Luca Cupani, Magdalena Gornik & Richard Pryor

Summary: <p>On the Comedy Cast this week we speak to Italian stand-up comedian Luca Cupani about his run at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Aggy Fox joins us for our Legends of Comedy section where we speak about Richard Pryor. We also speak to post-rock band Magdalena Gornik about why postrock is so awesome and myself and Seamus we go through the 10 Best Jokes of the Edinburgh Fringe, pet deaths and sucky sitcoms.</p> <audio class="wp-audio-shortcode" id="audio-667-55" style="width: 100%;"><a href="http://thecomedycast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Luca-Cupani-Magdalena-Gornik-Richard-Pryor.mp3">https://thecomedycast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Luca-Cupani-Magdalena-Gornik-Richard-Pryor.mp3</a></audio> <h3>Comedy Podcast</h3> <p>First up on The Comedy Cast this week we speak about the untimely death of Spud’s dog, Rambo, not to get too sad about it but sure y’know yourself it’s always sad when a pet dies. We speak about just how bad vets can be, when you see a couple of different vets and they say different things who are you supposed to believe and maybe they need to go back to failed doctor school, sorry, veterinary school. We do find some fun in it though, thanks to the dog dying Spud is told that he’s ripe for something like Britain’s Got Talent now that he has a tragic story to go with his talent.</p> <p>We have a chat about the strange viral videos of people recording their pets dying. Why do people make these and why do people watch these? Surely watching stuff like that on the internet cannot be good for you, can it? And then there’s videos of animal acting like other animals, what in the name of Jaysus is that all about? Can animals have split personality disorders, split species disorder, is that even a thing?</p> <p>Spud got some mail during the week about the lads’ comments on female legends of comedy, so to make amends he gives out a list of 10 of the best performing female comedians who are working on the circuit now.</p> <h3>Luca Cupani Comedian</h3> <p>Next up we have our first comedy guest, we have Italian stand-up comedians <a href="https://twitter.com/lucacupani" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Luca Cupani</a>, we speak about his Edinburgh Fringe Festival show <a href="https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/luca-cupani-god-digger" target="_blank" rel="noopener">God Digger</a>. We speak a little about the show of course, the main theme being how his Catholicism sometimes doesn’t match up with his plans for life and al the pondering that comes from that. We speak about Luca’s hypochondria, how stand-up comedy is a new phenomenon in his homeland, why Italians are so good at assimilating when emigrating and why the Bible has four gospels, four versions of the same story, but different.</p> <p>We back to Spud and Seamus then and the boys sink their teeth into the a post Spud found of the 100 Best Sitcoms in the World, we’re going to be coming back to this over the next few week. You can read it <a href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-greatest-sitcoms-in-television-history" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>. This week we go from 90-100 and it makes for dire reading. How can Blackadder be number 100 and there’s some awful dross in there. Why are sitcoms so bad?</p> <p>Next up, the 10 Best Jokes of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival we just released prior to recording to we text them, it doesn’t go well, they’re not very good and it’s a bit weird to have a stand-up comedian’s full set distilled into one single joke. And what’s worse is just how bad the Top 10 are.</p> <h3>Magdalena Gornik</h3> <p>Our musical guest this week is <a href="https://magdalena.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Magdalena Gornik</a>, a post rock band with a very Polish name. However, the story of where the name comes from has nothing to do wi</p>