A revealing talk ranging from childhood asthma to orgasms to the state of female comedy.

“Sneeze, orgasm, laugh – they’re all the same thing” says comedienne Helen Lederer in her revealing talk with Dr. Brian Kaplan. Married to a doctor herself, Helen talks about her early struggles with asthma. She also discusses getting into an ‘altered state’; and how she spent time spinning around and around repeating the same word to create a sense of otherness. There’s also revealing chat about the different generations of female comedy.

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Startling revelations about football thugs, the wrong use of a lit cigarette and dealing with anger.

Anger issues crop up in Nick Revell’s insightful talk with Dr. Brian Kaplan. Nick also reveals how he nearly died from a burst appendix in the company of Paul Merton. Nick talks in depth about his practice of Tai Chi and how he uses it as a stand-up performer. There are striking stories of how he faced up to football thugs on a tube; and once wilfully stubbed out a lit cigarette on his own arm.

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Winner of Best Joke at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2008, Zoe Lyons takes a trip through her medical history with Dr Brian Kaplan. “I was a 12yr-old with a comb-over. I had stress-related alopecia” declares Zoe, a self-confessed ‘stressy person.' She also reveals her phobia of blood and needles. Zoe won the Funny Woman award in 2004 and tells us how she was taken to a psychologist at the age of fourteen, when her sexuality meant she felt ‘the odd one out.'

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Medical revelations about hearing, hypnotherapy, diverticulitis and comedy trousers.

Born left-handed but forced to use his right, ambidextrous Stewart Lee talks through his family medical issues with Dr. Brian Kaplan. Stewart reveals the hyper state of consciousness he reaches through using a hearing aid. And how an attack of diverticulitis whilst on stage took him to hospital where he found himself re-thinking his whole career. Stewart also tells us how he used a hypnotherapist to give up smoking and reveals the secret to making his trousers fall down on stage.

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In a highly revealing interview, Jamali Maddix, who was the Chortle Student Comedian of the Year in 2014, discovers from Dr. Brian Kaplan how close he once came to death from an infected tattoo. The Hate Thy Neighbour presenter talks about having dyspraxia and refusing special shoes ‘cos they’re not made by Nike.’ Jamali gives revealing insights into his dealings with extremist groups and how he manages to stay calm in hostile situations; and about his meetings with fake cults and prophets.

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Discusses having a colonoscopy and watching a boyfriend do impressions of her on stage – not at the same time.

Colonoscopies loom large in Shappi’s revealing talk with Dr. Kaplan as she recalls having poetry recited at her while undergoing the procedure. Shappi also touches on her painful divorce and how she sought therapy for help. She also describes watching a comedian boyfriend do impressions of her on stage and talks about her reaction to the twelve-step recovery programme.

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Multi-lingual comedian Phil Wang talks through his medical history with Dr. Brian Kaplan, the topics ranging from his fears of having early onset dementia to a growth on his lip, which his sister named Olga. "I hate hospitals and I hate clinics" declares Phil, despite his mother being a doctor. A former President of the Cambridge Footlights, fluent in Malay and Mandarin Phil grew up in Borneo under the conflicting influences of Buddhism and Christianity.

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