, I sort of little put little subtitles on there that was like oh the crowd's actually laughing this guy's never going to work at the BBC. So, I really did sort of just be like, you know, in a slightly sort of childish way I'd give them a bit of a up yours, as you know what I mean? But that's something that I feel quite strongly about, is like that I feel like they're deliberately ruining comedy. They're deliberately ruining film. They're deliberately ruining music. And as someone that believes in God and knows how much God wants joy to be in the world, one of the first things I experienced when I started being a comedian was I was just trying to make people happy. Literally, that was it. I was just trying to bring people joy. And man, they were after me so bad. And I was like, wait a minute, I'm literally just trying to spread joy. And I realized how much the world, hates people that are just out there spreading joy. And that was one of the first things that made me realize, hang on, there's something, something up with this world here. This is before I even believe in God. It was like some weirds going on. Cause I'm just trying to do a nice thing here. And I'm getting, getting so attacked for this, that there's some evil out here that I haven't really wrapped my head around yet. And then it was a sort of snowball effect from there. I want to go back and ask you about that. Burger King skit. And kind of most of public I will think, you know, if you can put forward a good position it's like being part of a debate society. Maybe in journalism, if you can put forward a rational argument then, you win the day. We find that not to be the case, but you think then comedy, if you can put forward a position and make it comical make, it humorous, then you should you should really win, because people will laugh and you can put forward any position, whatever it is, as long as you can get people to laugh and you kind of think: well Brexit that skit. There's no way you can say: oh you're racist for that you're xenophobic for that, you hate this, you hate that. Actually, it's funny and you're making a point, but that wasn't good enough, I mean tell us about that and why simply putting forward a position no matter what people think. Even if it's funny it doesn't necessarily hit the mark and doesn't accept it. Well, the funny thing about that is it's like, people watch that and they go, but you're not even really picking a side here. You're just, you know, people that voted remain laughed and people who voted to leave for it was funny. And that's sort of what I was told in the beginning. I'm always looking for just down. How can I get everyone in this room? How can I get two people that should hate each other based on this? And it's all cooked up, dude. It's all, oh, I'm a remainer. I'm a leaver, dude. They come up with these things to make you hate each other. I'm pro-vaccine, I'm anti-vaccine, we hate each other. It's like, I'm white, I'm black, we hate each other. It's like, they will give you a million things. You know, Ukraine, Russia, Israel, Palestine, just go on and on and on. It's the oldest trick in the book, you know, divide and conquer. So, I was like, let me see if I can come up with something that's going to get the whole room okay. But the reason it wasn't allowed is because it wasn't on the narrative. It wasn't, if you voted to leave, you hate black people. You know that was and that's what every comedian was doing at the time. On the BBC ad nauseum, you know, just terrible comedy like that, and it's like if comedy, and the reason why I got in so much trouble Brexit isn't working is exposed the whole industry as being a fraud. You know, it's like you're all you're doing is comedy on Brexit all the time and everyone hates it it's dead. And then I come along explode a room with Brexit which every comedian there's just mind to death and everyone hates it. And boom I blow it up. I should have been everywhere. They should have been like, oh get him on the BBC get him here this guy can make Brexit funny. No you never saw me again. They were like bury this guy. He's doing comedy properly, because if you put someone like me out there that's doing it properly it makes it even more obvious that the rest of them are just, you know, there's: oh here's another joke about how people are racist. It's like oh dude everyone hates this is stop, stop, please stop, you know, throw bread rolls at them now they do, stop, you know. So it's really... They can't let me anywhere near being a widely known comedian now, because it just, it really does expose how fake the industry is. Because if you're, if you're really out there looking for funny comedians and you know, you watch that and that's, that's the reason why I lost my career. That, that joke, it's not even someone who's offended. I'm pretty special in that I'm cancelled and you can't even, they can't even get me on: well you said this and that was wrong ,you know what mean? They can't even get me on that, so they just sort of silently cancel you they just remove all your live work slowly and cancel your YouTube channel and when they really want to cancel you you just, bro, you just fade away, and silently. They don't, you're like Andrew Tate where it's like: "I'm cancelled, and he's everywhere. You know what I mean? It's like I'm cancelled I'm going live on Piers Morgan to talk about it. Dude, if the establishment hated you you would not be on Piers Morgan, you're mad. Like the whole; oh Piers Morgan uncensored. Bro who is censoring you? You spend your whole career on like CNN and stuff. If there's anyone who's more of an establishment toady, it's you. You know the whole thing of like, oh we're cancelled but everyone knows our name. It's like that's not the thing. The real cancel people, you never heard of them, that's how it really works. But I know of the two very high profile comedians that always tell us how they're against the system in every way. I look at two Netflix specials. And I wonder how that kind of, just like those who have massive YouTube channels now, I wonder, how is that possible if you're being restricted? Something doesn't add up. You know their name, they're in the game. That's the way it works. But the enemy is very clever. There's always going to be a counter-narrative. There's always going to be people who I don't agree with the official narrative and I want something else. It's like, oh, cool, we got that for you. We got someone, we got that for you as well. You know what I mean? It's like, they're not dumb, and they're not going to give you any real dangerous opposition, but they will give you some people that, 'hey, we're the opposition,' you know. But for people with discernment, you know, it's not hard to figure out who those people might be or what's going on. But also, you know, you look at some incredibly famous comedians, you know, and you think, well, why is this guy allowed? Like Ricky Gervais at the Golden Globes or whatever. You remember that? And he was like: hey you guys are all paedophiles you've been having sex with children, and they were all just like. You know there's all these clips of them being like.. We'll bring you back next year. Yeah , yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like, do you honestly think that they didn't know he was gonna say that, and you know what I mean? And they're like: you understand how dead you would be if they really didn't want that information getting out there and you just jumped on the mic and just blasted them, you know, but when you look at the, you can always look at like what was the reaction from that? People were like: oh, they got what they deserved. He roasted them. ] It's like, bro if what he was saying is true, these people need to be in jail. It's not like they, got roasted, take that. It's like, they've sort of normalized it with that move you, know what I mean. It's like, they were ridiculed, they've served their time. It's like, hang on a minute. Like, do you really stop and think about that: it's like you can't go to this. This is an industry awards thing right you. Can't say if I'm booked to do the policemen's thing of the year, whatever all the policemen, and I jump on the mic like, hey you guys we're all having sex with children. Do you think like that's gonna be allowed, or like you know, I would get shut down, and be like throwing stuff. But that didn't happen there, did it? Why? Because everyone knows it's true. Everyone knows that like, oh yeah, Weinstein and this and that, you know. Everyone knows it's true, but nothing happens. So, it's just been sort of normalized in a way. So, sometimes the things it looks like, hey, this guy's really sticking it to the man. But on closer inspection, what's the results of this sticking it to the man? In this case, you know, nothing. Yeah. No, it's exactly the same as alternative media. I think we're all seeing that as well. How do you pick, I mean, you've got so toxic masculinity, Brexit, the food industry, which is a bit different, the whole woke agenda, what I mentioned before, what's God's view in smashing up ULEZ cameras or gender study, it's one way to get screwed. All those kind of hot-button topics that are in the middle of this, I guess, this gender war and culture debate that we are seeing. Hardy, do you have a list of go-to topics? Because, I guess some comedians will just, hey, whatever the hell, if it makes people laugh, I don't give a damn, because I actually don't have any beliefs or guide in life. You do, but do you have kind of areas you think, I understand that or how does it work? I just, I just want to tell people the truth. If you go out there and tell the truth, you'll, you'll find that you're, you know, against all different kinds of things, but down to like, you know, if you want to go out there and tell people there's only men and women in the world, like, you know, it's a controversial figure, you know, like, yes. Okay. Sure. You know what I mean? Like it's not, it's not any sort of deliberate. I'm going to go after this. So, I'm going to go after that, but... I really would just like to use; when you when you make people laugh they'll actually they'll listen to what you're saying, you know. That's a that's a good opportunity to, you know, let people know like what's really going on in the world which is where my sort of Christian faith comes into it, and you know, that this is the only thing that I see as being important anymore. Like everything else in the world seems fake and corrupt and controlled. But this is telling people about Jesus is what one area where it's not. And what one area where there is hope and one area where there is, you know, success to be had, if you know what I mean. Whereas, you know, trying to climb up the career pole of the entertainment industry is, is just not, it's not one thing. It's not possible for me anymore, And it's, it's not exciting either, you know. But it must cause you… There are awards in the industry. And I saw you got an award, I think, last year for being the most popular comedian in the UK. It was the Comedy Club. That, obviously, it is good to get recognition. You realise, actually, I am hitting the mark in some areas. That's good. So, I get those things are important. But, I guess there are not many awards like that, that are actually possible for someone like yourself. Well, the British Comedian of the Year is the award that I won in November. And the only reason I even entered that is because it's voted for by the audience. So, there's only one way I'm going to win a competition if it's voted for by the audience. So, because that one's voted for by the audience, I'm like, let me, let me go and get this one, you know? And the finals that these sort of big established comedy clubs where I don't, I don't perform anymore. So, it's quite fun for me to walk in there and be like, Hey, this is what I'm up to. And then walk back out of there with a great big check, you know? So, that was, but that was really God's hand in that. You know, he, I lost my career, you know, they took everything away from me for trying to do the right thing, essentially. And, you know, God likes to, likes to test your faith, wants to see like, okay, let's see, I'm going to take this away from you. And this is going to be taken away from you. And, you know, you like to send you into the wilderness. And, and then at some point, and in my case, God was like, okay, at that point, when I won that award, God was like, okay, you can have, you can have this back now, you know, You know, you can have, you know, the recognition that.... It's quite hard when you're doing something like comedy and your friends and your family. You can tell them, like, oh, I'm cancelled. No one really believes it. It's like, oh, you must be terrible. You know what I mean? It's like, oh, I have my YouTube channel. You got taken away. Oh, yeah, right, I suppose. You know what I'm saying? It was nice for me to have, like, okay, are you actually good at this? Okay, fine. Most people just thought you were crazy or whatever. So, yeah, that was good. But you know that there's no there's only really one award like that that's voted for by the audience and that's it, so you know it's not gonna i'm gonna go any further than that, if you know what I mean. I've mentioned the the beginning of the show you have Soldier of God. Unpack that, it's a it's an interesting phrase people describe themselves themselves, their Christian faith in all different ways or none, depending on how they want to do it. But you put up there, soldier of God. Why do you describe yourself as a soldier of God? I'm in the joy division. Okay. I'm in the soldier of God. I'm in the joy division. God made me with these abilities to make people laugh and cheer people up. And that's literally what I'm out there doing, you know, and there's more people need to be. You know, out there trying to do God's work in this world. And, you know, I think all the problems