PODCAST
People who make comedy
by Getting Better Acquainted
A playlist of GBA episodes with people who make, or have made, comedy.
Episodes
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GBA 346 Matt Panesh
In GBA 346 we get better acquainted with Matt. I visit him at his new venture, Alt-Space, in Morcambe and we talk about how he washed up in this North West seaside town, how the lack of a comedy club in the town inspired him to create an arts venue, community centre and a fringe there, his own…
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GBA 344 Rita Suszek
In GBA 344 we get even better acquainted with Rita. She talks about how her life has changed since we last recorded a conversation, how trying to work as a freelancer in the arts can affect your mental health, the relationship between trying to make things for yourself and trying to make money to...
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GBA 327 Gabriel Ebulue
In GBA 327 we get better acquainted with Gabriel Ebulue from the 3 Track Podcast. We talk about his obsession/passion for music and comedy, making "a podcast for music nerds, by a music nerd", what the experience of doing the Edinburgh festival can give to you, struggling to fit in with different...
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GBA 315 Andy Goddard
In GBA 315 we get better acquainted with Andy. Since Andy works in very similar areas of audio to me, but has a very different approach to how he works, this is a compare and contrast conversation where we talk about why bassists might have an affinity for radio production, making radio and…
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GBA 306 Sadia Azmat
In GBA 306, we get better acquainted with Sadia Azmat. She talks about comedy, politics, current events, the media, public speaking, being a British muslim woman who wears a hijab and does stand up while living in a society that often doesn't treat Muslims well and lots more. Content note…
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GBA 302 Nicole Henriksen
In GBA 302 we get better acquainted with Nicole Henriksen. She talks about stripping, making comedy, making theatre, flyering and other forms of work and performance, being vulnerable and open in a world that discourages these qualities, living with anxiety and being a robot in human skin. I also...
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GBA 298 - Juliet Meyers And Homer
In GBA 298 we get better acquainted with Juliet Meyers and the flipping rescue dog that ruined her life, otherwise known as Homer. We talk dogs, wolves, comedy, dogs, storytelling, dogs and more dogs as we swap dog stories and consider the complexities of getting a dog and the love and anxiety…
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GBA 276 Rob Auton
In GBA 276 we get better acquainted with Rob Auton. He talks about finding words, what driving lessons taught him about art, what exactly it is that he does, trying to find the right balance of confidence and worry, and so much more. As I try to fit him into boxes like introvert, depression and...
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GBA 275 Joz Norris
In GBA 275 we get better acquainted with Joz Norris. He talks about making weird and silly comedy about ideas and disconnected feelings, why he currently doesn't think of what he does as comedy but why he probably will by the middle of next year, ending up naked apart from a gold thong on a…
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GBA 271 Nathaniel Tapley
In GBA 271 we get better acquainted with Nathaniel Tapley. He talks writing, if our current political landscape is killing satire, being a women on the internet for a short period of time, making political comedy, pissing off Dapper Laughs, creating the comic character Sir Ian Bowler, MP, the...
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GBA 269 Terry
In GBA 269 we get better acquainted with Terry. He talks stand-up, graphic design, novels, politics, how he definitely isn't a hipster and why he makes a podcast about Formula 1. We also talk class, writing, how the darkest times in life are also often hilarious and about the time we worked...
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GBA 261 Rita
In GBA 261 we get better acquainted with Rita. She talks about why she came to the UK, how it feels to be a Polish person in London during Brexit, her play Girl Fag, performing stand-up, writing poetry, being othered, being a freelance artist, the difference between prolific and productive and…
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GBA 257 Tom Crowley
In GBA 257 we get better acquainted with Tom Crowley. He talks about Wooden Overcoats, Sad Faces, producing, acting and the difference between seriousness and solemnity amongst many other things. Tom plugs: Wooden Overcoats: http://www.woodenovercoats.com/ Wooden Overcoasts Kickstarter:...
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GBA 256 Maggy Whitehouse
In GBA 256 we get better acquainted with Maggy Whitehouse. She talks about becoming an ordained catholic priest, becoming a comedian, combining teaching from different spiritual traditions and scholarships, interpretations of faith and the bible, her views on bereavement and healing, love and...
