Comedy Cast

Kevin Gootee with The Comedy Cast We speak about his Amazon series Comics Watching Comics, the idea behind the show and why he wanted to start it, And why the corporate world compelled him to get into comedy. © The Comedy Cast 2017 Website: http://thecomedycast.com/ Video Website: http://thecomedycastvideos.com/

Reem Edan with The Comedy Cast. We speak about growing up as the daughter of Iraqi immigrants and how it has provided so much material for her comedy, Her recent involvement in a record-breaking stand-up comedy event And the importance of knowing what the eggplant/aubergine emoji means. Oh and she's also filmed with Elizabeth Banks, all this in less than 2 years in comedy. © The Comedy Cast 2017 Website: http://thecomedycast.com/ Video Website: http://thecomedycastvideos.com/

Seamus Kelly with The Comedy Cast. We speak about why Irish peoeple put a goat on top of some scaffolding, Where his cynical sense of humour comes from, Being open about his mental health issues and His experiences of running a comedy night in rural Ireland. © The Comedy Cast 2017 Website: http://thecomedycast.com/ Video Website: http://thecomedycastvideos.com/

The Comedy Cast with Khairy Khairy's from Baltimore so we speak about the stand-up comedy scene there, The Wire gets a mention too, How he once braved a hurricane in nothing but his underwear, And how on his first night performing he did a 10 minute set to 200 people with just one joke.

The Comedy Cast with Morry Morgan We speak about how Morry went from being a scientist to a successful businessman to co-founding Australia's best stand-up comedy school, The School of Hard Knock Knocks, How to identify opportunities in niches, the nuts and bolts of teaching stand-up comedy, and how to say the dog's bollox in Chinese. © The Comedy Cast 2017 Website: http://thecomedycast.com/

The Comedy Cast with Matt Nagin We speak about Laughter Therapy and how it has helped him with Crohn's Disease over the years, Why parody is more important than ever in our messed up over-politicized world and, Why vomiting is just as contagious as laughter. © The Comedy Cast 2017 Website: http://thecomedycast.com/

The Comedy Cast with Art Corral We speak about his journey into stand-up comedy, His involvement with a street gang for many years, Sticking up a pizza-delivery guy with a Nintendo gun and giving a house entruder a vasectomy.

http://thecomedycast.com/ We speak about his recent Edinburgh show, The Brain is in the Heart, How he became a comic who now embraces spontaneity and improvisation on stage, And that special type of bomb that's so bad even other comedians don't talk to you.

The Comedy Cast with Duane Doogan. We speak about his role in Cherry Comedy, one of Ireland's premier comedy nights, Are We Allowed In? his Edinburgh Fringe Show, And why a WWE legend, John Cena was hounding him for an mp3. © 2017 The Comedy Cast

http://thecomedycast.com/ Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from Australian stand-up comedian Yianni Agisilaou. We kick off the interview by speaking about how he once accidentally (so he says) put on his girlfriend's pair of jeans and it lead to a profound questioning of the differences between men and women. We get talking then about Yianni ongoing Edinburgh Fringe Festival show then, Pockets of Equality and how those jeans were one of the inspirations behind it. We delve deeper then into the show and speak about the different themes of it and the narrative that ties it all together. We chat then about gender roles in society and what's both expected of us and what we're force to do in society thanks to the bits we're born with. We get talking then about the differences in what are perceived as 'gender roles' in Western Europe and Britain. Yianni has lived in Britain now for quite a while so I was interested in asking him about this, particularly as there's a giant stere

http://thecomedycast.com/ Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from English stand-up comedian Kwame Asante. We kick off the interview and speak about his ongoing Edinburgh Fringe Festival show, Open Arms. We speak about the themes behind the show and his inspiration for it. We chat about it being Kwame's first full-hour show and how he says it's been a long time coming. We talk about how the previews had been going and Kwame speaks about his excitement about bringing his first hour-long show to the Fringe. I ask him whether he's nervous about getting back on the scene having had a 4-year break while he was finishing his studies. He has performed at Edinburgh many times over the years though, just not with a solo show, so I asked him about some of the highs and lows that he's experienced performing up in Edinburgh and what he's learned that he can use to ensure he puts on a good show this time around. Kwame is a doctor, a proper medical doctor, none of this Hunter Thompson st

http://thecomedycast.com/ Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from Italian stand-up comedian Francesco de Carlo. We kick off the interview by speaking about Francesco ongoing Edinburgh Fringe Show, Comfort Zone. He tells me about the idea behind the show and the themes that he speaks about during it. He speaks about finally realising a dream by moving to the UK, however, he was soon in a place of shock when very soon after arriving in London the British voted for Brexit. We speak about Francsco's background in politics and how after becoming disillusioned after working in the European Parliament he decided to get into comedy. He had been working as a press officer and had been very passionate about politics, now he's taken his experience into political and satirical comedy. Franceso is one of the Italy's pioneering stand-up comedians, the discipline of comedy is still pretty new in the country. In the past, comedy was more like in cabaret shows with monologues and some slap

http://thecomedycast.com/ Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from Irish stand-up comedian Conor Drum. We kick off speaking about Conor's Edinburgh Festival Fringe show All My Friends Are Dead, we speak about where the name comes from, don't fear he's friends aren't actually dead, just metaphorically dead. He tells me about his friends always trying to set him up with the loser girl at weddings and he speaks about how he seems to be not achieving "life goals" at the same rate as his friends. He talks about the idea of 'the one' and how simply ludicrous it is, but if it does exist scientists need to descend on his hometown and study his mates because so many have seemed to found 'the one' in their own backyards. We chat then about why it gets harder and harder to go on the session as you get older and Conor laments for his younger days when hangovers didn't hurt so much. I ask Conor about when he meets his married friends now does he get a sense of pity of jealousy from the