we have are from a sort of degradation of, of human character. I don't think there's any sort of political thing going on. You know, I don't think it's anything like that. It's just human characters sort of eroding, but becoming more sort of selfish. We're more concerned about the things that we have and now how many followers we have and, you know what I mean, our social how we look to the outside world. And there's so many problems that we have in the world that they're all as a result of this sort of falling away from a sound position of, you know, a Christian faith. The people in this country they used to read the Bible all the time and they used to be concerned with loving your neighbour and you know following the ten commandments and treating other people as you want them to be treated. And we had this great society where you could walk down the street safely and top of the morning, sir. Good morning, sir. Good morning, Mr. Chubb. No, no, no. You know, we had all that going on. Right. But it was based on people talk about all the fall of Western society. There's no such thing as Western. You know, it's not like we have Western values. So, give me, you know, what are you talking about? Western? What do you mean is Christian countries that began following Christ and trying to imitate what Jesus were like, started doing really well. Started having really nice countries. It's almost like treating other people as you would have them treat you as a basic principle results in a really nice place with everyone, you know, enjoying their life isn't it? And you know this is what's built this country up and made it great, and now no one believes in it anymore, no one reads the bible. They watch Netflix and Love Island, right? And we wonder why everything's going to S.H.I.T, you know what I mean? We wonder why? It's like, you still read, we used to read the Bible all the time and try to be like Jesus. And now we've thrown the name of Jesus Christ in the bin, and you want to wonder why the place is falling apart, and you want to try and fix it by voting for someone with a blue tie or a red tie. like, it's insane. It's no one with a special coloured tie is going to save you, you know. It's God is the only person can save this country and this world. That's what the Bible teaches you, and that's what the truth of it is. And I've got no interest anymore in, you know, really telling anyone about anything else other than that, because it's the only solution. And because it's the only solution, you know, I can't really get excited about anything else, you know? You're 100%. I was trying to explain to someone today where we are in Europe and the UK in regards to the church and Christian belief compared to the States. And the States are in a mess, but we are much further gone. And it's quite difficult to explain the situation we find ourselves right on a precipice of chaos and probably oblivion. Tell me about your faith story. Was that was a light bulb moment? Was your background connected to church? Not at all. How did you come to Christ? Not at all. l was walking down the street and somebody sent me a message. It's actually, I think it was a Muslim guy sent me a message: salaam Alaikum, or something, and I was like I wonder what that means. And I googled what it meant, and it meant he was greeting me with the peace of God. And I asked myself for the first time, I was like I wonder what what the peace of god feel like, and it just hit me washed over my soul my first encounter with the holy spirit. And I was like, whoa! It was crazy. I was like; whoa God is real. And that was when god first sort of revealed himself to me, and then I just started reading the Bible. I'd just been cancelled at the time, I just sort of lost everything so I came to the bible like thinking; wait a minute When was this like 2018, 2019, when was this? Yeah, about then. I think so, about then. So, I came to the bible trying to understand why the world hated me, because if you've been cancelled you lost everything, you're like: hey, and I know my own heart. I know I'm trying to do the right thing and I'm trying to bring people together and I've lost everything. That doesn't seem correct to me so, I started reading the Bible looking for answers for that. And Jesus said: if the world hates you, remember it hated me first. And I was like: hey, wait a second, that's that's true, because most people they don't even investigate Jesus. They don't think that he's a significant person. And someone like me who's always looking for the truth, I'm like, let me read every word that Jesus said, and let me see if I can find where he's wrong or where he's lying or what I don't agree with. I'm like, wait a second. Everything this guy says is true. Everything this guy says is incredible. You know, I came to the Bible feeling that the world hated me. I read one line, the world hates you. Remember, it hated me first. I'm like, whoa, I'm just on the right path as Jesus. And immediately I cheered up. I was like, the world hates me. This is horrible. I'm like, wait a minute. The world hated Jesus first. And you think that you've got some sub story like, oh, I'm just trying to be a good person and this bad thing happened to you. There's no better example of that than Jesus who just walked around healing sick people and performing miracles and just helping everyone. And then they nailed him to a cross and tortured him to death for three days. It's like Jesus didn't deserve any of that. And he's showing you the way the world really works. Like if you really go out there and show love and the world will hate you. And that's the exact time we're living in today, dude. If you really want to go out there and tell people the truth and make a difference, and take a stand, and do the right thing, and live a righteous life; the world will hate you. But if you want to go out there and have pride and celebrate pride, the world will love you. You know, everything is inverted from how it used to be. We used to think that pride is the sin that God hates the most, the Bible says. And what a coincidence. We spent a whole month celebrating it. You know, they didn't pick pride, you know, by accident. They didn't pick the rainbow as a symbol by accident. There's a biblical symbol, you know, everything. The more you read the Bible, the more you'll realize all of this stuff in the world is from the Bible. You know, like all of the things that they're pushing are the exact opposite of what God says to do. Like the exact opposite. It you, know having pride being a great example of that you know. That god made them male and female, you know, that's under attack. Like anything god says in the bible our modern culture hates, you know, and it's as simple as that. No, 100 percent. And the rainbow is a perfect example of God making a promise and man taking that and twisting it and making it as perverse as possible. And that shows the state we are in. Whenever you want to take something which is good and godly and twist it and make it as disgusting and perverse as possible. I mean, I really feel sympathy for the people that are involved in this movement, because they're being deceived in a very... They're being encouraged to antagonize God. The rainbow is the symbol that God sent that said, I will never destroy the world again, no matter how much you disobey me. So, they've got them out there holding that symbol of, God says you won't destroy the world, and at the same time saying, and I'm disobeying you, God. They're provoking God, whether they know it or not. But that's the point of that movement, if you ask me. It's leading people to rebel against God, and not only that, to spike the football, if you like, right in the face of the Almighty, you know. And I don't think the rainbow symbol, I don't think it's an accident that they picked that one. You know, most people are being misled in these days, but Jesus did say that's what we'll categorize the final days, which is believe where they are, take care that no man deceives you, you know. I think we're living in the age of deception, but the more people read the Bible, the more you'll understand that this is all in there. Everything that's happening now is in there, you know, down to cashless society and, you know, all the stuff the Bible says will happen towards the end is happening. Especially, what I'm talking about a lot, which is the degradation of human character, the falling away from a standing position of Christianity. You know, so much of what we're told to expect towards the end of this age is happening out there right now. And it's one of the reasons why God tells you the future in the Bible thousands of years ago is so that you'll read it and go, oh, wow, this really is God chatting here. Because, everything he said that would happen 2,000 years ago, I can see happening outside of the window if people want to go and examine the Bible. But, you know, they got people pretty much convinced that they don't want to do that, so people don't. But if you did, you'd find out what was going on. Yeah, you can read as many books, watch as many podcasts, but you can short circuit the path to truth and just pick up a Bible. Yes. It's a lot quicker and you'll get there much sooner. Alistair, what was your background? Was it against God? Was it against Christianity or was it just indifference? Just complete, no idea about that at all, you know. Interestingly when I did my food show, when I started telling people to eat real food, is the first time when I sort of really noticed: hang on a minute. Because, I was just I was just telling people to eat like normal. I noticed that all the food that's just on the earth is so good for you, right? And it just falls off the trees and grows out of the ground and, you know, just replicates itself through seeds and animals giving birth to other animals. I'm like, and all that's really good for you, right? And all the food that men touch that we create kills you, like processed food. And I very quickly sort of figured out, like, oh, it's almost as if the stuff that's here on the earth has been created and is incredible and everything that we tamper with turns to, you know, death. And you know, it's interestingly, it's I first saw God in an apple, you know, which is like where original sin comes from. But that's where I first realized: oh people. And I was trying to tell people the truth about food. And they were trying to wipe me out for that, you know. And that was again: I was just telling people like, eat celery, and they're like get rid of this guy, you know, because most people are dumbed down into, you know, drinking sugar and sweetness and just they're being poisoned to death, most people, with the food. And I was trying to just let people know, hey, there's an easy way to be healthy. You just eat the food that's lying around. And it was like, right, make sure he's never seen from again. And that's when you sort of realize how evil the world actually is. You're like: well there must be an opposite to this, right? So, that was, yeah, so lots of my life you can look at and go: oh this is this has led, me to God this has led me to God, but I was never... My family were never, you know, really religious, or whatever I was never brought up on it or anything like that. It's just, you know, God chose to reveal himself to me. It's like nothing that I did or you know. Well, that's the I think the frustrating part; that those of us who are Christians feel that and we've seen actually through the Covid tyranny that people just don't ask. People don't think. People are sheep and all they all the Bob Moran cartoons are so true that people are sheep and they just follow that pathway and you have a conversation and they look at you blankly, but you're right mention Love Island or something and suddenly they're alive. And you think there's a disconnect that you've actually been dulled into a place of not questioning anything and just believing what you're told and that's difficult. That gap is a massive gap to bridge. Yeah, I mean most people, they watch the television right? They figure out what's going on from the television, you know, that's what they do. And you know, you figure out the way my life's gone, I quickly figured out, oh, the television is just one giant deception. When you just have a little peek behind the curtain at the television, it's like, oh, this is awful. Even like adverts these days on the television, they're so awful, man. Everything's so zany. You know, it's always just like, oh, it's got a real sort of satanic vibe to it. Even like adverts, it's all sort of close zoomed in on the face and quick cuts everywhere. Like they don't even, new music's the same. It's so jarring and it's just, ugh, like everything that is of the world just really stinks to me now. You know, so entertainment especially, I mean they're not even really trying to hide it in entertainment anymore; like and young people are sort of picking up on this. You can see some interesting TikTok videos where people are sort of mimicking, like you go to a rap concert and it's just a satanic ritual and the people are looking around; it's like, hey wait a minute what did he say? It's like, you know, the demons in me, is like what? Young people are starting to figure out like, hang on a minute, this is a bit sinister like what we're being what we're being fed here. And don't get me started on children's entertainment and how you know the occult has repackaged itself. Like you pick up any children's movie and stuff, I bet you it's about magic and spells and and unicorns and you know, and people don't realize like how much you know, the the occult has repackaged itself to children and it's really disgusting when you really sort of look into that. I mean, the Disney and how that all works. You know, there's endless rabbit holes that people can go down that I've been down, and they're very eye-opening when you realize the sweet stuff that you thought was