Old Skool New Skool Comedy Podcast

On this week’s episode of “Old Skool New Skool Comedy” podcast, after a short hiatus, Christy is joined in her new location, Broadway Comedy Club in NYC, by none other than "Last Comic Standing" alumni Michelle Balan. We talk about her long career telling jokes on cruise ships, being in the Top 5 on "Last Comic Standing", and Jerry Seinfeld being the "comedic woke target" this week.... What a fun...

On this week’s episode of “Old Skool New Skool Comedy” podcast, the very funny and talented comedian/producer and fellow Comedy Store paid regular Shawn Pelofsky joins Christy in the virtual studio. They talk about cool celebrities over the years that have come to The Comedy Store, how Mitzi Shore never called Shawn by her name, the ups and downs of this industry and Christy’s infamous Cher bit (w...

On this week's episode of "Old Skool New Skool Comedy" podcast, Christy is joined in the studio with 14 year comedy soldier Damon Millard. We talk about his wild and crazy childhood growing up in a Binghamton, NY to becoming the top news videographer in Milwaulkie, Wisconsin, starting stand up comedy there and slowly finding his way back to NYC where he has firmly established his comedy roots. He...

On this week's episode of "Old Skool New Skool Comedy" podcast, fellow Comedy Store paid regular/ television writer Willie Hunter joins Christy virtually from Hollywood. We talk about his time with Comedy Central's "Roast Battle" as part of "The Wave" (IYKYK), actually doing Roast battle, co-creating the hit tv show "The Carmichael Show" with Jerrod Carmichael, all the sh!tty club bookers and our...

On this week's episod of "Old Skool New SKool Comedy" podcast, Christy brings in comedian/actress/widow of The Comic Strip LIVE's founder/booker, Lucien Hold, 32 year comedy veteran Vanessa Hollingshead. Vanessa hasn't stepped foot in the club since Lucien died for emotional reasons, but didn't want to cancel on Christy and the podcast. We talk about her humble comedy beginnings doing jokes for he...

On this week's episode of "Old Skool New Skool Comedy' podcast, Christy's BFF, Teddy Smith, joins her in the studio and talks shop. He's been in the game for 34 years and has seen and done it all. They talk about his new movie, The Wilde Girls, coming out the summer of 2024, their personal inside jokes with each other, comedy legends Paul Mooney and Richard Pryor, my failed relationship with a NYC...

On this week's episode of "Old Skool New Skool Comedy" podcast, Christy goes virtual with fellow Comedy Store paid regular, Mat Edgar. Mat is a now 17 year comedy veteran and gaining speed on the rise to the top. From late nights at the Comedy Store to touring with rock bands, Mat has developed a unique style of comedic conversations on stage. We talk about the Los Angeles scene vs the New York Ci...

On this week's episode of "Old Skool New Skool Comedy" podcast, Christy hangs out with an up and coming comedy superstar Sharief Johnson. From filming his first comedy special to starting his 4th season on the hit show "Empire", Sharief has been a kicking ass in the NYC comedy scene. We talk about all the drama in the black comedy scene at the moment, Christy running for Mayor of NYC and his first...

On this week's episode of "Old Skool New Skool Comedy" podcast, Christysits down with "New Skool" diva Marcy Smiles. They met at a comedy club in Harlem on a "Ladies Night" show and Marcy blew Christy away with her sharp wit and fresh outlook on the most basic sh*t 🤣💀... we talk about starting comedy as a Gen X'er, her 20 years as a correctional officer at Ryker's Island, and how Whoopi Goldberg...

On this week's episode of "Old Skool New Skool Comedy" podcast, Christy reunites with one of her long time Comedy Store buddies, Earl Skakel. We talked about the dark days at the Comedy Store when comedy clubs were struggling to get audiences in the door to now how its packed every night of the week, his cartoon character Barry Jelly on "The Jellies", his part of the early incarnation of Comedy Ce...

On this week's episode of "Old Skool New Skool Comedy" podcast, Christy virtually "sits down" with LGBTQ comedian Jess Miller. Residing in Springfield, MA, Jess has created her own path and forged a comedy scene which is as baron as both of their uteruses (insert rimshot here 🥁 💀.. C'MON PEOPLE! That's good writing! 💀) The both discuss Dave Chappelle's latest Netflix special "The Dreamer" from...

On this latest episode of "Old Skool New Skool Comedy", Christy kicks of the New Year with her new comic friend Matt Bridgestone. He is one of the creative partners who started AC Jokes in Atlantic City, NJ. Matt tells Christy about avoiding the city club circuit because fighting over 5 minute spots versus creating rooms and producing big shows in the casinos where he could get quality stagetime a...

