A RICH COMIC LIFE PODCAST

In this episode, I chat to the fantastic comedian MAUREEN YOUNGER about her comedy career. Younger is a stand-up comedian, actor and writer who on stage is frank, feisty, sharp and engaging.  She has performed at major comedy clubs around the UK and Europe.  I have seen her many times and she makes me continuously laugh out loud.  Her online chat show MY Comedy Chats was a weekly fixture online in...

In this episode, I talk to the great comedian LENNY SHERMAN about his comedy career. Sherman first started performing stand-up comedy in 2010 and he was named runner-up in the National Comic Idol competition run by Jongleurs Comedy Club in 2012.  When I have watched him on stage, he is full of enthusiasm, determined to entertain the audience with some great jokes and stories. Thanks so much for li...

In this episode, I talk to the wonderful musical comedian BOOTHBY GRAFFOE about his comedy career. Graffoe is a comedian, singer songwriter and playwright.  He is particularly known for his surreal sense of humour and I have been a fan for years.  I first saw him at The Stand Comedy Club at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2005 where he had the audience singing different parts of his song Baseball Playing...

In this episode, I chat to the brilliant impressionist, actor and comedian LUKE KEMPNER about his comedy career. He made a hit video Downstairs At Downton in 2012 playing all the characters which transformed into his successful one man show The Only Way is Downton that toured nationwide and appeared for two years in succession at the Edinburgh Fringe. His accurate and hilarious impersonations incl...

In this episode, I chat to the excellent comedian TOM DEACON about his comedy career. Comedian, DJ, and presenter Deacon has performed on stage numerous times and on TV he has appeared in many programmes, including Dave’s One Night Stand, The Rob Brydon Show and Edinburgh and Beyond. I have really enjoyed his routines at the Always Be Comedy club where he was sometimes a guest compere as well as a...

In this episode, I talk to the brilliant musical comedian STEVE GRIBBIN about his comedy career. Armed with guitar, Steve Gribbin is a hysterically funny comedian from Liverpool, UK, whose wonderful comedy songs and superb observations have made him one of the firm favourites of the comedy circuit. Gribbin was on the first bill that I ever saw at the comedy store in 1988. As one half of musical co...

In this episode, I, talk to the talk to one of my favourite comedians MATT RICHARDSON about his comedy career. Matt Richardson is an award-winning presenter and comedian.  At 18 years of age, Richardson began performing stand-up comedy in 2009. He appeared in the finals of So You Think You’re Funny and the Chortle Student Comedian of the Year in 2010. Richardson's first solo show, Hometown Hero, w...

In this episode, I, chat to the brilliant comedian and compere SION JAMES about his career in comedy. The comedian compares for many comedy nights including Clapham Comedy Club, Collywobblers Comedy and Happy Mondays Comedy Club in London both live and online. Thanks so much for listening to my podcast, if you like what you hear, please subscribe and I hope you enjoy the interview. Please read Sio...

In this episode, I, talk to the wonderful comedian JO CAULFIELD about her career in comedy. One of the best female comedians on the comedy circuit, Jo Caulfield is an Edinburgh Fringe favourite and veteran.  Indeed, I have seen her live many times both in Edinburgh and London.  Her reflections on modern life are concise and perceptive and she always manages to bring her audience with her, leading...

In the first episode of a new podcast series, I talk to pun master comedian DARREN WALSH about his career in comedy. Beginning in 2010, Walsh used props and weird sound effects whilst delivering lots of puns to high comic effect. Four years later, Walsh became the UK’s first Pun Champion which was  then followed by his book Cheep Laughs that includes over 1000 of his puns and drawings. I have seen...

Hello and a very warm welcome to A Rich Comic Life Podcast.  My name is Richard Gill and I attend a lot of live and online UK comedy shows.  For the last forty - eight years, I have been sitting in audiences watching and laughing at live and online comedy. This podcast features interviews with some of my favourite comedians who talk about their careers.  The comedians are all entertaining, very fu...