Topics covered are:

• Review of West End Comedy Fest
• The Value of Festivals
• Rachel Feinstein's Crazy Comedy Pace
• Networking Tips for Introverts
• When are you ready to film a comedy special?
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Our first guest ever Rob Haze returns for our first live podcast ever to promote his first ever comedy special. That's a lot to digest just like this interview sharing a rare peak behind the curtain of what it takes to make it in comedy today. We get into the good and the bad of pursuing your comedy dreams and what he's learned the hard way so you don't have to. Listen and learn!

Topics covered are:

• His father passing the day before his Tonight Show
• Self-producing his own special
• Blowing all his money and bouncing back
• Being a TV writer
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NYC comic Adam Muller returns to share his experience self-producing his second comedy special in just 7 years of doing comedy. We get into all the goods on how you can produce your own comedy special. Listen and learn all the mistakes he made the hard way so you don't have to.

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Topics covered are:

• Dusty Slay's Netflix Special
• How to review your sets
• VR Comedy
• Taylor Tomlinson’s New Show
• Clean Comedy Tips
• How to expand one liners into longer bits
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We're back with a great episode to help you level up your comedy game quickly! Joel shares a hilarious story of the only guest to cut his interview short, Yoshee announces his new comedy special taping, and much more!

Topics covered are:

• Joel's favorite new social media comedian
• Sitting vs. Standing on stage
• How to memorize material
• Climbing the comedy ladder
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We're back with killer episode hitting on all the topics from comedy headlines to practical comedy advice based on your questions from this week's live Q&A.

Topics covered are:

• Joel's Hilarious Katt Williams story
• What comics can learn from Katt Williams
• How Jo Koy's bomb saved The Golden Globes
• Clean vs. Dirty Comedy
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Happy New Year Hot Breathiverse and welcome to our first official episode of HB! Live 2024. In addition to interviewing your favorite comics, we're going to start experimenting with different styles of content to help you level up your comedy game faster.

This episode is from our weekly YouTube livestream we do every Tuesday at 5PM EST. Listen and learn about the future plans of Hot Breath! and how you can help!

We cover topics like:

• Joel's sugar addiction
• 2024 Comics to Watch
• Comedy Trends in 2024
• The future of Hot Breath!
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We're back with the final episode of 2023 and our first ever "best of" episode. Joel and Yoshee breakdown their top 5 episodes of 2023 and see how they compare to what the analytics say the top 5 are. We'd also love to hear what your time 5 episodes of 2023 are so join our Facebook group below to join the conversation.

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Joel's Top 5:

Ian Bagg - https://hotbreath.captivate.fm/episode/ian-baggs-30-year-overnight-success-story 

JFL - https://hotbreath.captivate.fm/episode/comedian-roundtable-at-jfl-paul-elia-ian-edwards-eva-alexopoulos-ariane-tonka 

CJ Landry - https://hotbreath.captivate.fm/episode/cj-landry 

Earthquake - https://hotbreath.captivate.fm/episode/the-earthquake-comedian-masterclass 

Live Q&A concept - Vision Board https://hotbreath.captivate.fm/episode/vision-board-workshop 

Yoshee's Top 5:

Dry Bar - https://hotbreath.captivate.fm/episode/everything-you-need-to-know-about-dry-bar-comedy-specials 

JFL - https://hotbreath.captivate.fm/episode/comedian-roundtable-at-jfl-paul-elia-ian-edwards-eva-alexopoulos-ariane-tonka 

CJ Landry - https://hotbreath.captivate.fm/episode/cj-landry 

Leah Rudick - https://hotbreath.captivate.fm/episode/leah-rudick-social-media-masterclass-how-to-post-consistently-generating-viral-ideas-and-getting-millions-of-followers-comedy-podcast 

Earthquake - https://hotbreath.captivate.fm/episode/the-earthquake-comedian-masterclass

What are your top 5?

The champ is here!

After several months in the making, Earthquake is on the show!

All of this started over a year ago when we did a review of his comedy special:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHQ9UhGSY5U&t=572s

Quake was so excited about the review that he reposted and reached out about being on the show. And thus the adventure begins…

A few months later I met Quake backstage to record our interview and everything went wrong…

The lighting was terrible…

The seating was awkward…

And I had the first audio recording failure EVER…

Yes in over 400 interviews this fateful interview with Earthquake didn’t happen because my recorder kept freezing.

You can see us below in the blown out lighting and me holding my phone trying to capture whatever audio I could…

At the end of the day it just wasn’t meant to be…until NOW!

We kept in touch and a few months later I flew out to LA to record our official interview at Kevin Hart’s LOL studios.

What’s most inspiring about this interview is that it’s all about comics helping comics. That is the Hot Breath! ethos and for a legend like Earthquake to also believe in this mission proves we are on the right path!

Thank you for all you do to make Hot Breath! the most supportive comedy community in the world!

Sincerely your comedy friend,

Joel Byars

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Love him or hate him, you can’t deny Brendan Schaub’s impact on comedy.

Regardless if you believe his impact is for better or worse, you can’t deny he gets more online hate than other comedian.

I’m all about comics helping comics and wanted to get to the bottom of this mystery, so I flew out to LA and spoke to Brendan directly about this topic and he does not disappoint.

Our conversation not only addresses his controversies but also his system behind creating his own media company.

What most impresses me about Brendan’s career is his business acumen and I wanted to learn all about it.

We go deep on topics like:

Consistency in Content Sharing:

Brendan has built several successful podcasts and shares his formula for other comics to following looking to build a fan base.

Balancing Life and Work:

Brendan is so much about balancing comedy and family that his studio is just a few minutes from home. This is just one of the ways we discuss how has set up his life for complete balance and freedom.

Dealing with Criticism:

I heavily research Brendan before this interview and never really found his point of view on all the online hate, so I was sure to go deep on this topic to help other comics navigate the toxic world of social media.

This is an opportunity to have an open mind and heart and you’ll be surprised what you can learn.

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