This week’s guest let’s me cover a couple of bases at once, with character comedian Simon Brodkin (@SimonBrodkin) aka Lee Nelson joining me! We kick things off talking about being Jewish on stage and off in the UK, a dash of Seinfeld history and then his past career as a Doctor in Manchester. He made a clean break and decided to become a character comedian - no overlap, never done a gig, not even a play at high school - and moved to London to get it done. And he did it almost immediately, it’s a...
Apr 02, 2019•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 29
With less certainty around #Brexit than ever, we’re taking a quick break and heading back to South London - with Dane Baptiste (@DaneBaptweets)! Dane’s parents are first generation immigrants from Grenada, and we get into it with Anime, fighting trolls online, safe spaces in comedy - a bizarre interlude into knot tying knowledge - Caribbean country hierarchy and going to Grammar school surrounded by gang activity. He also tells me what he thinks about Australia as a regular on the Australian com...
Mar 25, 2019•1 hr 45 min•Ep. 28
The only country in the Brexit series that I haven’t visited… Romania! Best kept secret? Country still finding it’s feet? I got no idea, but Romanian comedian Radu Isac saves me the trip. Radu Isac (@raduisac) started performing in Romanian before transitioning into English while living in LA, a place he planned to live forever before one of the most brutal VISA issues I’ve ever heard. He grew up in Romania’s version of Hull just after the fall of the Soviet Union when it was pretty much lawless...
Mar 14, 2019•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 27
We’ve got a HUGE guest this week continuing our #Brexit theme, seriously he’s the tallest working comedian in the UK, it’s Germany’s Christian Schulte-Loh (@GermanComedian)! He’s spent a decade between the German & UK comedy scenes, and we chat about the Dutch-German football rivalry is the real one, they just let the English feel included, his past life as an erotic game-show producer, getting paid for his 2nd ever gig, winning King Gong at The Comedy Store and the peace-keeping role of the...
Mar 05, 2019•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 26
We continue our #Brexit themed chat with European comedians and I sit down with the incredibly Dutch Micky Overman (@. She says she’s very Dutch, I have no idea what that means but the cool thing is we get to find out together. She studied in Amsterdam she says that all tourists have the same story, finally tells me what the Dutch national cuisine is - think sandwiches, but incredibly plain - and that Flemish and Dutch are the SAME LANGUAGE! Who knew? Them, apparently. We also get into the Dutch...
Feb 27, 2019•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 25
March 29 is approaching which means Brexit time, so I've decided to get a bunch of my EU comedy mates around and chat to them about what it means. Kicking things off as they tend to historically, it's Greek comedian George Zacheropoulos (@GreekComedian)! He flew to the UK 3 days after 9/11, lived here for half his life as a Greek Geordie (read: in Newcastle-upon-Tyne) and now should be able to stay regardless of what happens. After wading through through a (potentially) offensive discussion abou...
Feb 20, 2019•1 hr 41 min•Ep. 24
On the podcast this week is Canadian & pale man John Hastings (@thejohnhastings). Growing up in Ottawa, the Canberra of Canada in a political family, he’s called the London home for the last 6 years but now he’s giving it a red hot go in LA. Come listen to why he left the UK (hint: it destroyed him). We talk about drink driving, Brexit, a bit of world history, kangaroos, and Dan doesn’t know where celebrities are from again. He is the most fired up about Brexit out of any guest so far so if ...
Feb 12, 2019•1 hr 45 min•Ep. 23
The second part is here! Phil Nichol's chat is turning to Corky and the Juice Pigs and being the next big thing in LA. That's right, he was the toast of Las Angeles and on MadTV. Phil Nichol (@philnichol) kicked things off with a punk rock approach to comedy. Turning up to Just For Laughs and Melbourne International Comedy Festival without a show, smashing it on the street and then ending up on TV with sell-out shows. Not a bad effort. The chat is a little heavy on the comedy, but Phil's had suc...
Feb 08, 2019•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 22
Oh my goodness it's an episode on time, and our very first two part episode because the guest is Canada's Phil Nichol! Phil Nichol (@PhilNichol) was born in Scotland, he grew up in Canada, overcame a stutter to become a member of one of the most successful comedy bands in the world - Corky and the Juice Pigs. But the band's in Part 2, for the minute we talk about his theatre trained voice, trying to impress incredibly religious parents and Canadian & Australian place names. Mores vs. Morals ...
Feb 05, 2019•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 21
Sorry for the delay, I've been a bit sick but this episode is worth the wait... ADAM BLOOM! Adam (@adambloomie2) is a veteran of the UK comedy circuit & television for the last 25 years who's never stopped evolving his act, his joke writing is legendary and he's basically an encyclopaedia of comedy wisdom. I got him on because he grew up in the suburbs of London, moved to Soho, then to Green Park and finally to Zone 7 - before getting back in the mix in Crouch End. He's the first comedian I'...
