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
Will's Linktree:
Will's Website: www.awesomedisaster.com
Podcast Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/between-awesome-and-disaster
Get exclusive music and videos at Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/awesomedisaster
Listen to Will's band on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/6diGYyCyFjJZNOZ0Madqrl?si=T0jg3j1bS9iXQ47rHekvgg
Listen to Will's Solo EP:
https://open.spotify.com/album/3jMCe7S0qxESZaXEcfR1Cj?si=9h8vYhNKT5qmQX5g8QvWlw
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
Will's Linktree:
Will's Website: www.awesomedisaster.com
Podcast Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/between-awesome-and-disaster
Get exclusive music and videos at Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/awesomedisaster
Listen to Will's band on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/6diGYyCyFjJZNOZ0Madqrl?si=T0jg3j1bS9iXQ47rHekvgg
Listen to Will's Solo EP:
https://open.spotify.com/album/3jMCe7S0qxESZaXEcfR1Cj?si=9h8vYhNKT5qmQX5g8QvWlw
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
Listen to The Pelicans:
https://open.spotify.com/album/5Esds3J93gBQ828M4EdkyS?si=erZgk0EvRAOs5jPJEc6Cdw
Will's Linktree:
Will's Website: www.awesomedisaster.com
Podcast Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/between-awesome-and-disaster
Get exclusive music and videos at Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/awesomedisaster
Listen to Will's band on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/6diGYyCyFjJZNOZ0Madqrl?si=T0jg3j1bS9iXQ47rHekvgg
Listen to Will's Solo EP:
https://open.spotify.com/album/3jMCe7S0qxESZaXEcfR1Cj?si=9h8vYhNKT5qmQX5g8QvWlw
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.
Sunny's Linktree:
Will's Linktree:
Will's Website: www.awesomedisaster.com
Podcast Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/between-awesome-and-disaster
Get exclusive music and videos at Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/awesomedisaster
Listen to Will's band on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/6diGYyCyFjJZNOZ0Madqrl?si=T0jg3j1bS9iXQ47rHekvgg
Listen to Will's Solo EP:
https://open.spotify.com/album/3jMCe7S0qxESZaXEcfR1Cj?si=9h8vYhNKT5qmQX5g8QvWlw
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/
Will's Linktree:
Will's Website: www.awesomedisaster.com
Podcast Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/between-awesome-and-disaster
Get exclusive music and videos at Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/awesomedisaster
Listen to Will's band on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/6diGYyCyFjJZNOZ0Madqrl?si=T0jg3j1bS9iXQ47rHekvgg
Listen to Will's Solo EP:
https://open.spotify.com/album/3jMCe7S0qxESZaXEcfR1Cj?si=9h8vYhNKT5qmQX5g8QvWlw
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
Will's Linktree:
Will's Website: www.awesomedisaster.com
Podcast Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/between-awesome-and-disaster
Get exclusive music and videos at Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/awesomedisaster
Listen to Will's band on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/6diGYyCyFjJZNOZ0Madqrl?si=T0jg3j1bS9iXQ47rHekvgg
Listen to Will's Solo EP:
https://open.spotify.com/album/3jMCe7S0qxESZaXEcfR1Cj?si=9h8vYhNKT5qmQX5g8QvWlw
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
Will's Linktree:
Will's Website: www.awesomedisaster.com
Podcast Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/between-awesome-and-disaster
Get exclusive music and videos at Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/awesomedisaster
Listen to Will's band on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/6diGYyCyFjJZNOZ0Madqrl?si=T0jg3j1bS9iXQ47rHekvgg
Listen to Will's Solo EP:
https://open.spotify.com/album/3jMCe7S0qxESZaXEcfR1Cj?si=9h8vYhNKT5qmQX5g8QvWlw
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
Will's Linktree:
Will's Website: www.awesomedisaster.com
Podcast Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/between-awesome-and-disaster
Get exclusive music and videos at Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/awesomedisaster
