Sparks of Madness
A podcast about comedy and mental health. Hosted by stand up comedian Graeme Rayner, each week features a different guest from various levels of the UK comedy industry discussing their career and their mental health.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 53 minutes
- Episodes
- 26
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2022
Episode 5 - Matt Reed
In this episode our host Graeme Rayner chats with Matt Reed, a highly successful comic from the North East., about loads of issues - the Black Lives Matter movement, social media (and how it can be t…
Episode 4 - Sam Serrano
In this episode, host Graeme Rayner chats with Sam Serrano about life with Kabuki Syndrome, learning difficulties and mental health issues, and how starting out as a comic at the tender age of 17 hel…
Episode 3 - James Bayes
This week's episode sees regular host Graeme Rayner chatting with James Bayes, who has been something of a mentor for Graeme since he started out in comedy.
James talks openly about his attempted su…
Episode 2 - Jonny Brook - The Sat Down Stand Up
In Episode 2, Graeme chats with kindred spirit (and often times road trip buddy) Jonny Brook.
Jonny is a gentle soul with an ability to weave words together eloquently when discussing the darkest of …
Episode 1 - Keith Wild
In our first episode Graeme talks to one of his best friends in the business - Keith Wild. Winner of King Gong at the Manchester Comedy Store, Beat the Frog at the Frog and Bucket and the Shoecake Go…
Trailer
In this very brief trailer, host Graeme Rayner explains what Sparks of Madness is about.