The comedians paradise

Geoff Whiting  is a comedian who started performing over 20 years ago. He founded  Mirth Control  from his house without a phone during a period of unemployment. In the past 18 years Mirth has run thousands of gigs, corporates and more! This is fascinating episode looking at the struggles he took to create the UKs biggest comedy club chain, the benefits of being a booker and pe...

Chris J Markiewicz Comedy Promoter , Comedian , Public speaker as the only Sexageneran visually impaired Comic of Polish Origin on the planet. We talk about his first introduction to comedy, the positives and negatives of his USP, running a variety comedy show, a brief introduction to running courses and the biggest lessons he has learnt in life. He is an overview of what we covered: If you would...

Saif Abu Kandil is a comedian of Egyptian-Iraqi descent. He speaks English, Arabic, and French. .He began his comedy career in 2002. In 2005 he performed at his first Edinburgh Fringe Festival and was on BBC's 60 Comics in 60 minutes. At the 2006 EFF (Edinburgh Fringe Festival) he performed in Patrick Monahan's "Do the right thing." He appeared on Set List opening for Rick Overton that night, as w...

Adrianne Carter is the Face Whisperer. She’s a specialist in understanding facial expressions and applying this to help people communicate with each other. Adrianne can understand other people’s deep subliminal reactions and react to improve in the effectiveness of messaging and communications. She has worked across the world in 17 different countries – from Australia to Russia, and from Japan to...

John Fleming is a well-renowned comedy blogger and creator of the Malcolm Hardee, this a podcast episode focusing on his journey into comedy interviewing, what he has learnt about comedians through interviewing them and the common misconceptions. If you would like to know more about John Flemming,you can reach him and find out about his lovely interviews on https://thejohnfleming.wordpress.com/. T...

Todays guest is Colin Leggo, a professional stand-up comedian, writer and current UK Pun Champion. He has taken many successful shows to the Edinburgh Festival as a performer, director and producer. In 2017, Colin was featured on the Daily Telegraph’s ‘50 best Jokes of the Fringe’ list, and in March the same year, an article about Colin’s joke writing process was featured in the Daily Mirror....

Todays guest is an absolute gem, with have Meera Cade, a lady with a colourful life, she worked in Porn, as a stripper and an escort. This episode looks at what led Meera to all these endeavours, how it lead to comedy, but also how comedians are way more nutty than others things she encountered. In this episode, we cover the following topics: If you would like to know more about Meera Cade, you ca...

In todays episode, we speak to former amateur bodybuilder and seventeen year veteran of the scene, Sandra Risser. She is smart, funny and older than Twinkies. She's eccentric not crazy, drives in the fast lane and can still bench press 500 grams. She believes in the tooth fairy, Santa Claus and clean underwear. Through self deprecating stories and one-liners, Sandra builds a bond with the audience...

This is a fantastic podcast episode with the amazing, Mikey Bharj, He is an actor/screenwriter/director/editor/musician and award winning stand-up comedian from London, United Kingdom. Born in Harrow (London), Mikey propelled to comedy in his early teens. During his education, Mikey worked as a professional comedian on the comedy circuit, touring universities and comedy clubs throughout London &am...

This is a fantastic podcast episode with the amazing, Julia Masli, Julia Masli is an Estonian born, London based performer, theatre-maker and clown. She is committed to the exploration of how to be a human being in the world, or at times - a blade of grass. Her work aims to connect directly to audience’s hearts, make their bellies hurt from laughter, and transcend the concept of time and space, on...

This is a fantastic podcast episode with the amazing, Rizal Van Geyzel, co-founder and co-owner of Crackhouse comedy club, Malaysias' first full-time comedy club. It looks at his Dutch and Chinese heritage, how he first got interested in comedy by watching, Only fools and horses, what lead him to starting Malaysia's first-full time comedy club, how he loves having competitors, how he recruits inte...

In this episode we speak to the amazing Dian Perry, a US voiceover artist, teacher and voiceover coach based in London with over 20 years in the industry. She’s worked as a professional voice actor since early 1998 and a character voice teacher and voiceover coach since 2006. She was a remarkable guests giving unique insights into how stand-up and voiceover work are very similar, looks at what are...

