Episode #423: Scott Rogowsky
Millions of people recognize Scott Rogowsky as the original host of HQ Trivia, the daily live trivia app that became massively popular in 2017 before …
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Episode #422: Tara Schuster
Tara Schuster was a 25-year-old working at Comedy Central who’d worked her way up from interning at The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to curating …
Continue Reading‘I did standup with my baby strapped to me’ – the comics motherhood can’t stop
Some lied. Some hid it. And few ever mined it for jokes. Becoming a mum used to be near-fatal to a comedian’s career. But now, in a Mother’s Day special, we meet the new wave taking on taboos‘Before I had kids, I swam in an ocean of time,” says Josie L…
Continue ReadingEpisode #421: Matt Knudsen
Matt Knudsen is one of those character actors with a face you can’t quite place, which is why the memoir he’s writing is called, “Have …
Continue ReadingEpisode #421: Matt Knudsen
Matt Knudsen is one of those character actors with a face you can’t quite place, which is why the memoir he’s writing is called, “Have …
Continue Reading‘I shouldn’t be agreeing with nationalists’: the comic causing uproar in Cornwall
When a podcast by Seamas Carey created a storm, he began investigating second homes, cream on scones …. and where local pride meets unwelcoming xenophobia. Now he’s taking his one man show on the roadAfter Seamas Carey interviewed Eden Project founder …
Continue ReadingEpisode #420: Marcella Arguello
Marcella Arguello is a stand-up comedian, writer and actor originally from Modesto, Calif., who has made a name for herself in the Los Angeles comedy …
Continue ReadingEpisode #419: Gabe Mollica
Comedian and storyteller Gabe Mollica’s one-person show, “Solo,” begins with the declaration that upon turning 30, he realized he had no friends. Wait. Was that …
Continue ReadingJon Richardson: ‘My personal decline is much funnier than that of the country’
The comedian on supermarket petrol stations, working with his wife Lucy Beaumont and the comedy heroes he fell in love with in the 90sHow did you get into standup?Sadly, by leaving the town I grew up in [Lancaster] and my family. I hope things are diff…
Continue ReadingEpisode #418: 2022 Comedy MVPs with Jason Zinoman
It’s the end of 2022, which means it’s time once again for my annual year-end check-in with Jason Zinoman, critic at-large for The New York …
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