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GBA 255 James Ross
In GBA 255 we get better acquainted with James Ross. He talks about the differences between stand up and improv, the process of crafting comedy and developing as a performer, why he created Quantum Leopard, the relationship between audiences and performers, organising a tour of people's front…
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GBA Live 18 - James Hamilton
In this special GBA Live recorded at the Old Red Lion Theatre as part of Radioman Lates I get better acquainted with James Hamilton. http://www.jameshamiltoncomedy.co.uk/ http://www.casualviolencecomedy.co.uk/ We talk comedy, writing, Casual Violence!, Hector Vs. The Future, Truncated Nightmare...
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GBA 249 Mark Dean Quinn
In GBA 249 we get better acquainted with Mark Dean Quinn. He talks about trying not to make people laugh, making people laugh, the art of flyering, having a complicated relationship with audiences, how being in recovery from gambling addiction and going fly fishing with his father have both...
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GBA 248 James Harris
In GBA 248 we get better acquainted with James. He talks about learning languages, writing and reading stories, telling jokes, the balance between optimism and pessimism, the relationship between suffering and hope, the process of growing up, seeing Berlin through the eyes of an outsider among…
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GBA 240 Micheal Brunstrom
In GBA 240 we get better acquainted with Michael Brunstrom. As we walk between Angel Islington and Victoria Park we improvise a conversation that pulls at the strands of what drives Michael to make the kind of comedy he does. We talk fringe theatre, enthusiasms, generalisations, milieus, breaking...
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GBA 235 Iszi Lawrence
In GBA 235 we get better acquainted with Iszi Lawrence. She talks about making The Z List Dead List (a podcast about obscure people from history), how glandular fever, not fitting in and Eddie Izzard contributed to her becoming a comedian, the similarities between Jujitsu and gigging and lots…
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GBA 221 Mathilda Gregory
In GBA 221 we get better acquainted with Mathilda. She talks about #HowToBeFat, writing werewolf erotica, comedy, writing, performance, parenthood, slash fiction and more. We recorded the conversation in Edinburgh during the Fringe where both of us were doing solo shows that (in different ways)...
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GBA 216 Tiernan Douieb
In GBA 216 we get better acquainted with Tiernan Douieb. He talks making comedy for kids and adults, checking his privilege, the landscape of TV comedy, making politics funny, Arts Emergency and more. Tiernan plugs: This Isn't For You: http://www.tiernandouieb.co.uk/ 2.30pm - PBH Free Fringe -...
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GBA 213 Bisha K Ali
In GBA 213 we get better acquainted with Bisha. We talk about feeling like frauds, the prison industrial complex and restorative justice, kindness, empathy, hierarchical systems, turning difficult subjects into comedy, insecurity, creativity, privilege and so much more. Bisha plugs: The Turtle...
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GBA 196 Siobhan
In GBA 196 we get better acquainted with Siobhan. She talks about making comedy, being a sign language interpreter, the politics of marriage, honeymooning in lapland, grief and bereavement, spreading eccentric joy, feminism, being an identical twin and so much more. The conversation focused on...
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GBA 193 Dan Simpson
In GBA 193 we get better acquainted with Dan Simpson. He talks about performance and process, working with words, learning acceptance, geek culture, categorising the arts and lots more. Dan plugs: Anti-Slam Anti-Valantines - 14th Feb Hackney Attic:...
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GBA 177 @daniel_barker
In GBA 177 we get better acquainted with Daniel. He talks magic, twitter, words, comedy and opinions and has opinions and apologies for having opinions on all of those pursuits. The conversation is a delightful dance of arrogant self-deprecation and comfortable social awkwardness with some live...
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GBA Live 11 - Chella Quint
A live recording of a GBA recorded at #edfringe 2014 at the Royal Oak as part of the PBH Free Fringe. This recording is unedited and posted in a no frills way due to the intensive workload of the festival, and for that reason these shows will also not have shownotes attached to them. 19th August:...
