Funny In Failure

Elliot Loney is a Comedian / Impersonator / Writer / Entertainer / Actor / Director / Producer. He catapulted to viral YouTube success as a result of his impersonation of Bear Grylls in the video Man VS Metro 1. Since then he has had several viral YouTube videos to his credit. Accumulating over 20 Million views across multiple channels. Elliot stars in the TV show KINNE, a six-part sketch comedy s...

DeAnne Smith is Canadian/ American award winning stand up comedian, writer, actor, podcaster whose preformed at Just for Laughs, JFL42, the Winnipeg Comedy Festival, The Melbourne International Comedy Festival, The New Zealand International Comedy Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and the Iceland Comedy Festival. Her stand up bit called "straight men, step your game up" has been viewed over ten...

Steve Kaplan is an author, producer, director, consultant and teacher. He has been the industry's most sought-after expert on comedy. In addition to having taught at UCLA, NYU, Yale and other top universities, Steve created the HBO Workspace, the HBO New Writers Program and was co-founder and Artistic Director of Manhattan Punch Line Theatre. He has consulted and taught workshops at companies such...

Carl Donnelly is an award winning British stand up comedian, writer and podcaster. He has been nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award twice, won a bunch of other awards, appeared on a selection of TV shows (Mock The Week, Russell Howard's Good News etc) and travelled the world having performed at the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal, The Melbourne International Comedy Festival, The New Zeala...

Amy Cunningham is a Toronto-based, plant-based comedian, writer and storyteller who has performed stand-up internationally. Her dark and deadpan comedy style has been featured at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Oddblock Comedy Festival, SheDot Festival, and FRINGE WORLD. She writes satirical pieces for several national, Canadian comedy websites and was a 2017 winner of the Independent...

Alan is a man of many distinctions. He was the first american to ordain as a Buddhist monk in Burma in modern times. He is an author, public speaker, retreat leader, investigative journalist, a satirist, and performing artist. His numerous books, writings, and films, include: Burma the next killing fields and Revolution of the spirit (both books with forewords by the Dalai lama). He has also writt...

Alexandra Keddie is an actor, writer and a cabaret performer. She has appeared on ABC's "The Doctor Blake Mysteries", "True Story with Hamish and Andy" and Channel 10's "Offspring". She's also the co-creator of "The Housemate", which is on ABC/ iview and has created her own shows, "Hayfever and "I see me and Meryl Streep" amongst much more. In this podcast we talk about, external gratification, vu...

Luke Kidgell is one of the biggest comedy entertainers in Australia. He is a stand-up comedian, youtuber, actor, podcaster and a radio presenter who is Co-Host of Luke & Lewis on Fox101.9 . Luke's "you don't own me" videos have gotten over half a billion views, where he humorously disobeys societal norms. He is also the host of the autobiographical podcast Memoirs of a White Guy. In this podcast w...

Cool and Smart are a comedy duo featuring Barney Pollock and Matt Young. Barney, is an actor, writer and comedian from Perth. He graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) in 2015 with a Bachelor of Performing Arts. He has toured with the Spare Parts Puppet Theatre, has worked as a voice-over artist and director, and has experience in theatre and at improv. Matt is an...

Liz Miele started doing stand-up at the young age of 16 in New York City. At 18, she was profiled in The New Yorker Magazine, at 22 she appeared on Comedy Central's "Live at Gotham." She recently appeared on Comedy Central's "This Week at the Comedy Cellar," NPR's "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me," Hulu's "Coming To The Stage," AXS TV's "Gotham Comedy Live," and was profiled in the March 2015 issue of Run...

Dave Lawson is a TV and radio personality, a writer, comedian and an actor. He's also appeared in the iconic Toyota memorable moments series, and has been the host of a variety of TV shows, in particular a S'Arvo, Camp Orange and various other nickelodeon ones. He is also the host of the web series, "Dave Shed Show" which has featured some of the biggest names in Australia (including Stephen Curry...

