Mic Time

I’m delighted to bring you a chat with Shay Raper this week. He’s a comedian from Newcastle that I have seen a few times, often doing slots on the same night.

In this chat, we cover how we got started…

George Phillips joins me on this edition of Mic Time, and tells us all about getting started in standup.

Incredibly, George has been gigging since summer 2023, mostly around West and South Yorkshire,…

When I started the comedy course run by Phil Smith and Fran Garrity, I met lots of great people. But someone who seemed to be way ahead of the rest of us very early on (I think we managed to level up…

I’m very pleased to welcome Kenny Watt to the latest Mic Time podcast. Kenny started out at the same time as me, and we’ve done the same gigs together on a few occasions.

However, Kenny has had far mo…

While I’ve only been doing comedy for a few months, I’ve been writing funny stuff for years.

Very little of it has been produced.

In fact, the closest I’ve been to having comedy produced is talking bo…

This week’s Mic Time features another comedian I saw at Leeds back in February. Adam Blaize performed a character called Immodium Nitrate, which he talks a little bit about in this week’s podcast. Bu…

Good to be back with another chat on Mic Time. A few weeks ago I popped down to Leeds for the Scratch ‘n’ Sniff night and got talking to Josh O’Leary. He is this week’s guest, and tells us a bit abou…

I’m Mick Karma, and welcome to my podcast. If you were here last time, you would have heard my chat with Fran Garrity, a comedian from Teesside who I first met back in September 2023 when he co-prese…

I’m Mick Karma, and welcome to my podcast. In Mic Time, I chat with comedians and share my experiences about the first stages of stand up comedy. I first performed in October 2023, and so far it has …