The Comedy Writers Group – Details, episodes & analysis

Adam Bloom, author of Finding Your Comic Genius, is my guest this week. Adam is a comedian with thirty years of experience and his book on writing and performing stand-up. His book, released in 2023, has become a hit among comedians so I was eager to find out the story behind its author.

We chat about how Adam came to write the book, self-publishing, touring, networking, and more. We also have some great listener submitted questions too.

Buy the book here.

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Let's run some brand new jokes with special guests Lauren Edwards and Nicolette Minster. Lauren and Nicolette are brilliant stand-up comedians with shows coming up at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival (they're also members of the CWG - what a brag.)

We chat about coming to stand-up comedy "a little later" in life before getting stuck into workshopping some brand new material from the three of us. Expect farts, robots, and phantoms.

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I'm joined by special guests Sonia Di Iorio and Samuel Gebreselassie for a group workshop. We chat about university initiations, how to kick off a story, inheritance, the poetry in comedy, writing on stage, and we dig into running comedy rooms.

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 The brilliant Dave Warneke is our guest this week! Dave is the co-host of the incredibly popular podcast Do Go On along with being an accomplished comedian, writer, musician, and producer.

I chat to Dave about how he found himself in the world of comedy and how it led to building a podcast empire. We tackle musical comedy and concept shows.

Find Dave's podcasts Do Go On and Book Cheat where ever you get your podcasts.

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We've hit 100 episodes so we marked the occasion with a special live edition of the podcast with special guest Lizzy Hoo. Featuring a live listener joke submission by Oliver Hunter.

Lizzy talks Harry Potter lego and I chat about overly masculine hairdressers. We also talk about self-tapes, The Office Australia, and the festival cycle.

Also featuring cameos from Thom, Justin, Ainslie, and Rusty.

Thanks to everyone who came along and The Theory Bar for hosting us.

Special thanks to Bren for producing the episode.

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The sensational Hannah Camilleri is on the podcast this week. I chat to the Pinter Prize winner about her background of acting and clown training, and how it led to creating the smash-hit Lolly Bag (directed by Dylan Murphy.)

I was such a huge fan of her show so it was a delight to get to talk to her all about it. We discuss Gaulier, creating characters, international touring and more.

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Comedian, writer, presenter, Jennifer Wong, is our guest on this week's episode of The Comedy Writers Group podcast. We chat about her new book Chopsticks or Fork co-written by Lin Jie Kong.

We discuss Jennifer's decades of experience and how she opened doors along the way. We talk Good News Week, Rove, radio, and puns!

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This week I'm joined by director Charlotte George and actor Miriam Glaser. We chat all about their new web series Buried, which they co-wrote and developed together. We discuss funding, stunt work, blood continuity, and most importantly, how to get stuff made.

You can watch Buried on Youtube.

You can follow the director Charlotte on instagram.

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The incredible Gabbi Bolt is on the podcast this week! You may have seen Gabbi on The Weekly, Spicks & Specks, and Question Everything. We chat about how Gabbi went viral during lockdown, leading to opportunities on a path she never expected to go down.

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