so innocent, and you realize how much of it is of the enemy. And you can find God through this, which sounds crazy, but the Antichrist points the way to Christ because he's the opposite. So, whenever you see him work and you're like, oh, okay, well, I go to the opposite of that. I'll find Jesus, which is pretty much what happened to me. Tell me, just finishing off on the on the comedy side, for you, are there like red lines, because you think where does a comedian go; every comedian is different, because we are who we are and we reflect what we what we see around us, but for you are there red lines, are there areas you don't go, how does it work? I mean I try not to swear very much anymore. So, you're not Not like I'll be then? No, no, no, no, no. And I try, I get convicted of that sort of stuff. I still do swell. I try not to, you know what I mean? I try not to, just because, you know, I'm very big on this sort of, you know, I'm going to be called to account for everything that I've done or not done. So, you know, I have a responsibility to try and do things the right way. And I, you know, that's my red lines. Basically, I try to not talk about anything that I don't think Jesus would talk about or want me to talk about. And that is very much like swearing loads or another one that's possibly I'm out being sort of unforgiving of people. It's very sort of easy these days. But these people have done this and they've done that. And they're the evilest people in the world. We need to get them all and blah, blah, blah. This is not a Christian doctrine, is it? It's supposed to be the opposite of that. So, that's somewhere else where I really have to rein myself in. Like a lot of the times, these people we talked about earlier, these sort of fake content creators that are the opposition, but they're not really the opposition. You know, I find it quite easy to show the content that they're putting out and sort of ridiculing it or sort of, you know, exposing like, well, hang on a minute. Is this really the opposition? And just trying to do that in a sort of Christian way, you know, Without being mean, without being, you know, insulting, but still trying to make it amusing. Things so they're it's pretty boring red lines. I'm sure it's not, you know, really what that sort of question was implying but that's that's pretty much where they are, yeah. Can I just ask you about, actually, how you actually fund yourself. I mean how do viewers listeners, they're always looking for I guess no only subscribing or supporting on the social media side, but actually just how they financially support. How does that work for you and how do the public kind of support what you do to make sure you keep going? Well, that's it, I just put my content out there for free. I put my live streams out there for free, and I put little links where people can support me on subscribe star or locals and stuff like that and there's a really sort of core group of people that do that. And they give me the ability, you know, to keep going essentially, you know, I do, I do a lot more live comedy now and, you know, that, that helps. But that's pretty much it. I got no one, you know, supporting me apart from. You have no sugar daddy. No. So, if people don't want me to keep going, you know, people don't want me to keep going. And it's hard, because most people are broke these days. You know, people are being, people are being attacked in, in a lot of ways economically these days, you know. It's very difficult for people to have excess money to throw at someone like me, you know, but I'm in a sort of really good position where I can literally say whatever I want, because the people that support me; I don't have a I don't have any sponsors or anything like that. So, I can literally just, be a voice out there that's just coming at it from a place that, you know, I will say, you know, exactly what I think. And that's, that's pretty rare these days, you know? So, I mean, yeah, that's, that's pretty much it. I'm just supported by, by the regular people. Do you do many live shows? Cause I know you've done some comedy on leash, but I, I don't fall over closely necessarily, but do you do live shows that people can come along to or other clubs? I do. There's clubs, but the the television controls most of the comedy circuit in the UK right, because you can't get past a certain level before it's like: well, we need someone for with T.V credits for this, you know what I mean. Must have been on the TV, you know, otherwise you're just in this sort of layer below, you know, it doesn't matter how funny you are. If you haven't been on the TV, or you've not been on TV, so you know, what I'm saying, so that's the the way that the TV companies sort of control even, even who gets to do sort of live comedy, but there is, there's a lot of work out there for someone like me who can do the job well, and you know, I can, scratch a living, you know, from the sort of the gigs in the sort of mid tier. But you know what you're saying before, like, isn't it difficult to make people laugh? Like, I shouldn't be at the mid tier anymore, but they've got me in the mid tier. So, it's like, you know, it's so, I don't want to say it's easy for me, but it is it's. Like they got me instead of on the mid-tier and it's like: okay, I'll sit here, I'll sit here on the mid-tier. You know, I'll go on before the last guy who's going to be so incredible, okay. You know what I mean? So, it's fine, but it takes you know it takes all the pressure off to be honest, it takes all the pressure off ,you know. But, it's fine, you know, I'm just, I'm not happy to be happy to be doing the job, bear in mind I'm not doing this for fame or money anymore, I'm doing this for the opportunity to tell people about Jesus so, you know, it's fine just to be able to do it it's fun, you know. Well, you're doing that, and as your teacher says, God wins in the end, so that's the end of the story. Alistair, really appreciate you coming on. I've loved your skits, love following you on Twitter, so thanks so much for coming on and sharing your story, not only of comedy, but of faith with our audience. Thank you. Hey, any time. Thanks for having me on. Really appreciate it.
Who Knew It with Matt Stewart is a comedy game show podcast hosted by Australian comedian Matt Stewart. This episode features comedians Celya AB (Live At The Apollo, The News Quiz), Josh Jones (8 Out of 10 Cats, Jonathan Ross' Comedy Club) and Dan Tiernan (winner of both the BBC New Comedy and British Comedian of the Year awards)!Check out Matt's stand up special FREE on YouTube: https://youtu.be/cWStRpI-BhESupport the show via http://patreon.com/dogoonpod and you can submit questions for the show!See the podcast/Matt live: https://www.mattstewartcomedy.com/Check out Matt's podcast network: https://dogoonpod.com/Theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and Logo by @muzdoodles! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
I caught up with British comedian Jack Skipper who is currently doing his Sticky Social Glue tour with The Laughter Factory. We talked about his comedy career and his huge social media presence.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Please enjoy this victory lap of Season One episodes as we celebrate 10 years of The Worst Idea of All Time. New episodes posting on our Substack.Original Description: Guy and Tim are struggling to hold on so they've brought another special guest into the fold: This week, British Comedian, multiple world record holder and Commodore of the Royal Navy, Tim FitzHigham. Also, as part of the NZ International Comedy Festival, the boys have recorded the epsiode live in front of an audience in downtown Auckland at New Zealand's only full-time comedy club, The Classic. Enjoy. Somebody should. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Comedian Russell Howard is returning to New Zealand for his sell-out tour- a very different version of New Zealand when compared to his previous visit, where he was granted exemption to pass through the borders during the Covid-19 pandemic. “Last time we came, the army were there. They greeted us by saying- you know you'll be staying at a hotel for two weeks. We'll ask about your mental health, you have to lie. I told them I'll be fine, there's no way I could tell the truth,” the comedian told Newstalk ZB's Jack Tame. With the restrictions safely out of the way this time, Howard's free to wander around New Zealand again, and potentially source some joke material from the local shops - he says he was particularly fascinated with what he saw in Auckland's CBD. “We were in Ponsonby, and it was funny because they were clearly coming up with names that have no relevance whatsoever to what they're selling. There was a place called the Stolen Girlfriends Club - they sell clothes! There's a cinema called the Silky Otter, my interest was piqued because you're looking at all these. Is the Women's Bookshop all female authors? No!” Howard explained that seeing the picturesque images designed to appeal to travelers were less fascinating than observing the nation first-hand and building jokes from what he sees. To him, the standard mountainscapes were less compelling than spotting a restaurant that sounded like a ‘really specific Google search', as he described Auckland's Monsoon Poon. He's used to taking comedic material out of his observations, as his standup specials, TV projects and TikTok videos show off his takes on the state of the world as we ping-pong from one crisis to the next- from controversial presidential administrations, economic downturns, pandemics, climate change, to a possible expanding war. “The audience is your master, your jury. There's a great quote from Stephen Fry about the peculiarity of comedy. Comedy is so intangible, it's surreal.” He promised his current tour will bring his signature energy to Kiwi audiences. As he explained to Jack Tame, New Zealand has a ‘gentle, lovely' atmosphere with plenty of entertaining aspects that could sound absurd when played back to an international audience. “For instance, Rotorua calls itself Rotovegas, despite the fact that it doesn't have a casino. That is innately funny, I love the idea of some American tourists wondering where the casino is and people from Rotorua going - there isn't one,” he told Newstalk ZB. Howard's standup tours have sold thousands of tickets to people all over the world, from the US, to the UK, to Europe, to Australia - allowing him to show off his jokes to different audiences and tastes. “I've got a load of stuff, it's the final version before I record it for a special, so it's as tight as a drum. I'm just putting it through New Zealand and Australia, to see if that works, to see what doesn't work here.” His comedy manages to work 80 percent of the time, as he claims. Audiences clearly agree, as demonstrated by the high-ticket sales and millions - sometimes hundreds of millions - watching his social media content and ‘The Russell Howard Hour' on television or YouTube. Celebrity appearances and connections bring in the viewers, but Howard holds his own and brings his comedic chops wherever he appears. “You have to figure out the right version of it. I don't know the lay of the land, so I look forward to going to gigs and asking people how they feel.” He's taking in New Zealand in February and observing our nation's cities and stories - and he expects to discuss our response to the crisis in the Red Sea, our politics and our other ‘interesting' aspects. As he told Jack Tame, he'll never know when an off-the-cuff observation turns into a joke, or standup special, or tour highlight. LISTEN ABOVE Tour Dates Wellington 3rd February 2024, Michael Fowler Centre Palmerston North 4th February 2024, Regent On Broadway Whanganui 5th February 2024, Royal Whanganui Opera House Tauranga 7th February 2024, Mercury Baypark Arena Hamilton 8th February 2024, Globox Arena Auckland 9th February 2024, Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre Auckland 10th February 2024, Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre Hawke's Bay 11th February 2024, Toitoi Opera House See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
WTB with Jen Brister, Maureen Younger and Allyson June Smith
This week, Maureen competes in the final of British Comedian of the Year, Allyson takes care of the boomers and a recent rant from Jen comes back with a vengence.Order Jen's special "The Optimist" at jenbrister.co.ukCatch Allyson's "Little Smith Sunshine" tour at allysonjunesmith.comBuy Maureen's new book, Prisms of My Life, here.Send your Ask Allyson questions and problems into womentalkingbollocks@gmail.comProduced by Impatient Productions, edited by Ralph Foster.Artwork by Haiminh Le. Follow WTB on Twitter @wtb_podcast and on Facebook, TikTok and Instagram @wtbpodcast. Hosted by @JenBrister, @AllysonJSmith, @MaureenYounger. Brought to you by @ImpatientUK. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
British comedian and author Andi Osho has written a fiction book about the difficulties of stand-up and the power of love. Andi joined Pat to chat about her new book 'Tough Crowd'
For more than 35 years, British comedian Eddie Izzard built a career as an openly trans woman, winning Emmy awards, acting for both film and TV and performing in one-woman shows on Broadway. Now, she's juggling a campaign for a seat in Parliament while making stops in North America for her Remix Tour, which revisits some of her favorite comedy sets. Ahead of her San Francisco shows, we'll talk with Izzard about getting into politics and what it means to “remix” her old comedy. Guests: Eddie Izzard, comedian; author. Izzard is currently running to be the Labour candidate for a seat in Parliament
British Comedian & Content Creator, Bash The Entertainer, sits down with Brett Berish to discuss what famous comedian influenced his career, his dreams of playing in the NFL, and how getting picked on only motivates him to push harder.
