I'm Not Joking

Jonathan Giles is a writer and stand-up comedian. He is an alum of the NBC’s Late Night Writers Program. He has performed at clubs across the country and is currently part of the Second City NBC Universal Breakout Festival. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the Solo community today: petermcgraw.org Peter McGraw Twitter Peter McGraw LinkedIn

Natalie Shure is a writer and researcher. Her work appears in The Atlantic, Slate, Daily Beast, LA Times, Pacific Standard, Salon, and BuzzFeed. She is head of research for Adam Ruins Everything on TruTV. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the Solo community today: petermcgraw.org Peter McGraw Twitter Peter McGraw LinkedIn

Mark is the president of Sanborn & Associates, Inc. As a professional speaker, he has given over 2,600 presentations and is the author eight books. His book, The Fred Factor: How Passion in Your Work and Life Can Turn the Ordinary Into the Extraordinary, is an international bestseller and appeared on the New York Times, Business Week,and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists. Mark is a member o...

Jane Saltzman studied at Chicago’s famed Second City and performs improv along Colorado’s front range. She created the Earth Vision Institute, which launched alongside the documentary, CHASING ICE, in 2012. Prior to launching EVI, Jane was the Executive Director of OpenArts, a cultural institution in Boulder. She currently has four film and television projects in development and pre-production. Fo...

Wil Anderson is a comedian, writer, presenter, and podcaster. Mostly, he is a comedian–one of those comedians who loves watching comedy. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the Solo community today: petermcgraw.org Peter McGraw Twitter Peter McGraw LinkedIn

Laura Davis is a stand-up and comedy writer. She has won Comedy Channel Moosehead Award, Melbourne International Comedy Festival Golden Gibbo Winner, and Melbourne Fringe Best Comedy. Davis has appeared on SBS’s Stand Up shows and ABC TV. She is a writer for Sean Micallfes’s show Mad as Hell. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the Solo community today: petermcgraw...

Darwyn Metzger is the former star of America Now and an Emmy award-winning broadcast journalist, who began his career by asking MTV comedian Tom Green for a job live on the air of his talk show. Darwyn went on to become the founder and CEO of Phantom, a digital marketing and social media strategy firm that works with Brands, Political campaigns, TV shows, Films & Celebrities including Nike, Tr...

The secret to success that everybody knows but can’t do: Finding the part of you that wants to be a success and nurturing it. Anthony Noack says it can be a hard thing to take yourself back to motivation, you just have to force yourself to do something. Playwrite, producer and filmmaker Anthony Noack works for Melbourne International Comedy Festival. He is an assistant producer at RAW Comedy and F...

Every job is problem solving. We solve problems, we design things, and everyone designs in their own way. Experience designer and writer Josh Kinal says design is in the intention from the start. If you’re not building something with intention, you are not designing. User experience design, in a nutshell, is creating products with a focus on providing quality and meaningful experiences to users an...

For Jami Gong, the greatest job in the world is making people laugh. Jami is dubbed as The Funniest Man in Hong Kong and is the founder and producer of TakeOut Comedy, the first full-time comedy club in Asia. His first dab at stand-up comedy was a comic competition in Syracuse University during his sophomore year in 1989. He fell in love with standup comedy watching The Tonight Show with Johnny Ca...

Jimmy Carr has too many credits to name. He is a stand-up comedian. His most recent special, Funny Business, can be seen on Netflix. He is a well-known host, perhaps best known for The UK show The Big Fat Quiz of the Year. Pete met Jimmy when Jimmy was the presenter on a BBC special on the Science of Laughter. Jimmy’s book, Only Joking: What’s So Funny About Making People Laugh, was the first and...

For nearly twenty years, Ben McKenzie has done a little of everything: sketch, improv, standup, musicals, storytelling, theater, lectures, podcasts, and even late night museum tours. Ben marries comedy and science, such as his time travel comedy audio show, Night Terrace. He’s also designed and hosted dozens of live games, such as Small Time Criminals and city-wide romp Where in Melbourne is Carme...

Lisa-Skye is Melbourne’s sparkle puppy muppet dominatrix comedian. Her uniquely positive and inclusive humor and her glitter-bomb high-energy delivery have made her a favorite on the International arts festival circuit. She is not for the close-minded… Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the Solo community today: petermcgraw.org Peter McGraw Twitter Peter McGraw Li...

