Knock Knock, Me Again

I perform a new stand-up set, a story about a motorway awareness course, to 3 duos at their respective homes (Vicki Carder & Megan Yeattes / Brad Wilkie & Rosanna Gilby / Aimee Connolly & Aidan Litterick)  and 1 solo person online from across the globe (Karla Herschell).  This episode includes discussions about false starts and the importance of that first line, the issues with highlig...

I perform a new stand-up set, a story about a motorway awareness course, to 3 duos at their respective homes (Vicki Carder & Megan Yeattes / Brad Wilkie & Rosanna Gilby / Aimee Connolly & Aidan Litterick)  and 1 solo person online from across the globe (Karla Herschell).  In this episode, I compare the reactions of my 4 different audiences, to demonstrate that the tiniest changes form...

If you’re new to this podcast series, I’d recommend starting with these radio episodes. This is a condensed version of episodes 3-5 from series 1, adapted for radio. It is more digestible than the original (longer) versions and some nice tracks by Wrenne and Zygmund De Somogyi are included. More summative episodes to follow! Recorded and edited by Tanna Chamberlain Artwork by Tanna Chamberlain Mus...

If you’re new to this podcast series, I’d recommend starting here. This is a condensed version of the first 3 episodes from series 1, adapted for radio. It is more digestible than the original (longer) versions of the first 3 eps, explicit content is removed, and some nice tracks by my first two guests are included. More summative episodes to follow! Recorded and edited by Tanna Chamberlain Artwor...

In this episode, I attempt a comedy set directly to the podcast microphone, with no guest, in attempt to research the difference. My comedy set, "Howdy Partner" is a story about an old job at an escape-room company. I wrap up with some thoughts about two concepts: the Dunning-Kruger Effect and The Ick.  I invite listeners to complete a simple questionnaire to help me measure how I'm...

In this episode, I attempt a comedy set directly to the podcast microphone, with no guest, in attempt to research the difference. I perform 3 very rough draft sketches (the hip specialist, the dirt bike, global warming) and add 3 arbitrary thoughts. I invite listeners to complete a simple questionnaire to help me measure how I'm doing. Click here to complete and thank you warmly. Recorded and...

This is my first "quarterly review". I talk about how the experiment is going so far and muse about comedy-related things... I expound my joke about physio tape, propose a new direction for the next batch of episodes, contemplate "non-funny" comedy, use Bo Burnham and Ricky Gervais as examples to questionably illustrate a point, muse over genre-blurring in popular media and how...

I perform my fourth stand-up comedy set to my family on Christmas day. They each tell me something that worked for them and something that didn't. In this episode, I explain my intentions behind the jokes for two thirds of my set: I talk about indulgent Christmas traditions and adults cheating at games. Recorded and edited by Tanna Chamberlain Artwork by Tanna Chamberlain Music licensed by au...

I perform my third stand-up comedy set to Ben Moore (The Park Bench Poet) and we discuss how it went. We discuss: Performance persona, List poems, Offending whole demographics in comedy, Cultural awareness, The origin of slapstick, Christmas crackers. Recorded and edited by Tanna Chamberlain Artwork by Tanna Chamberlain Music licensed by audiojungle The Moon Under Water, written and performed by B...

(If you’re new to this podcast series, I’d recommend starting with ‘Radio edit #1 - condensed version of eps 1-3’, a condensed version of the first 3 episodes from series 1, adapted for radio. It is more digestible than the original (longer) versions of the first 3 eps, explicit content is removed, and some nice tracks by my first two guests are included. More summative episodes to follow!) I perf...

(If you’re new to this podcast series, I’d recommend starting with ‘Radio edit #1 - condensed version of eps 1-3’, a condensed version of the first 3 episodes from series 1, adapted for radio. It is more digestible than the original (longer) versions of the first 3 eps, explicit content is removed, and some nice tracks by my first two guests are included. More summative episodes to follow!) I perf...

(If you’re new to this podcast series, I’d recommend starting with ‘Radio edit #1 - condensed version of eps 1-3’, a condensed version of the first 3 episodes from series 1, adapted for radio. It is more digestible than the original (longer) versions of the first 3 eps, explicit content is removed, and some nice tracks by my first two guests are included. More summative episodes to follow!) Welcom...

As a child, I made people laugh, but adulthood has rendered me anxious and afraid to be funny. Knock Knock, Me Again follows me on an anxiety-inducing experiment: to discover whether I can learn to be a stand-up comedian. I travel to people's living rooms, sit them down upon their sofa, and perform comedy at them: an excruciating encounter for both parties. My guest and I then discuss the exp...