Welcome to Episode One of What's Wrong with You?! - A ground breaking new comedy panel show produced by Made in Manchester (MIM). What's Wrong With You? is the first show of its kind where every member of the panel and every guest has a disability.Hosted by comedian Pet Selwood with regular panelists Laurence Clark and Don Biswas, guests across the series include Coronation Street star Cherylee Houston, her partner, actor & comedian Toby Hadoke, Eaten by Lions film star and comic Jack Carroll and multi gold winning Paralympian Baroness Tanni Grey-ThompsonThe first two guests in Episode One are comedian Harriet Dyer and 'British Comedian of the Year 2022' Dan Tiernan.Produced by Kurt Brookes, the Executive Producers are Ashley Byrne and Adam Rushton.Producer Kurt Brookes says ‘Making the series and working with Pete, Don, Laurence, and all our amazing guests, was an absolute pleasure.""We'd been trying to get it off the ground for years but no-one would touch it until we got funding through the Audio Content Fund, who really liked the premise of everyone telling their stories in a frank and, more importantly, a funny way."Kurt added ‘I think our priority with the series was to be as funny as possible, that way we change some attitudes via the back door; no-one likes being lectured but everyone loves to laugh."Executive Producer Ashley Byrne says ‘it's a fun and funny series which hopefully breaks down some of the silly taboos that still exist around disabilities.' What's Wrong with You? is a Made in Manchester Production for Distinct Nostalgia and Distinct Comedy. Brought to you with support from the Audio Content Fund.New episodes will be released every Monday evening from August 28th 2023Support the show
Lindsey Santoro has been described by Joe Lycett as ‘one of the most naturally hysterical and gifted comedians in recent memory' and Lindsey reached the finals of the British Comedian of the Year, Funny Women as well as semi-finalist at the BBC New Comedy Awards and Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year. Lindsey has been on Channel 4's The Joy of Missing Out, BBC Radio 4's Elephant in the Room with Sarah Millican and on Comedy Central Live. Recently, Lindsey has been seen supporting Russell Kane and Joe Lycett on tour. She's currently on tour with her own show Pink Tinge and is appearing at the Pleasance Courtyard during this years Edinburgh Fringe.Lindsey Santoro is guest number 305 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; four she'd like to preserve and one she'd like to bury and never have to think about again .For gig tickets and everything Lindsey Santoro, visit - lindseysantoro.co.uk .Follow Lindsey Santoro on Twitter & Instagram: @LinzSantoro .Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens and Instagram @mikefentonstevens .Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .Music by Pass The Peas Music .Artwork by matthewboxall.com .This podcast is proud to be associated with the charity Viva! Providing theatrical opportunities for hundreds of young people . Get this podcast ad-free by becoming a team member with Acast+! Your support will help us to keep making My Time Capsule. Join our team now! https://plus.acast.com/s/mytimecapsule. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The UAE has named international economic partnerships and their expansion as one of its five government priorities for the new year. Economist Ed Bell shared his economic takeaways from this list, and economic goals for the year. Plus, as China opens up, we get the economist Mattie Bekink reaction on the impact on both China and UAE economy. We continue our 2023 prediction with CEO week - Saeed Al Abbar, a Dubai-based engineering consultancy AESG for the construction industry and Maaz Sheikh of STAZPLAY for streaming industry. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jimmy & Nath have a BIG announcement on tonight's show! 13 10 60: Make Us Laugh, GOSSIP: Hugh Grant hates that dancing scene in Love Actually, 13 10 60: What Do You Keep On Your Bedside? Do You Have Someone At Work Who Isn't Fun? 13 10 60: What Fast Food Restaurant Do You Wish Was A Pub? British Comedian reveals "weird" things in Australia, Show RatingSubscribe on LiSTNR: https://play.listnr.com/podcast/jimmy-and-nathSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this episode, I talk to the fantastic comedian Jeff Innocent about his comedy career. Innocent has been a comedian, writer, and actor for over twenty years and regularly headlines comedy clubs. Winner of British Comedian of The Year in 2021, as well as numerous other awards, he has created the Jeff Innocent Comedy Academy teaching budding stand-up's the tricks of the trade, and his unique influence is somewhere between looking like a London hard-man and his refined, thoughtful approach to comedy. I have seen Innocent perform regularly for Always Be Comedy in 2017 and 2019, Bearcat Comedy in 2018, Headliners Comedy Club in 2021 and the Ealing Comedy Festival in 2022. Thank you so much for listening to my podcast, if you like what you hear, please subscribe and I hope you enjoy the interview. Please read Jeff Innocent's blog at: www.arichcomiclife.blog/2019/02/09/jeff-innocent/ Jeff Innocent's Links: Facebook: www.facebook.com/jeffinnocentcomedian/ Twitter: www.twitter.com/InnocentJeff Instagram: www.instagram.com/jeffinnocentofficial/ Website: www.innocentacademy.com
The boys were looking forward to this all week! The award-winning comedian and is eight-piece band will head to Melbourne next year with his new show, 'Rob Brydon – A Night Of Songs & Laughter'.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Attention all you Fisch's in the sea!!!! Are you a fan of such films as Lethal Weapon 2, Best In Show, and Independence Day? If the answer's yes, then you're going to want to swim down to the deepest depths of the sea, and checkout my exclusive interview with iconic character actor Jim Piddock who's acted in all those films, and more.
In this bitesize episode, Charlie gives you a sample of a book that he has recently read by a British comedian called James Acaster. This book covers all bases. It includes loads of intermediate to advanced British English phrases, references to British culture and given that a huge part of British culture is comedy then why not expose you to the work of a famous comedian. Useful Links are below...
In this episode, Charlie continues to retell the parody of the British Children's Book "The Tiger Who Came To Tea" called "The Tiger Who Came for a Pint". This was written by a British Comedian called Sean Lock who introduced this book to a live audience on an episode of the British TV Game Show called "8 out of 10 Cats does Countdown". This parody will expose you to a huge amount of cultural references and British English. Furthermore, it'll show you a fun way to take the original of a story and create your own unique version of it which is an excellent way to get active with your English studies. Useful Links are below...
In this episode, Charlie retells the parody of the British Children's Book "The Tiger Who Came To Tea" called "The Tiger Who Came for a Pint". This was written by a British Comedian called Sean Lock who introduced this book to a live audience on an episode of the British TV Game Show called "8 out of 10 Cats does Countdown". This parody will expose you to a huge amount of cultural references and British English. Furthermore, it'll show you a fun way to take the original of a story and create your own unique version of it which is an excellent way to get active with your English studies. Useful links are below...
David Baddiel is one of Britain's most well-known comedians. He first rose to fame with Frank Sinner with their iconic football hit "Three Lions" in 1992 - you might remember it was reprised during England's European Championship run last year. Since then - he's been mainstay on stage, screen and radio. And now he's back with a couple of books - first being Jews Don't Count. His latest kid's book is The Boy who Got Accidentally Famous. David Baddiel joined Mike Hosking. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Grace Sanders caught up with British Comedian legend Nathan Caton to discuss his upcoming 2022 tour “Lets Talk about Vex”. A lot has happened since Nathan Caton last hit the road with his sensational The Pursuit of Happiness tour. As ever, he's got it all tackled in this hilarious new show, Let's Talk About Vex, covering topics such as race, politics, his passion for scented candles, and being in lockdown with his girlfriend. Nathan Caton's charismatic and laidback stand-up style has established him as a much celebrated comedian on the comedy circuit today. Nathan's award-winning combination of personal and topical anecdotes has led to appearances on: Live at the Apollo, Mock The Week, Don't Hate The Playaz, Channel 4's Comedy Gala, Russell Howard's Good News, Sorry I Didn't Know, House of Games, Guessable, CelebAbility and his own series, Gran Jury. https://www.nathancaton.com/
'Guest Fest Month' continues and we welcome our 3rd guest on the podcast, Paul Chowdhry!Paul is a British Comedian who has brought along his own facts today to amaze the guys. Oh and lets be honest have a good laugh! Conor gets his imagination on when it comes to bananas, Whilst Mark is on a one man mission to lock up all hooligans! 8 more amazing, yet nonsense, facts for you to get your teeth into.If you want to get involved, then follow us on TikTok andInstagram @BaffledPodOr email us info@baffledpod.com---A Create Podcast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
One of my personal favorite lost episodes as I talk about the man who inspire me British comedian Benny Hill. Click on the link: https://open.spotify.com/episode/21bgk0FNuYfCE7XxbMNabh?si=NQwJVhpdSgepe3RUY0HMdw --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wilddorkpodcast/support
Phil Wang jokes about contraceptives in his Netflix special, "Philly Philly Wang Wang".
Simon Amstell jokes about beauty in his Netflix special, "Set Free".
