Motormouth reporter Jonathan Pie is the creation of motormouth actor Tom Walker.  His online videos of a furious news reporter apparently caught on camera are massively viral and often hilarious. We talk about the synthesis of an internet character into a live show, discover the politics of the writing team behind the agitator, and encounter the pressures of a weekly committment to content.

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Filed Under: Acting, Argument, Audiences, Character, Controversial, Criticism, Edinburgh, Ego, Equality, Fame, Fear, Festival, Fringe, Inspiration, Interview, Mock The Week, Onstage Persona, Persona, political, Political Comedy, Political Humour, Risk, Stage Persona, Structure, Success, The Guardian, The Pleasance, Touring Comedian, TV, Viral, Writing Jokes, YouTube

I've never seen such an immediate standing ovation as the one we gave Zoe Coombs-Marr at the end of her show "Trigger Warning" this year.  Her multiple award-winning creation "Dave" is a troubled hack comic and the centre of an awesomely meta-textual subversion and dismantling of the craft of comedy. We talk about the range and limits of character work, learn about feminist super-group show "Wild Bore", and find out why she'd be happy to fail if it meant the world changed. See Zoe live or get tickets for "Wild Bore" at www.zoecoombsmarr.com/ www.comedy.co.uk/fringe/2016/zoe_coombs_marr/ Learn more about the show at www.comedianscomedian.com See Stu on tour www.comedianscomedian.com/tour Join the growing Facebook comcompod community at www.facebook.com/groups/ComediansComedianPodcast

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Filed Under: Acting, Audiences, Character, Clown, Controversial, Criticism, Dark Humour, Diversity, Drag, Edinburgh, Fame, Gender, Heckles, Sexuality, Success, TV

Celebrating the release of Brian's Netflix special, his work now available in the UK for the first time, we're proud to bring you this blast from the past!  Well, 2016...

Brian Regan is the undisputed master of the "act-out", reducing audiences to tears of joy as he inhabits one potent premise after another. We squeezed in half an hour backstage to talk about how he shapes and annotates his "vignettes", and find out why everyone considers him the nicest man in comedy.

Note to UK-based listeners. Even if you don't always download non-UK acts, please just give this a whirl; it's only short and he's INCREDIBLE.

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Filed Under: Acting, Age, Alternative Comedy, Brain Regan, Criticism, Edinburgh, Fame, Interview, Netflix, Stage Persona, Success, TV

One of the writers and stars of Northern Ireland's most successful sitcom "Give My Head Peace", wonderful Tim McGarry is adept at walking the tightrope of offence.  We talk about his origins with The Hole In The Wall Gang; how it felt to write sketches about paramilitaries during the Troubles; and Stuart asks a "wanky" question that yields some interesting results...

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Filed Under: Acting, Age, Alternative Comedy, Audiences, Character, Dark Humour, Fame, Ireland, Radio, Success, TV

Is there such a thing as warm malice? One of the UK's classiest comics, Jo Caulfield wields spite like a glittering scalpel, to hilarious effect. We talk about her evolving relationship to her audience, discover the holy grail of TV warm-up, and consider changing the names to protect the innocent...

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Former SNL cast-member Sasheer is a phenomenally accomplished standup and comic actor, as well as a celebrity ambassador for the ACLU. At Just For Laughs Montreal, we discuss the confidence with which she frames her act, delve into her first standup special "Pizza Mind", and uncover her enthusiasm for life-coaching and it's effect on the finely-honed application of her will power...

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Filed Under: Acting, Character, Criticism, Diversity, Fame, Gender, Improv, Podcasting, Sketch, SNL, Success, TV

A phenomenally accomplished comic improviser and character comedian, Andy Daly revels in revealing the blackly comic internal lives of his creations.  We talk about his show "Review With Forrest McNeil", discover how playing on Comedy Bang Bang helps develop his characters, find out what makes Andy's wife roll her eyes, and enjoy a wee bit o' blarney...

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For more than 50 years Barry Cryer OBE has been a lynchpin of British comedy. Having written for Morecambe & Wise, Tommy Cooper, The Frost Report and Kenny Everett, he still performs in "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" and will be appearing live once again at the year's Edinburgh Festival.  We discuss joke structure, word choice and rapport, and Stu achieves a life-long ambition by telling Barry the "Beekeepers" joke.

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Filed Under: Acting, Age, Barry Cryer, BBC, Compere/MC/Hosting, Double Act, Edinburgh, Fame, Kenny Everett, Mainstream, Morecambe & Wise, Musical, Musical Comedy, Radio, Radio 4, Reviews, Success, TV