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Episode 320: Daniele Fabbri
Daniele grew up in a Catholic Italian family. In a few short years, he’s gone from altar boy to atheist comedian. Enjoy 15 minutes of stand up and chat as Daniele attempts to answer the question, “How on heaven and earth did that happen?”
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Episode 319: Sundeep Rao
Enjoy 15 minutes of stand up and chat with comedian, Sundeep Rao. Being partially sighted for most of his life, Sundeep has spent the last two decades listening and listening and listening. So, what has he heard?
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Episode 318 Ellen Waddell
Meet writer, comedian, actor, film maker, musician and performance artist, Ellen Waddell. This year she’s descending on Edinburgh with a new comedy play, ‘It’s Better to Lie Than to Tell the Truth and End Up Alone in a Ditch Crying’.
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Episode 317: Simon Jablonski
Enjoy 15 minutes of stand up and chat with stand-up comedian, Simon Jablonski, as he launches a probing needle into the eye of ‘Generation Hummus’. Grab a bread stick and dip into his bland new world.
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Episode 316: Tom Toal
Turning thirty has made Tom look back at all the previous ambitions he has harboured in his life and whether he would have been happier being a Rockstar, teacher, children’s author or turning that Morrison’s job full time. Enjoy 15 minutes of stand up and chat with the storytelling funny man.
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Episode 315: Rob Oldham
Enjoy 15 minutes of stand up and chat with stand-up comedian, Rob Oldham. He talks about his new show, ‘Brink’, which looks at growing up, politics, and being a hypocrite in the 21st Century. There are also two jokes about bums.
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Episode 314: Amy Howerska II
Enjoy 15 minutes of stand up and chat with Amy, inventor of a new comedy genre, ‘The Shit Mum Show’. Amy could never work out if her childhood was dysfunctional or whether it was just the 80s. Luckily, her inner goddess prefers gin and cockapoos to toddlers…
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Episode 313: James Cook
Stand-up comedian, James Cook, is crazy about board games. Enjoy 15 minutes of comedy and chat with the man who is not to be confused with “the explorer, the bass player in the Arctic Monkeys, a character off of Skins, the BBC’s Scotland correspondent, the Australian Rules footballer, the boxer, the square in Middlesbrough, the […]
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Episode 312: Pete Latham
Enjoy 15 minutes of stand up and chat with Pete, who takes a silly and unexpected look at life. During shows, he likes to create an atmosphere in the room that leaves you feeling like you’ve had a pint with your funniest mate.
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Episode 311: James Bennison
James Bennison has won almost every gameshow in existence and for his new show, he combines them all into the most adrenaline-fueled, nostalgic, egotistical hour of your life. Enjoy 15 minutes of stand up and chat with the maths and comedy wizard.
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Episode 310: Sarah Morgan-Paul
Sarah is taking on the pivotal role of tampon in this brand new one-woman show. Enjoy 15 minutes of stand up and chat with the comedian, playwright and actor, who has broken free from the corporate world, to live her dream of writing and performing stand-up comedy.
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Episode 309: Rik Carranza
Rik tells the story of love, life, death and being a geek. Enjoy 15 minutes of stand up and chat with the comedian who feels that he doesn’t fit in. Where is he from? Who is his favourite Star Trek character? How has he got a girlfriend?
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Episode 308: Kate Smurthwaite II
Enjoy 15 minutes of stand up and chat with comedian, writer and activist Kate Smurthwaite. Her new show, ‘ForniKATEress’ focuses on polyamory – just don’t tell Eamonn Holmes. You can also catch her hosting Edinburgh’s long running variety show, ‘Late With Kate’.
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Episode 307: Ivor Dembina III
Less than two weeks ago, Andrew Maxwell gave his response to the terrorist killings in Manchester. Today, we asked Ivor Dembina to share his thoughts on the the latest terrorist atrocity, which happened less than a mile from Ivor’s home in London.
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Episode 306: Samantha Pressdee II
Sammy describes herself as “an anarcha-feminist, who confronted the patriarchy with my tits out.” In her new show, she will be baring her soul instead of her chest. Sammy chats about the ‘Free the Nipple’ movement and explains why she doesn’t see eye to eye with some other feminists.
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Episode 305: Paul Wady
Meet Paul Wady, Guerilla Aspie-in-chief. Paul describes his show as “comedy, neurodiverse self-advocacy and a subversive autistic perspective on the neurotypical world.” He tries to “create an ‘autistic space’ in each and every show, so that other Aspies feel free to be out autistic.”
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Episode 304: Radu Isac
Radu Isac started comedy in 2006 in Bucharest and in 2015, moved to London. So, what does Radu think about British attitudes towards foreigners, post-Brexit? The answer might surprise you. Enjoy 15 minutes of stand up and chat with the Romanian comedian’s comedian.
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Episode 303: Jacob Hawley
Enjoy 15 minutes of stand up and chat with Jacob Hawley, the working-class lad from a Brexit town, who now boasts a vegetarian girlfriend and an arts degree. He’s a ‘Comedy Store King Gong’ winner and ‘Fresh Comedian of the Year’ finalist, but can he get served at the bar?
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Episode 302: Sonja Quita Doubleday
Cheekykita is the comic creation of actor, writer and comedian Sonja Quita Doubleday. Enjoy 15 minutes of stand up and chat with the Mancunian maverick, destined to take this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe by storm.
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Episode 301: Bob Slayer III
This year, Bob Slayer’s Heroes of Fringe is staging sixty-six shows in eight performance spaces across five venues. It’s Bob’s biggest line up. Enjoy 15 minutes of stand up and chat with one of the most unlikely, and most successful, comedy promoters in Edinburgh.
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Episode 300: Phil Nichol III
Welcome to the 300th edition of the On the Mic comedy podcast. Regular participant, Phil Nichol, helped us celebrate our landmark 100th show, so we invited him back for a third time. Enjoy 15 minutes of comedy and chat featuring Phil’s original tracks, ‘Bitter Song’, ‘Billie Holiday’ and ‘Can’t Say that to Me.’
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Episode 299: Jon Long
Jon Long performs stand-up comedy with songs. Songs about unusual recycling, his hatred of jogging, alcoholism, and falcons. Enjoy 15 minutes of stand-up, music and chat with the comic with strong views on how not to get fit.
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Episode 298: Ros Ballinger
Want to spice up your love life? Not sure what S&M stands for? Ros Ballinger is here to guide you through the weird, wonderful world of beginner’s BDSM. Spanking etiquette, dirty talk pitfalls, doms to avoid; no subject is off limits. Except PVC. She’s not into that.
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Episode 297: Sameer Katz
The American born, Cambridge educated, Sameer Katz brings his second show to the Edinburgh Fringe, promising to ask questions you never had. Enjoy 15 minutes of stand-up and chat with the comic with a PhD.
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Episode 296: Tomas Ahlbeck
Tomas returns to the Edinburgh Fringe to perform ‘It’s a Wretched Life’. Experience 15 minutes of stand up and chat with the dark, twisted and absurd comedian from Sweden, as he takes his comedy one step further away from the main stream.
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