Rerelease of Episode 2 with Drew Whitney Morgan from January 2016
Becca Burg finds that Improv comedy allows her to be in a flow state of Singular focus. She talks to Will about growing up and being exposed to Theater in Florida, studying Environmental Science, the North Atlantic Garbage patch, finding improv as an outlet from Work and studies, moving to New York City, discovering The Pit, directing sketch comedy and finding what she want's to work on creating next.
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Jameer Pond was away from the stage for a while, but it was a storytelling class that he happened into after a humiliating experience that happened on stage at his day job that lead him back to the stage. He talks to Will about growing up in Brooklyn, discovering sketch comedy, starting in stand up comedy, how he ended up pivoting to the storytelling scene, finding the Moth and playing shows with them in different cities, Solocom 2023 at The Pit in NYC and the solo show he is working towards.
Jameer on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jameerpond/?hl=en
See Jameer live in Hoboken:
https://onthewaterfront.bpt.me/
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Comedian Rashad Bashir and Will met when they were very new comics and working as ushers at Radio City Music Hall. He talks to Will about growing up in New York City, performing comedy at talent shows and having it go well and not go well, his time in theater, finding stand up comedy, what he's learned about producing live comedy and the future.
Rashad on Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/rbashir_comedy/?hl=en
April 20th and 22nd see Will's Sketch group Backdoor BBQ in NYC https://thepit-nyc.com/events/backdoor-barbeque/
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Comedian Ariel Elias turned getting attacked by a heckler at a show it into an opportunity. She talks to Will about growing up Jewish in Lexington, Kentucky, discovering stand up comedy by listening to The Bob & Tom radio show, starting comedy in New Orleans, moving to New York City, performing outdoors in the first summer of the pandemic, how getting a beer thrown at her by a heckler on stage lead to her late night debut on Jimmy Kimmel and why she was ready for the opportunity, and the change it's made in her career.
See Ariel perform live
https://www.arieleliascomedy.com/
Ariel on Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/ariel_comedy/
Ariel on Twitter
https://twitter.com/Ariel_Comedy
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Will's wife Chelsea Connor returns to the show to discuss traveling to South America as an 11 year old, how traveling to Vietnam right after it opened to American Tourists, bucket list travel destinations, and technology that is now considered vintage.
Chelsea on Twitter:
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Improv Comedy is the craft that informs rapper EpicLLoyd's creative output. He talks to Will about studying Improv in Chicago, discovering hip hop, what he likes about how his favorite rappers rap, touring colleges and NACA conferences with his Improv group, meeting NicePeter and creating the Youtube series Epic Rap Battles of History, what goes into writing rap battles, working with Weird Al Yankovic, Key & Peele, writing a rap for Spongebob Squarepants: Sponge Out of Water, and how Epic Rap Battles doesn't confirm to traditional Youtuber practices and maintains quality and sustains success.
Check out EpicLLoyd:
https://www.instagram.com/theepiclloyd/?hl=en
https://www.youtube.com/epiclloyd
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Mike Brian Fogerty returns to the show after a global pandemic nearly made him walk away from sketch comedy. He talks to Will about the upcoming Solocom 2023 fest at The People's Improv Theater, writing Sketch Comedy, what he's learned about TV Pilot writing, and his break down of Will's Pilot idea, why he almost stopped comedy, what kept him in, and what he's looking forward to in his new Late Night writing workshop.
Mike on Twitter: @themikebrian
Mike on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/themikebrian/
Mike's class:
https://thepit-nyc.com/events/late-night-style-writing/
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Comedian and Musician Henry Phillips' career begins in Los Angeles at the emergence of alternative comedy. He talks to Will about working on the movie Sleepwalk with Me with Mike Birbiglia about his childhood in New Jersey before moving to Los Angeles, aspiring to be a musician before his sense of humor turned him towards musical comedy. The Early 90s Alternative Comedy Scene and being unaware of what has happening in different cities at the time, How Doug Stanhope and the radio show Bob & Tom led to touring as a comedian, how a collaboration with an old friend lead to starring in the movies Punching The Clown and Punching Henry, his Web Series Henry's Kitchen and how comedians Marc Maron and Sarah Silverman lent vital support to those projects.
