Beginnings

Elliott Kalan is an Emmy-award winning writer for The Daily Show and co-host of the amazing bad movie podcast The Flophouse (which is worth listening to regardless of whether you like bad movies or not, as the effortless riffing and chemistry between Elliott, Dan and Stuart is delightful). Simply put, Kalan is a funny guy. Quick-witted, amiable and hard-working, he has progressed from intern to PA...

Rue Brutalia is Jason Kalter and Jon Pack, a sketch duo that's been performing here in New York since 2006/2007. The duo met in one of Kevin Allison's sketch classes at The PIT and struck up a fast friendship and writing/performing relationship. Rue Brutalia's sketches are delightful and absurd and fun and playful, and the two have been picking up steam lately. They not only performed at NYC Sketc...

While Wrestling Team has a number of influences and loves a wide variety of comedy, there are two people above all that we really look up to: Bob Odenkirk and Rich Fulcher. Both men are extremely silly but are also very honest. Also both love yelling and swearing, which is our bread and butter. Fulcher got his start doing improv in Chicago and eventually found himself out in Britain where he hooke...

Comedy nerds might know James Adomian from Comedy Death Ray Radio where he plays a number of characters including Huell Howser, Jesse Ventura, and Christopher Hitchens. Non-comedy-nerds might know him from the latest season of Last Comic Standing or from the second Harold and Kumar film. West Coast comedy nerds might know him from the sketch group The Midnight Show. Everyone should know him from h...

Chris and Paul come closest to preserving the vaudeville spirit of the early 20th Century without hiding behind irony or simply being pastiches. They're joke writers plain and simple and love setting up a good gag. A couple weeks ago, they sat down with us to discuss their comedy, women, and Aunt Viv. Then, in an unrelated incident, the Wrestling Team apartment became infested with bedbugs, which...

Episode three features our interview with the extremely funny stand-up Sean Patton. Sean's been a stand-up since 2001, and moved to New York in 2007. Since then, he's amassed a bottomless well of credits including a set on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Every Thursday, Sean co-hosts Comedy as a Second Language at Kabin, 9pm. Also, his eyes are pretty dreamy.

Episode two features our first interview with successful comedians: Will and Kevin Hines. Will is the associate academic supervisor at the Upright Citizens Brigade Training Center in New York City, a performer on the UCB house team The Stepfathers, and co-author of the book Get Psyched! Kevin is a teacher at UCB, a performer on the UCB house team Reuben Williams, and a writer for the UCB video tea...

Wrestling Team's brand new podcast dedicated to looking at the beginnings of comedians' careers. What leads people into comedy? What's it really like starting out? How can you build a lasting career? All these questions and more will be explored. On episode one, Wrestling Team's friends Cory Palmer and Aaron Burdette talk about moving to New York to start performing comedy and the duo tests out th...