Podcast appearances and mentions of mark dean quinn

In this episode of The Comedians Paradise, we dive deep into the mind of Edinburgh Fringe legend and Malcolm Hardee Award winner, Mark Dean Quinn. From his legendary cult status as the man who ate a kilogram of cheese on stage at 2:00 AM, to the rules of his chaotic new late-night alternative hit, Mark Dean Quinn Tries to Walk Towards a Flipchart, we explore what it truly means to make maverick comedy.We break down the evolution of audience interaction, why live comedy is shifting away from corporate influences, and the psychological relationship between a comedian and the audience's laughter. Whether you are a comedy nerd curious about the health implications of eating dairy for an hour on stage, or a performer looking to navigate corporate sponsorships without losing your joyful, unexpected spark, this episode is a masterclass in comic originality.Episode Timestamps:00:00 – Introduction to the Fringe and Mark Dean Quinn02:57 – The Unique Experience of Live Comedy05:58 – The Evolution of Comedy and Audience Interaction09:09 – The Relationship Between Comedy and Laughter12:06 – The Cheese Show Phenomenon17:59 – Health Implications and the Future of Comedy25:32 – The Art of Comedy and Performance28:14 – Navigating Sponsorship and Publicity 29:55 – The Fringe Experience: Joy vs. Corporate Influence36:05 – Creating Unique Comedy Experiences39:11 – The Evolution of Comedy Shows50:04 – Audience Dynamics and Engagement54:19 – Finding Joy in the UnexpectedIf you would like to know more about Mark, you can follow his Instagram at mark_dean_quinn. You can follow this podcast on Youtube at https://bit.ly/41LWDAq, Spotify at https://spoti.fi/3oLrmyU,Apple podcasts at https://apple.co/3LEkr3E and you can support the pod on:https://www.patreon.com/thecomediansparadise.#edfringe2026 #markdeanquinn #malcolmhardee #thecomediansparadise #alternativecomedy #edfringe2026 #freefringe #edinburghfringe #livecomedy #podcast #edinburghfringe #edinburghfringecomedyfestival #edinburghfringe

Mark Dean Quinn joins me on the show today to do his best not to talk about his show 'Oh No (That's Not Your Cheese).' He's found the right level of fame, and doesn't feel the need to go any further. Nevertheless, we've lots to talk about, including the importance of the Free Fringe and how this can offer more artistic freedom, his work on the Edinburgh Fringe Performers' Forum, and why he is ready to help people before they get to Edinburgh. But does he eat cheese?

Episode 3 for 2023, hosted by Copstick, with guests Amos Gill, Mark Dean Quinn, and President Obonjo. Produced by Stephen O'Donnell, and recorded at the Beehive Inn, courtesy of the Scottish Comedy Festival. https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/amos-gill-the-pursuit-of-happy-ish https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/mark-dean-quinn-is-this-enough https://www.presidentobonjo.com/

In GBA 275 we get better acquainted with Joz Norris. He talks about making weird and silly comedy about ideas and disconnected feelings, why he currently doesn't think of what he does as comedy but why he probably will by the middle of next year, ending up naked apart from a gold thong on a rooftop in Edinburgh, sitcoms, comedy and drama about awkward people in awkward situations and lots more. Joz plugs: Robert Johnson and The Devil Man: http://www.joznorris.co.uk/single-post/2016/10/06/Robert-Johnson-The-Devil-Man Weirdos Panto - My Big Fat Weirdos Christmas Wedding: https://laughoutlondoncomedyclub.co.uk/2016/10/17/my-big-fat-weirdos-christmas-wedding-december-7-9/ Double Act: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfy70f59fTg The Girl Whisperer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuIqok9CXYc I plug: The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thefamilytreepodcast We mention: Candid Cafe: http://www.candidarts.com/sections/galleryandcafepages/candid_cafe.htm Scottish Story Telling Centre: http://www.tracscotland.org/scottish-storytelling-centre Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/ Matthew Highton: http://www.matthewhighton.co.uk/ Archimedes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes Greek Tragedy: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sets/greek-tragedy Andy Zaltzman: http://andyzaltzman.co.uk/satirist-for-hire/ Micheal Brunstrom: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-240-micheal-brunstrom David Lee Morgan: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-251-david-lee-morgan The Hay Wain Reloaded: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/michael-brunstrom-the-hay-wain-reloaded The Golden Age Of Steam: https://edinburghfestival.list.co.uk/event/490260-michael-brunstrom-the-golden-age-of-steam/ Mark Dean Quinn: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-249-mark-dean-quinn Sofie Hagan: http://www.sofiehagen.com/ Brydie Lee Kennedy: http://www.brydieleekennedy.com/ Robert Johnson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Johnson David Mills: http://www.itsdavidmills.com/ Eleanor Morton: https://eleanormortoncomedian.com/ The Office: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Office_(UK_TV_series) Ricky Gervais: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Gervais Weirdos: http://www.weirdoscomedy.com/ Adam Larter: https://twitter.com/lartymcparty Terry Pratchett: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Pratchett Harold Pinter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Pinter Peep Show: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peep_Show_(TV_series) Alan Partridge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Partridge John Brittain: https://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/client/jon-brittain Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho: https://www.facebook.com/sohothatcher/ Rotterdam: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/rotterdam-9781474284172/ Comedian Destroys Heckler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2p6mxBe8pI Charley Harrison: https://twitter.com/charleylucyha John Hastings: http://www.thejohnhastings.com/ John Henry Falle: https://twitter.com/thestorybeast Ed Aczel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Aczel Gabby Best: https://twitter.com/best_gabby Ralph Little: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralf_Little When Harry Met Sally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Harry_Met_Sally... Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word!

