Sketch Comedy Podcast Show

“You Were Born for This Role” with Nikki Smith

Aug 13 • 33 min

“That person is a natural” is the thing you want to say when you are casting someone into a role. It is best when it is effortless, when you can’t tell the person from the role they are playing. That’s what you want as a casting director… unless you are…

Conversation with Nikki Smith | Improvisor, Not-Good Advice Giver and Suicide Preventer

Aug 6 • 40 min

This episode’s guest was so much fun to talk to. Nikki Smith is an improvisor, theater director, gives really bad advice on life (http://bit.ly/SCPSnikkitellsyou), plays the accordion (badly) and is now helping people who are having a hard time in life…

“Ted Tudor’s Gallant Galloping Horse Contessa’s First Time on a Movie Set” with David Trotter and Tripp Fuller

Jul 30 • 26 min

It is hard not to get excited by the glitz and the glamor of a movie set. There are the cameras, which you know are capturing the magic happening in front of them, there are the stars prepping for their craft, there are the film crew making sure…

Conversation with David Trotter and Tripp Fuller | Progressive Christians and Creators of “The Road to Edmond” Movie

Jul 23 • 49 min

I’m not going to lie, I had red flags. I watched “The Road to Edmond” and realized that it was a Christian movie about 15 minutes in. Let’s face it, I am a heathen and it’s a little intimidating when one is facing two theologians, one of which has a “Dr.”…

“Hey Dude, Unleash Your Inner Feminist, Yo!” with Tammy Leitzel

Jul 9 • 16 min

We are truly embarking on a new path for the human race. At no time in our history has there been an opportunity for closing the gender and race gaps, for creating an environment of love and peace and equality… wait, who is president again? Well, shoot……

Conversation with Tammy Leitzel | Former Amish Stripper*

Jul 2 • 33 min

Okay, admittedly, the description of this guest is a little misleading. Tammy Leitzel is a former Mennonite, not Amish (and not really that connected), and she has performed stripping since that time, not during that time. Also, she was never a Mennonite…

“Equal X-portunity” with Miles Stokes

Jun 25 • 36 min

Diversity is good. In fact, there are few times that having diversity is really bad. It’s good in your diet, to keep things working properly, it is good in education so that people can learn different things, it is good in superhero teams, because…

Conversation with Miles Stokes | X-plainer of X-things

Jun 18 • 38 min

Miles is one half, along with Jay Edidin, of the outstanding “Jay and Miles X-plain the X-men” podcast which explores the ins and outs of the increasingly convoluted and incredibly hard-to-follow X-Men comic book universe. Since Marvel and DC are…

“It’s a Marathon Production” with Nate Dern

Jun 11 • 14 min

Twenty-six grueling miles of body punishment and for what? Glory? Accomplishment? Awesome selfies? Who knows what it is about marathons that attract us, but we love the spectacle of watching people in incredible shape make their bodies perform at their…

Conversation with Nate Dern | Host of Comedy Central’s “Every Damn Day”

Jun 4 • 36 min

Remember that show called “Beauty and the Geek” where they took incredibly hot but maybe not mentally fit women and incredibly geeky and not-necessarily socially amicable men and put them in the same house together to see how they interacted and offered a…

Catching Up with gough | New movie out now! “A Day in the Life of a Personal Trainer”

May 31 • 13 min

gough, the world’s first blind filmmaker, has just released a new movie that exposes the seedy underbelly of the life of personal trainers… although he may not want to expose too much, they are in really good shape! We talk about filming, the stars…

“The Blech Files” with Shannon Milliman

May 28 • 27 min

Watch the sketch on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/rp9Rr1-lc2M Mysteries. We love them because they give us something our human minds crave… solutions. We love movies and television that explores mysteries, crime mysteries, medical mysteries, alien…

Conversation with Shannon Milliman | Failed Supernova and Sensible Job Owner

May 21 • 42 min

Watch on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/llm5i3NNyw4 What exactly is a Failed Supernova? Well, a supernova is when a star collapses and releases all of it’s stored energy outward disintegrating everything in its event horizon… so being a failed supernova…

Catching Up with Mike Phirman | New Album “Songs to Sing at Children” Out Today!

May 17 • 14 min

Watch the interview on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/NBZyiT6f-T0 Mike Phirman was graciously on episode 31, and although I surprised him with doing improv on the spot it is one of the most popular episodes of the show! Even more surprisingly, Mike has…

“Red Ring Royalty” with Joseph “Zombie” Zuko

May 14 • 30 min

Watch the sketch on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/PMt2f6pAkIM The next world war is not going to be the US vs. North Korea, or the US vs. Russia, or the US vs… wait a second, are we the problem? Well, whatever, it isn't going to be global powers, it will…

Conversation with Joseph “Zombie” Zuko… Again! | Zombie Author

May 8 • 49 min

Watch it on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/gvC23hCp_AM Joseph “Zombie” Zuko is the author of “The Infected” series of novels that tell of the exploits of Jim, his wife Karen, and a very large cast of characters in the days after the zombies attack. I know…

