Episodios
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Laura Corcoran and Matthew Floyd Jones are the multi award winning musical comedy double act, Frisky and Mannish. In this classic interview, Laura chats about their origins and discusses three of our favourite F&M tracks.
Featuring songs, LGBTQIA, Do You Want to Build a Landlord? and We Are the Stars.
Frisky and Mannish's Profile HERE
www.onthemic.co.uk
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To celebrate the release of (Mitch Benn is) All Over the Place: The English Album, we listen again to Mitch Benn chatting about Donald Trump, musical satire, Blade Runner, the Tarra Trilogy and much more.
Originally recorded during Trump's first reign, Benn's words are perhaps more relevant now than ever.
Featuring classic songs, 'Trump and Macron', 'Happy Birthday War', 'Blade Runner' and 'Everything Sounds Like Coldplay Now'.
Mitch Benn's Bandcamp site
Mitch Benn on Patreon
Mitch's On the Mic Profile: HERE
www.onthemic.co.uk
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Boothby Graffoe is one of the UK's leading musical comedians. In a classic interview from the On the Mic archive, we discuss his music - and the origins of his long time collaboration with actor and comedian, Omid Djalili.
Featuring tracks, 'Spelling Sheep', 'Zombies' and the signature song, 'Hartlepool'.
Boothby's profile HERE
www.onthemic.co.uk
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King Shan is a former film maker and actor, at the very start of his stand up comedy journey. This is his origin story.
King Shan's Profile HERE
www.onthemic.co.uk
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Dave is a number one best selling author, award-winning stand up comedian, presenter and mental health campaigner. He's also one of the nicest people you'll ever meet. In this episode he talks about using comedy to improve mental health and his stand up comedy origin story.
Dave's profile HERE
www.onthemic.co.uk
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Maria Tea (aka Maria Tsartsali) is a stand up comedian, clown, performance artist, and poet from Greece. She has a cult following among comedy fans at the Edinburgh Fringe.
This is her origin story.
Maria's Profile HERE
www.onthemic.co.uk
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Paul Sinha is a hugely talented comedian’s comedian, leading quizzer and a household name, best known to millions as the white suited Sinner Man on ITV's The Chase.
In a typically honest and frank interview, Paul discuses the success of The Chase, his autobiography One Sinha Lifetime, gay icons, the tabloid press, his Parkinson’s disease, his wedding, and the importance of family. Be advised we also hear a brief account from Paul’s book of an attempted sexual assault.
We start by hearing his origin story.
Paul's Profile HERE
www.onthemic.co.uk
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Sam has sold out comedy shows in Melbourne, Hong Kong, London, Tokyo, Berlin, the USA and Italy, and featured on Comedy Central Asia's Stand-Up Asia. He has garnered millions of views online, and has crowd-surfed three times.
This is his origin story.
Sam's Profile HERE
www.onthemic.co.uk
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Becky Fury is an award winning comedian, writer and comic artist. We loved her stand up show, 'Great British C*nts' so much, we invited her on to our podcast. We're so glad we did - this is her very funny and original, origin story.
Becky Fury's profile HERE
www.onthemic.co.uk
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Narin Oz (née Narin Özenci) is an actor, comedian, writer and prankster based in London, England.
She co-starred on the television hidden camera show, Girls Go Trolling (Ch4) with Stephanie O’Keeffe, Annie McGrath and Verona Rose. She acted in the TV comedy drama Man Like Mobeen (BBC Three) and in feature movies Hooligan Legacy (dir. Nicholas Winter, 2016), Finding Fatimah (dir. Oz Arshad, 2017) and several other roles.
This is her origin story.
Narin's Profile: HERE
www.onthemic.co.uk
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Kate Smurthwaite is a left wing, feminist, atheist, polyamorous stand up comedian, writer and activist. She is also the host and star of the News at Kate video series. She's currently performing as a drag king with the satirical character Milo Standards.
This is Kate's origin story.
Image by Guy Smallman. Presented by Martin Walker
Kate’s Profile HERE
www.onthemic.co.uk
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John Dowie is a stand up comedian, writer, composer and author. His act is considered by many to be the precursor to the alternative comedy movement. Indeed, when John first started performing solo stand up, there was no live comedy circuit at all.
He has written four books, and his latest Before I Go has just been published.
John talks to Martin Walker about the book, about his influence on comedy, and about his origin story.
Image by Steve Ullathorne.
John Dowie's Profile HERE (to buy the book, click on the Merchandise link).
www.onthemic.co.uk
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Recorded live from the Assembly Club Bar in Edinburgh, Martin Walker talks to Rosie Nicholls and Sullivan Brown - the sketch comics Grubby Little Mitts. Sometimes when it feels like everything is going wrong, its because it is. Recorded on an iPhone, because rather fittingly, the mic wasn't working.
The Grubbs Linktree HERE
onthemic.co.uk
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Darrell Martin runs Just the Tonic - celebrating 30 years... Darrell gives us an open an honest account of its origins, and what he really thinks of the first act he booked under the JTT banner in Edinburgh, comedian Jim Jefferies.
Presented by Martin Walker.
https://edinburgh.justthetonic.com/
https://www.onthemic.co.uk/
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Alex Petty runs the Edinburgh Free Festival - celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2024. He is promoting well over three hundred Edinburgh shows this year, but how did it all get started? When the pandemic hit, how did the Laughing Horse survive?
Presented by Martin Walker.
https://freefestival.co.uk/
https://www.onthemic.co.uk/
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It's episode 100! We wanted to do something special for our century and here it is. An extended interview with the brilliant Shetland-born comedian, Marjolein Robertson.
This is her origin story.
Marjolein (for English people - its pronounced Marry-Laine) also talks about her exciting 2024 Edinburgh show, 'Marjolein Robertson: O'.
Image by John Carolan. Presented by Martin Walker.
Marjolein's Profile and Social Media HERE
www.onthemic.co.uk
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Mark is one of the greatest left wing satirists working today. Also known as a political activist, he says that comedy and politics are inevitably entwined.
This is Mark's origin story.
He also talks about his 2024 Edinburgh show, 'Mark Thomas: Gaffa Tapes'.
Image art by Tracey Moberly. Presented by Martin Walker.
Mark's Profile and Social Media HERE
www.onthemic.co.uk
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Elf is an award-winning comedian, theatre maker, director, comedy writer and voice artist. She has gained a cult reputation as one of the most innovative performers on the UK comedy and theatre scene.
This is Elf's origin story.
She also talks about her 2024 Edinburgh show, 'Elf Lyons: Horses'.
Image by Karla Gowlett. Presented by Martin Walker
Elf's Profile and Social Media HERE
www.onthemic.co.uk
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James is a multi-award-winning comedian, radio TV presenter, (and gay icon, obvs). He’s delighted audiences with his own brand of outrageous and upbeat comedy on-air, on stage and online .
This is his origin story.
He also talks about his Edinburgh show, 'James Barr: Sorry I Hurt Your Son'.
Presented by Martin Walker.
James' Profile and Social Media HERE
www.onthemic.co.uk
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Bex uses character acting to bring surreal, and yet relatable, characters to life – all struggling to find love while navigating through the barriers that come with being neurodivergent.
This is Bex's origin story.
Bex also talks about her 2024 Edinburgh show, 'Bex Turner: Bexual Healing'.
Image by Alexander Voodoo. Presented by Martin Walker.
Bex's Profile and Social Media HERE
www.onthemic.co.uk
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