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Hi fellow stand-up lovers - I'm new to LiveJournal but I'm making the most of it - using it to learn more and share what I know about comedy. At the moment I host a comedy podcast that originates in Sydney, Australia, called Radio Ha Ha. Episode 34 has just been made available for download, so if you want to know more about the episode or the show, or want to listen, please read on.
Episode 34 was a tough one to do - it was the first one without co-host and co-founder of the show Tammy Tantschev, who has accepted work overseas. She's not left the country yet, but she has left the show - for all of a week - and I already miss her!
Anyway, this is the first episode to feature a 'guest co-host', as it were - Sydney stand-up comic Dave Jory.
The first time I met Dave - in fact the first time I met all the comedians in this episode, and Tammy for that matter, was during a heat of Raw Comedy, that competition to locate fresh talent run by the Melbourne International Comedy Festival every year.
As we discuss in the episode, my first impression of Dave - in his black suit, with his bald head, doing dark and shocking material that wasn't necessarily funny - was that he was scary enough to be one of those crims in a Guy Ritchie crime flick.
In addition to playing a bit of Dave’s stand-up, and discussing his development as a comic, we also feature an excellent piece from another Sydney comic, Sam Bowring. Sam's got an interesting story - having started doing comedy at age 17 at the now-legendary (and sadly defunct) Harold Park Hotel, formerly in Glebe. Since he was under-age, his father had to accompany him to the venue, as legal guardian. But his father wasn't allowed to see him perform - to potentially embarrassing for Sam!
Not so now - I saw all of the Bowring family at a recent performance, where I got to record Sam. The routine involves him spitting venom at the proprietor of a pie company responsible for the worst pie he‘s ever ingested, and it was recorded - as was all the comedy apart from a little snippet of Dave’s stuff featured early on -live at the Mic In Hand; that’s the Thursday night gig at the Friend In Hand Hotel, Glebe, run by Sam Bowring and fellow stand-up comic Kent Valentine. (The other Dave Jory snippet was recorded at the Comedy Store, at Moore Park).
Actually, now that I think of it, Sam insists we met long before he tried out in Raw Comedy. When he was a 17 year-old open mic comic at the Harold Park Hotel, I was an earnest wannabe publisher, of a comedy zine called Stand & Deliver!. I don't remember encountering him there, but he certainly remembers me and my little zine - which still almost kind of exists, as my blog, also entitled Stand & Deliver!. Before I move on, I think I'd be withholding important information if I didn't add - for the less familiar - the fact that Sam Bowring was shortlisted for 'best newcomer' at this year's Melbourne International Comedy Festival. And Kent Valentine enjoyed a sell-out season (much to my embarrassment, virtually the only Sydney act I didn't see down there - only because every time I set aside an evening to see him, he was, of course, sold out!)
The other comedian whose work gets a run in Episode 34 is Mat Kenneally, another comic from the ranks of the legal fraternity (that gave us the likes of John Cleese, Tim Brooke-Taylor, James O'Loghlin and many others I should be able to name but can't off the top of my head right now). I got to know Mat this year because he was one of four comics appearing in The Comedy Zone - the show the Melbourne International Comedy Festival puts together by selecting a bunch of up-and-comers from a series of auditions. Of course, Mat insists that I saw him in a Raw final (he would have been a law student in Canberra then; I would have seen him in a NSW State final) and that I commended him on a particular routine for being politically aware and still very funny. I don't actually remember the conversation or the bit of material, but I can still commend Mat for producing that sort of comedy. In fact, it was a joy to see him MC at the Mic In Hand a couple of weeks ago; he was the MC at The Comedy Zone, and was great, but he's already come a long way since then!
If any of this interests you, you may read the transcript of the episode here;
or:
Download this episode
Subscribe to this podcast using iTunes
http://podcasts.freedigitalcontent.com/radiohaha.xml
(Copy and paste the link into your Podcast software)
Download other shows
Episode 34 was a tough one to do - it was the first one without co-host and co-founder of the show Tammy Tantschev, who has accepted work overseas. She's not left the country yet, but she has left the show - for all of a week - and I already miss her!
Anyway, this is the first episode to feature a 'guest co-host', as it were - Sydney stand-up comic Dave Jory.
The first time I met Dave - in fact the first time I met all the comedians in this episode, and Tammy for that matter, was during a heat of Raw Comedy, that competition to locate fresh talent run by the Melbourne International Comedy Festival every year.
As we discuss in the episode, my first impression of Dave - in his black suit, with his bald head, doing dark and shocking material that wasn't necessarily funny - was that he was scary enough to be one of those crims in a Guy Ritchie crime flick.
In addition to playing a bit of Dave’s stand-up, and discussing his development as a comic, we also feature an excellent piece from another Sydney comic, Sam Bowring. Sam's got an interesting story - having started doing comedy at age 17 at the now-legendary (and sadly defunct) Harold Park Hotel, formerly in Glebe. Since he was under-age, his father had to accompany him to the venue, as legal guardian. But his father wasn't allowed to see him perform - to potentially embarrassing for Sam!
Not so now - I saw all of the Bowring family at a recent performance, where I got to record Sam. The routine involves him spitting venom at the proprietor of a pie company responsible for the worst pie he‘s ever ingested, and it was recorded - as was all the comedy apart from a little snippet of Dave’s stuff featured early on -live at the Mic In Hand; that’s the Thursday night gig at the Friend In Hand Hotel, Glebe, run by Sam Bowring and fellow stand-up comic Kent Valentine. (The other Dave Jory snippet was recorded at the Comedy Store, at Moore Park).
Actually, now that I think of it, Sam insists we met long before he tried out in Raw Comedy. When he was a 17 year-old open mic comic at the Harold Park Hotel, I was an earnest wannabe publisher, of a comedy zine called Stand & Deliver!. I don't remember encountering him there, but he certainly remembers me and my little zine - which still almost kind of exists, as my blog, also entitled Stand & Deliver!. Before I move on, I think I'd be withholding important information if I didn't add - for the less familiar - the fact that Sam Bowring was shortlisted for 'best newcomer' at this year's Melbourne International Comedy Festival. And Kent Valentine enjoyed a sell-out season (much to my embarrassment, virtually the only Sydney act I didn't see down there - only because every time I set aside an evening to see him, he was, of course, sold out!)
The other comedian whose work gets a run in Episode 34 is Mat Kenneally, another comic from the ranks of the legal fraternity (that gave us the likes of John Cleese, Tim Brooke-Taylor, James O'Loghlin and many others I should be able to name but can't off the top of my head right now). I got to know Mat this year because he was one of four comics appearing in The Comedy Zone - the show the Melbourne International Comedy Festival puts together by selecting a bunch of up-and-comers from a series of auditions. Of course, Mat insists that I saw him in a Raw final (he would have been a law student in Canberra then; I would have seen him in a NSW State final) and that I commended him on a particular routine for being politically aware and still very funny. I don't actually remember the conversation or the bit of material, but I can still commend Mat for producing that sort of comedy. In fact, it was a joy to see him MC at the Mic In Hand a couple of weeks ago; he was the MC at The Comedy Zone, and was great, but he's already come a long way since then!
If any of this interests you, you may read the transcript of the episode here;
or:
Download this episode
Subscribe to this podcast using iTunes
http://podcasts.freedigitalcontent.com/radiohaha.xml
(Copy and paste the link into your Podcast software)
Download other shows