No Suggestion: An Improv Comedy Talk Show

An honor to have our guest, actor, comedian, teacher, and managing director of Brooklyn Comedy Collective (@comedybrooklyn), Julian Hernandez (@joobliander) on the No Suggestion this week! Guest co-host Jake Joseph (@f00lish_b0y) were mesmerized this week in Radio Free Brooklyn (@radiofreebk) studios this week getting to know Julian, and chatting everything from about his background in comedy and...

This week I was honored to have comedian, actor, teacher, twin, and child of a kindergarten teacher, Christine Pineiro (@christinepineiro) up to Radio Free Brooklyn (@radiofreebk) studios! She's one of my favorite improv comedians in the city, and has been a dream guest for a while. Christine and I had a lovely chat about everything from going to an all-girls Catholic school vendettas in the Bronx...

Took a minute for me to get myself together this episode, as I was running a bit late, but once I did, man, we had a big party in the studio with our special guest, actor, dancer, improv comedian, and serial game-show host, Christopher Morrucci (@christophermorucci)! Guest co-host Jake Joseph (@f00lish_b0y) and I had a ball at Radio Free Brooklyn studios chatting with Christopher about, experience...

50th episode! That means we've been doing this show almost a year! Honored to celebrate our 50th by having Scott Richey (@harveymilkshake) and Joel Straley (@joelstraleyunofficial) on together. Both are fixtures in the NYC indie improv and comedy scenes, and they often play together as an improv duo called Duh! along with a host of other side projects each are involved in. They brought such bright...

Excited to have my North Coast teammate on the No Suggestion pod with me, actor, rapper, teacher, podcaster, comedian, and mogul, Stephanie Rae (@wordnerdsteph)! I really got to know a lot about Stephanie on this podcast during our lovely chat. Stephanie and I chat about not being good at self-promotion, her podcast, New Blerd Order (@newblerdorder), having written several novels and her plan to g...

This is a special episode of No Suggestion! This week we brought on my friend, actor, musician, and comedian, Aston Hollins (@astonhollins) to break her nearly 10 year hiatus from improv! Aston was one of my favorite house team members at the People's Improv Theater in the early 2010's, and this week she came on to jump back in the saddle. Guest co-host, Jake Joseph (@f00lish_b0y), and I had a bla...

Guest co-host Will Purpura (@willpurpura) and I had such a ball hanging with copywriter, martial-artist, actor, and improv comedian, AnneMarie Cullen (@bklyncullie)! AnneMarie chats with us about her career, changing careers, our dating experiences, and more! Plus we get some super deep, squirrelly, intense, and silly improv scenes in, including a group of drunk friends loudly confessing secrets t...

We at #NoSuggestionPod were so excited to have actor, teacher, improv comedian, sound engineer, and founder of Sounds Funny Radio podcast, James Quesada (@jamesqyou), on the podcast this week! I've been so excited about Sounds Funny Radio, and been geeking out over their hilarious IG reels featuring some of NYC's best improv comedians! They are so funny, so guest co-host Will Purpura (@willpurpura...

Honored to have one of my favorite people in the city, stand up and improv comedian, actor, teacher, sage, and father, David Rey Martinez (@davidreymartinez) on No Suggestion. Me and this week's guest co-host, comedian Will Purpura (@willpurpura) were stoked to have David up to Radio Free Brooklyn Studios to kick it and do some improv. And kick it we did! We chatted about James Earl Jones not bein...

Had such a vulnerable, open, honest, and wildly funny chat with our guest Adrian Frimpong at Radio Free Brooklyn Studio's to this week! Guest co-host Pedro Lee and I really had fun getting to know Adrian, we learned about his Texas roots, and his interesting family dynamic, and the idea of how hard you can go at your dreams and career in NYC. In the midst of that we chatted about all kinds of inte...

What I kooky time we had this past Thursday night (11pm ET, every week, broadcasting live) at Radio Free Brooklyn Studios with actor and improv comedian April Sickler (@asickler)! Guest co-host Shawn Wickens (@shwickens) and I embarked down a winding whimsical convo with April that touches on Black Mirror vs Twilight Zone, the movie AIR, how a podcast is supposed to run, possible lines of dialogue...

No Suggestion is back this week with guest co-host Geoff Grimwood (@grimwoooo) to welcome our guest, hilarious actor-comedian, Kalynn Chambers (@kalynnchambers)! We have a great time with Kalynn chatting about her connection to the movie Bull Durham, we discuss how Robert Downey Jr's role in Tropic Thunder has aged, we learn about Kalynn's trajectory from engineering to improv, doing theater with...

