About this podcast
Hop For Pop is a stand-up comedy interview podcast. Host Kishan sits down with working comedians, comedy writers and the people behind them for long, candid conversations about how comedy really works: writing jokes, bombing, finding a voice, and making a living at it.
Guests include Larry Charles (Seinfeld, Borat), manager Barry Katz, comedy teacher Judy Carter, and comedians from New York, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Brazil and from all across the globe!
Read the interviews at hopforpop.com. Follow @hopforpop on Instagram.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 23 episodes
- Greg Stone · 46 min · Season 1 Episode 23Greg Stone went over the light by ten minutes at his first show, spent seven years telling himself comedy was a hobby, and moved to New York in 2008 when Mike Vecchione told him…
- Simon King · 1 h 12 min · Season 1 Episode 22Simon King went up third at an open mic on 8 February 2000, doesn't remember a word of his set, and walked off thinking: I need to do that again. Since August 2002 it has been…
- Sevrin Willinder · 28 min · Season 1 Episode 9Sevrin Willinder is a clown, and somebody else told him so first. He was playing a piano repairman in a dramatic scene at drama school. His mentor told him to play something…
- Rebecca Wolf · 53 min · Season 1 Episode 21Rebecca Wolf auditioned for her first school play and was too shy to get a part. She watched the show from the audience and decided that was exactly what she wanted to do. The…
- Jackie Joy · 37 min · Season 1 Episode 20Jackie Joy moved from Brazil to Vancouver with, in her words, almost no English. She'd had a good marketing career back home, but in Canada she couldn't communicate. On her first…
- Diogo Portugal · 59 min · Season 1 Episode 19Read the full interview: https://hopforpop.com/diogo-portugal-built-the-brazilian-comedy-scene-he-now-performs-in/ Diogo Portugal is Brazilian, despite the surname. Diogo was his…
- Central Standup Almaty · 1 h 0 min · Season 1 Episode 18In 2022, when the mobilisation started in Russia, comedians began arriving in Almaty with nowhere to perform. A 28-year-old comic and his wife opened an 800-square-metre room and…
- Krystyna Hutchinson and Corinne Fisher · 50 min · Season 1 Episode 17Krystyna Hutchinson and Corinne have made a podcast together every single Friday for nearly thirteen years without missing one. This is a long conversation about what that…
- Barry Katz · 49 min · Season 1 Episode 16Barry Katz has spent more than twenty years managing stand-up comedians, and the client list is faintly ridiculous: Dave Chappelle, Bill Burr, Jim Gaffigan, Dane Cook, Nick…
- Ceekay Brown · 1 h 6 min · Season 1 Episode 15On 13 March, two days after her birthday dinner, CeeKay Brown was driving when she crashed. She passed out three times, forgot her own name and date of birth, and turned down the…
- Good Night Comedy Almaty · 43 min · Season 1 Episode 14Almaty has a stand-up scene that runs in three languages - Kazakh, Russian and English - and is about to add a fourth. Almost nobody outside Kazakhstan knows it exists. I sat…
- Byron Bertram · 45 min · Season 1 Episode 13IN THIS EPISODE - Sergey, "Russia's only living comedian", and how a character built on a girlfriend took over a career - Bill Burr sharing the videos, and landing on Tom…
- Episode 12: Larry Charles · 1 h 23 min · Season 1 Episode 12Larry Charles wrote Seinfeld, directed Borat, and used to throw up before going on stage. In this episode of The Comics Unseen, Kishan Jhunjhunwala sits down with the man behind…
- Episode 11: Jason Salmon · 48 min · Season 1 Episode 11Jason moved to New York for an engineering job and took acting classes to meet women. He ended up an actor instead — sketch, improv, off-off-Broadway — and stand-up came last. “I…
- Paul Farhavar · 57 min · Season 1 Episode 10Paul Farahvar is a Chicago stand-up comedian and podcast host, and a former trial lawyer. He has two specials, the Dry Bar hour Always a Groomsman and Middlewestern, Middle…
- Episode 8: Winnie Stack · 27 min · Season 1 Episode 8Winnie Stack started keeping a journal at nine, and kept it religiously. She wrote down as much detail as she could. She drew a picture beside almost every entry. She suspected…
- Episode 7: Hannah Ponturo · 45 min · Season 1 Episode 7Hannah Ponturo wrote 1518: The Dancing Plague first as a film, then as a play. She is also directing it, and is one of four producers. She made most of the props herself. The…
- Episode 6: Stacy Price · 53 min · Season 1 Episode 6Stacy Price has been at this for at least fifteen years. She trained at Circle in the Square in New York and did plays there. Then came Los Angeles, the Groundlings, and open…
- Episode 5: Marina Di Marzo · 53 min · Season 1 Episode 5Marina di Marzo’s first stage appearance was at four months old. Her Italian immigrant parents are deeply Catholic. She played the live baby Jesus in their church nativity. She…
- Episode 4: Tom Nemec · 39 min · Season 1 Episode 4Tom Nemec is sixty years old. He has been doing standup for about thirty-five years. He has been sober for thirty-six, since 1990. He was twenty-four when he stopped drinking…
