Episodes

  • Frisky and Mannish's Musical Comedy
    Nov 18 2024

    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.

    www.onthemic.co.uk

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    23 mins
  • Mitch Benn's Musical Comedy
    Nov 12 2024

    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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    35 mins
  • Boothby Graffoe's Musical Comedy
    Nov 5 2024

    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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    29 mins
  • King Shan's Origin Story
    Oct 29 2024

    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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    10 mins
  • Dave Chawner's Origin Story
    Oct 22 2024

    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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    10 mins
  • Maria Tea's Origin Story
    Oct 15 2024

    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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    8 mins
  • Paul Sinha's Origin Story
    Oct 8 2024

    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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    26 mins
  • Sam See's Origin Story
    Oct 1 2024

    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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    13 mins