The Friday Episode : Edinburgh Fringe check in, Cate Blanchett, Mock The Week and more

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We welcome back one of our favourites in Rachel Galvo for new questions and new chat in Rebooked! @rachelgalvo @alwaysbecomedy [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Always Be Comedy - EP179 - Barry From Watford Multi-award-winning comedy nights Always Be Comedy is finally exploiting those sweet, sweet contacts… WITH A GIG-THEMED PODCAST!  Guests curate their ideal comedy gig: who would they have open? Close? What dream moment from their gigging days would they love re-enact at this gig? And what live comedy nightmare from their past must not happen again under any circumstances? There’s this and so much more.  Go see Barry on tour here! - https://www.barryfromwatford.co.uk/tour-tickets To get in touch with the pod, email [email protected] --------------------------- SPOILERS! MC - Sally Anne Hayward https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh-C623Mx-s Opener - Rich Wilson - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri9v0wIrw84 Middle - Doug Carter - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=draOcOOBmGs Closer - Rory O'Hanlon - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liW_MEp8rXQ About us:Host James Gill launched Always Be Comedy in 2011; since then the cream of the comedy world have called ABC their second home. James is a comedian and former journalist, with more than two decades of experience interviewing some of the biggest film, TV and sports stars on the planet… this has got a bit self-aggrandising but we want you to know it’s not ABC’s first rodeo.ABC’s Tim Lewis has worked at the biggest and best comedy and entertainment shows in Britain and is invariably tech-ing half the shows at the Edinburgh Festival each year (these aren’t his words, so please don’t accuse him of bragging).Always Be Comedy won Best Pro Comedy Night at the 2023, 2025 and 2026 Chortle awards, having previously won Best Comedy Show at the Joe.co.uk Awards. If you’re hungry for more ABC-related knowledge, please visit www.alwaysbecomedy.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vote Tim Lewis as Best Technical Operator! https://ish-scheduler.vercel.app/vote/tech-awards-26 A lot of awards chat at the Fringe! @alwaysbecomedy [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://ish-scheduler.vercel.app/vote/tech-awards-26 Please vote for Tim Lewis as Best Technical Operator, thank you! https://ish-scheduler.vercel.app/vote/tech-awards-26 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Always Be Comedy - EP178 - Alasdair Beckett-King Multi-award-winning comedy nights Always Be Comedy is finally exploiting those sweet, sweet contacts… WITH A GIG-THEMED PODCAST!  Guests curate their ideal comedy gig: who would they have open? Close? What dream moment from their gigging days would they love re-enact at this gig? And what live comedy nightmare from their past must not happen again under any circumstances? There’s this and so much more.  Go see Alasdair on tour here! - https://www.abeckettking.com/gigs/ To get in touch with the pod, email [email protected] --------------------------- SPOILERS! MC - Steve Martin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYbavuReVF4 Opener - Maria Bamford https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiN85rPBy3k Middle - Flight of the Conchords https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT9WugSs9EY Closer - Suzy Eddie Izzard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYuvLSFFalo About us:Host James Gill launched Always Be Comedy in 2011; since then the cream of the comedy world have called ABC their second home. James is a comedian and former journalist, with more than two decades of experience interviewing some of the biggest film, TV and sports stars on the planet… this has got a bit self-aggrandising but we want you to know it’s not ABC’s first rodeo.ABC’s Tim Lewis has worked at the biggest and best comedy and entertainment shows in Britain and is invariably tech-ing half the shows at the Edinburgh Festival each year (these aren’t his words, so please don’t accuse him of bragging).Always Be Comedy won Best Pro Comedy Night at the 2023, 2025 and 2026 Chortle awards, having previously won Best Comedy Show at the Joe.co.uk Awards. If you’re hungry for more ABC-related knowledge, please visit www.alwaysbecomedy.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Always Be Comedy - EP177 - Tony Cantwell Multi-award-winning comedy nights Always Be Comedy is finally exploiting those sweet, sweet contacts… WITH A GIG-THEMED PODCAST!  Guests curate their ideal comedy gig: who would they have open? Close? What dream moment from their gigging days would they love re-enact at this gig? And what live comedy nightmare from their past must not happen again under any circumstances? There’s this and so much more.  Go see Tony at the fringe here! - https://www.edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/tony-cantwell-you-cry-weird To get in touch with the pod, email [email protected] --------------------------- SPOILERS! MC - Graham Norton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9w2NxSPr1M Opener - Richie Bree https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bnYQH0GKu0 Middle - Flight of the Conchords https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT9WugSs9EY Closer - Rowan Atkinson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e9xM1zei3A About us:Host James Gill launched Always Be Comedy in 2011; since then the cream of the comedy world have called ABC their second home. James is a comedian and former journalist, with more than two decades of experience interviewing some of the biggest film, TV and sports stars on the planet… this has got a bit self-aggrandising but we want you to know it’s not ABC’s first rodeo.ABC’s Tim Lewis has worked at the biggest and best comedy and entertainment shows in Britain and is invariably tech-ing half the shows at the Edinburgh Festival each year (these aren’t his words, so please don’t accuse him of bragging).Always Be Comedy won Best Pro Comedy Night at the 2023, 2025 and 2026 Chortle awards, having previously won Best Comedy Show at the Joe.co.uk Awards. If you’re hungry for more ABC-related knowledge, please visit www.alwaysbecomedy.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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