Star of “Good News” and “Stand-up Central” as well as a former “Mock the Week” team captain, Russell Howard is also one of the UK’s most electrifying live performers. In this unusually candid interview, he exposes the unique pressures of fronting your own TV show, uncovers whether his success has made him happy, and we find out what you say to yourself after walking offstage at Wembley Arena…

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Filed Under: Arena Comedy, Awards, BBC3, Comedy Central, Competitions, Criticism, Edinburgh, Fear, First Open Spot, Improv, Inspiration, Jimmy Carr, John Oliver, Jon Richardson, Josie Long, Just For Laughs, Kerry Godliman, Late And Live, Live At The Apollo, Mock The Week, Observational Comedy, One Liners, Russell Howard's Good News, School, So You Think You’re Funny, Stand Up Central

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With his own Radio Four series and a raft of Mock The Week appearances under his belt, Nathan Caton remains astonishingly down to earth and level-headed. We explore panel-show tactics, discuss using comedy to heal people close to you, and learn how he was dropped by a leading agent out of the blue.  He’s happy, well-balanced and kind - will Stu manage to crack the bastard?

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Filed Under: Andy Parsons, Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing, Carl Donnelly, Chris Addison, Criticism, Dara O'Briain, Ed Byrne, Ed Gamble, Eddie Murphy, Edinburgh, Festival Comedian, First Open Spot, Fringe, Hugh Dennis, Ian Stone, Inspiration, Interview, Joe Wilkinson, John Maloney, Lenny Henry, Live At The Apollo, London, Micky Flanagan, Mock The Week, Observational Comedy, Radio, Radio 4, Reviews, Sara Pascoe, Sarah Millican, So You Think You’re Funny, Stage Persona, Stewart Francis, Storytelling, Success, The Comedy Store, Writing On Stage

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Stand-up; songwriter; Peep Show’s “Dobby”; and under it all still “The girl who jumped off Matlock Bridge for a quid”, Isy Suttie applies a psychedelic imagination to her forensic grasp of life’s minutiae.  We explore the stubbornness that underpins her eccentricity, dissect the word “whimsical”, and accidentally vomit into a spiderweb.

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Filed Under: Amused Moose, Channel 4, Dan Atkinson, David Mitchell, Edinburgh, Fear, Festival, First Open Spot, Fringe, Glenn Wool, Guide to the Family, Interview, Isy Suttie's Love Letters, Joe Wilkinson, Laughing Horse, Live, London, Matt King, Musical Comedy, Pearl and Dave, Peep Show, Poetry, Radio, Radio 4, Robert Webb, So You Think You’re Funny, Stage Persona, Storytelling, Success, The Actual One, Tim Key, Toast of London

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It’s episode 100 of the podcast and Stu’s been saving this one up! If you’ve donated in the last few months you’ll have heard this one as a sneaky pre-release but here it is for the rest of us…
Phil Kay is a force of nature. Not a metaphorical one; an actual force of nature. “The guy that speaks really fast until it goes wrong” waxes sagacious about staying in the bit that works, no longer being appropriate to the bullets, and most importantly of all believing in belief.
Phil’s autobiography “The Wholly Viable” is available online now and you’d be an idiot to miss it.

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Filed Under: Andrei Tarkovsky, Apocalypto, Arthur Smith, Boogie NIghts, Brotherhood Of The Wolf, Corky And The Juice Pigs, Dave McSavage, David Lynch, Dr Brown, Eddie Izzard, Exclusive, Force Of Nature, Gandalf, Gilded Balloon, Glasgow Caledonian University, How To, Interview, Katie Taylor, Late N' Live, Live, Magnolia, Malcolm Hardee, Mark Lamarr, Mulholland Drive, Oblivion Boys, Once Upon A Time In Anatolia, Paul Thomas Anderson, Phil Kay Feels, Phil Nichol, Poetry, Sean Cullen, Sean Hughes, So You Think You’re Funny, Steve Frost, The Wholly Viable, Touring Comedian

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Eleanor Tiernan makes tremendously articulate comedy, often out of morally murky ideas and subjects. She talks here about the comedy scene in her native Ireland, how to find the bits of your act that are genuinely “alive”, and how she escaped material she felt trapped by.
We also go into depth on her experiences with therapy, how her artistic purpose helps her emotionally, and how we share the underlying fear of getting kicked out of the gang...

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Filed Under: Andrew Lawrence, Chris Brown, Dara O'Briain, Dave McSavage, Dublin Fringe Festival, Edinburgh, Festival, Free Fringe, Fringe, Headwreckers, Help The Frigid, Hunter Square, Interview, Jason Byrne, Laughter Lounge, Mrs Brown’s Boys, Phil Kay, Reginald D. Hunter, So You Think You’re Funny, Stewart Lee, The Alternative Comedy Experience, The Comedy Store, The National Therapy Project, The Oxford Drama School, The Poor School, Tommy Tiernan, Up The Creek

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Although still new, Luke Heggie is a breath of dry, dusty air to a circuit stuffed with comic book-readers and “star-fuckers”.
A blue-collar Aussie bloke who won RAW on his fourth gig and then gave AGT a shot, he hilariously annihilates the idiots that cross his path, then goes back to his kids and his building site…

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Filed Under: Australia, Australia's Got Talent, Carey Marx, Carl Donnelly, Interview, Melbourne Comedy Festival, RAW Comedy, So You Think You’re Funny, The Nelson Twins, Touring Comedian

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Ed Byrne is a charming, argumentative sod - with a fantastically natural comic ability. We discuss whether it’s funnier to take time finding the truth of a subject, or to switch your opinions to find the must comically useful stance; and why a group of comedians is known as a “bitch”.
We also glimpse how he side-steps a physical writing process by simply losing an argument and then dwelling on it for far too long…

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Filed Under: Adam Bloom, Aspen Comedy Festival, Ben Elton, Bill Cosby, Billy Connolly, Bob Hope, Bob Monkhouse, Bruce Dessau, Bruce Morton, Ed Byrne, Ford Kiernan, Greg Hemphill, Interview, Irish, John Bishop, Live, Louis CK, Matthew Hardy, Michael Redmond, Micky Flanagan, Milton Jones, Mock The Week, Nick Doody, Old Rope, Paul Byrne, Peter Kay, Phil Kay, Phill Jupitus, Ricky Gervais, Roaring Forties, Sarah Silverman, So You Think You’re Funny, Stewart Lee, Still Game

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How do you make comedy out of stuff that hurts?  The low-falutin’ Jarlath Regan opens up about the near-tragic event he turned into a show, and why he had to leave his own country to pursue comedy.
We also explore the pros of flyering your festival show yourself; posing as your own agent; and what Jarlath will say to Louis CK’s face if he ever meets him…

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Filed Under: Andrew Maxwell, Bill Cosby, Carl Donnelly, Dara O'Briain, Demetri Martin, Dylan Moran, Ed Byrne, Edinburgh, Festival, Fringe, Interview, Irish, Jerry Seinfeld, Jimmy Carr, Joe Wilkinson, Louis CK, Maeve Higgins, Mental Health, Mitch Hedburg, Podcasting, Ricky Gervais, So You Think You’re Funny, Steven Wright, The Comedy Cellar, Tom Gleeson, TV Comedy, YouTube

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