In this show, Tracy, Chris, and Will discuss gatekeepers again, and giving and receiving criticism, they also deal with their first hate mail!CHECK OUT OUR FACEBOOK PAGE for images of things we discussYou can follow the advice mentioned in the podcast on Ahr Kay's model here:https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10158719487532415&set=gm.1545345992475229Their main interview is British Comedian, Second World War History podcaster, and modeller: Al Murray.You can hear Al, and historian James Holland, talk Second World War history at https://play.acast.com/s/wehaveways, or on your favourite podcast app. You can find out about his upcoming comedy tour dates at https://thepublandlord.com/.Please do consider supporting the charity he supports: https://www.dkms.org.uk/ which seeks to eliminate blood cancer.Or, if you are a drummer, check out his drum company: https://www.britishdrumco.com/ or his band, FAT COPSPLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS:Hobbyworld USA - hobbyworld-usa.comTetra Modelworks - tetramodel.comLinks - Inside the Armour Publications - www.insidethearmour.comMusic (C) Andy Preston 2021Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/SprueCuttersUnion)
Gina Yashere is releasing her first book, the memoir Cack-Handed. The British comedian of Nigerian heritage is the co-creator, co-executive producer, writer, and actress on the CBS hit series Bob Hearts Abishola. Her book Cack-Handed chronicles her odyssey to get to America and break into Hollywood in this lively and humorous memoir. Gina Yash-ER-RAY has appeared on countless television shows both in the UK and the US. In the US, she was the first and only British comic to perform on Def Comedy Jam.https://www.moneymakingconversations.comhttps://www.youtube.com/MoneyMakingConversationshttps://www.facebook.com/MoneyMakingConversations/https://twitter.com/moneymakingconvhttps://www.instagram.com/moneymakingconversations/Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSupport the show: https://www.steveharveyfm.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Gina Yashere is releasing her first book, the memoir Cack-Handed. The British comedian of Nigerian heritage is the co-creator, co-executive producer, writer, and actress on the CBS hit series Bob Hearts Abishola. Her book Cack-Handed chronicles her odyssey to get to America and break into Hollywood in this lively and humorous memoir. Gina Yash-ER-RAY has appeared on countless television shows both in the UK and the US. In the US, she was the first and only British comic to perform on Def Comedy Jam.https://www.moneymakingconversations.comhttps://www.youtube.com/MoneyMakingConversationshttps://www.facebook.com/MoneyMakingConversations/https://twitter.com/moneymakingconvhttps://www.instagram.com/moneymakingconversations/ Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
Gina Yashere is releasing her first book, the memoir Cack-Handed. The British comedian of Nigerian heritage is the co-creator, co-executive producer, writer, and actress on the CBS hit series Bob Hearts Abishola. Her book Cack-Handed chronicles her odyssey to get to America and break into Hollywood in this lively and humorous memoir. Gina Yash-ER-RAY has appeared on countless television shows both in the UK and the US. In the US, she was the first and only British comic to perform on Def Comedy Jam.https://www.moneymakingconversations.comhttps://www.youtube.com/MoneyMakingConversationshttps://www.facebook.com/MoneyMakingConversations/https://twitter.com/moneymakingconvhttps://www.instagram.com/moneymakingconversations/Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSupport the show: https://www.steveharveyfm.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Gina Yashere is releasing her first book, the memoir Cack-Handed. The British comedian of Nigerian heritage is the co-creator, co-executive producer, writer, and actress on the CBS hit series Bob Hearts Abishola. Her book Cack-Handed chronicles her odyssey to get to America and break into Hollywood in this lively and humorous memoir. Gina Yash-ER-RAY has appeared on countless television shows both in the UK and the US. In the US, she was the first and only British comic to perform on Def Comedy Jam.https://www.moneymakingconversations.comhttps://www.youtube.com/MoneyMakingConversationshttps://www.facebook.com/MoneyMakingConversations/https://twitter.com/moneymakingconvhttps://www.instagram.com/moneymakingconversations/ Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
Gina Yashere is releasing her first book, the memoir Cack-Handed. The British comedian of Nigerian heritage is the co-creator, co-executive producer, writer, and actress on the CBS hit series Bob Hearts Abishola. Her book Cack-Handed chronicles her odyssey to get to America and break into Hollywood in this lively and humorous memoir. Gina Yash-ER-RAY has appeared on countless television shows both in the UK and the US. In the US, she was the first and only British comic to perform on Def Comedy Jam. Phil Thornton is a Music Industry Executive, Television Producer, Senior Vice President, and General Manager of RCA Inspiration; RCA Inspiration is the #1 label in Gospel music! Home to Kirk Franklin, Fred Hammond, The Walls Group, Le'Andria Johnson & more! June is Black Music Month, and Phil Thornton is a National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM) Board Member. Dr. Dawn Brown is a double-board certified child, adolescent, adult, and sports Psychiatrist. She is a pioneer of the Mental Health Movement, and a nationally recognized two-time #1 best-selling author, Forbes writer, ADHD coach, mental health expert, and public speaker. We are going to discuss how to prioritize your mental health and the stigmas regarding mental health. Todd Jones has been in the donut making Game for over 45 years. He started Cuzin's Duzin 26 years ago. He has a Mini-Donut shop in Downtown Brooklyn NY. He will be franchising the concept by the end of 2021https://www.moneymakingconversations.comhttps://www.youtube.com/MoneyMakingConversationshttps://www.facebook.com/MoneyMakingConversations/https://twitter.com/moneymakingconvhttps://www.instagram.com/moneymakingconversations/Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSupport the show: https://www.steveharveyfm.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Gina Yashere is releasing her first book, the memoir Cack-Handed. The British comedian of Nigerian heritage is the co-creator, co-executive producer, writer, and actress on the CBS hit series Bob Hearts Abishola. Her book Cack-Handed chronicles her odyssey to get to America and break into Hollywood in this lively and humorous memoir. Gina Yash-ER-RAY has appeared on countless television shows both in the UK and the US. In the US, she was the first and only British comic to perform on Def Comedy Jam. Phil Thornton is a Music Industry Executive, Television Producer, Senior Vice President, and General Manager of RCA Inspiration; RCA Inspiration is the #1 label in Gospel music! Home to Kirk Franklin, Fred Hammond, The Walls Group, Le'Andria Johnson & more! June is Black Music Month, and Phil Thornton is a National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM) Board Member. Dr. Dawn Brown is a double-board certified child, adolescent, adult, and sports Psychiatrist. She is a pioneer of the Mental Health Movement, and a nationally recognized two-time #1 best-selling author, Forbes writer, ADHD coach, mental health expert, and public speaker. We are going to discuss how to prioritize your mental health and the stigmas regarding mental health. Todd Jones has been in the donut making Game for over 45 years. He started Cuzin's Duzin 26 years ago. He has a Mini-Donut shop in Downtown Brooklyn NY. He will be franchising the concept by the end of 2021https://www.moneymakingconversations.comhttps://www.youtube.com/MoneyMakingConversationshttps://www.facebook.com/MoneyMakingConversations/https://twitter.com/moneymakingconvhttps://www.instagram.com/moneymakingconversations/ Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
James Acaster jokes about the British Empire in his Netflix special, "Repertoire".
Milo (@milo_edwards) and Phoebe (@prhroy) are joined by British Comedian and Seinfeld Box Set Owner Nish Kumar (@mrnishkumar) to talk about S3 E5 of Seinfeld, including Jerry's esoteric bits, the mythical 'hand of Larry David', Rick Stein and, of course, famous Colonels of history... Bonus episodes on Patreon from $3 per month here: https://www.patreon.com/mastersofpod Follow us on twitter @mastersofpod!
Stand up comic and BBC Radio Steffen Peddie talks about his early days wrestling as Judge Mental on the Northern Indy circuit, supporting Mick Foley on his comedy tour and his time starring in BBC sitcom Hebburn. Steffen also shares three wrestling matches that he would watch whilst stranded on a desert island.Follow Steffen: @SteffenPeddieHear Steffen Peddie on BBC Radio Newcastle weeknight from 10pm. bbc.co.uk/radionewcastle See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
In this episode Charlie interviews Luke from Luke's English Podcast and as Luke is not only an ESL teacher but also a comedian, Charlie asked him to describe the journey a comedian takes to become a successful comic in the UK. Luke highlights an important difference between British comedy and British humour. We also squeeze a juicy story out of him during his rock 'n' roll days and he even shares a moment when he was dying on his arse on stage as a comedian. Luke has a delightful way with his words so get ready to learn a lot of intermediate to advanced vocabulary and expressions. I created 100+ flashcards for this episode in The Academy.
Mo Gilligan jokes about school dynamics in his Netflix special, "Momentum"
On The Town host Tanya Cooper chats with Australian-British comedian, Kym Nash on how thhe pandemic has effected comedy and how he is still making people laugh, even in a pandemic!
Russell Bloody Kane! This week we are joined by the legendary British comedian Russell Kane. It was such a privilege to sit down with this man to chew the fat for an hour. So, what do we know about Russell? He is the multi-award winning comedian, presenter, actor, author and scriptwriter known best as the host of three series of Live At The Electric, regular appearances on Live At Apollo, Unzipped, Celebrity Juice and I Am Celebrity Get Me Out of Here Now.Russell has a well documented relationship with his farther which we go into the details of, picking apart the childhood of a would be comedian growing up in Essex with an alpha male body building dad. We also discuss breaking into the world of comedy and how to, and at times not to, deal with fame.Strap yourself in, crack open a tin of gin and tonic, and get ready to laugh. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
It feels like the entire world is talking about Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, whether they watched the Oprah interview or not, and while I'm not one for royal gossip, I am interested in what it tells us about discussions of power and the ways in which women in the public eye are portrayed for trying to do things differently. In watching the media coverage, it was the same age old stories being told: It was Meghan who was the 'temptress,' it was Meghan who took Harry away from his family to further her own ends, and quite frankly a lot of other incredibly sexist comments. It was incredibly tiring, and I couldn't help but feel if we are interested in promoting a more inclusive and caring form of power, this was a teachable moment. Joining me to dissect the rabbit hole that is the British Royal Family is one of my favourite previous guests, back by popular demand, British Comedian and Copywriter Rachael Amesbury. Real, relatable, or downright wrong? We want to know!Tweet your opinion: @_badasscass_ Give us a like on Facebook: @powerdonedifferntly Check out exclusive behind-the-scenes action on Insta: @powerdonedifferently Find us at our new home: www.powerdonedifferently.com
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There has been huge demand for Russell Howard's 'Respite' tour, kicking of in Auckland next Tuesday.If you haven't seen his stand up, there's a great special on Netflix - but he's also known for his satirical take on politics, news, entertainment and all the rest on 'The Russell Howard Hour".Those shows have racked up 400 million views on social media.The acclaimed comic is in managed isolation in New Zealand - ahead of one of his first international tours since Covid 19.Speaking with Tim Dower, Howard says that although he's looking forward to getting out, he's using the time for preparation, not just sitting and wallowing.LISTEN ABOVE
London Hughes jokes about white boys in her special, "To Catch a D*ck" only on Netflix
British comedian John Finnemore made it his quarantine project to crack "Cain’s Jawbone" — and he succeeded, making him just the third person to solve it in its nearly 90-year history.
Kathi Lipp and Tom Elliot are talking to us about the humorous side of our message and showing us how to connect with our audience better. The post 220 How to Be Funny – A British Comedian Shares His Secrets to Getting Your Audience to Pay Attention to Your Message Tom Elliott appeared first on Writing at the Red House.
Chris Purchase is a British comedian & Writer, and hosts several weekly streaming shows. Chris chats about the emotional ups & downs that come with his career choice, and how he first started on stage. youtube.com/chrispurchase www.anygivenrunway.com
Mo Gilligan jokes about going to the club in his Netflix special, "Momentum".
Russell Brand jokes about the bullshit vortex in his Netflix special, "Re:Birth".
Tom is in Portugal getting Coronavirus so Ali is joined today by first reserve Michael Odewale! We're talking about how to best enjoy a six-person hang out after the new government guidelines, Grease 2 and 9/11. So just the usual chat then.Subscribe to our Patreon!www.patreon.com/aidifpodSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/aidifpod)
Gina Yashere jokes about American childhoods in season 2, episode 2 of Netflix's "The Stand Ups".
In this episode of People’s Party, Talib Kweli and Jasmin Leigh sit down with British Comedian, and actor Gina Yashere. The interview covers Gina's upbringing in London UK, to Nigerian parents, and her path to now emerging as one of the most well-known comedians worldwide. Gina, Kweli, and Jaz discuss what it was like to grow up a first generation Nigerian-Brit facing racism from every angle following her from youth through her later years as an elevator engineer. They speak on American's ignorance of world culture, the contrasts of US versus UK racism, Nigerian stereotypes, the 'Nollywood' Nigerian film industry, and Eddie Murphy's 'RAW' is also brought up for a debate on if we can still laugh at comedy considered taboo by today's standards.