Watch Henry's Special:
http://henryphillips.com/full-special-neither-here-nor-there/
See Henry Live:
http://henryphillips.com/tour-dates/
Henry's Kitchen:
https://www.youtube.com/@HenryPhillips
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Improvisor Dahlia Haddad feels like a jock around theater kids, and a theater kid around jocks. She talk to Will about Growing up in St. Louis, playing soccer, discovering improv comedy and approaching it as a trade with skills to learn, living in Washington DC, and what being new to NYC is like, finding the People's Improv Theater, and plans she has for a solo show.
https://thepit-nyc.com/people/dahlia-haddad/
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Comedian Drew Landry's new special All My Friends Are Dead confronts grief and loss in a thoughtful and funny way in the vein of a nightclub comic rather than a one man theater show. He talks to Will about starting stand up comedy at 13 in Chicago at a school talent show, moving to Baltimore and really developing as a stand up in the Baltimore scene, moving to Los Angeles and establishing himself there, why he chose to release his mini special on Youtube for free, performing on the road and what he wants to do next in stand up.
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Drew on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/MrDrewLandry
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Comedian Mackenzie Jaquish produces multiple live shows in NYC and performs stand up, improv and sketch comedy.
She talks to Will about growing up outside of Calgary Alberta in Canada, discovering Saturday Night Live, and Weird Al Yankovic, starting stand up comedy, producing a public access show in her teens moving to New York City during the Pandemic, discovering The Pit NYC, the creation of her production company Pretty Funny Comedy, producing the wildly popular show Love is Live, and what she wants to do in stand up comedy next.
Mackenzie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mackenzie_jaquish/?hl=en
Pretty Funny Comedy on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/pretty_funny_comedy/?hl=en
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Rerelease of Episode 6 with The Cooligans Alexis Guerreros & Christian Polanco from 2016
Shane Snider has done Stand up, Music, Storytelling, Scriptwriting, and is now settling into doing what brings him real artistic satisfaction and freedom. He talks to Will about Growing up with the lead singer of Twister Sister as his Dad, how his Mom created that band's visual aesthetic and logo, how he started doing comedy, storytelling, dealing with depression, and how he found the courage to ask for help, and where he is in his creativity today.
Shane's Twitch Stream:
https://www.twitch.tv/acidketchum
Shane on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/shaneisnotabird
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Actress Marilyn Ghigliotti is the guest for Episode 300 of Between Awesome and Disaster. She talks to Will about finding out she would be in Clerks III, shooting the movie during Covid-19 restrictions, working with Kevin Smith as a Director, Starting in Community Theater in New Jersey, Auditioning for Clerks, and the impact on her Career after the 1994 Sundance Film Festival, Moving to Los Angeles, advice for aspiring actors, directing her short film a Mother's Love, and what she wants to do next in acting.
Marilyn on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThatClerksGirl
Marilyn's Website: https://marilynghigliotti.wixsite.com/marilynghigliotti
https://linktr.ee/marilynghigliotti
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Ari Vais has lived and performed all over the world and is finally seeing the release of a record recorded decades ago. He talks to Will about living in the San Francisco Bay Area, growing up in Boston, living and opening for huge bands in NYC and London, his approach to songwriting, and being new to an artform as a new stand up comic and a veternan musician, and how his new album from his Project The Pelicans recently saw release after initially being recorded decades ago.
www.weareindierock.com
Listen to The Campbell Apartment:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/46LySYL7IarLnkeuF9dIsB?si=v8Tf3Q5_TOWWdTucrbpgnA
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Comedian Sunny Outlaw is new to New York but is already applying a rigorous DIY approach to his Comedy. He Talks to Will about the phrase Content Creator, growing up in Indiana, starting stand up comedy there before branching out into Improv/ Sketch and Storytelling. Working at The Pit NYC, his most recent solo show and his plans for his next one.