On this week's episode of "Old Skool New Skool Comedy" podcast, its "Christy-mas" time!!! In the studio with her this week is stand up comic/actor Tom Eschelman. We talk about how he quit acting to be taken serious as a comic, hell gigs, doing comedy on FOX News, well scripted comedy versus off the cuff, and bombing on stage... we cover it all!!! Tune in to hear all the funny stories and crazy sh!...

On this week's episode of "Old Skool New Skool Comedy" podcast, Christy gets to kiki with her new ghey friend, new skool comic Steven Zakari. Originally from Queens, NY, Steven moved to Japan for a few years to perform (Geez, how unfunny was he that he had to go overseas to perform? 🤣🥁💀). Now that he is back in the USA working his charm on the comedy stages of NYC, we talk about his extreme wei...

On this week's episode of "Old Skool New Skool Comedy" podcast, Christy breaks bread with NYC's first Orthodox Jewish, transgender comic, Dana Friedman. She may be only 12 years in as a stand up, but she has spent a couple decades behind the scenes producing comedy. Starting out in her younger years as a musician, to producing comedy shows, booking gay comics for the Howard Stern Show in the early...

On this week's episode of "Old Skool New Skool Comedy" podcast, Christy gets to hang with a "new skool" comic all the way from Seattle, Wa, Ariel Evans. She now calls Brooklyn her home and she talks about the "culture shock" going from the Land of Grunge (Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, etc) to the Hip Hop borough of Brooklyn, NY (Biggie!!!). We also discuss cancel culture, whats funny to us, Mat...

On this week's episode of "Old Skool New Skool Comedy", Christy kicks off Thanksgiving week with her dear friend, "new skool" comic and owner of "Hardheaded Comedy" comedy show productions, Luz Michelle. She talks about the first time meeting Christy and asking her to headline a show for her at a jazz club (OMG LUZ IS SO SWEET!), finding her own voice on stage, post it notes and women in comedy......

On this week's "Old Skool New Skool Comedy" podcast, Christy gets to catch up with her longtime friend stand up comedian/creator/producer of Showtime's hit series "Funny Women of a Certain Age", Carole Montgomery. We discuss aging in the industry and how older comics were being forgotten in the clubs which led her to create her show for Showtime. In 2019, it was the highest rated show Showtime had...

On this week's episode of Old Skool New Skool Comedy podcast, I get to share the spotlight with "old skool" comedy legend, Rob Bartlett. From starting out in Long Island, NY in a comedy trio "The Identical Triplets" with Eddie Murphy and Bob Nelson, having a successful career as a broadway actor in shows suxh as "Little Shop of Horrors", "Chicago" and "How to Succeed in Business" to being an Emmy...

On this week's glorious episode of "Old Skool New Skool Comedy" podcast, an old friend, comedian Christina Walkinshaw, from The Comedy Store days sat down with Christy to swap stories of Comedy Store days past. Christina, who has made a helluva living on cruise ships, AND has a blog called "Cruise Ship Comedian", spills the tea about an old email that circulated the industry around the early 2,000...

In this week's episode of "Old Skool New Skool Comedy" podcast, comedy legend Wali Collins sits down with Christy to talk "old skool" shop. We talked about his early days in Boston where he met Barry Katz which led him to landing the hosting gig for Comedy Central's "Stand Up Stand Up" showcase to now being a curator at Lincoln Center where he produces his monthly hit show "Jazz and Jokes." We tal...

On this week's episode, Christy sits down with Army Veteran turned stand up comic, Jay Lawrence. After serving 2 tours in Iraq and 21 years of service, Jay has retired and started up a non profit organization called "Combat Zone 360" which gives back to the veterans when it comes to shows, sporting events, concerts, etc and treats them to VIP status instead of the usual sh/tty nose-bleed seats. Tu...

On this week's epsiode of "Old Skool New Skool Comedy" podcast, Christy gets "into the ring" with "new skool" comic and creator/host of "Comedy Fight Club" Matt Maran. He has just over 10 years in the comedy game under his belt, in which back in the "old skool dayz", means you are officially a comedy veteran. We talk about his college days when he wrestled which led him to being drafted by a pro w...

On this week's episode of "Old Skool New Skool Comedy" podcast, Christy gets to "kibbitz" with a 'new skool' comic Lana Siebel. Not only is she just 9 years in on the stand up game, she is also a Ukranian refugee who emigrated here to NYC when she was 7 years old. She grew up in East New York and got into Latin dancing and placed 8th in the country which led her to "Dancing with the Stars" where s...

On this week's episode of "Old Skool New Skool Comedy", Christy kicks off the fall season with an "old skool" comedy legend, Barry Ribs. We talk about the comedy boom in the 70's and 80's, the dark days of comedy in the 90's, to the resurgence in the 2000's and how "ageism" is a blessing and a curse. This episode is definitely a fast tracked "how to" class on comedy... TUNE IN!!! Like, Subscribe a...