Thanks for the 150 new followers @BankBetterGuy! I discuss a freaking insane news article from Business Insider that was shared with me by a follower (Thanks Jerry) about Ex Wells Fargo CEO Richard Kovacevich mentioning we need to "get back to work" in the wake of the Coronavirus Scare and that "Some may get sick, some may die". Learn why I think (as if you don't realize yourself, that he's batshit crazy. Plus, I talk about Bank of America's insane week of talking about Coronavirus Relief and the things they offer in their news release. Of course everything is on a "case-by-case" basis, and doesn't actually promise you anything other than you can request help (Doesn't mean you will get it.) Learn how everyone found out skipping 3 months of payments with no negative impact is good, but that you would owe 4x your payment amount in 3 months!!! Learn How California Governor Gavin Newsom lit into BofA, sending Twitter on fire, and getting me restricted See how British Comedian and CBS Late Night Host James Corder got into the debate with Tweets Here and Here I also talk about a claim made to me by a teller that BofA is burning them out of their hazard pay. If you have any info on that, please call me at 575-322-4127 or DM me or james@notoriousbanker.com Wow, what a crazy week!!!! MY PATREON Page! For as little as $1, you can help James Baca in his fight against big banks. http://patreon.com/NotoriousBanker Sponsors -james@NotoriousBanker.com - Advertise your business with a growing, cutting edge podcast. 575-322-4127 is our voicemail line to share your bad banking experience. 3 min limit. Our website http://www.notoriousbanker.com for more info on our podcast, store, sponsorship info and much more! Visit our Twitter Page @BankBetterGuy - Bank Advice, humor, observations, deals and VIGILANTE CUSTOMER SERVICE & Host James B on Twitter @jamesbisright --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
The writers of Who's Afraid of the Working Class? reunite for Anthem, choreographer Hofesh Shechter brings his Grand Finale back to Australia, we travel to the Komische Oper Berlin to find out how to make opera for everyone, and British comedian Sarah Millican takes control.
The writers of Who's Afraid of the Working Class? reunite for Anthem, choreographer Hofesh Shechter brings his Grand Finale back to Australia, we travel to the Komische Oper Berlin to find out how to make opera for everyone, and British comedian Sarah Millican takes control.
The Ezra Levant Show (January 6, 2019) — So many Hollywood awards shows, and the ratings keep falling every year. GUEST Daniel Pipes
Catch this episode! Find out why self criticism is so blindingly hurtful & what you can do about it.
A huge episode of ARVOS this Wednesday! Brad will be joined in studio by award-winning British comedian Lauren Pattison ahead of her set at Enmore Theatre as part of the Frocking Hilarious Gala on May 16th! We'll also be joined by Sarah from ActionAid Australia, as all proceeds from ticket sales to Frocking Hilarious will go to ActionAid's work to empower women living in poverty around the world to stand up for their rights
Guy and Tim are struggling to hold on so they've brought another special guest into the fold: This week, British Comedian, multiple world record holder and Commodore of the Royal Navy, Tim FitzHigham. Also, as part of the NZ International Comedy Festival, the boys have recorded the epsiode live in front of an audience in downtown Auckland at New Zealand's only full-time comedy club, The Classic. Enjoy. Somebody should. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Welcome to the Gentlemen's Debate Podcast! This episode the Gentlemen debate who is the best British comedian. Is it the angry Scotsman, Frankie Boyle or the sweaty Englishman, Lee Evans? You can decide in our twitter poll: https://twitter.com/TGD_Podcast/status/996292178098913280
http://thecomedycast.com/ Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from English stand-up comedian and satirist, Tiernan Douieb. We kick off the interview with me telling Tiernan about how I sacrificed a Pavlova date to be with him and then we get into where he gets his awesome name from. Usually with the podcasts I tend to wait until towards the end before speaking about guests' podcasts, but with Tiernan I wanted to get straight into it. Tiernan has a really mighty podcast every week called Partly Political Broadcast. If you have any interested in British politics at all you should subscribe to it because it's pure mighty. He mixes satire, gags and serious topics absolutely brilliantly so it was really mighty to speak to him about the podcast. Of course, because the podcast is politically motivated we delved into British politics. We bitch about Theresa May and the Conservatives, Brexit, and the upcoming Scottish dilemma. The lies on a 'massive effing bus' gets a mention as well and Tiernan reveals exactly why he started his podcast and how it helps him to make sense of what's happening in UK politics at the minute. We talk about why voter apathy is large among young people and some of the solutions to it. Tiernan brings up Rexit, it involves robots! We chat about Tiernan's first gig, how he was so excited that he couldn't sleep even after it, he also tells me one of the jokes he did that night. We speak about him doing a comedy course and how when doing it he knew that comedy was what he wanted to do in his life. We also discuss the thin line between exaggeration and bullshit and how the best comedians thread that line.
http://thecomedycast.com/ Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from British stand-up comedian Ola. We get straight into things and speak about his YouTube series of videos called Humanise Ola. We speak about his Nigerian heritage and where his name comes from and how holding onto that heritage is important to him. We speak about how and why Ola got into comedy and how he used to love downloading comedy when he first got the internet, even though it wasn't his most downloaded form of entertainment. We talk about how terrible comedians can be really inspiring. We spoke about how Ola likes to explore new cultures and his need to learn about new places when he visits them with his stand-up show. We touch on the topic of race and how when starting out it was both a help and a hindrance being from a minority community. We speak about a character he used to play Leon Askwith, where the inspiration came from to play an aristocrat with an interest in rap and why more comedians don't tackle more character roles in their stand-up. We speak about his reluctance towards social media how it's all me, me, me, but to be a comic you need to be shameless on it. We speak about The Sunday Service a comedy night Ola runs every Sunday at The Top Secret Comedy Club in London.
Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from Scottish stand-up comedian Rosco McClelland. Rosco's from Scotland but he'd just been touring with some Irish comedians in Australia so we got talking about some of the new Irish slang he'd learned from them. We both then profess our undying and unwavering love for American pop/punk masters Weezer, really I love that band and I won't have a bad word said against them. It seems to me that Scottish comedy is going through a revival, more successful comedians are coming out of Scotland and there are more and more comedy nights all over the country now so I ask Rosco if can he explain this revival and the purple patch Scottish comedy seems to be going through. Search for Rosco on Youtube and you'll get a ton of rap battles; so I ask him about hip-hop and we talk about him having been a drummer in a punk band before comedy. We speak about how and why Rosco got into comedy, and he tells a great story of trying out his first joke on none other than Kevin Bridges. This doesn't come up very often but Rosco has an alter-ego character he sometimes gigs as; Rosco McSkeleton, so we had to chat about that, I wanted to dig into the subject and get to know more about the character and why more comedians don't try playing roles on stage. Rosco won Scottish Comedy of the Year in 2016, so we speak about the competition and what it's lead on to since winning. And finally then we chat about Rosco's comedic influences and the comedy shows he used to watch on tele growing up.
Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from Scottish/Thai stand-up comedian Wiz Jantarasorn. We kick off the interview speaking about Gok Wan & Alan Carr, Wis reveals why. Wis is from Leith, just north of Edinburgh so we get talking about that and how the small port town has changed over the years. We get topical then and speak about Theresa May triggering Article 50 for Brexit, being against a second Scottish Independence Referendum, Scotland having zero Conservative party members in the Scottish parliament and just how crazy it must be to live in Scotland at the moment under such conditions. We get into comedy then and speak about how long Wis has been doing it and how and why he got into it. Wis speaks about how quickly he learnt to read crowd reactions so that he'd know how far he could go with certain topics and jokes. We chat about how Wis' sets have evolved over the years and how he has the confidence to go back to early material and rewrite it with a new perspective We speak about seeing comedians regularly and how it pushes you to be a better observes and better comedian And finally then Wis had just announced his plans for this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival so we had to have a natter about that.
http://thecomedycast.com/ iTunes: https://goo.gl/41izWU Android feed: https://goo.gl/UYKvap https://www.facebook.com/thecomedycast/ https://twitter.com/The_ComedyCast http://mixlr.com/thecomedycast Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you'll be hearing from Scottish stand-up comedian Ross Leslie. We kick off the interview talking about our shared love for watching sky sports news alone and in our shorts before getting onto Ross' upcoming Glasgow Comedy Festival show and some of the new material he's written for it. We chat then about politics making its way into Ross' sets and why at the beginning of his comedy career he stayed away from it before moving onto talking a little then about football and the hours of life that we've both wasted playing Football Manager; a game that is more addictive than heroin. We speak then about how and why Ross got into comedy, I'll give you a clue, he had something to do with spite. Ross speaks then about Asperger's Syndrome and how he was diagnosed with the condition following autism being diagnosed in two of his sons in his mid-thirties and how when it happened he felt like a weight had been lifted off his shoulders. We speak about the characteristics of the conditions as well and how people deal with it. We get back to comedy then and Ross tells me about his first ever gig and one of the jokes from that faithful night. We speak about parenthood then for a bit, it's joys, it's disappointments (being hit in the cock) and how even though it's a great source of material Ross wants to use it less in his sets. Finally then we speak about Ross' comedic influences, curating Scotland's Pick of the Fringe at last year's Edinburgh Fringe and becoming a regular contributor on BBC Scotland's award winning satire show Breaking the News.
http://thecomedycast.com/ Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you'll be hearing from Scottish stand-up comedian David Callan. We kicked off the interview talking about David's day job and how the service industry isn't as crushingly horrible as office work, we spoke then about where David was raised, Essex in London and how even though he was born there he always had a Scottish accent. We talk about David living in Edinburgh now, having moved up there for university and how it has a special place in my heart as you all probably know by know. We have a chat then about his parents still living in England, whether Brexit has changed anything and the delight in seeing England lose to Iceland at last year's Euros. We get on to comedy then and speak about how and why David got into comedy; winning a place on a comedy course that led to his first gig. We also speak about comedy competitions, their pros and cons and both why new comedians should and shouldn't enter them. We talk about David winning a place on a comedy course and how that led to his first gig. David speaks then about how it's always better when a comedian is starting out not to bring along a ready-made posse of fans; family, colleagues and that performing in front of people you don't know will make you a far better comedian. We have a chat then about David MC-ing and how it's taught him to be more spontaneous and not to be afraid of the audience. We return to the subject of the comedy course he took before he started and we speak about some of the tips he learned both about performing and the industry as a whole. Finally then we speak about David gigging at the ongoing Glasgow Comedy Festival, our shared undying love for the Joe Rogan podcast; Alex Jones being a bit mad and David's comedic influenc
http://thecomedycast.com/ Today you'll be hearing from Scottish stand-up comedian Kevin McPadden. We kicked off the interview by speaking about Kevin's upcoming Glasgow Comedy Festival shows and how his preparations are going for this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival. That good us talking about Kevin's writing process , how he prepares his sets and how he likes to explore ideas for jokes. We spoke then about Kevin's first gig, in The Stand in Edinburgh, not a bad place to start at all. We spoke about how it went and what he remembers of it. We spoke then about how and why Kevin got into comedy. And we speak too about how he used to be nervous before gigs and how he's learned to deal with it. We also chat about the first time Kevin bombed and how he dusted himself off and learned from the experience. We speak then for a bit about the dreaded 'comedian's comedian' term and alternative comedy. We talk about his influences in particular Scottish comedians and American ones. We speak a bit about Kevin's writing process and how he decides on whether a joke is good enough or maybe if it needs some flashing out to improve it and how long he gives a joke before binning it if it's not working. We chat about if performing stand-up all the time and seeing so much other stand-up has lead to Kevin enjoying seeing stand-up a bit less and we natter about the challenge of going from doing 10, 15 & 20 minute sets to doing 1hour sets at last year's Edinburgh Fringe. Finally then we speak about the health of the current Scottish stand-up comedy scene and how his gigs south of the border in England went when he ventures over Hadrian's Wall.
