Ken Cheng, Jobseekers & Jo Brand

Summary: <p>This week on the Comedy Cast Jo Brand is our Legend of Comedy, we have English stand-up comedian Ken Cheng on to speak about his Edinburgh Fringe Show, Best Dad Ever, Irish punk band Jobseekers tell us all about why punk is so important and myself and Seamus speak about baby poo and why Bill Cosby is a pr!ck.</p> <audio class="wp-audio-shortcode" id="audio-659-56" style="width: 100%;"><a href="http://thecomedycast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Ken-Cheng-Jobseekers-Jo-Brand.mp3">https://thecomedycast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Ken-Cheng-Jobseekers-Jo-Brand.mp3</a></audio> <h3>Comedy Podcast</h3> <p>Hello and welcome back to a brand new episode of The Comedy Cast, comedy podcast. We kick off the show in dark form, we delve straight into why some comedians are allowed make dark jokes about horrible things and why someone thought it was a good idea to give Kevin James a comedy special.</p> <p>This gets us talking about all of the new plethora of Netflix comedy specials out there and even though there are some great ones there’s an awful amount of crap out there too and we’re looking at you America, we’re blaming you for making bad comedians famous. We speak about some of the good ones out there and y’know, it’s kind of like this, the more popular something is the worse it’s going to be. Have a look at some of the names you don’t know and you’ll find the odd gem.</p> <p>This week sees the release of the Leaving Cert and A Level results in the UK, so we speak about our experiences of finishing secondary school, or high school if you must and we find out one of the lads did very badly, the other one didn’t do it at all. And here’s the bit where we say you don’t need a Leaving Cert. And we’re not going to write that, coz really nobody cares about your results, move on. Your exam results for your memory-based tests mean very little in the grand old scheme of things.</p> <h3>Funny Podcast</h3> <p>We speak about the pressure young people find themselves under now with exams and this new strange phenomenon of children graduating from classes in primary and secondary school between the years. What the bejaysus is that all about?</p> <p>Baby poo is the next topic, Spud shares a moment that all parents must go through, it can be a harrowing experience for some, it’s ones of these things most people are a little too uncomfortable to speak about but you know us, we’re not too shy to speak about what the dweebs consider taboo.</p> <h3>Ken Cheng Interview</h3> <p>Our comedy guest this week is English stand-up comedian <a href="https://twitter.com/kenchengcomedy?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ken Cheng</a>. Ken was the winner of last year’s Dave Joke of the Fringe Award 2017. Ken is obviously up at this year’s Fringe Festival in Edinburgh again so we speak about his new show, Best Dad Ever. We also speak about how weird it is to have your entire show boiled down to one single sentence of a joke and judged on that. Saying that though, it’s still a pretty cool thing to win. Ken’s show is based on his unconventional relationship with his parents so we speak a little about that without giving the show away.  We also speak about why you should still do spots even when doing a full solo show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and why he used to write science fiction about his stuffed toys as a child.</p> <p>We also speak about Ken being a former professional poker player and his flirtation with studying mathematics when younger. And finally we speak about some of the opportunities Ken has had thanks to last year’s success at the Fringe and why with radio you can be a bit more experimental than with television.</p> <p>You can get tickets for Ken Cheng’s Edinburgh Fringe Show <a href="https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/ken-cheng-best-dad-ever" target="_blank" rel="noopener">he</a></p>