http://thecomedycast.com/ Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from English stand-up comedian Stuart Black. We kick off the interview in unusual fashion, with a bit of a preamble about who much Stuart reminds me of Britain's greatest punk poet, Mr. John Cooper Clarke. We delve into me fiding out I'm lactose intolerant, Stuart says when a man can't eat cheese a man can't live. Then he tells me about the impending doom of a butter shortage. Stuart tells me a little bit then about his Irish roots and I reveal why the Polish thing the Irish and British are inbred. We get onto Stuart's Edinburgh Show then, It's the End of the World as We Know it, he tells me all about the show, what it's about, where the inspiration came from and of course when and where it's on during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. We have a chat then about why a late night slot perfectly suits his show. We get talking then about positive 'morning' people and why it's all delusional, sure you feel good watching m

http://thecomedycast.com/ Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from American stand-up comedian Maria Shehata. We kick off the interview by speaking about Maria's ongoing Edinburgh Show, Wisdomless a show about why she left LA for London after falling in love. She talks about what she both loves and hates about London and the differences she's noticed having living in both New York and LA before. We get talking about living in cities in general, how I don't particularly like it and find it hard to sleep among noise, while Maria finds no problem at all and while talking about it, she tells me I probably have misophonia, a strong reaction to specific sounds. We speak about Maria's ancestry and how ancestry.com got her name 100% wrong. We get talking then again about the Edinburgh Fringe and how this is her first time doing an hour there, we talk about what she knew about the Fringe when living in America and what American comedians think of it. We speak about the challenge of

http://thecomedycast.com/ Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from Australian stand-up comedian John Robertson. John was a host of the videogame TV show a few years ago, Videogame Nation, I loved that show so we got straight onto that, how he got involved and what he liked and disliked about working for a Saturday-morning TV programme. John tells me how to this day people still recognise him from it in the UK and do his catchphrase from the show and he tells a hilarious story about being recognised after coming out of a Parisian Burlesque/strip show. There's an infamous video of John Robertson that went viral about a year ago of when he goes to town on a Heckler, I've linked it here so you can have a look, it's pretty much a work of art, so we spoke about what happened on that faithful night. We speak about John's Edinburgh Fringe show, Dominant, when and where it's on an all about it. John won a Choice Award for his Edinburgh Fringe show last year, so I wanted to ask him

http://thecomedycast.com/ Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from English stand-up comedian Andy Storey. We get straight in the Edinburgh Fringe stuff and speak about the show he's putting on with Maddie Campion, Epoch. Andy's the first 'clean comedian' we've had on so I was really interested to get to ask him some questions about clean comedy and how he sees it as being more difficult to be both funny and clean and how he enjoys the challenge of it. We chat about how recently he was compared to Vic Reeves and Alan Bennett and how comparisons like that make him feel. We speak about what he's learned over the years from putting on shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. We talk then about the kinds of existential questions that come to comedians when they're performing; do the audience care; why am I bearing my life and soul to people I don't know who I'll never see again, deep things like that. We chat then for a minute about the the depths of the subconscious and how yo

http://thecomedycast.com/ Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from Irish stand-up comedian Rory O'Hanlon. We start off asking about how the previews have been going in the run up to his show at this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival. We get talking about the whole idea behind having to have a theme for shows at the Fringe and why comedians do this and why some of them use the term very loosely. We speak about Rory's Edinburgh Show "Getting Serious", how he's been preparing for it and what's the show's going to be about. We get a bit nerdy then on Edinburgh and speak about what he's learned over the year from performing there. We chat about the highs and lows of performing at the Fringe and how one of the best parts of it is meeting other comedians from all over. We talk then about the other show he's running with former Comedy Cast guest Danny O'Brien about a variety show they're putting on every day. We speak about why Rory's laptop is set to Spanish instead of English. W

http://thecomedycast.com/ Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from English comedian, Zahra Barri. We speak about her Irish and Egyptian roots, where she lives in London now and what it was like spending a few years in Saudi Arabia as a child. We talk then about what it was like growing up in a multicultural family. We chat about comedy writing and how it was writing that lead Zahra into comedy. We talk as well about whether it's something she wants to pursue in the future. We have a chat about how comedians evolve and how they have continue to evolve over the years to keep their audience interested and laughing. We talk about the difference between the on-stage persona and the off-stage persona and about how the person on-stage is a heightened version of the off-stage person. We natter then about the line in comedy, why it's OK for men to joke about their penises and wanking but women are slated for joking about vaginas and periods. We talk about how really jokes should be

http://thecomedycast.com/ Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you’ll be hearing from English comedian, Sheraz Yousaf. We get straight into comedy as Sheraz had recently played some roles in a theatre production so I wanted to know was character acting something he'd like to pursue as well as comedy. We speak about Sheraz' first gig and a comedy course he took before he took the stage for the first time. We speak a bit then about comedy courses in general, their pros and cons and the strange experience he had on his when a guy made some risque jokes one time and never showed up. Sheraz regularly releases videos on YouTube, so we speak about them for a bit, his inspiration behind the four different types of videos he puts out and how he got into it. We talk about how he keeps bumping into old men who have a fascination for one aspect of their local region. We speak about our shared interest in religion, while neither of us are religious we speak about how we both find the origins of religions