http://thecomedycast.com/ We kicked off the interview speak about where Lauren is from and how her family fled Russia for county Cork Lauren is also a medium and big into spirituality so we spoke about that, I can't put my finger on it but for some reason I really enjoy speaking to people about things like this. We speak about a philosophy that Lauren follows, a Course in Miracles We speak indepthly about the topic and we get onto the heavy issue of death and how we deal with it as individuals and as a society, and indeed different societies Lauren moved to Israel as a child so we speak about that, how she never really fit in and how she longed to return to Dublin We spoke about Lauren audition for the Iasaeli Children's Choir, and going on to being a soloist for them before it ended thanks to the war. Lauren has a condition called Complex Needs Disorder, formerly Borderline Personality Disorder, so we spoke about that for a while. She really opened up about the condition and what it entails. We spoke about how she battled with it, it's signs, it's symptons, how to deal with it, her treatment with the Theraputic Community Therapeutic Community, how they help people with mental issue without drugs and the patients run the operation while the staff oversee everything We spoke about Moving on Theatre, a theatre company Lauren set up and has run since coming out of the Therapeutic Community We speak about Moving on TV, an online TC channel Lauren has set up for the community.
http://thecomedycast.com We started off the interview speaking about where Sam is from, Newport in Wales, a place famous for having a documentary about bouncers and a new KFC. We spoke about living in and growing in a place with a Bad Reputation. We had a chat then about Sam's comedic influences and how they've affected his style of comedy, we spoke about Sam mixing styles on stage and how his favourite comedians are Canadians. We delve into that a bit and try and pick at what it is about Canadian comedians that Sam likes and any synergy between Wales & Canada. We speak about Sam getting into comedy at the ripe old age of 17 and I wanted to know whether he'd been a bit bulled on the scene of if everyone was supportive of him. We spoke about his first gig at an open mic in a hotel along with a friend who also wanted to try it. We spoke about how Sam's sets have evolved over the year, going from trying to make audiences laugh to joking about the things that make him laugh. We speak then about comedy competitions, their pros and cons and how they can be useful for new comedians but difficult to take part in at the same time. Finally then we'd a chat then about Sam loving the challenge of keeping his jokes fresh so that both he and his audience don't get bored of the same jokes. We talk as well about Sam starting a new comedy night in Cardiff soon with YAY! comedy.
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http://thecomedycast.com/ Today you'll be hearing from English stand-up comedian Stuart Edwards. I won't lie to you all, you're smart listeners but I had a bit of a man crush on Stuarts sumptuous ginger beard, but Stuart had some bad news for me. We followed that up with a quick chat about a recent role Stuart had played that involved trying to tempt kids with sweet from the back of a van. Stuart is based in the mighty Northern England stronghold of Newcastle and I'd a few questions about the area that needed answering, pease pudding and people punching police horses. We got onto comedy then and spoke about how and why Stuart got into comedy and his first gig. Stuart revealed that he'd been gigging the night before and it didn't exactly go very well so we delved into that topic, I wanted to know how a comedian picks himself up after such a gig and how it affects them and their confidence. Stuart's only been at comedy for two and a half years but we had a chat about the highs and lows that he's already experienced. Stuart speaks then about his love for East-Coast American comedians and how they've had a much larger influence on him that British comedians. We spoke about the prevalence of middle-of-the-road comedy that is a stable of British TV now and how it's a sad reflection of what's happening on the live circuit. We got a bit serious then and spoke about how some comedians can get away with using certain taboo words and how they skirt dangerously with crossing the line of what is and isn't acceptable. We talk about conspiracy theories and why Stuart doesn't see a need for covering his laptop camera when he's doing certain things. We speak too about The Super Dooper Awesome Foursome and why teaming up with other comedians and touring with them is so beneficial for all parties involved. Finally then we speak about Stuart's podcast, Analyze These, how he's currently preparing for the upcoming Glasgow Comedy Festival and how writing with other comedians can be pretty awkward.
http://thecomedycast.com Today you'll be hearing from Bilal Zafar. We started off the interview talking about Bilal already preparing new material for this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival, we spoke as well a bit about Bilal family history, his mother and father moving from Pakistan to Britain. Bilal's family had just celebrated a wedding in the family so I was curious to ask him some questions about that as I know next to nothing about Muslim religious ceremonies. We spoke about how and why Bilal got into comedy and he got straight into his comedic influences growing up, Vic & Bob, Alan Partridge and in particular Chris Morris with Brass Eye, The Day Today and Blue Jam. Bilal also spoke about him going to university to study script writing and deciding that the best way to get noticed and get things done was to get a name for himself on the stand-up comedy scene so he took the plunge. We talked about his first gig, going blank and using it to his advantage and how he had to battle a bit with shyness before getting used to being on stage. Bilal won the 2016 NATYS (New Act of the Year Show) award so we had to speak about that and all the doors that it has helped open for him, we spoke about him getting signed by an agency thanks to it and how they came in handy during his Edinburgh Fringe Show. We had a chat then about Bilal getting into some acting roles and he revealed he'll be appearing on Rob Delaney & Sharon Horgan's show Catastrophe in the future, we spoke too about comedy panel shows, their popularity and a little about how people are auditioned for them. We spoke then about last year's show Cakes and how it was all kicked off by his brother joking around with some racism he'd seen on Twitter one day. That got us talking about social media and the power that it has and how people give it more weight that it probably deserves. Finally then we chat about how Bilal likes to work on his act and his writing process and how the writing is the real work compared to what we see on stage.
http://thecomedycast.com/ Lucy Roper came on my radar thanks to the Leicester Comedy that's running at the moment, we started off the podcast talking about Lucy's day job, she works in T.V. (wooooo) but she won't get your script commissioned. We spoke too about where Lucy's from, a wee town called Wirksworth, which isn't pronounced like it's spelled and that led to us talking about why the English has such a blatant disregard for how to pronounce their letters. We had a chat about the North/Side divide in England and where the line is between the two regions, is it Birnmingham, Leicester, or Watford, we spoke about how it's different for everyone and about how that divide is also present on the comedy scene. We got onto comedy then and spoke about Lucy having her first gig at a King Gong, something not for the faint-hearted but she wasn't gonged straight away and it went fairly well. We spoke then about why Lucy uses poetry in her set and she discussed how it actually gives her set a firm structure and how if a joke or two isn't going well she knows that a bit of poetry will get her back on track. We had a talk then about her 2016 Edinburgh Fringe Show, Three's a Crowd, Four's an Audience, a show she shared with fellow stand-up comedian and comedy writer, Charlotte Michael. We spoke about her experiences in Edinburgh and how she'd love to return. We spoke about Lucy's new show, Girlfriend Material that she'll have debuted the weekend before the podcast came out and that she hopes someone will propose marriage at her gig; not to her though. We speak about Lucy's love for poetry and we talk about some of the differences between what you learn in England compared to the poetry rammed down your neck in Ireland. Finally then we talk about the current health of the live stand-up comedy scene in England and the sense of togetherness and commendatory among the comedians on the scene.
http://thecomedycast.com/ Joseph Cullen is more than multi-talented, he's a actor, a stand-up comedian and has a pretty cool day job; working with Over The Limit Theatre as Artistic Director. He's a self-depreciating kind of lad, as you'll hear, but he's certainly got his head screwed on properly and greatness beckons I hope. We started off talking about how with a name like Joe Cullen he could be my next door neighbour back in Wexford and how he was almost Augustus Bojangles. I ran into Joe on Twitter where he's been promoting his stand-up show You Having Olaf? But first I wanted to ask him about his 2016 show Gentle Tim, a show about Timothy Threadwell, a name familiar to anyone that has seen Werner Herzog's documentary Grizzly Man. We spoke then about You Having Olaf? Joe stand-up show about his time spent working as a children's entertainer and the long lasting trauma it caused him to this very day. We have a wee chat too about how children are just pretty terrible overall and not worth the bother, Joe even predicts that his godson will one day grow up to be a serial killer, so you've been told. We changed subject then and spoke about Joe's job as Artistic Director with Over The Limit Theatre and what that involves, we spoke about the shows they're putting on at the ongoing Vault 2017 Festival in London; The Witches' Mark, Siren and The Lock In. We spoke too about the processes involved of going from script approval to production. Joe's also an actor and I was dying to ask him about working with the fantastic Les Enfants Terrible on their previous stage hit The Game's Afoot, an immersive who-done-it, Cluedo type of production. Finally then we spoke about Joe comedic influences growing up and what advice he'd give to people thinking of getting into comedy.
http://thecomedycast.com Martin's a Dublin man and recently he's been hitting a lot of peoples' radars in Ireland thanks to his particular style of comedy. While still certainly new to the scene you can definitely see his progression as a comedian from his material on YouTube. We kicked off the interview like any two Irishmen, we bitched about the weather, we spoke too about being raised in Cabra in Dublin, a place with a bad reputation, but really that's all it is. We spoke about Martin's surname Angolo, his Namibian roots and his mother's experiences when moving to Dublin to work as a nurse. We talked too about how and why Martin got into comedy and how he actually see stand-up comedy as a stepping stone to other things; his desire to be a comedy writer and certainly not an actor, as hereveals why he doesn't have much time for actors. We also spoke about about Martin's experience growing up in Dublin as a black person, I was nervous asking that question I won't lie. I've heard some bad stories from black friends at home. We talked then about Martin's comedic influences growing up and how his mother's taste in comedy was a huge influence on him. Martin decides to turn the tables on me about halfway through and I get a grilling about the podcast. We speak too about Martin's writing process and how he works on his act. And we spoke about how Martin's act has evolved over the years away from one-liners to being more anecdotal or more 'truthful' as he himself says. We speak about the first time Martin died on his arse and how he picked himself back up from it and finally we talk about the supportive nature of the comedy scene in Dublin.
http://thecomedycast.com/ Rachel Jackson is a Scottish stand-up comedian from the outskirts of Edinburgh, Babeton to be exact about it and when you're from a place with 'babe' in the name you're already winning. At the time of recording Rachel's mini-TV series had just started to air on BBC 3; Bunny Boiler's Dating Vlog and will continue to do so until Valentine's Day, so I'm sure many of you will be seeing it on your screens. We got good and nerdy on it, how it was transformed from an Edinburgh one-woman stage show to a TV mini series and all the processes that went along with that. We spoke then about the inspiration behind Bunny Boiler's Dating Vlog, Cassandra (with a C) and we spoke too about how and why Rachel got into stand-up comedy. We spoke then about being spotted at the Edinburgh Fringe by the BBC and the whole madness of doing an entire month of stand-up comedy at the festival. We were given the definition of a 'Bunny Boiler' too, for anyone that doesn't already know (I didn't until a wee while before the interview). We spoke too about Rachel's love to making videos and doing sketch comedy, and in particular her sketch videos with BBC Scotland and their Short Stuff collection. We had a chat too about knowing when to grab an opportunity by the horns and really going for it, in comedy opportunities will present themselves but to get places you really have to put everything of yourself into it, so with Rachel getting her first taste of television it was really interesting to hear her speak about this. Finally then we spoke about actors being social justice warriors, her comedic influences growing up, as well as now, and what's in store for Rachel's future in stand-up comedy.
