From the “Just For Laughs” Comedy Festival in Montreal, Jen Kirkman breaks down the elements of her personality that create such a thrilling dynamic in her stage and screen performance.  Relentlessly analytical of her emotions, she’s very candid about her self-criticism, the crisis of creating a comedy special about her marriage whilst knowing deep down she wanted that union to end, and how she connects so deeply with her audience…

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Filed Under: Bill Burr, Chelsea Handler, Chortle, Dave Chappelle, David Letterman, Eddie Pepitone, Festival, Hail To The Freaks, I Seem Fun, Interview, Isolation, Just For Laughs, Kurt Metzger, Louis CK, Marc Maron, Maria Bamford, Melbourne Comedy Festival, Mr Show, Podcasting, Reviews, Stage Persona, Steve Bennett, Storytelling, USA, Writing Jokes, Writing On Stage

“Anarchist Cook” George brings his ludicrous visual comedy to the Edinburgh Fringe for the first time this summer.  George bakes his own bread, builds his own props, and survives his hotel-based weekends in a hilariously inventive fashion which Stu has taken to heart…  We talk about comedy, cuisine and creativity, as well as George’s expectations of his first ever Edinburgh run.

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Filed Under: Anarchist Cook, Archaos, Edinburgh, Festival, Fringe, Interview, MAD Symposium, Robin Ince, Street Performance, The Hotel Survivor, Up The Creek, Viral, Will Smith, Writing Jokes, YouTube

Podcast pioneer, arch-noodler, jingle-master and YouTube cosmonaut, Adam Buxton invented loads of your favourite stuff before it was famous. We talk about the creative urge; exploiting one’s family for material; and how to cope with criticism. We also explore the dynamic between Adam and long-term collaborator Joe Cornish. But which one is the best? It’s Adam.

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Filed Under: 6Music, Adam and Joe, BUG, Channel 4, Graham Linehan, Interview, Joe Cornish, Jon Ronson, Live, Ricky Gervais, Shaun Keaveny, Song Wars, Stephen Merchant, The Persuasionists, XFM

Is Daliso Chaponda Malawi’s only professional comic? Methodical to a fault and gleefully non-improvisational, Daliso talks us through the crafting of his unbreakable jokes. A truly global act, he explains what it’s like to be a headliner on one continent and a road act on another…

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Filed Under: Eddie Murphy, Interview, Just For Laughs, Live, Malawi, Political Comedy, Roger Ebert, The Colbert Report

Second-ever winner of the voted-for-only-by-comics “Comedians Comedian” award (no relation), Gavin Webster is one of the most frequently requested guests on this podcast. A true circuit stalwart with a phenomenal gag-rate and an ability to play any room, he talks about his inspiration in music hall comedy and punk rock, his deliberately provocative titles, and his frustration with “posh people with pens”…

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Filed Under: Alan Davies, Bill Hicks, Bob Mills, Chortle, Edinburgh, Fringe, Harry Hill, Interview, Jo Brand, Live, Music Hall, Paul Foot, Ross Noble, Stewart Lee, The Comedy Store

Creator and host of his own TV show “Legally Brown”, Nazeem Hussain aces it in sketch, stand-up and on the road. Unusually for a comic he’s also an upstanding pillar of his community! As well as winning the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Best Newcomer, he is also the recipient of awards for leadership in diversity, and is the patron of a refugee charity. We talk about how his faith feeds into his work, being “a tough-talking idiot”, and the reality of being genuinely targeted by shadowy government organisations…

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Filed Under: Best Newcomer, Interview, Legally Brown, Melbourne Comedy Festival, Sketch

Host of Mock The Week for 14 series, as well as a superlatively talented touring comic, Dara Ó Briain is uniquely placed to reveal the secrets of mainstream success. In this unmissable episode he goes into detail on the structure of his tour shows and gives us his manual for crowd work. We also explore his fusion of technique and natural comic ability, and hear his own take on how he broke away from the pack…

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Filed Under: Adam Hills, Ed Byrne, Frankie Boyle, Hugh Dennis, Interview, Jason Manford, Micky Flanagan, Mock The Week, Romesh Ranganathan, Russell Howard, Stargazing, Stewart Lee, The Apprentice

As well as co-hosting The Football’s On show on BT and the Tuesday Club podcast, Ian Stone is an unbreakable club comic with a resume that includes TV panel games, regularly headlining the Comedy Store and performing to British troops in Afghanistan. He charts the development of his writing skills, and explores the revelation he had in deciding to “piss about” on stage. We also cover only writing stuff that you care about, and using moaning as a creative force…

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Filed Under: BT Sport, Dave Schneider, David Baddiel, Dylan Moran, Eddie Izzard, Edinburgh, Festival, Fringe, Ian Cognito, Interview, Jenny Eclair, Jerry Sadowitz, Michael McIntyre, Milton Jones, Mock The Week, Podcasting, Rich Hall, The Comedy Store, The Football’s On