Every Monday listeners get exclusive access to the most influential minds in comedy. Award winning comedian and host Joel Byars captures the inspiring stories and insightful techniques behind your favorite comics with interviews NPR describes as "discovering the desire to be a comedian, their craft and their unifying bond found within the world of stand up comedy."
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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 tapi…
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.
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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 …
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…
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:
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 a…
Gianmarco Soresi joins the Hot Breathiverse for a crowd work masterclass. Over the past year he has built a huge social media following that is now converting to sold out shows. With every comic tryi…
Joey Avery joins us to spit major game on social media and how comedians can use it to sell tickets. After being mentored by Andrew Schulz, Joey has built an engaged social media following through sk…
Social media sensation Leah Rudick joins us to share all her secrets to building millions of followers on social media. We've interviewed a lot of social media comedians on this show and Leah's appro…
Josh Sneed joins us to share his 25+ years of comedy experience into a masterclass to help comedians level up and get paid. He also shares a lot of great advice for the show and how we can keep expan…
Ian Bagg returns to Hot Breath! to share all the sauce around his new social media fame. On our first interview together he spoke candidly about how he should be "further along." He actually didn't g…
This is our first ever comedian round table discussion and we're kicking it off with a bang. Paul Elia, Ian Edwards, Eva Alexopoulos, and JFL's Ariane Tonka join us to discuss the comedy game like yo…
Michael Colyar joins us to share his inspiring journey from a drug addict street performer to working with comedians like Eddie Murphy, Bernie Mac, and more. Michael has seen it all and gets real abo…
Steve Byrne is a 30+ year comedy vet that developed in the comedy trenches with the greats like Bill Burr, Patrice O’Neil and more.
His career started sweeping floors at Caroline’s, driving 168K mile…
Before comedy, Michael Yo was a celebrity reporter interviewing everyone from Tom Cruise to Will Smith but now he is a full time comic creating his own success with killer stand-up and social media c…
In just a few years into comedy Jen Fulwiler has already build a viral social media following selling out venues around the country. She joins us to share all the sauce on how she's doing it with hop…
Bill Dawes has found success both on stage and on screen and is here to share all his goods for the next generation of comedians. We get into a lot of great tips for acting and auditioning plus some …
In last week’s pod you heard CJ Landry get real real…for real…about sleeping on floors, living in Air BnBs, and stealing food from DoorDash all to survive while chasing his comedy dreams.
Well I say …
CJ Landry is the definition of "all-in" on this comedy game and has sacrificed everything to make his comedy dreams come true. That is through living out of Air BnBs to stealing form Doordash and muc…