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GBA Live 10 - Rosie Wilby
A live recording of a GBA recorded at #edfringe 2014 at the Royal Oak as part of the PBH Free Fringe. This recording is unedited and posted in a no frills way due to the intensive workload of the festival, and for that reason these shows will also not have shownotes attached to them. 18th August:...
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GBA 162 Adrian
In GBA 162 we get better acquainted with Adrian. He talks about making performance, how we can never be certain about anything, type-casting yourself, how life and making art have woven themselves together, and he explains who Samantha Mann is. Adrian Plugs: His website:...
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GBA Live 9 Helen Zaltzman
In this special GBA Live recorded at the Idea Store Whitechapel as part of the Write Idea Festival Fringe I get better acquainted with Helen Zaltzman. http://www.helenzaltzman.com/ We talk adapting Answer Me This! into a book, badger taxidermy, old gods, Sound Women and books. Helen does a pretty...
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GBA Live 8 Peter Buckley Hill
In this special GBA Live recorded at the Banshee Labyrinth as part of the PBH Free Fringe at the Edinburgh Festival. I get better acquainted with Peter Buckley Hill the creator and director of the PBH Free Fringe. We talk about the creation of the Free Fringe, his parents attitude to creativity,...
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GBA Live 7 Gods Of Comedy
In this special GBA Live recorded at the Banshee Labyrinth as part of the PBH Free Fringe at the Edinburgh Festival. I get better acquainted with Bec Hill and Brydie Lee-Kennedy from the Gods of Comedy podcast. We talk comedy, religion, belief and more. We plug: Gods of Comedy:...
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GBA 105 Bec Hill
In GBA 105 we get better acquainted with Bec Hill. She talks talks loving puns, creating comedy for children and adults, coming from Australia to the UK, going straight from school to stand-up, where her comedy influences came from, giving up the day job and more. Bec plugs: Pun Run: April 18th...
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GBA Live 1 Michael Fenton Stevens
Episode 1 of GBA Live: 5 conversations recorded as part of my Invisible Picture Palace (http://invisiblepicturepalace.com/) residency for In the Dark Radio (http://www.inthedarkradio.org/) that took place in November 2012. These episodes are going to come out daily in the week leading up to the…
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GBA 92 Ben Target
In GBA 92 we get better acquainted with Ben Target. He talks about being enigmatic, stand up comedy, creativity, family history, observing from the outside and more. http://vimeo.com/49831059 The conversation takes place upstairs in a central London pub as a comedy gig (a London showing of Lou...
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GBA 90 Kevin Allison
In GBA 90 we get better acquainted with Kevin Allison. We link up between London and New York via Skype and talk storytelling, comedy, BDSM, what to do when expecting a hurricane, where sexuality and religion meet, The State, polyamory, being recognised in the street, how making his podcast Risk!...
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GBA 79 Michael Fenton Stevens
In GBA 79 we get better acquainted with Michael Fenton Stevens. He talks talks about the life as a working actor, being a familiar face, how playing vicars can impact your life, death, friendship, ageing and much, much more. We get into some the behind the scenes stuff of television and radio. We...
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GBA 72 Alison Thea-Skot
GBA Edinburgh Festival 2012 Season: Three weeks of episodes related to the Edinburgh Festival 2012 In GBA 72 we get better acquainted with Alison Thea-Skot. She talks about character comedy, audience participation, acting, writing, singing and why she does what she does. This is the fourth…
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GBA 65 Helen and Olly from Answer Me This
In GBA 65 we get better acquainted with Helen and Olly from the excellent podcast Answer Me This! We talk the realities of awards ceremonies, the different sides of Chris Evans, the experience and cultural position of going to Oxford, trying to make money from podcasts, meeting Paul McCartney's…
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GBA 14 Kerrie
GBA Fringe Season: Two weeks of episodes devoted to the Edinburgh and Camden Fringes In GBA 14 we get better acquainted with Kerrie. She talks about being a working actress, going from farm girl to showgirl, comedy, taking criticism and lots lots more. Kerrie played the lead in my Sony Nominated...
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