Welcome to Uncomfortable Truths Episode 5 with Kieran Butler. Kieran and I have been friends since 2013, when I started comedy. He ran an open mic. comedy room back then, under the banner of Free Comedy at Station 59 in Richmond, and I gigged there all the time. It was a safe place to start doing stand up comedy because even if you really died on stage, you knew that he would still give you more gigs. This is because if you signed up online, he would give you a gig, easy as that.

He also put on Yes All Women’s Comedy Night once a month at Station 59, and that was my favourite place to gig ever. He would do the admin, and introduce the MC at the start of the night, and then the night was ours. Yes All Women’s was had a huge impact on me as a comedian just starting out, and I feel very fortunate that I was around to experience those years of Yes All Women’s at Station 59.

Freecomedy.com.au is Kieran’s website and Kieran ran his comedy room under the free comedy model from Edinburgh. When Station 59 closed down, and after a short break, Kieran took free comedy to the Highlander Bar in the CBD in Melbourne. We’ve been gigging at the Highlander since 2017. Kieran is also an excellent musician, music producer and video clip producer. He recorded my song The Slut Song, and also shot and produced the video clip for the Slut Song. If you haven’t seen the video clip for the Slut Song yet, please check it out on YouTube.

We talked for over 3 hours, so I have split the podcast into 2 parts. In this first part we talk about how he started in comedy and music, the challenges he encountered, where we both were when we heard about 9/11, Pauline Hanson and how Australian politicians started playing the race card, and some very convincing John Howard impersonations. I hope you enjoy this podcast with Kieran Butler.

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