Julia Hladkowictz is a comedian, actor, writer and food blogger from Canada. She has appeared on Comedy Network, Much Music's Video on Trial, MTV, YTV, PBS, Conan, Kevin Hart's LOL network and on SiriusXM. Julia has also toured all over North America performing at clubs and at multiple festivals including San Francisco Sketch Fest, Laughing Skull Comedy Competition in Atlanta, NXNE, COCA (Canadian...

Emily Joy is is an actor, recently seen on screen in "Neighbours", "Tonightly With Tom Ballard" and "The Housemate". She has recently performed in the Comedy Festival for the sketch show "Mindful-mess" and can be seen weekly as an improviser at The Improv Conspiracy. She also runs Joy Studio, a boutique acting studio here in Melbourne. Next up you can catch her in the web series "Woah, Alyssa! Sea...

John Safran is an award-winning documentary maker of provocative and hilarious takes on race, the media, religion and other issues. Safran first hit TV screens in 1997 on "Race Around the World". Both John Safran's" Music Jamboree" and "John Safran vs. God" won Australian Film Industry awards for best comedy series and most original concept, and were also nominated for Logie awards. Other shows in...

Alice Fraser is an ex lawyer, ex academic and investment banker turned award winning writer, broadcaster, performer, comedian, keynote speaker and more. Just when you think she couldn't cram in anymore you hear that she has also hosted a "Ted X" talk and that her "Trilogy" podcast series was voted "Apple Editorials" teams #1 best Australian podcast for 2018. She's now living in London, gigging aro...

Damian Callinan is an ex drama teacher, multi award-winning stand-up comic, actor, writer, podcaster, story teller and a producer. You may know him from his roles on "Skithouse", "Before The Game" & "Backyard Ashes" as well as regular guest appearances on shows such as Spicks and Specks & the Melbourne Comedy Festival Gala, where he has been nominated 3 times for the Barry Award for Most Outstandi...

Ben Russell is an award nominated stand up comic, improviser, actor, director, puppeteer, impressionist and writer. You may recognize him him from The Toykyo Hotel" or as the head writer for the bizarre tonight show "Aaron Chen Tonight" or even from ABC shows "Fancy Boy Pilot", "Sideliners" and "The Let Down". He is also the co-creator of the cult hit touring show "Nö Shöw" and has also been invol...

Nina Oyama is a stand-up comedian, writer and actress. She has performed all around Australia and has written for radio, stage and TV. Including writing for Tonightly with Tom Ballard. You can also catch her on Utopia on ABC where she plays the role of Courtney. Nina is also writer/director of a comedy web series titled 'The Angus Project' for ABC's Fresh Blood 2017 initiative, which she created w...

Michael Chamberlin is a veteran of the Australian comedy scene. He is a writer, actor, podcaster and stand-up comedian. Beginning his comedy career in the year 2000, Michael Chamberlin has been the host, writer and producer of "The Mansion", a fictional news show for The Comedy Channel, a cast member and writer for Ten Network's popular sketch comedy series "skitHOUSE". He has also been seen on "R...

Jacqueline Mifsud is comedian, actor, writer and TV and radio host. She developed her comedic style and quick wit over four years while working as a tour guide in Paris. She performed three-hour-long walking tours around the city of light, mainly for backpackers. As she was paid only in tips, Jacqueline quickly learnt how to read an audience and use humour to make enough money to pay rent (and buy...

Neel Kolhatkar is a YouTube star, comedian and actor. Neel has been doing the rounds of comedy clubs and theaters across Australia and around the world since he won the Class Clowns competition at just fifteen years old. His accents, impressions, short films and carefully-crafted jokes have seen him collect more than million followers and  millions of video views. Amongst many things, Neel talks a...

Adam Kangas is a improviser and the founder and artistic director of The Improv Conspiracy, Australia's leading source of Chicago-style improvised comedy. We discuss how a self proclaimed introvert has managed to thrive in the world of improv comedy. If you want to see Adam perform or join classes at his theatre, you can find out more details at https://improvconspiracy.com/ Follow @Funny in Failu...

This podcast series is where I interview funny and interesting people to discuss, their careers and some of the challenges they have faced. I hope to use this platform to normalise and encourage the discussion of failure, particularly through the lens of the comedy industry, to show that it can be a stepping stone towards the road of success. Nothing is better than humour to normalise a situation,...