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Our guest this week is Peter Anthony, Maritimer at heart living in Toronto. Peter has been working as a stand up comedian for almost twenty years, starting in clubs and moving to the corporate world. "Some of Peter's credits include: Montreal's "Just for Laughs" Festival, CBC's "Halifax Comedy Festival," Toronto's "North by Northeast" Festival, CBC Radio's "The Debaters," and television appearances on The Comedy Network, MTV, and CTV's "Comedy Now." To learn more about what Peter would bring to your event: https://www.celebconnect.ca/Talent/Peter-Anthony/68489078-d022-422e-a0d0-3b344f2b6db1 or visit https://peterisfunnycom.tumblr.com
Damien Hodgkinson Damien is the Executive Director of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. The Melbourne International Comedy Festival is one of the three largest comedy festivals in the world, alongside Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Montreal's Just for Laughs Festival. Win Free Tickets! Double passes to North American Headliners, all you need to do is leave a review of the podcast by following these instructions. Take a screenshot of your review and send to me via email to hello@purposeful.com.au and subject line "COMEDY". Winners announced and notified on next weeks episode and entries close Friday at 5pm AEST. Patreon Love If you are getting value from Humans of Purpose and love what we are doing, please support us via Patreon so we can keep doing it! Shout out and special thanks to Macartan, our first Patron of 2019 :) Support the show.
The incredible Simon Gibson comes by the studio to discuss being apart of the 2018 Montreal's Just for laughs festival, Louis CK return to standup, how running shows in comedy is important and whats inspiring him in Comedy Follow Us: Greg Edwards: Twitter: @gregthegrouch Instagram: @gregcomedy GregComedy.com Bradlys Philoctete Facebook: Bradlys Philoctete Instagram: @classicbradlys Twitter: @BradlysComedy Simon Gibson Twitter: @simeygibson simongibsoncomedy.com
This past Sunday, I had a fantastic interview with Ahmed Bharoocha. He was generous enough to have Marlina (my girlfriend) over his house on a Sunday evening even though his little baby was sleeping. Ahmed is a stand up comic featured on Conan O'Brian and Comedy Central (30 minute special), was featured in Montreal's Just for Laugh's, has a viral sketch comedy channel called Dead Kevin, and is on Adult Swim's Dream Corp LLC. In this conversation we cover a variety very interesting topics including: - Starting in a small comedy scene and moving to LA - Differences between smaller and larger scenes - Leveraging existing material in a new scene - Building a 'tight 5' for a Late Night Set - Being a part of a popular weekly sketch channel
New York City based Comedian Nancy Lombardo, Nancy Lombardo has performed her unique comedy from coast to coast. TV credits include The Colin Quinn Show NBC, Saturday Night Live “All my Children” PBS, network and cable television Comedy Tonight, Nickelodeon and the Comedy Channel. She can be seen weekly on The Nancy Lombardo Show channel 56/83/34 NYC and live worldwide on www.mnn.org. She has written for Penthouse and Cracked magazine and created Ms. Quotable, a comic strip for Lady's Circle Magazine. Nancy was a winner of the Toyota Comedy Festivals "Laughter in Motion” and a Cable Arts Insight Comedy Award." Spot-lighted more than once in *Backstage, as both comedian/writer, she currently indulges her taste for the irreverent in her Stand Up Comedy and show, "Jazz Housewife." Nancy is creator of MOMEDY™, part of the International Mamapalooza Festival. She is a member of The Friars Club. www.comedyconcepts.com downloads available at www.cdbaby.com/Artist/Nan Harmon Leon is a journalist, comedian, and the author of six previous books, including The Harmon Chronicles and Republican Like Me, which both won Independent Publisher Awards for humor. Leon has appeared on This American Life, The Howard Stern Show, MSNBC, Penn and Teller: Bullshit!, Last Call with Carson Daly, and the BBC.He has performed critically-acclaimed solo comedy shows at venues around the world, including The Edinburgh Festival, Melbourne Comedy Festival, and Montreal's Just for Laughs. His writing can be found in Vice, The Nation, Esquire, Ozy, National Geographic, The Guardian, Wired, and more.
Rhys Darby may be best-known to audiences as Murray Hewitt on the acclaimed HBO series Flight of the Conchords, but the New Zealand Army veteran is also an accomplished stand-up comic, having worked all over the globe for nearly 2 decades and put out 3 stand-up specials. He's also starred in films such as Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi's brilliant vampire comedy What We Do in the Shadows and the upcoming Jumanji reboot. A veteran of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Montreal's Just for Laughs, Darby is now in the middle of JFL's Alternative Comedy Tour across Canada alongside headliner T.J. Miller. Back in September, during a visit to Toronto for JFL42, Andrew Lizotte sat down with him to cover a wide range of topics including show preparation, Conchords, his interest in cryptozoology, and his summiting of Mt. Kilimanjaro.
Maybe you've watched "Old Jews Telling Jokes" on YouTube. But have you heard Morgan Stanley M&A head Rob Kindler and his brother, stand-up comedian Andy Kindler, telling jokes about old Jews? Yes, the Kindler brothers are this week's Deal of the Week guests. You can even rate their jokes (listen until the end!). Rob is one of the world's renowned M&A bankers after spending 20 years as a corporate lawyer at Cravath Swaine & Moore. Andy is one of the world's funniest people. He delivers a hilarious annual keynote speech on the state of the comedy world at Montreal's "Just for Laughs" festival. How did their parents produce these two people, whose professions aren't exactly similar? And for M&A diehards, Rob gives a prediction on if we'll see any more megadeals in 2016. They chat with host Alex Sherman.
Your host at his fattest with NBC's new star, Dulcé SloanAllow a few seconds for buffering.Yahoo! player or right click HERE to download | Launch pop-up playerThe rest of the world, i.e. non-Art Howard listeners, may not have heard of Dulcé Sloan yet, but she has a talent holding contract with NBC, so she'll be on their TV sets soon. She's also appeared on ESPN's Riggle's Picks and ABC's Resurrection.Sloan takes the time to chat with Art for a follow-up to her 2012 interview, and details the amazing things that have happened to her in the past year: coming in second at the Laughing Skull Comedy Festival, which paved the way for an appearance at Montreal's Just for Laughs, and now, opportunities with NBC. 67 minutes.Art's comments: "I knew Dulcé had the goods when I first saw her four years ago! Whether you seethe with sour grapes when someone does better than you, or if you know how to be genuinely happy for the success of others, this show is for you. Download it today, because when she gets a Top Five TV show, I'm jacking the price of this one up to $39.99!"Dulcé Sloan links: Dulcé Sloan.com Estraya jewelry NBC Stands Up Share this episode with the buttons below! REVIEW in iTunes! We're dyin' over here!
Live from Montreal's Just for Laughs Festival, Greg gabs on Gardner, Garner and Gaza.