If This Is True with Chris Hall

Rosie Tran is a New Orleans-born, Los Angeles-based stand-up comic whose credits include Last Comic Standing , Netflix Is a Joke, a Peacock half-hour special, and international touring. She’s also the creator and host of Rosie Tran Presents , a comedy showcase series now streaming on Tubi and Amazon that celebrates female and diverse voices in stand-up comedy. We discussed being green and getting...

Scotty Watson recently appeared in a very popular series of commercials for the New York TV market. Off-Broadway Scotty was seen as the disembodied head of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton in the Off-Broadway musical Walmartopia! He is an alumnus of The Second City Canadian National Touring Company and served as an alternate for, “Bebe,” in Cirque du Soleil's Mystere. He’s a graduate of UCB and an...

Well, they keep it more like 150. As in 150 episodes? I thought I’d catch up with old friends to discuss a myriad variety of topics, like being empty nesters. Cross country dating. What it’s like to be in the upcoming movie Durango Seems Like A Great Place To Die., and so much more. Susan and John are two of the best people when it comes to learning from them and having them as your best cheerlead...

Steven Morgan is an improvisation theatre practitioner who has been playing for over ten years, and since has played, performed and taught all over the world. He is Steven Morgan is a former cast member, performer & teacher with Amsterdam’s easylaughs from 2019 to 2023. While at easylaughs, he held the role of Chief of Learning, responsible for the teaching methods and course content for the s...

Russell Van Brocklen is a New York State Senate-funded dyslexia researcher and the founder of DyslexiaClasses.com. His work focuses on helping struggling learners build reading and writing skills by beginning with their strongest abilities rather than repeatedly drilling their weakest ones. His inaugural program moved college-bound students from a middle-school writing level to the average range o...

Kate Sidley is a WGA Award and Peabody Award-winning, Emmy-nominated comedy writer and performer who wrote for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Her first book, How to Be a Saint, is out now.  Beyond television, her work can be found in The New Yorker, McSweeney's, Reductress, and Someecards. She also wrote for the 69th Emmy Awards. She holds a M.A. in Theatre History and Criticism fro...

Dave Mowry is a stand up Comedian who teaches the art to people with mental illness. His comedy has been described as smart, inspirational and laugh out loud funny. He lives with bipolar disorder and severe anxiety. Dave was a successful businessman until he lost it all due to his mental illness and becoming homeless with his family for 18 months. After 14 lost years, he took a stand up comedy cla...

Terje Brevik is an improv teacher and performer from Oslo, Norway. Terje took his first improv class in 2012, quit his IT Engineering job and never looked back. He then backpacked across Asia and got a degree as a drama teacher.  He is the founder the Impro Neuf community in Oslo in 2015. He also founded Tøyen Impro, an improv school for everyone, and the Short Notice Improv Festival, a week...

Traveling, performing and teaching improv, Laurette is a french improviser now living in the Pacific Ocean (New Caledonia, a small archipelago near Australia). She is also a doctor, working in the war torn area of New Caledonia. She has been playing, learning and teaching in various countries for several years and is always happy to share. We talked about joy in improv and in her journey. She is a...

David Gillespie is a retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, who found a new chapter in writing childrens' books with a heroine and her story based on his family members and adventures. Floo Flocky Doo to the Rescue is a great story of a girl who knows what to do in strange situations. We had a great conversation about writing what you know and telling stories. Don't miss this one! This episode, lik...

Danny Johnson delivers clean stand-up with "Northeast sarcasm and Southern charm," making him a favorite for theaters, corporate events, churches, and community audiences nationwide. A Dry Bar Comedy featured comedian (Apple TV, Amazon & Peacock), he has appeared on Comedy Central, NateLand Live at Zanies, and shared stages with Howie Mandel, Bob Saget, and many others. A Carnival Cruise Line...

Simone is a theatre practitioner from Malta with experience in acting, directing and scriptwriting. She has an MFA in Staging Shakespeare from the University of Exeter and a strong background in scripted theatre. She is a member of the improv troupes  Playing Dead Theatre ,  Sabir , the online troupe  Close Distance  and is one half of the duos  Invisible Women ,...

