Podcasts about North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival

A Classic RISK! episode from our early years that first ran in April of 2013: Live From North Carolina! Our wonderful show from the North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival in February. Stories from Josh Gondeman, Jane Borden, Robert Bland and Paula Pazderka. • Pitch us your story! risk-show.com/submissions • Support RISK! through Patreon at patreon.com/risk or make a one-time donation: paypal.me/riskshow • Get tickets to RISK! live shows: risk-show.com/live • Get the RISK! Book and shop for merch: risk-show.com/shop • Take our storytelling classes: thestorystudio.org • Hire Kevin Allison as a coach or get personalized videos: kevinallison.com 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

Dan Wilbur started doing stand-up when he was 18 years old and attending Bard College, where he met comedian Katie Berlant and Raphael Bob-Wakesberg, the creator of BoJack Horseman. Wilbur moved to Brooklyn after school and has kept himself busy. He's published two books, "How Not to Read: Harnessing the Power of a Literature-Free Life" and "Never Flirt with Puppy Killers," and wrote for McSweeney's, Someecards and The Onion News Network. He also released his debut stand-up album, "Husband Material," in 2023, and it's playing on Sirius XM. He's been at the Boston Comedy Festival, the Cape Fear Comedy Festival, the North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival, the Cleveland Comedy Festival. Wilbur and Zach Sims have a weekly show in Park Slope called We Have Fun, so go see it.Follow Dan Wilbur: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@danwilburcomedyInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/danwilburcomedy/Twitter: https://twitter.com/DanWilburWebsite: https://danwilbur.com/Husband Material: https://danwilbur.com/husband-material/We Have Fun tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/we-have-fun-a-weekly-stand-up-show-tickets-208767317667Support the show

Dan Wilbur is a fantastic comedian who has cut his teeth in comedy for many years - his bio: stand-up has been featured on Sirius XM, the RISK! podcast, in the Boston Comedy Festival, the Cleveland Comedy Festival, Out of Bounds Comedy Festival, Cape Fear Comedy Festival, and the North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival. I've been an actor in sketches for College Humor, IFC, Funny or Die, MTV.com, and Distractify (one of which ended up on the Today show). I have written for College Humor, McSweeney's, The Onion News Network on IFC, Someecards (where I was the Ecards Editor for over a year), TL;DR Wikipedia, Reader's Digest, and a couple web series you've never heard of that paid me with checks that said, verbatim: “Cheese Jokes.” I was an “Adjunct Scholar” for Lapham's Quarterly, created the Better Book Titles blog and wrote my own humor book for Penguin in 2012 called How Not to Read: Harnessing the Power of a Literature-Free Life and AM Universal put out another collection from the blog called Never Flirt With Puppy Killers in 2016. His new album Husband Material is out on Spotify and Apple!

Jay Light joins Jimmer Lowe for an Episode of Heckled. Jay is a regular performer at famed Sunset Strip institution the Comedy Store, and co-produces weekly live editions of Roast Battle. He credits the latter with helping him tap into his true comedic voice, become a better joke-writer, and elevate his confidence as a performer...not to mention score the opportunity to open for Dave Chappelle. Onstage Jay may look like the clean-cut, naïve boy next door and readily admit, “I suffer from camp-counselor face!” But as crowds quickly learn, he doesn’t shy from discussing his sheltered religious upbringing or the formative lessons learned along his path to sobriety. In addition to making the finals of Comedy Central’s Roast Battle II: War of the Words, Jay has appeared on the network’s Not Safe with Nikki Glaser and HBO’s Project Greenlight. Most recently he’s honed his improv skills at emerging L.A. venue The Pack Theater, and in 2018 became both a contributing writer for Pete Holmes’ HBO series Crashing and staff writer for the Discovery Channel’s BattleBots reboot. Aside from touring clubs, music venues and colleges across the country, other stand-up credits include the North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival, the Motor City Comedy Festival, the Golden Spike Comedy Festival, the Blue Whale Comedy Festival, and South by Southwest.In the podcasting realm, Jay puts his film degree to use every Monday morning on Blockbusting with Jay Light. The show first invites top comics and filmmakers to discuss industry news and the latest box-office results. Guests then dissect a successful mainstream movie they don’t consider a personal favorite – no gimmicks, no remorse, no punches pulled. Everything may be subjective in comedy, but on Blockbusting unpopular opinion rules.

