Catching Up With Comedians
Rich Stein, a long time standup comic, took a few years off the road to teach high school, get married, and have a kid. Now, retired from teaching, he is back on stages and reconnecting with old friends and trying to Catch up with Comedians. Plenty of funny stories, anecdotes and tributes to the greats both famous and infamous!
Episodes
Jaz Kaner was a guitar player working in clubs and bars in Hawaii and eventually even worked for Don Ho. After getting a few laughs while on stage he eventually moved to the San Francisco area to try out his musical variety / comedy act amongst the Robin Williams', Paula Poundstone's and other up and comers who made up that scene. Jaz worked for many years, in comedy clubs, colleges, and eventually cruise ships. He now makes his li...
Brad Slaight was raised in Cedar Springs just outside of Grand Rapids Michigan. After completing two years as a high school teacher and just shy of tenure, he was asked by his older brother to join him for a life changing trip to California. He thought about it for five minutes before saying YES!
All these years later and Brad has carved out quite a career as an actor, writer and comedian. One of those rare beings who has successf...
Kat Simmons is a 32 year veteran of the international comedy club circuit. She has appeared on numerous comedy shows on television such as Comedy Tonight and Candid Camera. Her clean and conversational style have made her a regular top draw on the corporate circuit both as a keynote speaker and a person who can connect with a specific group and get big laughs.
After moving from the Lake Tahoe area down to LA to break into stand u...
Comedian Steve Mazan has fit a lot of living into his 25 year career. Hailing from The Hanover Park section of Chicago, and inspired by SNL, Richard Pryor and other greats he went after his dream to be a stand up comic. His career was moving along nicely when at age 34 he was given the scary diagnosis of stage four liver cancer. Being always the positive thinker he determined that he would get on David Letterman in the time he had...
Comedian Keith Ross Nelson joins Rich to talk about his early years in track and field and trying out his comedy in college lecture classes. Keith discusses over thirty years of touring, including funny stories about legendary road warriors and his current work producing, acting and writing for series and comedy specials.
Slade Ham is here to discuss his comedy special that airs on YouTube on 4/2/24. We discuss his journey from South Texas to 44 USO Tours covering 60 countries and six continents. A powerful, high energy comic who wears many hats, also executive produced and filmed Andy Huggins comedy special currently streaming as well as appearing in Jordan Brady's Documentary: I Am Battle Comic! I think you will really enjoy Slade's passion for co...
Tommy Moore returns to tell stories about Shecky Greene. We discuss Shecky's long career including Las Vegas, Frank Sinatra, Elvis, the mob and so much more. A must listen for any comedy fan!
Philly Comedian Tommy Moore recalls his start in the business and regales us with great stories about working with legends Pat Cooper, Don Rickles and many more.
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