Feb 03, 2019•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 20
Jerk Offs, sorry about the delay on this I've been on the road in Europe. As a special treat, here's a chat I had with my good friend Pierre Noveille (@pierrenovellie)! Pierre was supposed to be a regular host on this podcast before he got too busy crushing it, so this is a little excerpt from our second episode where he talks all about class. That's right, CLASS! Poly vs. Posh, living in the Tower of London, we touch on it all the time but this is still the most extensive chat I've had about it...
Jan 25, 2019•42 min•Ep. 19
Australia's Ro Campbell (@rocampbellcomic) comes on the podcast - with his notes - to bully me about not watching enough Aussie cinema. The 90’s as the highpoint of English culture, Australia’s history of race riots, teaching English in Nepal, being a famous sign-spinner in Edinburgh, eating with Dave Grohl as a roadie and his Mum, becoming Scottish Comedian of the Year when you’re not Scottish, playing pranks on tour with Little Britain and doing comedy in 38 different countries. You can read R...
Jan 16, 2019•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 18
On the podcast this week is Welsh husband, DILF and funny boy Robin Morgan (@robinjaymorgan)! For those of you who don’t know, I like hating Wales - so do many English people - so I got the most likeable person I could find to sell it to me. I talk to Robin about how he should be Christian, his parents meeting in Brighton, getting into comedy through tending bar at a comedy club, and plenty of good Welsh stuff (naming celebrities, national history, how they fit into the UK, Family Guy's Welsh ra...
Jan 07, 2019•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 17
Happy 2019 to everybody, we'll call this a soft open as it's just a quick chat this week before we get back to it on Monday with a guest and more UK talk. I thought after year it's probably worth sitting down and having a chat about what's changed and what hasn't after living in London for a full year. It's a bit of ramble, but I manage to get through some thoughts on: accents, the food, the weather, drinking culture, London itself and a couple of things guests have said that I've taken to heart...
Jan 04, 2019•32 min•Ep. 16
Merry Christmas JerkOffs, or however you celebrated the holiday. Sorry for the delay but we're back with a banger. Jarred Christmas (@jarredchristmas) joins me, a good name for a good man. One of the first comedians from New Zealand to move to the UK, seen all over the TV and live circuit, he’s one of the good guys and a pleasure to chat to about how it used to be moving over here. He kicks off with a quick review of Aquaman (hint: he didn’t buy it), then talks his Dad never taking a sick day, h...
Dec 28, 2018•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 15
Queen of the Geordie Shore, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne’s favourite daughter, Lauren Pattison (@laurenpattison). A current London resident planning her escape, despite having fallen for a London fella - she’s one of the fastest rising comedians in the UK, have a listen. Lauren and I cover all the hot button topics issues such as: Australians loving Geordie Shore, bouncers at Gregg’s, calling people darling to be polite, budgeting, university class warfare, a nursery in her high school, budgeting, and ho...
Dec 17, 2018•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 14
On #TheUnionJackOff this week we’ve got half Bangladeshi, half Pakistani, formerly Muslim and all-London Eshaan Akbar (@eshaanakbar). Who's more exotic to rural British comedy audiences? Eshaan, definitely. First off Dan gets schooled on how Bangladesh's independence from Pakistan was almost entirely ignored by the media because the USA was too busy fighting Communism in Vietnam. [The wars do overlap, even though we decide they don't on the podcast - sorry!] Then we get stuck in: auditioning for...
Dec 10, 2018•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 13
This week's episode in recorded live in THE TOWER OF LONDON because our guest Tom Houghton lives there. Seriously, just ask him. He's a stand-up comedian, officially known as The Honourable Tom Houghton (@HonourableTom) whose Dad has been knighted... twice. We talk about The Tower of London, living in The Queen's House, trying to order take-out when you live across a moat and two battle gates, Queen's Guard vs Beefeaters, the noble Turducken, going through kidnapping training and having no chanc...
Dec 03, 2018•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 12
Oh boy it's a hot one this week. Jerk Offs you're gonna bloody love it, I'm chatting with Scotland's Mark Nelson about all things Braveheart (he brings it up a few times). Mark Nelson (@marknelsoncomic) is one of the great dudes of comedy, he's also gone a bit viral with The News at 3. He's a comedian, father and currently lives in Glasgow and we chat about Rangers vs Celtic, coming from a Tory voting part of Scotland, Gaelic schools and why his mates get up at 4am to start drinking. There's a c...