All the President's Minutes is a podcast where conversations about movies, journalism, politics and history meet. Each show we use the seminal and increasingly prescient 1976 film All The President's Men as a portal, to engage with the themes and the warnings of the film resonating since its release. For minute 48, I join film producer, storyteller, writer and award-winning producer of podcast *Other Men Need Help* ( https://othermenneedhelp.com/ ) , Mark Pagán. Mark and I talk about the pornographic quality of New Hollywood cinema, go "inside baseball" on the podcasting medium and the performance of masculinity in All the President's Men. *About Mark Pagán (via* *Other Men Need Help* ( https://othermenneedhelp.com/ ) *)* Mark Pagán is the host/producer of award-winning podcast Other Men Need Help, a film producer, storyteller, writer, educator, and former b-boy. His work and performances have been shown at festivals and shows worldwide including Slamdance Film Festival, Arizona International Film Festival, Maryland Film Festival, Colorado Public Radio's On Something, Family Ghosts, North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival, Charleston Comedy Festival, FRIGID Festival, RISK!, The Moth, Story Collider. *Twitter:* @themarkpagan ( https://twitter.com/themarkpagan ) *Other Men Need Help Podcast* ( https://othermenneedhelp.com/ ) Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/one-heat-minute-productions/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Lydia Manning is a comedian based out of Portland, Oregon. This is the second half of the two-episode comedian special. I hadn't really had any comedians until now, and they drove down from Portland to do a show in Eugene so I spoke with them while they were in town!A former staple of the Wilmington, North Carolina comedy scene, Lydia was a regular opener at the Dead Crow Comedy Room, host in the Cape Fear Comedy Festival, writer/cast member for Wilmington's live late-night talk show, Late Fear with Wills Maxwell, and host of the monthly stand-up showcase, Sips & Giggles. Now a new and unique voice in the Portland comedy community, she is quickly becoming a sought after entertainer, performing throughout the Pacific Northwest. Lydia's comedy is dynamic, smart, and absurd, frequently pulling audiences out of their comfort zones and into her universe. She has been a part of the She-Devil Comedy Festival and North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival, and has performed with some extremely cool comedians, including Jay Pharoah, Mary Mack, and Arj Barker.She comes on the show to talk about what it's like being a woman in the comedy scene!Reach out to her through her website: https://www.lydiamanningcomedy.com/ And through Twitter: https://twitter.com/lydiawomanning Also reach out to me through Twitter: https://twitter.com/TygerGruber Subscribe and leave a review! (episodes are temporarily being released at half the rate due to quarantine. Hoping to return to the every other day release schedule as soon as possible) 

Colby Smith is a Brooklyn-based comedian who has appeared on MTV's 420 Theater, IFC's Comedy Crib, Funny or Die, and the Travel Channel. He co-hosts the monthly stand-up showcase Knapsack at Crystal Lake Bar in Williamsburg and hosts the weekly talk show Young Person's Radio every Sunday morning at 10 on Radio Free Brooklyn. His web series "David Lynch Ruins..." won the 2018 Channel 101 Channy Award for Best Show. He has performed at the Out of Bounds Festival, the North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival, the Del Close Marathon, and many more.

