Being a professional comedian

Welcome to another episode of Marvins World,this is a podcast where Marvin meets weird, wonderful and interesting people with a unique viewpoint. The point of the podcast is to provide an entertaining show that provides insightful and invigorating discussions, which aim to provide a unique angle on topics many of us would never think of.In this episode, I speak to the amazing Philip Simon, a professional comedian, writer for Mock the week, Newsjack, Newsrevue. He is one of the most sought after comperes and opening/closing acts working on the UK comedy circuit today. He gigs throughout the UK, as well having performed as far flung places as America, Scandinavia, Europe, The Middle East and New Zealand where he headlined at The Classic in Auckland.It was a fascinating podcast, where look into what is needed to be pro comedian, when is time to figure out if you have it, love of the game and how to get booked at the best comedy clubs. If you would like to find out about Philip, you can reach him on Tiktok, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and Instagram at PhilipsComedy. He also runs a podcast called Jews talkin to me, which can be reached on all podcast platforms. To find out more about the Marvins world podcast you can reach us on Spotify at https://spoti.fi/3gvhosj , Apple podcasts at https://apple.co/2YSGAD6 and Youtube at https://bit.ly/2VDKXzK.If you would like to find out more about me and my latest projects, you can reach me on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Tiktok, Youtube on riceandchips1.Also, during lockdown he started a children's joke book called School's Out Comedy Club, it is a self-published collection of all jokes he collected from Schools out comedy club on Youtube, which is perfect for Christmas and Chanukah.All profits from the sales of this book will be donated to FareShare.