Nov 26, 2018•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 11
Episode 10 is here featuring a guest all the way from Barbados... Nico Yearwood! It's 5 degrees in London today, so I really need to know why he moved here. Nico (@neeksman) is regular on the UK circuit, and resident host at Top Secret Comedy Club in London, it was nice to catch up with him and talk about being bored enough to move countries, why he supports teams in the World Cup, standing up to youths and why he finds dancing utterly ridiculous. Grab Nico on Instagram & Instagram @neeksman...
Nov 20, 2018•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 10
Sorry for the delay! I've been on many forms on transport getting back to the UK, but it'll be every Monday from next week. We're rounding out Australia month with Kyle Legacy (@thelegacylife)! He's originally from Liverpool, is a permanent resident of Australia and also manages to spend about 3 months a year in the USA. He's a professional couch surfer who plays pick up basketball and comperes comedy clubs & festivals around the world. We talk about why he lives his best life in Perth, Summ...
Nov 15, 2018•55 min•Ep. 9
Sorry for the delay, I was trying to find an English comedian who lives in Sydney but realised there wasn't any. Don't worry though, we've got Miles Ross (@MilesTheRoss)! Born in London, and then growing up in a house in Sussex built in 1220. Yep. Doesn't get more English than that. Miles isn't a stand-up comedian, he's an E-Sports Commentator for Blizzard, regularly in the US at live events and on Channel 7's Good Game. Definitely not what you'd expect from someone who calls Sydney home. We tal...
Nov 06, 2018•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 8
Another episode coming straight from Sydney Australia, featuring Sydney's own Alice Fraser (@aliterative). A frequent guest on The Bugle, multiple award-winner and television appear, she stopped by on her busy schedule to tell me about starting the UK at Cambridge University. I chat to Alice about Tall Poppy syndrome, servant culture, how Australia turned from giant prison to law-abiding and fluid dynamics - because who doesn't want to know more about fluid dynamics? She's a Burmese Buddhist who...
Oct 29, 2018•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 7
We're kicking off Australia month at The Union Jack Off. Daniel Muggleton (@danmuggleton) is back in Australia doing shows so he's speaking to fellow Sydney-London transplant Ray Badran! Ray Badran (@RayBadran) is a pleasure seeker and one of the most observant people you'll ever meet which is pretty obvious when talks through the English supermarket hierarchy, Subway sandwiches and leaving a Tipperoo. Honestly, I know it seems like product placement but that's just how he thinks. We talk about ...
Oct 22, 2018•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 6
We're going back to South Africa with Loyiso Gola (@loyisogola). Emmy-nominated, award-winning, world touring and very funny, he's bringing the wisdom on this episode after he's finished eating. He tells me why you should buy a house near a McDonald's, why Argentina feels like a colony and why Loyiso has figured out that life isn't about happiness. I get schooled on being too English with my false modesty, but maintain that's an Australian thing. It's a good chat with a man who really thinks abo...
Oct 15, 2018•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 5
I sat down with Malaysian Sensation Nigel Ng, the winner of the Amused Moose 2016 Laugh Off, to talk about coming from Asia to the UK. Malaysia is a Commonwealth country but do they still have the Queen on everything and drive on the left? We talk about having 2 jobs, Crazy Rich Asians, how if he wants to be poor he'd be poor at home, being the only person studying Engineering and Philosophy at university and why instead of donating to charity you should just buy fake Nikes. I loved this chat, N...
Oct 08, 2018•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 4
I caught up with former London resident Dylan Gott (@dylangott) to figure out why he left. Dylan's from Toronto in Canada, and lived in the UK for just over 2 years before retreating back home with his wife. He told me why London's the best live comedy scene in the world, about bumping into people and not fighting them, and how weird it is that English people who live in the country are normal people. Dylan Gott's back headlining Yuk Yuks all around Canada, but he returns to the UK in May 2019. ...
Sep 30, 2018•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 3
It's the second episode and Daniel's playing an away game today, chatting with Adam Rowe in his flat in West Derby, Liverpool. I know Liverpool's not a Commonwealth country but it's one of the most parochial parts of England and definitely has its own personality - so there's plenty to learn. Adam's a great stand-up comic who can be found headlining clubs all across the UK on any given weekend, he's from a working class background and takes pride in the fact he's considered a hard-working comedi...
Sep 23, 2018•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 2
Daniel sits down for the first episode of The Union Jack Off with Pierre Novellie. Originally from South Africa, he grew up on the Isle of Man and has a degree from Cambridge University. We talk imperial measurements, accents too strong for children and why Saffers feel at home in Perth. Pierre Novellie (@pierrenovellie) performs all over the UK and writes for The Mash Report. Here's a clip of his stand-up so you can see how big he is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUiR97qo6sU Daniel Muggleton...
Sep 16, 2018•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 1
