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• Podcasts

  • The Comedian's Comedian How do comics cope with being alive? For anyone who writes comedy, makes comedy, loves comedy, or just has an interest in comedians and what makes them so annoying. Click play_circle_filled to listen to an episodecancelplay_circle_filled

    380 - CK (Caimh) McDonnell - The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

    Crime fiction powerhouse and former circuit comedian, CK McDonnell is on the cusp of levelling further up, with a TV adaptation of his half a million selling “Dublin Trilogy” in the works.We talk about how to write fast, being calibrated for tough criticism, solving problems in the shower, and how to let characters evolve - especially Bunny McGarry who went from villain to his best loved creation.25 mins of extra content from this interview is available exclusively to the Insiders Club!We discover Caimh’s secrets of self-publication, learn about how he cultivates the fanbase that now flock around him, and learn why he won’t record his own audiobooks!Go to www.comedianscomedian.com/insiders for this and much more, including the exclusive Insiders Q&As with Nish Kumar, James Acaster and Fern Brady and the incredible “self-help for comedians” special with Amanda Donnet.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

    1. 380 - CK (Caimh) McDonnell 01:21:41
    2. 379 - Fin Taylor 01:34:17
  • BBC Radio 4 Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics Natalie Haynes creates stand-up routines about figures from ancient Greece and Rome. Click play_circle_filled to listen to an episodecancelplay_circle_filled

    Clytemnestra - Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics

    "Rock star classicist" and reformed stand-up Natalie Haynes is obsessed with the ancient world. In these series she explores (historical and mythological) lives from ancient Rome and Greece that still have resonance today. They are hilarious and tragic, mystifying, revelatory. And they always tell us more about ourselves now than seems possible of stories from a couple of thousand years ago. Today Natalie stands up for Clytemnestra, who has been characterised as the worst wife in Greek mythology. This is open to debate: she's certainly a good mother, if a little bit murderous of her husband. But it turns out that Agamemnon probably deserves it. After all he sacrifices one of their daughters to Artemis without a second thought and then turns up at home years later with Cassandra, the future-seeing woman he has 'won' as a prize (also read: trafficked and enslaved) at the Battle of Troy. These actions demonstrate a certain lack of respect for his wife, as well as cruelty of the highest order. Cassandra reads the room, obviously, but nobody listens to her. Clytemnestra has a good legal brain and states her case convincingly. But it's unlikely to end well. With Professor Edith Hall. Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery

    1. Clytemnestra 27:29
    2. Jocasta 27:43
  • BBC Scotland The Comedy Underground The brightest and best stand-up from the Scottish comedy club scene. Click play_circle_filled to listen to an episodecancelplay_circle_filled

    Episode 10: Hosted by Gus Lymburn - The Comedy Underground

    Gus Lymburn introduces the freshest comedians on the Scottish circuit: Jo Caulfield, David Kay, Ryan Cullen, Carina MacLeod and Scott Agnew.

    1. Episode 10: Hosted by Gus Lymburn 27:09
    2. Episode 9: Hosted by Susie McCabe 26:02
  • BBC Radio Knock Knock A stand-up comedy podcast series on a mission to meet some of the UK’s funniest people. Click play_circle_filled to listen to an episodecancelplay_circle_filled

    E12: The Reunion at Edinburgh Festivals Fringe - Knock Knock

    Helen Lederer is reunited with series alumni: Adele Cliff, Sarah Keyworth, Vince Atta, Scott Bennett, Harriet Dyer and meets Stephen Buchanan, the BBC's New Comedy Award winner 2018. Recorded in front of a live audience as part of the BBC at the Edinburgh Festivals. With stand-up comedy, strong language and adult themes.

    1. E12: The Reunion at Edinburgh Festivals Fringe 37:45
    2. E11: Harriet Dyer 26:35
  • BBC Radio 4 Funny from the Fringe A daily dose of features, news and interviews with the hottest comedians from Edinburgh. Click play_circle_filled to listen to an episodecancelplay_circle_filled

    Day 24: Edinburgh Comedy Award Winners and The League of Gentlemen - Funny from the Fringe

    Phil Ellis heads to the Edinburgh Fringe Comedy Awards ceremony to talk to the winners Hannah Gadsby, John Robins and Natalie Palamides. He also catches up with 1997's Best Show award winner The League of Gentlemen.

    1. Day 24: Edinburgh Comedy Award Winners and The League of Gentlemen 16:48
    2. Day 23: Al Porter, Rachel Fairburn & Stuart Laws. 19:45

• Courses

  • MasterClass Steve Martin Teaches Comedy Learn from the legendary comic in his first-ever online class. cancel
  • MasterClass Judd Apatow Teaches Comedy Emmy and AFI Award winner Judd Apatow teaches you how to write, direct, produce, and perform comedy in his first-ever online class. cancel

• Films and TV

  • Netflix Stand-Up Comedy Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together for the best live shows from the funniest stand-up comedians, ranging from witty and irreverent to deeply raunchy. cancel

• Near You

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