Claim OwnershipComedy Means Business
Subscribed: 6Played: 128
Subscribe
Description
Deadline’s Comedy Means Business Podcast will be a definitive resource on the inner workings of the comedy industry, spotlighting the people — on and off stage — who help it thrive. Hosted by Matt Grobar, the show will delve into the work that goes into building a modern-day comedy career, placing an emphasis on stand-up in particular, while also covering comedy in film and television.
22 Episodes
Reverse
Matt Grobar speaks with comedian Ali Siddiq about his commitment to a direct-to-consumer career where he retains full ownership over his work, a journey that has recently led him to win an NAACP Image Award, becoming the first comic to achieve major awards recognition for an independently produced special.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
1Max Amini joins Comedy Means Business on the heels of his biggest year yet. We unpack how he cultivated one of comedy’s biggest and most passionate audiences — with nearly 26 million followers and billions of views across platforms — how India became a major international stronghold for him, and what it means to him to have become the first Iranian-American to headline Madison Square Garden.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode of Comedy Means Business, host Matt Grobar talks with Matt McCusker about his first Netflix special and the path that led there. McCusker reflects on experiences with social anxiety, his brokest years as a comic, and working with Shane Gilis to turn Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast into a major grassroots success story. He shares how a “small business” mindset fuels everything he does and why his only real goal is to make bored people at work laugh while also delving into his passions for long-form writing and animation.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Matt Grobar speaks with Michael Strassner, the co-writer, producer, and star of SXSW breakout The Baltimorons, about turning personal setbacks into creative fuel, culminating in the best year of his life. Strassner reflects on getting sober, his collaboration with filmmaker Jay Duplass, and how his scrappy, deeply personal indie built its audience through word of mouth.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Matt Grobar sits down with Stapleview founders Sam Grey and Daniel Lantsman to discuss the origins of their comedy-focused management and production company and how they’re looking to rethink how comedy gets made, distributed, and monetized. On Comedy Means Business, the pair share their predictions for the next era of digital comedy, touching on what it takes to turn internet bits into valuable IP and what’s required to generate long-term careers from short-form content.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Matt Grobar sits down with comedian Nurse John and his manager, Logan Watkins of Select Management Group, to unpack John’s extraordinarily rapid transition from nurse to internationally recognized touring stand-up. The pair breaks down what it took to translate digital fandom into sold-out live shows and get into the realities of scaling a live business at warp speed, plus what John’s building toward as he expands into a multi-platform career.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today on Comedy Means Business, host Matt Grobar speaks with Kumail Nanjiani about returning to stand-up after more than a decade and the process of crafting new special, Night Thoughts. Kumail breaks down the unglamorous reality of restarting this side of his career, also revisiting the Chicago alt scene that shaped his voice and the wild energy of L.A.’s Meltdown era — including an unforgettable Robin Williams drop-in. Kumail also opens up about navigating the “actor doing stand-up” stigma, his plans to get behind the camera for his feature directorial debut, and how he came to join Fallout Season 2.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today on Comedy Means Business, host Matt Grobar chats with the sketch group Business Casual and their manager Carly Hoogendyk of Omnipop Talent about the mechanics of developmental representation — from the POV of both the artist and their rep. Jeremy Elder, Corey Peter Lane, and Hunter Saling trace their path from UCLA improv kids to Edinburgh Fringe regulars and the creators of their signature show Cowboys, while Carly breaks down how she scouts talent and helps artists to scale their careers responsibly. The group also digs into the realities of a “no new friends” Hollywood, why loss-leader gigs are worth the investment, and how long-game relationship building and relentless output have shaped Business Casual’s rise.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today on Comedy Means Business, host Matt Grobar speaks with Authentic Talent’s Logan Potter and Allen McRae about the social media strategies they’d recommend to any comic, in a moment when the digital space has become an essential revenue driver. They explain why Reddit is the platform every stand-up should be looking further into, why “influencer” shouldn’t be a dirty word, the value a manager adds to a comic’s rep line, and more.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today on Comedy Means Business, host Matt Grobar sits down with Danny Frenkel, co-founder and CEO of Punch-Up Live, who unpacks his vision to build the company into “the Amazon of live entertainment.” From his early years in ads measurement at Facebook to rolling out his own e-commerce platform, the goal of which is to give comedians more direct ownership over their audience, Frenkel breaks down the issues plaguing the broader ticketing ecosystem and the solutions as he sees them.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today on the Comedy Means Business podcast, host Matt Grobar speaks with Caleb Hearon about his debut special, HBO’s ‘Model Comedians,’ and how he built a major platform for himself in the digital space.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Deadline’s Comedy Means Business today profiles Tamra Goins, who details her journey from the Oakland rap scene to her current role of Managing Partner & Head of Comedy at Innovative Artists. Tamra gets into the A-to-Z of modern agenting and what it takes to properly support a comic’s career today.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today on Comedy Means Business, The Daily Show’s Desi Lydic joins host Matt Grobar to discuss her latest trio of Emmy nominations, her transition in recent years from correspondent to rotating host, the challenges of keeping up with the headlines under Trump 2.0, and more.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today’s episode of Comedy Means Business, Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin join host Matt Grobar to discuss their new Neon film Splitsville and challenge the conventional wisdom that comedy doesn’t travel internationally.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on Comedy Means Business, comedian and Juilliard-trained violist joins host Matt Grobar to discuss the makings of a uniquely multi-faceted artistic career — touching on her stand-up, recent experiences touring with Vampire Weekend, and her feature directorial debut On a String, which won an award for Best Screenplay at this year's Tribeca Festival.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On this episode of the Comedy Means Business podcast, host Matt Grobar chats with comedian Leanne Morgan and TV icon Chuck Lorre about their new Netflix comedy, the creative process behind building a show around Leanne’s voice, and why the multi-cam sitcom still matters in today’s streaming world.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today on the Comedy Means Business podcast, host Matt Grobar speaks to comedian Joe List and his manager Chris Burns about the manager-client relationship, the decision to go theatrical with Joe’s latest special ‘Small Ball’ — his fourth in five years — and the kind of work required to succeed in comedy today, from the point of view of both the artist and his rep.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today on the Comedy Means Business podcast, host Matt Grobar reflects on the rise, fall, and return of Just for Laughs — the world’s biggest comedy festival — joined by the team steering it into the future: President & CEO Sylvain Parent-Bédard, head of development and creative strategy Spencer Griffin, and head of programming Nick Brazao.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode of Comedy Means Business, Tom Segura joins us to talk about the bold moves behind his Netflix series Bad Thoughts, why he self-financed the pilot, and how the show surprisingly resonated more overseas than his stand-up. We get into the state of comedy films, the importance of a singular creative vision, and why most modern comedies just don’t hit.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In the second episode of Comedy Means Business, we’re talking Long Live the State, a new documentary on the iconic sketch group The State. Formed at NYU in the late 1980s, this is a group that’s produced countless names that any comedy fan knows — David Wain, Ken Marino, Michael Showalter, Joe Lo Truglio, Michael Ian Black, Thomas Lennon and more. Recently premiering at the Tribeca Festival, the doc delves into the highs and lows of The State’s experience making their cult hit MTV sketch series of the same name, and their enduring legacy in comedy. With us to unpack it all, we have The State’s David Wain, Ken Marino, and Joe Lo Truglio, as well as filmmaker Matthew Perniciaro.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Comments
Download from Google Play
Download from App Store
United States