The debut of ‘Playa Dust in My Soul’ made Sarah Marshall a newly minted author late in the seventh decade of her life. The shortcomings of her first draft initiated a writer’s journey that took over twenty years to learn how to carve a story from a mountain of information. As a Burning Man village leader for over twenty years, Sarah has witnessed firsthand how temporary communities catalyze perman...

Yuehan is a designer by day and an improv nerd by evening. Originally from Shanghai, China, and now based in Stockholm, Sweden.  She is the founder of English improv community - Fika Improv Group in Stockholm, where she's committed to connecting improvisers and sharing our passion for improv in a welcoming space. Graduated from Second City, she has also been training with teachers from d...

Ophira Eisenberg is a standup comedian, writer, and podcast host (NPR, CBS, CNN, The Moth, HBO, Comedy Central, iHeart) who headlines theaters and comedy venues across the world, tours regularly with the Moth Mainstage , and hosts the weekly parenting-comedy podcast Parenting is a Joke (Webby Finalist for Best Host).  She also hosted NPR’s trivia comedy show Ask Me Another for 9 years. ...

Monte Schulz   received his M.A. in American Studies from University of California, Santa Barbara. He published his first novel,   Down by the River, in 1990, and spent the next twelve years writing a novel about the Jazz Age. His most recent novel, award winning   Metropolis, was published in 2022. His father is the late cartoonist Charles M. Schulz. Building on the world Schulz created in his hi...

John Lutz is an actor, comedian, and screenwriter. He is best known for playing J. D. Lutz on the sitcom 30 Rock , and for his work as a writer on the NBC series Saturday Night Live for seven seasons. In 2014, he joined the writing staff of the NBC late-night talk show Late Night with Seth Meyers . Lutz began his professional career as a writer-performer with Chicago's ImprovOlympic and The Second...

Alexandra is an artist, educator, and somatic guide working with movement as a way to access creative authority, embodied clarity, and deep personal voice. Her work supports artists, teachers, activists, facilitators, and guides to strengthen their inner compass while leading, creating, and communicating. She is fascinated by how decision-making lives in the body: how gesture holds belief, habit b...

Meet Dr. Peter B. Cotton, a renowned gastroenterologist and professor with a five-decades-long career, who has touched the lives of thousands, including royalty and celebrities. In his second act, he has become an award-winning children’s book author, captivating young minds with his tales. His latest book, “What Fred The Snake And Friends’ Learn About The Chinese Zodiac – And The Great Race,” int...

Brad Elder is an award-winning author and attorney, living in Texas. Prior to writing his action thriller, Recoil of Justice, his writing credits  Included millions of emails and text messages, and a couple of dozen witty social media posts. When not poking fun at himself, Brad spends his days in Lubbock, TX, with his wife, Ashton, and his two children, Lauren and Jake. We talked about the he...

Michael is a retired New York City detective who somehow found his way from Manhattan to the Balkans. After his time with the NYPD, Michael spent two decades working internationally for the U.S. Department of State, the United Nations, and the Department of Justice; He’s seen the best and worst of human behavior — often in the same afternoon. Michael has written Land of Broken Toys: Kosovo, a work...

Alex Mann is an improviser, actor, comedian and author. His book, the Law of Improv came out in paperback in 2025. He has performed in several plays, shows, commercials, and TV shows, based out of the Boston area. He is also been a sheriff for 28 years, and uses that experience to explore how improvisational principles can help first responders communicate and strengthen leadership. The Law o...

The future of space may be shaped by a coming scramble for off-world resources, the rise of humans born and raised beyond Earth, and the disruptive power of AI and robotics. Genetic engineering will redefine not only crops but humanity itself, transforming survival in stark new ways. And in time, contact with alien species could spark conflicts or alliances that alter our destiny. These are some o...

Born in Athens, Greece as an Air Force brat, Teri M Brown came into this world with an imagination full of stories to tell. She now calls the North Carolina coast home, and the peaceful nature of the sea has been a great source of inspiration for her creativity. Not letting 2020 get the best of her, Teri chose to go on an adventure that changed her outlook on life. She and her husband, Bruce, rode...

Over the years, Cameron Smith has used comedy, music and film as ways to process life and connect with people in a real, unpolished way.  His latest project, The Loneliest Boy on Earth, came out of that impulse — part experiment, part personal confession, and part attempt to make sense of love and identity in the modern world.  He has learned that vulnerability, when shared honestly...