Nicole Byer  is an actress, comedian and writer. She hosts the baking show Nailed It currently streaming on Netflix and has a sitcom loosely based on her life streaming on Facebook Watch called Loosely Exactly Nicole. She also hosts a podcast called Why Won't You Date Me. She recently starred on the short lived Fox sketch show Party Over Here. You've also seen her on MTV's Girl Code, 30 Rock, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, @Midnight, Adult Swim, Chelsea Lately, Transparent, Lady Dynamite, and a Nestle commercial that only runs in Israel. She co-wrote and starred in the Pursuit of Sexiness which Variety named a web series to watch. Nicole was featured as a Time Out LA comic to watch in 2015, and Refinery 29 says she’s a female comic to look out for. She’s also been featured in Cosmopolitan, Ladies Home Journal, Elle and Ebony. Nicole has basically done lots of fun shit. She also tours the dang country, so go see one of her shows! Sasheer Zamata is a comedian, actress and writer. She was a cast member on Saturday Night Live, and has appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and This American Life. She serves as ACLU’s Celebrity Ambassador for Women’s Rights. She hosts a live variety show called Sasheer Zamata Party Time, and you can watch her standup special Pizza Mind on Amazon Prime and Starz, and listen to it on iTunes and Spotify. She’s been listed in Time Out New York’s Top 10 Funniest Women in NYC, Brooklyn Magazine’s 50 Funniest People in Brooklyn, and Complex Magazine’s Women in Comedy You Should Be Paying Attention to Right Now. She co-created and co-starred in the webseries Pursuit of Sexiness, which was named one of the Top 10 Web Series of 2013 by Variety, and part of Glamour’s 7 Web Series We Can’t Stop Watching in 2015. She’s performed at Clusterfest, Just for Laughs (Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver), Bonnaroo, SXSW, Moontower Comedy Festival, Outside Lands, SF Sketchfest, Vodafone Festival, Bridgetown Comedy Festival, New York Comedy Festival, Brooklyn Comedy Festival, Limestone Comedy Festival, Woodstock Comedy Festival, North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival, Great American Comedy Festival, and Women in Comedy Festival. Vanessa Gonzalez is originally from Texas and was voted “Best Stand-up Comic” in the Austin Chronicle. She was a breakout as one of the New Faces of the 2017 Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal and subsequently created and starred in a webseries called "Ms. Vanessa" for Mas Mejor, a digital platform that is part of Lorne Michael’s company Broadway Video. She was recently featured on TruTV’s "Laff Mobb’s Laff Tracks" and has a half hour stand-up special for Comedy Central and a short special on HBO Latino airing in 2019. Always hosted by Marina Franklin- Trainwreck, Louie Season V, The Jim Gaffigan Show, Conan O'Brien, and HBO's Crashing

Lance Weiss is a comedian, actor, and writer based in NYC.  He most recently served as a co-executive producer as well as an on-camera talent for KarmaNetwork.com‘s comedy sketch show Hey Gordon. Prior to this, he was co-host of CNBC’s “Common Cents” on digital channel Make It, as well as a co-host in several videos for Conde Nast’s channel The Scene. He was a Top 4 finalist in CMT’s “Next Big Comic”, and has been seen on NBC’s “The Today Show,” FOX’s “Laughs,” MTV’s “World of Jenks,” Bravo’s “The Love Broker,” PBS, Comcast, NY1, NY’s FOX 5, Sirius/XM, Today.com, Cosmo.com, AOL.com, NYmag.com, Aboveaverage.com, VisitFlorida.com, Complex News, and in the NY Times, NY Post, and commercials for AT&T, Bud Light, Kit Kat, Liberty Mutual, IBM, and MLB.com. He has written for CNBC.com’s “Common Cents,” MTV’s Video-on-Demand, HuffingtonPost.com’s “Celebrities Have Issues,” Luckymag.com, Elite Daily, Storia.me, EpicThings.com, Dramafever.com, and Borsheims Jewelry campaigns, as well as several television pilots. Lance was a semi-finalist in the New York Comedy Festival’s “NY’s Funniest Standup Competition,” and he has performed at the Bridgetown Comedy Festival, Boston Comedy Festival, Out of Bounds Comedy Festival, Laughing Skull Comedy Festival, San Francisco Comedy Festival, Asheville Comedy Festival, Woodstock Comedy Festival, Magners Comedy Festival, North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival, Hoboken Comedy Festival and a bunch more. His one-man show, “Wine And Questions With Weiss” debuted at The Pit Theater in NYC Lance is co-creator of the popular comedy show “Gandhi, Is That You?” which Time Out New York has chosen as one of their Critics’ Picks as well as calling it “Wildly popular” and one of “The best weekly comedy shows in NYC.”  It was part of the NY Comedy Festival presented by Comedy Central.  The show also had a 3 year run at UCB Theatre East.  Lance co-created and hosted two weekly comedy shows “Anyone Can Be President, Even Us,” and “Grab Them By The Politics” @ Carolines on Broadway leading up to the 2017 Inauguration and thereafter.  He co-created and starred in the viral video Trump or Porn? which was featured on the Funny or Die homepage. He’s the co-host of two podcasts that he would love for you to check out, the Gandhi Show Podcast and Crazy New York Stories. He loves skateboarding & surfing, is passionate about healthy foods, and he likes cool socks and groovy hats.

Mark Pagán is an award-winning film and podcast producer, storyteller, writer, and former b-boy. A Moth Storyslam winner, Mark's work and performances have been shown at festivals and shows worldwide, including Slamdance Film Festival, Arizona International Film Festival, North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival, Charleston Comedy Festival, RISK!, The Moth, Upright Citizen's Brigade Theater, Story Collider, Peoples Improv Theater, and Magnet Theater. He currently produces and hosts the series and live show, "Other Men Need Help."