Listen to Will's band on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/6diGYyCyFjJZNOZ0Madqrl?si=T0jg3j1bS9iXQ47rHekvgg
Listen to Will's Solo EP:
https://open.spotify.com/album/3jMCe7S0qxESZaXEcfR1Cj?si=9h8vYhNKT5qmQX5g8QvWlw
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/
Will's Linktree:
Will's Website: www.awesomedisaster.com
Podcast Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/between-awesome-and-disaster
Get exclusive music and videos at Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/awesomedisaster
Listen to Will's band on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/6diGYyCyFjJZNOZ0Madqrl?si=T0jg3j1bS9iXQ47rHekvgg
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
Will's Linktree:
Will's Website: www.awesomedisaster.com
Podcast Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/between-awesome-and-disaster
Get exclusive music and videos at Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/awesomedisaster
Listen to Will's band on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/6diGYyCyFjJZNOZ0Madqrl?si=T0jg3j1bS9iXQ47rHekvgg
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/
Will's Linktree:
Will's Website: www.awesomedisaster.com
Podcast Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/between-awesome-and-disaster
Get exclusive music and videos at Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/awesomedisaster
Listen to Will's band on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/6diGYyCyFjJZNOZ0Madqrl?si=T0jg3j1bS9iXQ47rHekvgg
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
Fireworks Bassist Kyle O'Neil is a performer at his core. He talks to Will About Fireworks' return from Hiatus, Their upcoming Fall tour with The Wonder Years, The status of Their new album Higher Lower Power, growing up going to punk shows in Detroit, Touring, recording with Chad Gilbert of New Found Glory as their producer, a great story touring in South America with his Hardcore band, and branching out into Improv, and Sketch Comedy.
Listen to Fireworks:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/2FcxTTXQKgTdJzTeACMlVU?si=GELYEBNBTsmu_2sm5EKrSg
See Fireworks live:
https://linktr.ee/wearefireworks
Will's Website: www.awesomedisaster.com
Podcast Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/between-awesome-and-disaster
Get exclusive music and videos at Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/awesomedisaster
Listen to Will's New Solo Single:
https://open.spotify.com/track/1kdVurvFhDbU5xhHa1G5Rk?si=bb1c4514664e47cb
Will's Band:
https://open.spotify.com/album/6diGYyCyFjJZNOZ0Madqrl?si=58a_-A5sSye0anV5rgXpEA
Comedian Josh Gondelman's first comedy special is now available after several successfull comedy albums and emmy winning work writing for TV.
He talks to Will about constructing his first hour for video after several comedy albums, touring as a stand up, dealing with hecklers when your friendly on stage, his Emmy winning writing work on HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, going from staff writer to head writer on Desus & Mero, the role of a head writer, and advice for anyone who wants to write for TV.
Watch Josh's new special:
https://www.comedydynamics.com/catalog/josh-gondelman-people-pleaser/
Josh's Book:
https://www.harpercollins.com/products/nice-try-josh-gondelman?variant=32111999975458
Josh on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/joshgondelman
See Will's band live in Brooklyn July 19th:
Will's Website: www.awesomedisaster.com
Podcast Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/between-awesome-and-disaster
Get exclusive music and videos at Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/awesomedisaster
Listen to Will's New Solo Single:
https://open.spotify.com/track/1kdVurvFhDbU5xhHa1G5Rk?si=bb1c4514664e47cb
Amber Nelson's skills as a stand up comic are now being applied to a wide variety of show business projects. She talks to Will about growing up in Saudi Arabia before moving to the American South, moving to NYC to pursue musical theater, discovering improv and her time in legendary NYC sketch group Murderfist, Her part in Netflix's The Characters, Her podcasts The Brighter Side and Somewhere Underneith, and The Last Podcast's Network's recent show at The Grand Old Oprey.
