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Beginnings

Andy Beckermanbeginningspod.com
We all know the stories of how creative people get into the business of creating for a living, but how did they start using their imaginations in the first place? On the Beginnings podcast, writer and performer Andy Beckerman asks well-known and on-their-way-up comedians, musicians, writers, artists and thinkers about their earliest creative acts, their formative childhood experiences, and how they've developed both creatively and emotionally over the years. Beginnings is part therapy, part philosophy and almost all fascinating (95% according to FDA studies).
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Episodes

Beginnings episode 6: Rich Fulcher

While Wrestling Team has a number of influences and loves a wide variety of comedy, there are two people above all that we really look up to: Bob Odenkirk and Rich Fulcher. Both men are extremely silly but are also very honest. Also both love yelling and swearing, which is our bread and butter.Fulcher got his start doing improv in Chicago and eventually found himself out in Britain where he hooked up with Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding and wrote and performed on The Mighty Boosh radio and TV s...

Jul 27, 201148 min

Beginnings episode 5: James Adomian

Comedy nerds might know James Adomian from Comedy Death Ray Radio where he plays a number of characters including Huell Howser, Jesse Ventura, and Christopher Hitchens. Non-comedy-nerds might know him from the latest season of Last Comic Standing or from the second Harold and Kumar film. West Coast comedy nerds might know him from the sketch group The Midnight Show. Everyone should know him from his stand-up because he's a hilarious dude. Listen as we interview him about murdering CEOs, Socrates...

Jul 27, 20111 hr 9 min

Beginnings episode 4: The Chris and Paul Show

Chris and Paul come closest to preserving the vaudeville spirit of the early 20th Century without hiding behind irony or simply being pastiches. They're joke writers plain and simple and love setting up a good gag. A couple weeks ago, they sat down with us to discuss their comedy, women, and Aunt Viv. Then, in an unrelated incident, the Wrestling Team apartment became infested with bedbugs, which we just finished dealing with, freeing us up to put out the episode. Enjoy!

Jul 27, 201148 min

Beginnings episode 3: Sean Patton

Episode three features our interview with the extremely funny stand-up Sean Patton. Sean's been a stand-up since 2001, and moved to New York in 2007. Since then, he's amassed a bottomless well of credits including a set on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Every Thursday, Sean co-hosts Comedy as a Second Language at Kabin, 9pm. Also, his eyes are pretty dreamy.

Jul 27, 20111 hr

Beginnings episode 2: The Brothers Hines

Episode two features our first interview with successful comedians: Will and Kevin Hines. Will is the associate academic supervisor at the Upright Citizens Brigade Training Center in New York City, a performer on the UCB house team The Stepfathers, and co-author of the book Get Psyched! Kevin is a teacher at UCB, a performer on the UCB house team Reuben Williams, and a writer for the UCB video team Diamonds, Wow! Both of them have been improvising since the late 1990s, and both of those previous...

Jul 27, 201158 min

Beginnings episode 1: Cory Palmer and Aaron Burdette

Wrestling Team's brand new podcast dedicated to looking at the beginnings of comedians' careers. What leads people into comedy? What's it really like starting out? How can you build a lasting career? All these questions and more will be explored. On episode one, Wrestling Team's friends Cory Palmer and Aaron Burdette talk about moving to New York to start performing comedy and the duo tests out the concept of talking about beginnings. Verdict: guilty of three counts of fun and two counts of negl...

Jul 27, 201149 min
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