My guest this week at Radio Free Brooklyn Studios was the sunny and bright comedian, actor, school teacher, director, and prolific producer Kate O'Neil Martino (@indiequeen14)! It was pure delight having Kate on, and she was so sweet, generous, and transparent during our hang. Kate told us all about teaching English and Theater to unruly eighth graders and her unique approach to doing so, we talke...

Was an honor to have my old buddy, actor, comedian, and prolific comedy show producer, Phillip Casale (@phil_casale) up to Radio Free Brooklyn studios this week to do the show. I've known him for more than a decade and this was a lovely chance to catch up. Phillip and I chatted about all kinds of topics ranging from what a man is supposed to like, to aspiring to pay your rent as a comedian, to how...

This week No Suggestion welcomes a new co-host, past guest, actor and comedian, Aaron Max Weininger (@aaronweininger)! Aaron and I had a blast this week at Radio Free Brooklyn studios hanging with our guest, comedian Jess Moukios (@jessmoukios)! We had a good time getting to know Jess and she let us know about her political science background and what she learned about America in the 2016 election...

Was blessed by the presence of the sage and centered improv comedian Micheal Bird (@thecosmicbird) in the Radio Free Brooklyn Studios. Michael is beginning a long-term run of his signature show Bird and Friends: Cosmic Unity, every Tuesday night at Otto's Shrunken Head (@ottosnyc). Michael have a lovely chat about his relationship to creativity, enjoying being single, dating and being ghosted, how...

Our beloved co-host Xavier Pearson is going on to do other things, but we were lucky enough to have him on as a guest for the last time for a while as a guest. He just came back from a momentous trip back to his homeland, Guyana. He tells us all about it, about traveling with his dad, and much more. It's a great story of adventure and revelation. We also get into some funny and silly improv scenes...

This week Xavier and I had on NYC comedian, PJ Nally (@pjswithbuttons)! PJ has been making the rounds in these musical improv streets for a minute, with his partner, previous No Suggestion guest Maria Schroeder, and it was great to hang and get to know him! We chatted about seeing the magic in life, moving to NYC to find that magic, the musicality of improv, an impromptu review of the animated mov...

Sorry we didn't get you an episode last week so you'll get two episodes this week! Enjoy this bonus episode with NYC actor, improv and stand up comedian, the irrepressible Sunny Outlaw (@sunnyoutlaw)! Check him out via the terrific improv comedy outfit, Sounds Funny Radio (@soundsfunnyradio), and check out his stand-up special, A Dream Come True!

On this special episode of No Suggestion the guest is actor, rapper-songwriter, professor, comedian, and founder of No Suggestion pod, me, Ralf Jean-Pierre! I'm interviewed by gentleman, scholar, and improv comedy veteran, interim co-host, Geoff Grimwood (@grimwoooo). We talk about me being a full-bodied Haitian, how I came into improv, realizing Apollo Creed was a Machiavell, my early ambitions t...

This week at Radio Free Brooklyn interim co-host Geoff Grimwood (@grimwoooo) and I were visited by a groovy, Floridian comedy pixie named David Steele (@heydavidsteele)! David is one of the most unique comedy minds around, and we had so much fun talking with him about his catawampus perspective and his odd misadventures. We got to chat about David's elaborate plots to get out of awkward situations...

Xavier is out of town for a few weeks, but I am joined for the next few episodes with interim co-host, the great teacher, improv comedian, and past No Suggestion guest, Geoff Grimwood (@grimwoooo). This week, Geoff and I welcome No Suggestion's first legacy guest, the younger brother of past guest, the great Rocky Powell, actor, comedian, model, the effervescent Howard Hendrix Powell (@howardhendr...

This week Xavier and I finally have a guest we've wanted on for a while, the former impresario of the Triple Crown basement, actor and improv comedian, the infamous Steve Ling (@slingprov)! We love Steve, he's such a unique and distinct character in the NYC improv scene and we had a lovely time having him up the Radio Free Brooklyn studios last Thursday night. We talk with Steve about a bunch of t...

This week Xavier and I had a grand time getting to know the jovial, and fascinating actor, teacher, trained chef, film production manager, casting director, youtuber, comedian, and flight attendant, that is Mike Brown (@soloimprov)! We chatted with Mike about the time he nearly died on a ledge in the woods as a teen, growing up Mormon, the wisdom of getting tattoos, being cool versus having passio...

Xavier and I are so thrilled and honored that our guest for the first episode of 2023 is the sensational, actor, improviser, comedian, my North Coast teammate, and newest ensemble member of Amsterdam's Boom Chicago, Raquel Palmas (@rockwell826)! We talk to Raquel her gift for relating and connecting with people and being a social butterfly, about what it's like to come from a family of creative pe...