Oh Lockdown! How We Laughed....

Welcome to 'Oh Lockdown. How We Laughed...' Season 2, Episode 8 with special guest, all the way from Nampa, Idaho, Niko Lukoff(Displaced Comedians). Niko has only been doing stand up for a year but has been a joke his whole life. He is closer to 40 than 30, has been told he is happily married and that he fathered his three children. When the pandemic hit he was suddenly forced to accept that he has no friends, so he created the Facebook group "Displaced Comedians" to supply himself a steady stream of captive listeners, while connecting fellow isolated verbalists across the world. He can be seen hosting and performing at Flappers and all across zoom. See where next at laughyourlukoff.com and/or IG: NikoLukoff. Join us as we chat about comedy, lockdown and what it's like to record a podcast at the end of a year unaware that the world will have essentially moved into another universe by the time you publish.

Welcome to 'Oh Lockdown. How We Laughed...', season two, episode seven, with special guest, all the way from Australia, Paula Ferrari! Paula is a Melbourne based producer and comedian. She started the hugely successful online zoom room called Unmuted Comedy which has produced 36 weekly shows during lockdown. Described as “More like a party than a school exam” Unmuted Comedy is Based in Melbourne, attracting high quality local and international comics each week often from 5 different time zones inspiring Paula to develop the new time zone “Paula Ferrari Time” or “pft”

Her hobbies include being the mother of 3 children and training speech pathology students how to treat people who stutter. She also runs a charity called FGM Restoration Australia which provides support for the women in Australia living with the effects of female genital mutilation. Join us as we chat about Comedy, Lockdown and the importance of recognising our boundaries in order to push them doing stand-up.

Welcome to 'Oh Lockdown. How We Laughed...' Season 2, Episode 6, withe special guest, all the way from Omaha, Nebraska with Brooke Barsell (Backline) Brooke produces and hosts numerous virtual and in-person comedy shows. Entertaining, quirky and charismatic, she combines dad jokes with storytelling and absurd exaggerations.

Host Contagious: the STAY HOME comedy show the Backline comedy online open mic and the anarchy comedy open mic.

This non-conforming exaggerrator is quickly becoming America's sweetheart with her pigtail enerrgy and 69 puns. Join us as we chat about Comedy and Lockdown while neglecting to say much about Xmas despite this podcasts release date. 2020, y'all. 😉

Welcome to 'Oh Lockdown. How We Laughed...' season 2, episode 5 with special guests all the way from Nottingham and New York, Kym Nash & Ashley North (Reckless Comedy Podcast). Join us a we chat about Comedy, Lockdown and what to do when a nonagenarian dumps you with Madonna in Miami and your co-host is too busy dying his hair a weird green colour to help.

Welcome to 'Oh Lockdown. How We Laughed...' Season Two, Episode Four with special guest, all the way from Rome in Italy, Michael Monkhouse!

Funnier than Sylvia Plath, younger than the Iliad, sexier than Donald Trump... Michael's career spans over three jokes. He is a British stand-up who came to Italy for one year twenty years ago. He enjoys acting, stand-upping, and writing and performing sketches, and currently runs Funny Farm Comedy, Rome's only English Open Mic comedy show.

Join us as we chat about Comedy, Lockdown and reversing the trend of beloved British 70's sitcoms boring the tits off us when they went feature length!

Welcome to 'Oh Lockdown. How We Laughed...' Season two, episode three, with special guest, all the way from London, Ana Little!

Ana is a stand up, actor, promoter and presenter with several years experience, and graduated with a BA Hons in acting and stage combat from East 15 Acting School. She took her live comedy night, Frenzy, online near the beginning of Lockdown and has provided a peforming outlet for people from all over, and has surprised herself with her ability to handle the technical demands of such a project. She also performs at a number of regular online events and hopes to make a return to the venues soon.

Join us as we chat about comedy, lockdown and the importance of providing a bio if you don't want your host to build one entirely round the two or three things they know about you.

Welcome to 'Oh Lockdown. How We Laughed...' Season Two, Episode Two with special guest, all the way from Whiteinch in Glasgow, Lawrence Tucker (Hot Death Theatre)!

Lawrence writes: 'Picture a man. A man with a face, legs and trousers. A man with how many arms? Who can say.. 1? 2? Maybe 3? No, that seems like too much, let's go back to 2.

Congratulations, for you have just imagined Lawrence Tucker, a hot young buck who has been performing content that makes you want to die for the worst part of 7,000 years, but the better part of one and a half. Glasgow based stand-up comic, actor, musician, writer, voice actor, Magic Mike impersonator (the magician, not the stripper), 3 time winner of world's most handsome man contest, professional braggart, amateur human who, realistically, shouldn't be permitted to write his own promotional material.'

Join us as we chat about Comedy, Lockdown and the relief one attains from performing to both strangers and cameras in spooky car parks.

Welcome to 'Oh Lockdown. How We Laughed...', Season Two, episode one, with special guest, all the way from New Jersey, Ashley Gutermuth. Ashley is a New Jersey-based stand-up who recently appeared on ‘The Tonight Show’ with Jimmy Fallon where she won the inaugural ‘Seinfeld Challenge.’ Her high-energy, positive style of comedy is irresistible and focuses on her unusual relationships and observations about life. In June 2020, Ashley won Blue City Comedy’s Comic of the Month competition, based in Boise, Idaho.

When Ashley is not performing stand-up or voice-overs, she is usually running and has a daily running streak that spans over five years. For running tips and comedy videos follow @Ashgutermuth on twitter and instagram. Join us as we chat about Comedy, Lockdown and the importance of shooting for the moon if we want to get onto late night TV talk shows.