This time, the Hot Potcast travels to Scotland and learns how to set up a comedy club with special guest Ben Verth, co-founder of Edinburgh’s award-winning Monkey Barrel comedy club. In addition, our panelist Minh Tu also shares her own experience doing English-language comedy nights in Vietnam.       

Panel and guest introduction (0:00)       

An Idiot’s Guide to Monkey Barrel Comedy (2:42)        

Minh Tu's experience doing English comedy in Vietnam (12:06)        

Monkey Barrel Comedy's tips to start a comedy club (26:17)        

How to book acts (34:35)

What can happen on a night (38:56)         

Monkey Barrel Comedy in a pandemic and a modern comedy club in Vietnam? (44:00)