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It's the Holidays and that means it's time for Paul Cohen to return to the show and recap the year in pop punk. He and Will discuss their recent sketch shows with Backdoor BBQ at the Pit in NYC, New Found Glory's 20th anniversary tour for Sticks and Stones, Their upcoming Acoustic record, Tom Delonge Rejoining Blink-182 and the upcoming reunion tour, Sad Summer Fest, The Blame Canada Tour with Sum 41 and Simple Plan, State Champs, Their album or the year and an exclusive performance of Paul's original pop punk/ emo Hanukkah song 8 Reasons.
Paul on Instagram.
https://www.instagram.com/therealpaulcory/
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Comedian Andy J Ritchie has lived and performed in a number of countries around the world. He talks to Will about Growing up in Edinburgh Scotland, The World Cup, The difference between stand up in the UK and the United States and how the two scenes are influencing each other, living and performing in France, England, Japan, Portugal, Spain, the evolution of the english language stand up scene in Barcelona, and his movie podcast.
Andy's Podcast:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/call-it-friendo/id1531561871
Andy on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/andyjayritchie/?hl=en
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Will's Friend and member of the Sketch group Backdoor BBQ Chris Migliaccio returns to the show to discuss the groups recent run of shows at The Pit in NYC, the idea of Gurus in comedy, music fandom, their favorite concerts they've added this year and more!
Get Tickets to Backdoor BBQ's December shows in NYC
https://thepit-nyc.com/events/backdoor-bbq/
Chris on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chrismigs/?hl=en
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Goalkeeper Bassist/ Vocalist Ryan Beebe drew inspiration from classic doo wop music and country singers for the bands debut full length I Wish I'd Met You Sooner. He talks to Will about wanting to create classic lonely romantic music, writing songs in the very beginning of the Covid-19 Pandemic, working with Bruzzese of Man Overboard and Casey Cavalier of The Wonder Years, Plans for the band's upcoming tour, and things that a band that want's to tour should know before hitting the road.
https://www.goalkeeperband.com/
Listen to their newest single Lost Reality:
https://youtu.be/IBGos_SRZtg
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Will has just returned from performing in Paris, France. He shares the audio from his performances on Unstable Comedy, and the Improvised I Forgot My Notes show from Blast Off Comedy in Paris, and then has a quick chat with comic Rebecca Anne about Comedy in Paris, living in France and performing live after having to start over zoom in the Pandemic.
Unstable Comedy
https://www.instagram.com/unstablecomedy/?hl=en
Comedy in Paris
https://www.instagram.com/englishcomedyinparis/
Blast Off Comedy
https://www.instagram.com/blastoffcomedy/
Rebecca on Twitter:
https://www.instagram.com/rebecca_anne_comedy/
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Comedian Justin Willliams and Will cut there teeth on comedy at the same early shows at the comic strip, and late shows at the Creek and The Cave. He talks to Will about Growing up in Missouri, how he got to New York City, starting stand up comedy, his History studies, and the advantages of producing a show in New Jersey just outside of New York City.
https://justinwilliamscomedy.com/
https://www.facebook.com/ComedianJustinWilliams
https://www.youtube.com/user/JustinCWilliams
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Comedian Ethan Stanislawski's move to Los Angeles revitalized not just his life but his comedy as well. He talks to Will about being born and raised in New York City, being the son of a professor, going to school for journalism, music journalism, starting stand up comedy, when he realized he needed to leave New York, comedy in Los Angeles, Sketch comedy, and his plans for upcoming animation work.
https://www.ethanstanislawski.com/
https://www.instagram.com/ethanstancomedy/
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Ahead of his upcoming return to the show and my return from the west coast. Here is my conversation with Marc Juliano of Goalkeeper from 2020. New episodes resume next week