Amber on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/AmberSmelson
Amber's podcasts:
https://open.spotify.com/show/0YaeblOEsYPI04aYnCLvFP?si=aca90e8ee79e4e6f
https://open.spotify.com/show/7CpYtkWmYGM9HGxfFaGRDj?si=a36c560b28fe438a
See Will's band live in Brooklyn July 19th:
Will's Website: www.awesomedisaster.com
Podcast Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/between-awesome-and-disaster
Get exclusive music and videos at Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/awesomedisaster
Listen to Will's New Solo Single:
https://open.spotify.com/track/1kdVurvFhDbU5xhHa1G5Rk?si=bb1c4514664e47cb
Comedian Nick Alexander has always approached comedy as wanting to be able to perform for multiple types of audiences. He talks to Will about starting comedy in NYC, the importance of performing in front of different types of crowds, writing jokes, Moving to Los Angeles, and where he wants to take his career next.
https://www.instagram.com/nickofcomedy/
See Will's band live in Brooklyn July 19th:
Will's Website: www.awesomedisaster.com
Podcast Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/between-awesome-and-disaster
Get exclusive music and videos at Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/awesomedisaster
Listen to Will's New Solo Single:
https://open.spotify.com/track/1kdVurvFhDbU5xhHa1G5Rk?si=bb1c4514664e47cb
Chelsea Connor's career began wanting to join a union and came full circle when she started working for one. she talks to Will about growing up in Brooklyn, gentrification, how people doubting her gives her motivation, working in technical theater at 14, interning at a major news channel in College, local New York Politics, being married to the host of this podcast and the importance of telling workers stories in her current work at a union.
Chelsea on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/chelseaconnor
See Will's band live in Brooklyn July 19th:
Will's Website: www.awesomedisaster.com
Podcast Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/between-awesome-and-disaster
Get exclusive music and videos at Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/awesomedisaster
Listen to Will's New Solo Single:
https://open.spotify.com/track/1kdVurvFhDbU5xhHa1G5Rk?si=bb1c4514664e47cb
Check spots are the hardest spot on a comedy show, and comedian James Mattern's new album/special was recorded during that exact spot. James returns to Between Awesome and Disaster to discuss the video version of The Check Spot which will be on Youtube June 3rd 2022, how he learned to succeed when performing during the check spot, opening for Chris Distefano, His new podcast about bombing called Thank You For Coming Out, and what happens when your heckler is a cop.
James on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/thejamesmattern/?hl=en
James' podcast:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thanks-for-coming-out-a-podcast-about-bombing/id1608436637
See Will's band live in Brooklyn July 19th:
Will's Website: www.awesomedisaster.com
Podcast Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/between-awesome-and-disaster
Get exclusive music and videos at Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/awesomedisaster
Listen to Will's New Solo Single:
https://open.spotify.com/track/1kdVurvFhDbU5xhHa1G5Rk?si=bb1c4514664e47cb
Comedian Lace Larrabee and Will met in NYC 10 years ago, and this year she recorded her debut comedy album. She talks to Will about how Competing in beauty pageants prepared her for stand up comedy, the Atlanta comedy scene and being a comic based outside of NYC or LA, comedy festivals, road gigs, recording her first album, and how southerns will tell other southerns to go back up north sometimes.
Lace's website: https://www.lacelarrabee.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lacelarrabee/
Lace's Podcast:
See Will's band live in Brooklyn July 19th:
Will's Website: www.awesomedisaster.com
Podcast Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/between-awesome-and-disaster
Get exclusive music and videos at Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/awesomedisaster
Listen to Will's New Solo Single:
https://open.spotify.com/track/1kdVurvFhDbU5xhHa1G5Rk?si=bb1c4514664e47cb
Pete Bladel has been a comedian in New York City for a decade. He talks to Will about his just released comedy album Literary, his thought process behind recording a comedy album, starting comedy in Washington DC, his love of Jerry Seinfeld and the documentary Comedian, joke writing, Outrage as a marketing tactic, and the relationship between artists and their art and an audience's relationship with Art.