In GBA 249 we get better acquainted with Mark Dean Quinn. He talks about trying not to make people laugh, making people laugh, the art of flyering, having a complicated relationship with audiences, how being in recovery from gambling addiction and going fly fishing with his father have both influenced him to make to the kind of comedy he makes and feeling truly himself inside the transitory space that is Edinburgh during festival season. Mark plugs: Going and doing something you've been putting off His most recent show was called Observation Without Comedy and you can find him at: https://twitter.com/markdeanquinn I plug: Get Matt Hill on GBA by donating to the Spark RefuAid appeal: https://mydonate.bt.com/fundraisers/sparkrefuaid Live GBA @ Radioman Lates: http://www.facebook.com/events/1400049843627973/ Radioman: http://www.facebook.com/events/1739174112978825/ Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/ What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk Twitter: http://twitter.com/goosefat101 Donating: http://bit.ly/1LUtbKt We mention: All You Read Is Love: http://www.allyoureadislove.com/ Richard Tyrone Jones: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-richard-tyrone-jones Frog Morris: http://www.frogmorris.net/ Radcliffe Royds: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-radcliffe-episodes Ben Target: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-92-ben-target Banshee Labyrinth: http://www.thebansheelabyrinth.com/ PBH Free Fringe: http://freefringe.org.uk/ Duchamp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Duchamp Urinal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_(Duchamp) Joseph Beuys: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Beuys The Vanishing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vanishing_(1988_film) Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word!

In GBA 240 we get better acquainted with Michael Brunstrom. As we walk between Angel Islington and Victoria Park we improvise a conversation that pulls at the strands of what drives Michael to make the kind of comedy he does. We talk fringe theatre, enthusiasms, generalisations, milieus, breaking up with improv, the truth behind the surreal and so much more. I plug: Stand Up Tragedy Presents on Thursday Feb 18th at the Dogstar Brixton: Stand Up Tragedy Presents on 18th Feb: http://www.facebook.com/events/1129825877029165/ Michael plugs: Leicester Comedy Festival: The Hay Wain Reloaded 20th Feb Heroes at the criterion at 3.30pm http://www.michaelbrunstrom.co.uk We mention: Steve Roe: http://www.hooplaimpro.com/about-steve-roe.html Improvised Greek Tragedy: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/stand-up-tragedy-19 Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk James Ross: https://twitter.com/jamesrosscomedy Sofie Hagen: http://www.sofiehagen.com/ Mark Dean Quinn: https://twitter.com/markdeanquinn Jeremy Clarkson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Clarkson The Golden Age of Steam: https://edinburghfestival.list.co.uk/event/490260-michael-brunstrom-the-golden-age-of-steam/ Myself and Micheal performing at SUT in 2015: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/tragic-spring-act-1-tragic-beginnings Darren Walsh: http://darrenwalsh.co.uk/ Bec Hill: http://www.bechillcomedian.com/ Pun Run: http://www.thepunrun.com/ In the Dark Radio: http://www.inthedarkradio.org/ Nina Garthwaite: http://www.inthedarkradio.org/nina-garthwaite-founding-director/ In the Dark Residency: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/gba-live-the-invisible-picture Ken Campbell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Campbell Cottesloe Theatre: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/backstage/cottesloe-theatre National Theatre Illuminatus!: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminatus! Robert Anton Wilson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Anton_Wilson The Warp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Warp_(play) Neil Oram: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Oram Furtive Nudist,Jamais Vu, Pigspur: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bald-Trilogy-Recollections-Pigspurt-Happiness/dp/0413690806 Pidgin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin Macbeth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macbeth Torriano Meeting House: https://torrianomeetinghouse.wordpress.com/ Josh Darcy: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1591591/ School of Night: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_School_of_Night Zoot Lynam: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0528209/ Chris Langham: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Langham Justin Bieber: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Bieber Sophocles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophocles Oresteia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oresteia Antigone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigone_(Sophocles_play) Rosemary Branch Theatre: http://www.rosemarybranch.com/ Time Out: http://www.timeout.com/london Ricardo Pinto: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Pinto Hope and Anchor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hope_and_Anchor,_Islington John Stahl: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0821471/ Almeida: http://www.almeida.co.uk/whats-on Battersea Arts Centre: https://www.bac.org.uk/ Yes And... : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes,_and... John Luke Roberts: http://www.chortle.co.uk/comics/j/291/john-luke_roberts Victoria Park: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Park,_London Bethnal Green: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethnal_Green John Constable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Constable The Hay Wain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hay_Wain Islington: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islington Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word!

An impressive new crewman impresses the crew, impressively. Improvised November 8th from a suggestion by Mark Dean Quinn via Facebook Edited by Roger Payton Featuring Griffen Eckstein as Lt. Cdr. Fritz Fassbinder, Lt. Leopold LackeyChris Johnson as JeffSean Kelley as Lt. Cdr. Crick Watson, Ensign DiceEli Mandel as Rip Stiply, Lt. Jeremy Swanson, Ensign CardsNick Wagner as Ensign/Lt. Ch'arles Lorem, an Ensign T'bl'T'p'G'm'ngMary Cait Walthall as Dr. Zarlene Zonalzon, Ensign NerfMatt Young as Captain Julius Valentine Baxter, Ensign Greg, Sally, Ensign Sports Sponsored by The Red Eye, a member of the Chicago Podcast Coop