Wayne the weird or Wayne Shakespeare is a comedian and magician, who has been performing for corporate clients, private parties, weddings, restaurants and even on the streets entertaining and amazing audiences of all ages for over a decade. This is a great podcast where we examine the difficulties of being a comic and magician, the advantages, performing on line ups with other...

Matt Price has been a comedian for a very long time. He has performed in 30 countries including fiver tours of Australia and he hosts a podcast called Conversations with criminals. He is known as a storytelling comedian (but with plenty of jokes) but he is an all-rounder who can turn up at pretty much any room and entertain whoever is in the audience. Apart from the odd disaster. He is a great com...

Pam Benjamin has been the Director of Mutiny Radio since 2013, a free speech, internet streaming podcast hub from the Mission district of San Francisco providing a platform for comedy, poetry, local and world news, opinion, music, activism and more! She's also a stand up comic and internationally published poet with 2 published novels. She is a character on the San Francisco comedy scene, gave us...

Max Kerwien is a standup comedian, actor, and award winning poet originally from Seattle, Washington. His silly and biting humor has won over audiences all around the world. He has performed at the Hollywood Improv, Second City Hollywood, and the Comedy Underground in Seattle. In 2016 he won the Joan Grayston Poetry Prize. He is best known for his book, "Poems to Ruin Dinner with", and the fact th...

Todays guest is Dr Naomi Paxton, a performer, writer, broadcaster, and researcher. She is currently employed as Knowledge Exchange Fellow at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London. She is also a Parliamentary Academic Fellow, and an Associate Fellow of the School of Advanced Study, University of London. ​ Naomi performs comedy, cabaret, magic and variety shows as her ch...

In this episode we talk to the magnificent, amazing Bilal Young, a very determined and hungry comedian. He gives a brief intro into the San Diego scene, Houston, how Kobe Bryant inspires him and many more as he has made a permanent mark on the San Diego scene in such a short space of time. If you would like to know more about Bilal, you can reach him on www.westonyoungent.com or all social media p...

Todays guest is arising star of the mainstream and urban comedy circuit, Darran Griffiths. He is a comedian, host and podcaster born and raised in Harlow, to Jamaican parents, he has a blend of Caribbean confidence and Essex irreverence. Flagrant, thought-provoking and funny. In this interview we talk about growing up as a minority in a predominately very white, post war town in Essex, Harlow. How...

This is an episode with Lucio Buffalmano , Lucio's purpose and life goal is to advance, codify, and teach a fresh and groundbreaking approach to social and life skills based on a new discipline: power dynamics. To begin with, most social skills and social strategies resources failed to properly address the "darker side" of (human) nature. Call that approach "naive self-help". Consequently, he...

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Comedians paradise, a podcast, where we speak to amazing and fabulous individuals that will inspire comedians to live life on their terms. In this episode, we speak to the amazing, Darren Matthews, a hilarious and charismatic comedian from the Northern Ireland scene. We talk about the joys of travelling abroad, adjusting your jokes to different countries...

In this episode we talk to French superstar comedian, Paul Taylor. He is a comedian who left Apple and built a huge fanbase, through his famous, "WTF France series". It talks about his journey into comedy starting in the UK, The French comedy scene, His journey into WTF France, How it lead to him living his dream, French and English food, Touring a multi-lingual show and an awkward pants conversat...

Casey McNeal is a Boston comedian and humorist. Often described as "Addicted to Disorders," he regularly brings his mental rants to Clubs throughout New England and New York. Sometimes observational, sometimes absurd, but always told through the eyes of his mental hang-ups, his comedy appeals to those who have hang-ups, and those who like to laugh at other people’s hang-ups. He has opened for...

Todays guest is Long John, an award-winning comedian from Zimbabwe who immigrated to South Africa. It is a remarkable story of making the most of what you have, the struggles he has faced, the structure of the African comedy scene, the challenges faced with South African and Zimbabwe audiences. If you would like to find out more about Long John, you can reach him on all social media platforms at l...

This an episode with one of the rising stars of the UK comedy scene, Finlay Christie. He won "So you think your funny," the biggest comedy competition in the UK, at the tender age of 19. It is a comedy comp that has produced many of the UKs best comedians. It is a great episode looking at behind the scenes at the UKs biggest comedy competitions, what winning comps give you, what having an agent gi...