Get Pete's new album now! https://linktr.ee/petebladel
Will's Website: www.awesomedisaster.com
Podcast Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/between-awesome-and-disaster
Get exclusive music and videos at Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/awesomedisaster
Listen to Will's New Solo Single:
https://open.spotify.com/track/1kdVurvFhDbU5xhHa1G5Rk?si=bb1c4514664e47cb
Comedian Josh Alba. He talks to Will about his love of professional wrestling, growing up in Brooklyn, the paths that different friends took from his High School, starting stand up comedy, producing shows, and his comedy goals for this year.
Josh's show in Brooklyn:
https://www.instagram.com/gildedcomedy/
Josh's Linktree:
Will's Website: www.awesomedisaster.com
Podcast Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/between-awesome-and-disaster
Get exclusive music and videos at Patreon:
Comedian Christian Finnegan's newest special was recorded outdoors during the pandemic and included a few jokes that were said outloud for the first time. He talks to Will about putting together his new special Show Your Work, The cultural schism in stand up comedy, favorite bands and music, writing for the Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn, The glory days of the NYC alternative comedy scene, and the difference in craft of the worlds of alternative comedy and headlining on the road.
Get Christian's new special:
https://christianfinnegan.com/show-your-work
Christian on Twitter and Instagram:
https://mobile.twitter.com/ChristFinnegan
https://www.instagram.com/christfinnegan/
Big D and The Kids Table just announed their first US Tour in a few years but their Guitarist Alex Stern stays active through multiple musical projects. He talks to Will about Touring Southeast Asia with Big D, Collaborating with Japanese Noise band Melt Banana, Boston's Ska and music scenes during the 90s, Warped Tour, Reverend Guitars, The Big D songwriting process, demoing songs, Big D's upcoming tour, and his other projects The Pomps, Westbound Train, and The Inevitables.
Catch Big D on Tour in April/ May
https://www.bigdandthekidstable.com/#shows
Listen to Big D and buy merch!
https://bigdandthekidstableofficial.bandcamp.com/
Listen to The Pomps
https://thepomps.bandcamp.com/
Get tickets to See Bright Ugly and Goalkeeper March 27th.
Will's Website: www.awesomedisaster.com
Podcast Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/between-awesome-and-disaster
Get exclusive music and videos at Patreon:
For Comedian Justin Auslaender getting a truck as a teenager changed the direction of his life drastically. Justin and Will discuss their similar upbringings in rural Maryland, why he values his independence not just in comedy but in his work as a lawyer, how he got started doing comedy in Washington DC, moving to New York City, having a 2nd child during the pandemic, podcasting and how he balances creative pursuits with being present for his family
Justin's Podcast:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/two-dry-guys/id1372615659
Get Tickets to Will's band in Brooklyn March 27th
Will's Website: www.awesomedisaster.com
Podcast Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/between-awesome-and-disaster
Get exclusive music and videos at Patreon:
Comedian Sean Lynch brings his background in Theater and Comedy into writing independent films. He talks to Will about how Star Wars blew his mind as a kid, The Big Chill's influence on how he works with actors and approaches screenwriting, the movie he is currently in production on, His beginnings as a comedian at the Comedy Cellar, some sage show business advice from a veteran in the field, his upcoming starring role on broadway in the play Girls Who Walked on Glass, his upcoming one act play he wrote titled The Wildfire Dogs, and his films Greenpoint Tavern and Every Other Sunday, plus some great comedy stories from the road, opening for Todd Glass, and Robin Williams.
Sean on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/seanlynchcomedy
Sean on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/geezerlynch/
Sean's first two movies:
https://www.amazon.com/Every-Other-Sunday-Adam-Mucci/dp/B083GFW9VP
Will's Website: www.awesomedisaster.com
Podcast Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/between-awesome-and-disaster
Did an overhaul of the Patreon: