![]() VL: Please excuse me while we research our rebranding to Comedy Gishklork – you may just be onto something, Brenner! But, seriously, the name was all Dave Thomas' doing. No, not the Wendy's Dave Thomas. I was doing another podcast at the time, but we decided it wouldn't make sense to incorporate interviews into that podcast, so I launched out on my own. What I didn't realize at the time was that Comedy Wham would grow to be so much more than a podcast. My favorite thing to hear when I talk to a comic I haven't met before is "Oooh, you're the one that runs the events page? Thank you!" It's beautiful to me that what started as one thing has morphed into so many things that Comedy Wham does, and has created strong friendships with my web guru partner Richard Goodwin and contributor Lara Smith.ĪC: Okay, why the name Comedy Wham? As opposed to, like, Comedy Pow or Comedy Gishklork or anything else? VL: In 2012, as part of my divorce therapy, I started attending the Sure Thing weekly showcases religiously. For me, laughter truly was healing. After about four years, I realized I was as curious about what someone's life was offstage as what they were sharing with audiences onstage. What caused you to start it in the first place? O'Grady were my very first interview – and almost every anniversary, I've tried to sit down with one or the other of them. They've witnessed the changes in the comedy scene as much as I have, and they're really fun to talk to. And one year, when I didn't sit down with them for an anniversary, Brendan teased me about forgetting them for the anniversary episode.ĪC: Comedy Wham is such an obvious labor of love – which must require a lot of labor and a lot of love, to keep it going for six years. With, to be more descriptive, Comedy Wham’s ebullient head honcho …Īustin Chronicle: Okay, did you plan on having the Sure Thing guys for this 200th interview, or was that pure chance? And, if you did plan it that way, why them? So, to give y’all a bit more general intel before the wits hit the fan, we’ve wrangled up a mini-interview of our own right here – with Comedy Wham’s head honcho. (Or, well, at the very least, since that whole clusterfuck with The New Movement was resolved, right?)Īnd they’ve been bringing it, with show after show after show, during this (we’re hoping final) portion of Our Pandemic Situation, too.Īnd now the Fallout is hosting this Wednesday’s live podcast event – and it’s not just Valerie Lopez’s 200th interview, but also Comedy Wham’s sixth anniversary.Īnd – those Sure Thing guys are part of it?Īh, it’s gonna be a terrific night for Austin comedy! Criswell predicts! We stand by that fuss and we give it a thumbs-up, because, no shit, that place has it … um, how do say? That place has it goin’ on, you know? They opened the new club just a couple months ago, and they have that excellent Brunch Bird menu, and – yeah, all of that.īut Fallout Theater, they’ve been bringing the hilarity since forever. Yes, yes, we know we recently made a big fuss about the new Buzz Mill on East Seventh and their all-comedy-all-the-time agenda.
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