Janet McLeod (The Fairy Godmother of Melbourne Comedy) has been working in the comedy industry for over 20 years as a writer/performer/behind-the-scenes-whiz-kid. She regularly hosts live trivia nights across Melbourne, is the producer of the longest running weekly standup comedy room in Melbourne (Local Laughs on Monday nights in St Kilda) and is co-host of Cinema Fiasco (the show where she and h...

Gordon Southern is a UK stand-up comedian with over 20 years of comedy experience, He has performed all over the world, and is a regular on the Australian comedy circuit. He writes copy in the daytime and performs comedy live at night – earning him the moniker, “International Word Clown”. For Gordon, improvising comedy is when the magic truly happens. Maybe it’s also because when you do a well-hon...

They often say laughter is the best medicine, but so is music. Gillian Cosgriff is a singer, songwriter, musician, and comedian. She graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) in 2010 with a Bachelor of Music Theatre and went on to write her first solo show, Waitressing…and Other Things I Do Well, which debuted at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival. Television credits incl...

Ivan Aristeguieta became a full time comedian after having a successful career as a Brew Master and Food Technologist in his home country of Venezuela. He left the Brewery but drinking beer is still part of his job. He quickly escalated to become part of the new Venezuelan comedy movement selling out shows around Venezuela and Miami-Florida (USA). In the year 2012 Ivan migrated to Australia and to...

Ross Floate is a designer, writer, podcaster, and bizarrely enough, ethicist from Melbourne, Australia. Over his 25 year career, he’s helped create magazines, newspapers, websites, and apps for some of Australia’s biggest brands. He currently works at Australia’s leading independent experience agency Loud&Clear as a design strategist. His french bulldog, Hitchens, was named Melbourne’s most hi...

Sarah Bennetto is a Melbourne-born, London-based comedian. As well as playing comedy clubs in London, Ireland, Wales and Scotland, Sarah is also a stalwart of BBC Radio, plus hosted her own radio show on Dalston’s NTS Radio “Sarah Bennetto’s Mix-Tape”, as well as at her cult favorite annual show from backstage at Glastonbury Festival. Sarah is the brains behind Storytellers’ Club, which tours inte...

Nancy Norton is a Boulder-based comedian and a local Headliner at Comedy Works in Denver. You may have seen Nancy there or on various TV comedy showcases over the years: from doing standup in comedy clubs across the US–to performing on “Evening at the Improv” on A & E, or perhaps in her one-woman show, “The Yellowish-Green Girl” on PBS and featured on Nickmom Night Out on Nickelodeon. Norton h...

Janae Burris is a comedian, writer and actor in Denver Colorado. She’s been a featured performer at Portland’s Bridgetown Comedy Festival, Limestone Comedy Festival in Bloomington Ind and Denver’s High Plains Comedy Festival. She is the 2016 Comedy Works New Faces Champion, and performs regularly at both Comedy Works locations in Denver. Janae is a member of Pussy Bros, a comedy trio which hosts s...

Our guest is Denver comedian, Nathan Lund. He was featured on the TV show Flophouse on Viceland as well as the BBC show, Horizon. Nathan was part of the funnier Funny Or Die Oddball Comedy Festival, Crom Comedy Festival, Savage Henry Fest, and the High Plains Comedy Festival. You can often see him at Comedy Works in Denver and you might see him hosting Film on the Rocks at Red Rocks. Love the show...

Although still new to comedy, Boston comic Vally D already performed at Denver Comedy Works, Boston’s Comedy Studio, Maine’s Portland Comedy Festival, The Riot Theater, Stand Up Break In and Reykjavik’s Goldengang Comedy Festival. She also acts and co-produces the show Laugh While You Can, a comedy show that benefits charity. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the...

JD Lopez knows that first impressions are important – and first impressions in comedy are often physical. He learned this from his training as an actor.  Put your best foot forward because people immediately interpret subtle cues and body language.  Thus, JD opens his show with energy. As he says, you have to tackle the stage because wrangling the audience can be like a fight. Love the show? Subsc...