Liverpool Comedy ImprovCast

This week we are bringing you another live special! This time around we are putting the spotlight on the fantastic Boss Birds. Boss Birds are an all female team who formed at LCI and they are an incredibly talented bunch who are masters of their craft. Boss Birds and Friends is a monthly show that LCI puts on and the show featured today was recorded at the end of January 2022 at the very first Bos...

This week we welcome an LCI regular who is an up and coming stand up comedy sensation. She is the incredibly talented Melina Fiol. Melina is still relatively new to both improv and stand up, but in the short space of time she has been doing both she has made a big name for herself. She oozes charisma and passion for what she does and during the chat with show host Iain Luke Jones, she breaks down...

This week we are super excited to have Laura Hall on the show! Laura has been a part of Whose Line is it Anyway? ever since it crossed the pond to America and her musical expertise have helped her to carve out a very niche role in the improv world. In this chat Laura tells Iain how she got the Whose Line job inthe first place and gives some amazing insight into how the show works from the other si...

On 21-2-22 Liverpool Comedy Improv launched their brand new monthly live improv show 'Boss Birds & Friends'. At the end of every month Emma Bird and her team of Boss Birds will be putting on a show where they welcome a guest team to perform with them. The first guest team was 'The Oickers', a team that formed after attending many courses together at LCI. Our Host Iain Luke Jones is one of the Oick...

This week we welcome that fantastic human being that is Stuart Moses to the show. Stuart is an associate teacher of LCI and has a workshop called 'Movement for Improvisers' taking place on March 26th at the Liverpool Arts Bar from 1-4pm. The workshop is aimed at shaking you out of your characterisation defaults and go to's that you might want to get out of. Tickets for the workshop are available o...

This week we have two guests for the price of one! Hannah Carson and Hannah Jane (Sav) are recent converts to improv and are a big part of the current LCI scene. In this chat we get the low down on how they both discovered improv and how big an impact it has had on their life in such a short space of time. They are both incredibly fun and vibrant characters and it is chat that will definitely put...

We have kept you waiting a whole week, but now the time is finally here to for you to catch up with the second part of the fantastic Viola Spolin special with Max Schafer. We jump right back in where we left off & it is another really inforative and entertaining chat all about the origins of improv as we know it.

Today we are bringing you part one of a two part Viola Spolin special! Max Schafer is a leader of the teachings of 'spolin' and he is a deep well of knowledge in not just her techniques, but also in how she herself was as a teacher. Iain also delves into Max's improv history and we find out why he is so passionate about keeping the name 'Viola Spolin' present in the mind of improvisers all over th...

Tanya is a fun improviser who is a regular at the online drop ins. During this very enjoyable chat you will find out how she ended up leaving Bulgaria for the bright lights of Beverley (just outside Hull) and what ultimately led her to discovering the joys of improv. She does an excellent job at flipping many of the questions back to Iain and even has a few excellent questions of her own to pose h...

To kick off the New Year in style we welcome the founder of LCI Emma Bird back to the show to celebrate 50 episodes! Iain and Emma chat about the evolution of the podcast and the evolution of LCI both reflecting on all that has happened so far and looking ahead to the future. It is a great chat to kick off our 2022 journey and we can't wait for you to hear it.

This week is the final episode of 2021 and Iain is looking back on the evolution of the show over the previous 48 episodes. He gives a bit of backstory as to how the show came to be in the first place and then talks through all of the episodes so far, discussing key moments particular things he enjoyed. We won't be away for long and we look forward to bringing you lots more content in the new year...

Last week we shared with you an insight into the return to live improv at LCI courtesy of the 'Shindig' at the Fly in the Loaf on 26-11-21. We hope you enjoyed listening to that episode as much as we did and this week we have invited LCI regular and previous show guest Geoff Head to the show to discuss the gig in more detail with Iain. It is a really fun reflection on what was a truly fantastic ni...