Part 1:  Adam Andis was raised as a creationist, but grows up to become an evolutionary biologist. Part 2: In grade school, Angel Yau excels at science -- because her mom does all her work. Adam Andis is a PhD student at Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies where he uses population genetics and landscape ecology of vernal pool amphibians to understand ecological and evolutionary dynamics…or to put in more succinctly, he plays with frogs in the woods. In addition to frog-science, Andis also loves designated Wilderness. He was a founding board member of the National Wilderness Stewardship Alliance and spends summers guiding wilderness expeditions in Alaska. He loves taking photos, too. You can check them out on Instagram @azandis Angel Yau is a storyteller, sketch comedian and filmmaker from Queens, New York. She began her comedy career (unintentionally) writing her high school student government speech. She's been featured on the Risk! and Mortified podcasts.  Her performances were apart of the Seattle Sketchfest, New York Sketchfest, North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival, Women in Comedy festival and more! Currently, she has a monthly show called, "VHS Present" where storytellers bring their home videos and childhood creations back to life.  She is working on an autobiographical, stop- motion animation series. She is also part of AzN PoP!, the first all Asian- American female sketch group to have a run at UCB Theater in NY. She finds humor in solitude, rejection and alienation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part 1: Mark Pagán combats his phobia of flying in an unusual way. Part 2: Military surgeon Rob Lim must perform surgery in the middle of a sandstorm in Iraq. Mark Pagán is an award-winning storyteller, comedian, multimedia artist, and writer best known for his humorous autobiographical and documentary vignettes for stage, television, online, screenings, print, and installation. His work and performances have been shown at festivals worldwide including Slamdance Film Festival, PBS, Arizona International Film Festival, Maryland Film Festival, Rooftop Film Festival, North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival, Chicago Improv Festival, Del Close Marathon, Philadelphia Improv Festival, and the Charleston Comedy Festival. Robert B. Lim, MD is a General Surgeon on active duty in the United States Army. He specializes in Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery, which includes robotics, single-incision laparoscopic, and bariatric surgery. He did his fellowship training at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School. His academic career focuses on obesity care, surgical education, surgical simulation, and patient safety. He is on the Board of Governors at the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgery and holds the rank of Associate Professor at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Dr. Lim founded the Society of Military Surgeons and produced the first ever tri-service military surgical symposium in 2014. He has been deployed to the combat zone 5 times including the initial invasion of Iraq in 2003. He has served on Forward Surgical Teams, in the Combat Hospitals, and on the GHOST-T surgical team (Golden Hour Offset of Surgical Trauma-Team) with the Special Forces. He helped revitalize the Excelsior Surgical Society, which is a tri-service military society that originated during World War II under the guidance of Winston Churchill. Rob Lim's story was produced as part of a partnership with Springer Storytellers. Find out more at http://www.beforetheabstract.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join me as I interview the great roaster and comic Jay Light!! He as big of a part of everyone's favorite show Roast Battle as anyone and he's led a pretty interesting journey as he also admits to having worked at Flappers which ain't easy folks!! Follow him on Twitter/Instagram @dietjay and at www.jaylightcomedy.com as well as his podcast You Should Have Planned Better on iTunes and Soundcloud Follow me on Twitter/Instagram @EarlSkakel Jay Light is a stand-up comic and writer originally from Texas, currently living in Los Angeles. He began his comedy career in North Carolina while attending Elon University, and has since performed all over the world, with notable appearances at SXSW, the North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival, and the Cannes Film Festival. He has opened for the likes of Theo Von, Dana Carvey, and Dave Chappelle. Jay is a doorman at the world-famous Comedy Store, following in the footsteps of greats like Jim Carrey, Bill Hicks, David Letterman, Marc Maron, Sam Kinison, and more. He is also a regular performer and co-producer on one of LA's hottest shows, Roast Battle, and appeared on Comedy Central's version of the show. The LA Weekly called him a "local eclectic noise maker." His mom called him "not the son she thought she raised."

Kevin Allison, Amy Allen, Ray Christian and Bianca Casusol share stories of mad love at the North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival 2015.

Our wonderful show from the North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival in February. Stories from Josh Gondeman, Jane Borden, Robert Bland and Paula Pazderka.