Thanks again for joining us here at The Comedy Cast. http://thecomedycast.com Regular listeners will know that I'm a massive fan of what's going on in Northern Ireland's comedy scene, indeed the whole culture scene up there. Finally there's a generation of people taking to the stage in their chosen medium who aren't burdened with the yoke of 'The Troubles' and they're emerging from and showing the rest of us the new Northern Ireland. Marcus Keeley is a man that will be more than well-known to comedy nerds in Ireland, not only because of his unique take on comedy, but also for his work putting and promoting gigs. We start off by talking about coming from Northern Ireland and how he enjoys living under a constant vibe of tension, how 'it could all kick off at any time'. We have a chat too about Marcus moving to Norwich for university and nearly being murdered by a British Royal Marine for no other reason that he was from Northern Ireland. When we got onto comedy I discovered that Marcus' stage career had actually begun with poetry so we spoke about that for a while, slam poetry gets a special mention. We had a talk too about Marcus involvement with improv comedy, most recently with Wonderfrog, a really excellent Belfast-based improv group (video below). We speak too about Marcus' love for making videos and we speak about some of the ones on his excellent YouTube channel. Finally then we speak about Voicebox Comedy, a comedy night that Marcus ran for years in Belfast, most recently in LOFT. A disused art gallery that recently was knocked down. Voicebox is on a bit of a break but he tells me he's hopefully of it coming back in the future
Today you'll be hearing from Drew Taylor. Drew hails from the valleys in south Wales, and while he's still quite new on the comedy scene there he's been getting rave reviews and really lighting up comedy gigs since he started plying his trade on the Welsh comedy scene. We started off by talking about Drew's duties on his partner's grandparents farm and how living in the country means doing your duty sometimes, and being from a rural background myself I know that only too well. Then we spoke a little about being from the Welsh valleys and got a wee geography lesson. We speak then about Drew's career as a teacher for kids with learning difficulties and how teaching is a great job to prepare you for stand-up comedy. We talk about how and why Drew got into comedy, and in particular we speak about Drew's specific style of observational humour. How he likes to take a different view than most people and where that comes from. We also chat about why Drew does some Mc-ing from time to time and how it comes in really handy when running his own shows and how he helps him to improve his jokes. We spoke about the local scene in Wales, how to get booked and the amount of talent on the current circuit there too. We have a chat about Drew dying on his arse the first time and how in particular it effected his girlfriend. Finally then, we spoke about how Drew works on improving his jokes and we delve into Drew's approach to writing material.
This is a rebroadcast of the Ruth E. Cockburn interview that aired on September 8th. Today you'll be hearing from an English comedian from Blackpool, Ruth E. Cockburn (it's not pronounced as it's spelt, so behave). We had a right old natter about her former career as a substitute teacher, teaching things like sex education to teenagers, why she got into comedy, her influences, her Donald Trump song and her current project Love Letters from Blackpool which she plans to tour next year.
Today you're going to be hearing from English stand-up comedian Rosie Wilby. By the time Rosie had even gotten into stand-up comedy she'd already had a pretty great career, journalism, music journalism, then fronting a band during the hayday of Britpop, all of that before deciding to become a stand-up. So, of course, we spoke about all of that and we spoke about her natural inquisitiveness, finding inspiration in everyday life, being personal onstage. We also spoke about her comedy influences, both past and current. We spoke about Rosie being a prominent figure within the LGBT comedy scene in Britain, where feminism is in 2016. Rosie gave a wildly popular and much lauded TedTalk last year entitle "Is Monogamy Dead?" a talk, obviously about monogamy, relationships, breakups, open relations and the surprising fact that she found out that women cheat far more than men.
Jeff Green, British comedy legend joins Hocko and the Nelson Twins for an irreverent look back at The Good Ol' Days - in this episode, red heads, caffeine tablets and skimpy shorts - what the?!
Today you're going to be hearing from one of Northern Ireland's most hotly-tipped stand-up comedians, Micky Bartlett. Listeners will certainly have heard his name before on the Graeme Watson episode and you all know by know that I have a major thing for the current Northern Irish comedy scene so I had to get Micky on as a guest. We had a great laugh together, really did. Micky has to be one of the most relaxed comedians we're ever had on and it felt far more like a conversation over a pint than an interview. Nonetheless we nattered about how and why he got into comedy, ducking out of comedy for two full years after dying on his arse one night and making videos with, and being the victim of, the very talented Colin Geddis. We spoke too about Micky's influences, growing up in Northern Ireland; while some of his friends wanted woolly faces all he wanted to do was play Streets of Rage. We spoke too about STIs and trying to make doctors laugh, his successful stint on the BBC Northern Ireland panel show Monumental and dealing easily with being labelled as Northern Ireland's next big stand-up comedian. It was an absolute pleasure to talk to Micky, he's a real what you see is what you get and although this is for a podcast you get what I mean. His stand-up show is nothing short of utterly hilarious and I sincerely thing he's only a couple of more tours away from greatness.
Today you'll be hearing a belter of a podcast with Irish stand-up comedian and author, Caimh McDonnell. This is a long one as tends to happen when you get two Irish lads on the phone together, clocking it at nearly an hour. I had a great time talking to Caimh, his stand-up is fantastic, he's got a great talents for telling hilarious stories and being spontaneous with the crowd as well. We spoke about how his show has changed over the years, how he has honed his comedic talents while writing for other comedians and performers thanks to his time writing for a multitude of British TV panel shows. We also chatted about his first book "A Man with One of Those Faces" and how it came about. We spoke about his recent Edinburgh Show "Bride and Prejudice" and his experiences with racism. Rugby gets a mention, Caimh is the stadium announcer for London Irish, as does football, former Irish manager Giovanni Trapattoni gets a mention when Caimh asked him what happened when Nigeria scored a goal against Ireland. We also spoke about the podcast he puts out with British stand-up comedian Gary Delaney called Panel Beaters, a panel show where the losers die as the game progresses. We spoke too about Pet Squad.....Dodge the beagle, Sheeba the tabby cat and Bingo the guinea pig - three domestic pets who lead a thrilling double life as unlikely superheroes....a CBBC cartoon Caimh wrote many moons ago. As I said, this interview is a long one but it was fascinating to speak to someone who is still totally in love with comedy and who is a successful stand-up, comedy writer and author
Today you'll be hearing from Welsh stand-up comedian Robin Morgan. Had a really insightful chat with Robin about comedy. Robin writes for the BBC Radio 4's The New Quiz, among others, so it was great to talk to him about the transition of going from writing his own material for his own shows to writing material both with other comedians and for them. We had a chat about Welsh comedy, moving up to London. Comedy advice from his parents, how he works on his stand-up routine and his flirtation with the Welsh Death Metal scene.
Today you'll be hearing an absolute belter of an interview with Scottish stand-up John Scott. John's such a talented comedian, mixing the big issues of the day with the normal banality of life all the while ensuring that there's a solid and warm connection with his audience. The interview was recorded the morning after Donald Trump won the Presidential election in America so, of course, that popped up. We also spoke about Brexit and the Scottish Independence Referendum, being a Scot living in Northern England. We spoke too about going back to college, comedy as a default defense mechanism, his influences, dying on his arse for the first time, his punk ethics and how he works on his act.
Today you'll be hearing from British stand-up comedian Meryl O'Rourke. Meryl has been doing stand-up for about ten years now and has found a loyal following on the scene thanks to her particular style of humour and frank delivery. It would be unfair to call her 'one of the lads' but she'd make all your male friends blush with her anecdotes and two seconds later have them howling with laughter. We spoke about her love of comedy, how it was passed onto her by her mother (bringing her to see Morecambe & Wise at the age of 5) and her love of comedy writing too. Comedy wasn't the only thing she inherited from her mother; indeed a few years ago she won over many an audience and critic with her successful show "Bad Mother." A show that dealt hilariously with the anxiety she'd inherited and how she came to terms with it when she started her own family.
Today you'll be hearing from Hull-based British comedian Gina Jenkinson. When I first saw Gina's stand-up show I was sure she was going to eat me alive on the show; she's known for being controversial and a bit aggressive on stage, but all fears were quickly washed away. Gina was incredibly lovely to speak to and she quickly opened up about her childhood. In 2015 she made headlines with her Edinburgh Fringe show "Desperately Seeking Attention" a show about how she dealt with her tumultuous upbringing. While researching I read it had been quite bad but what she revealed in the interview was quite shocking. Thankfully Gina has a common trait among comedian; the will to succeed. She hasn't let her past dominate her and when parenthood and marriage didn't quite deliver the satisfaction she thought it would she set herself the goal of becoming a stand-up comedian. To be so open and honest on stage with material that's pretty horrific at times and to make fun of it and to get other people to laugh both at and along with it takes a huge amount of talent and skill. We also talk about her love of sketch, her influences and inspirations and we close the podcast with her hilarious song "Children of Africa/It's My Birthday".
Today you're going to be hearing from an English stand-up comedian, Tom Ward. Tom's still pretty new to the world of comedy but he's already making waves and has been winning over audiences to his unique style of comedy since he started out. His observational humour is really top class and the way he mixes bizarre observations of the mundanity of modern life really cracks me up, be that his jokes on boiling water, his three favourite types of silence, or his ex-girlfriend's fringe, his live act is something special and Tom Ward is destined for greatness. Of that I have no doubt.
English Comedian David Von Jones currently resides in Edinbrugh, Scottland but originally hails from Shrewsbury, a small town in United Kingdom, which is also the hometown of Charles Darwin (fun fact). Between stand up performances in Los Angeles and canvassing for Bernie Sanders in Malibu, David took some time to chat with me about Mindfulness, Kanye West, Donald Trump, Russell Brand, Punch lines without Jokes, and his upcoming show “Beautiful Ducks” which he will performing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe later this year. Follow him on Twitter @DavidVonJones Check out his 5 min set on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBIezzLyllc And if you’re in Edinburgh this August, get tickets to the 2016 Festical Fringe! https://www.edfringe.com/ David hates it when people unecessarily use British colloquialisms around him, so…. **Cheers Mate!**
Alice talks to British Comedian, Radio Personality and all round excellent eccentric, Tom Wrigglesworth. The ramble through music, a jew called Adolf, pain-pissing contests and redlining on anxiety. Producer Bryce Halliday http://brycehalliday.com/
British comedian, Stephen Fry, tweets the Vinyl Lounge personally, direct to their Twitter account. And aren't the boys excited.
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