All Episodes
Hard Knock Knocks — 100 episodes
102: Lisa Gatenby - Never Growing Up
101: Tom Siegert - Fighting for Comedy
100: Katie Burch – Avoiding the waffle and being cruel
099: Ashley Fils-Aime – Reinventing yourself in comedy
098: Wayne Deakin – Overcoming the wilful ignorance in comedy
097: Lewis Spears – The consummate professional behind the 'Spears' brand
096: Charles Firth – Exposing truths and undermining power structures with satire
095: Ian McFadyen – Creating an Australian sketch comedy national treasure
094: Simon Kennedy – Crossing the line and the Art of Happiness
093: Daniel Muggleton – Comedy during Covid and Three Stripes
E092: Stig Wemyss – Is This Thing On?
091: Scott Dikkers - Pointing out stupidity with The Onion
090: Morry Morgan - Coronavirus and comedy
089: Jason Chong - Discipline, game shows and Tarago Tests
088: Marty Bright – Optimism and being easy to work with
087: Fady Kassab - Winning Raw Comedy from the back of his head
E086: Lee Ton – Where are you from from?
E085: Mickey D – Pain is just an emotion
E084: Viet Bui – Vietnam to VB
083: Steven Oliver – Comedy scripts, sketch, and sluts
E082: Cam Knight – Wistful wisdom and pissing in dishwashers
E081: Matt O'Neill – Being delightfully dark
080: Joe Wong - No straight line to comedy success
079: Julia Clarke - From Adelaide Raw to Edinburgh Fringe
078: Seizure Kaiser - Overcoming the politics of stand-up comedy
E077: Chris Franklin - Laughs of Launnie and Aussie comedy festivals
076: Gabe Hogan - Raw comedy, radio and cliques
075: Lehmo - The comedic journey from balls to sails
074: Julia Wilson - Combative comedy
073: Mick Meredith - From The Footy Show to Comedy Cruises
072: Marc Ryan - Bogans and Raw Comedy
071: Michael Connell - The intellectual's comedian
070: Kim Le - Complex cognitive comedy
069: Jeff Green - Building a comedy career, twice
E068: Dave O'Neil - Producing 'Dave' for Pilot Week
067: Gerry Masi - Character comedy with Mad Dog Malcolm
066: Simon Hughes - The new king of comedy
065: Rik Roberts - Comedy under Christian constraints
064: Kieran Butler - The life of a satirist, antagonist and contrarian comedian
E063: Chris Wainhouse - Dark humour and the importance of taboos
062: Nadine Sparks - From improv to stand-up comedy
E061: Lee Ton - Persistence pays for a comedy career
060: Khaled Khalafalla - How comedy killed the radio star
059: David Tulk - 'No Filter' but still lovable
E058: Marty Wilson - More Funny, More Money
057: Paul Sharplin - Jumping in the deep end of comedy
056: Ross Voss - Building the Adelaide comedy community
055: Nikki Osborne - Go hard or go home
E054: Cameron James – Building a comedy brand with your own hands
053: Gavin Sempel – The hard road to Raw Comedy
052: Joe White – Developing an audience and giving back
E051: Adam Jacobs – The best daze of his life and more
E050: Glynn Nicholas – And it all began in Adelaide
E049: Chris Asher – The ‘business’ of comedy show business
E048: Damian Callinan – Espy zero to Wagga Wagga hero
047: The Kagools – Building a comedic brand on slapstick
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046: Adam Rozenbachs – Bringing comedy from Carlton to Kabul
E045: Leon Huxtable – A Raw Comedy time machine
E044: Tegan Higginbotham – Class Clowns to celebrity comedian
043: Peter Berner – Singapore to Sydney, comic books to comedy
042: Andrew Ford - Creating a Powerful Brand
041: Mike Goldstein – From chasing tail to comedy tales
E040: Ben Horowitz – Looking back on 2017
E039: Josh Earl – From Tassie to television
038: Kelly Fastuca – American Green Cards, Chinese Whispers, and Aussie Naivety
037: Zack Dyer – Winning RAW Comedy with confidence
036: Matt Okine – Life after RAW
035: Steve Hofstetter – Viral comedy from a Grand Master
034: James Masters – The clash of cultures in comedy
033: Cam Barber – Improving better presenters with comedy
032: Christine Basil – Be truthful to yourself in comedy
031: Richard Stubbs – Never be creative without passion
030: Jack Levi (aka Elliot Goblet) – The rapid rise of a split personality comedian
029: Marty Wilson – Chance favours the prepared (comedian’s) mind
028: Sonia Di Iorio – Jumping into the deep-end of comedy
027: Anthony Ackroyd – 35 years of stage, screen and stadiums
026: Nick Capper – Developing humility for success in stand-up
025: Ben McCarthy – What do you want to do when you grow up?
024: Glynn Nicholas – From busking, to The Big Gig, to comedy theatre
023: Dave Ivkovic – Overcoming the mental barriers to comedy success.
022: Doug Chappel – Overcoming challenges to build a comedy career.
021: CJ Fortuna – The Actor, joker, and midnight toker
020: George Kapiniaris – From Stereotypes to Stage Shows and Changing Aussie Culture
019: Greg Fleet – The Accidental Comedian
018: Steve Hughes – The Arduous Journey of Stand-up Comedy
017: Mayumi Nobetsu – From Monty Python to the MICF
016: Dave O’Neil – From Captain Cocoa to Captaining Aussie Comedy
015: Urzila Carlson – Getting robbed at gunpoint can lead to a comedy career
014: Dane Simpson – Yarns by the fire bucket to being ‘Deadly Funny’
013: The Nelson Twins – Double trouble from Walbundrie to China
012: Michael Shafar – How Jewish-ish and community TV led to comedy success
011: Simon Taylor – From tweets to television, the winding road of comedy
010: Evan Hocking – The leap of faith in going full time.
008: Johnny Kats – Luck and persistence lead to comedy success
007: Dave Callan – Winning friends and influencing people in comedy.
006: Dilruk Jayasinha – Never let a good education get in the way of a dream
005: Chris Franklin – How one bogan became a successful ‘bloke’.
004: Brad Oakes – Stand-up to TV to radio. The many careers of a comedian.
003: Samuel See – Be inclusive when insulting your audience.