This week we are giving you a taste of the Liverpoll Comedy Improv Shindig that took place at the Fly in the Loaf on November 26th. It was a fantastic return to live performance improv in Liverpool and was a great way to showcase the very talented members of the LCI community. The teams performing all formed through LCI and many of the performers have been previous guests on the show. Broken Chair...

This week we are discussing Friendship in Improv with returning guest and friend of the show San George. The improv community has been a place where people feel like they truly belong and can fully open up and be themselves and this means that the bonds that are formed run deep. Iain and San discuss how the improv community has impacted them and as good friends often do, they drift off topic on mo...

This week Iain welcomes back former show guest Dave Hodgson to discuss the 'Game of the Scene'. What actually is it? How do you discover it? How important is it? These are just some of the questions that are asked and answered in this very insightful and fun chat between two improv buddies. It's time to sit back, relax and enjoy delving deep into the Game of the Scene.

Dr. Ron is in the house! This week we have the pleasure of bringing you this wonderful treat of a chat with Dr. Ronald Harvey. Find out how he first discovered improv in Chicago during the 90’s and then forgot about improv before life led him to living in Bulgaria and ultimately back to improv. There’s all sorts of interesting topics discussed from music to psychology and it’s an episode we can’t...

This week we are super excited to welcome Becky Webb to the show! Becky is a talented improviser and physical theatre specialist who is just as wonderful to learn from as she is to watch perform. She keeps herself very busy and you are sure to see her name associated with a great many courses and shows. During this chat Becky breaks down her journey into improv via her physical theatre training an...

This week Iain welcomes one of his oldest friends Thomas Casson to the show to discuss the question 'Is Improv Really For Everyone?' Thomas is a professional actor and has frequently batted away and invites from Iain to join him for some improv fun. This led Iain to ponder what actually is it that keeps him saying no when he knows that Thomas possess all of the skills so improv? This is a really f...

This week we welcome Anna McKenzie to the show and what a wonderful conversation it is! Anna talks about her early experiences of improv and how it was a British sense of humour that brought her to the UK from Ukraine in the first place. It’s a real back and forth conversation and Anna even hijacks the show at one point and assumes the role of interviewer! It’s a real varied chat that ranges from...

This week we welcome back a previous guest of the show, the Mayor of Improv himself Mark Turpin! Iain and Mark discuss the effect of improv on well-being and it’s basically just a fly on the wall experience, listening to two friends having a good old chin wag about something they are both incredibly passionate about.

This week we welcome Guy Ridgway to the show and we can’t wait for you to hear his story. Guy is incredibly open about the struggles he has faced in life and is an inspirational character who is very driven and focused on building others up. He speaks very highly about many of the LCI regulars and we know that lots of you will be smiling when you hear just how highly you are thought of. Guy is onl...

This week the show is a little different to normal because I literally just made something up as I went along. I was supposed to interview somebody but I was stood up & I decided on a whim to do the show anyway and drafted in my wonderful partner Sekki Tabasuares to talk about how the transition to improv in real life is going after such a long time stuck behind our screens. It was a really fun ch...

Frank is a lovely man who has lived a varied and interesting life, which leads to having many great stories to tell. In this chat we hear all about he started off his working life as a primary school teacher and then went through several career changes before coming back full circle as he now finds himself back in education. He is passionate about performing and is involved in many great groups th...

Jen is a real improv connoisseur and she is full of really interesting nuggets of information that will really help to boost your improv game. She is a lover of long-form and has some great stories to tell about her time touring a show with her troupe. She breaks down the format they performed and discusses how to deal with situations that don’t seem to be going as hoped. She stresses the importan...

Neve is a young lady with a very bright future ahead of her and we are excited for you all to hear this wonderful improv centric chat. Neve discovered improv at a very young age and it has helped to shape the life she is living today by helping her to say yes to situations she has been presented with. During this chat we hear what led her to living in Spain for a period of time and why she opted f...