“Forward Thinking In France” with Sébastien Roger de Nuñez | Multi-Multi Lingual Improvisor

May 1 • 23 min

Watch the sketch on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/k45YDY38G74 Language is tricky. Something said in one language might have the intention of sounding like something else in another language, but the subtleties of each word do not always translate from…

Conversation with Sébastien Roger de Nuñez | Multi-Multi Lingual Improvisor

Apr 2 • 53 min

You can actually watch the conversation on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/Mvrd09uwSkU This episode features someone who can speak 12 languages and counting. That’s a pretty amazing feat, especially since most of the people I know can’t not even complete…

“Come On Ride The Train” with Ronny Pascale | Poop emoji and Associate Artistic Director of The People’s Improv Theater

Mar 12 • 75 min

Watch the sketch on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/embed/KroQgzw62y0 Ronny Pascale has been bi-coastal and is really focused on poop. I don’t know why those two things are connected, or why this makes Ronny interesting, but it was a fun…

“Hickory, Dickory, Dock” with Tony Starlight | Entertainer, Nightclub Owner, Lives on a Houseboat

Jan 21 • 74 min

Take a look on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/C_F3QDaYCyI Tony Starlight is no stranger to anyone who lives in Portland, OR. His name is synonymous with musical dinner theater and entertainment, an art form that is incredibly relevant yet is not terribly…

“Positivity Mindset Hour“ with Ash Brown | Entertainer, Entrepreneur, Podcaster, and Very Timely

Jan 7 • 54 min

Listen to just the sketch here on YouTube!: https://youtu.be/yy_EfThuk6c Beyond the beautiful exterior lies the incredibly talented and immensely interesting Ash Brown. Ash lives in Atlanta and does so many things I couldn’t possibly list all of them…

“Welcome to Australia?” with gough | The World’s First Blind Filmmaker

Dec 19, 2017 • 54 min

Watch the sketch on YouTube!: https://youtu.be/IXyjpXDXs7A gough. No, I don’t have a cold, that is the name of this week’s guest. gough is a world-touring comedian, an author and an accomplished filmmaker. Where that would make most people pretty…

“Where’s the Box?” with Colin Gray | Creator of The Podcast Host Academy

Nov 27, 2017 • 64 min

Watch the sketch on YouTube!: https://youtu.be/KRcU5643A1k Colin Gray can’t help himself, he tends to get far too into whatever interests him. Sometimes it’s craft beer, sometimes it’s mountain biking, but one of them, listening to podcasts, led to Colin…

“(Maybe Not Your) Fantasy Camp” with Frank Cardillo | Award-Winning Improvisor and Writer

Nov 13, 2017 • 47 min

Watch the sketch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/JCTJvfcjl8w Frank Cardillo likes to perform in front of people and have them laugh at him… intentionally. Frank has been hard at work doing comedy, improv and theater for the last two decades, including Super…

“The Creature and These Whack Baffoons” with Ben Fancher | Indie Horror Movie Producer and Director

Nov 6, 2017 • 50 min

Watch the sketch on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/xrx4diScYr8 Have you ever had that dream that you wanted to direct and write the movie that you always wanted to watch? I bet you have, you’ve imagined it, but you haven’t done a single thing to get it…

“Father Time” with Jason Marshall | Comedian and Podcaster of the “We Don’t Have Cookies” Podcast

Oct 29, 2017 • 70 min

Watch the sketch on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/ELF8l-1NFYA Jason Marshall has stories. On his podcast “We Don’t Have Cookies” he talks with guests each week about strange news stories from around the world and life in general with guest segments from…

“Book of Love” with Eric Ackerson | VP of Marketing in Consumer Electronics

Oct 23, 2017 • 107 min

This week’s guest on the show is someone who has seen me, literally, at my worst. Eric Ackerson is someone I met in the mid-90s and we spent a great deal of time during these very formative years. Drinking formative years, so that meant that there was a…

“Deep Driving Lesson” with Rebecca Love | Adult Film Actress and Host of the “Talking Dirty” Podcast

Oct 15, 2017 • 56 min

Watch the ENHANCED Version of the sketch on YouTube Here: https://youtu.be/ndzS5vZjBKs You have, no doubt, seen her acting skills in such movies as “Bikini Jones and the Temple of Eros”, “Cleavagefield” and “The Hills Have Thighs”. You haven’t? Are you…

“Don’t Forget to Swipe” with Thilo S. | Social Engineer

Oct 8, 2017 • 72 min

Thilo is someone that I happened to meet on a social media app called Shapr, which is a version of Tinder that focuses on business connections and not hook-ups, although I think I’ve had more luck finding dates on Shapr. Thilo is a social coach that helps…

“Custom Job” with Sean McCabe | Author and Inspirational Entrepreneur

Oct 1, 2017 • 79 min

I first became exposed to this week’s guest, Sean McCabe, through his website [seanwes.com] one night while searching for something to keep me from just quitting this show. I needed a boost, and after searching around on the web, Sean’s website came up…

“Oh, I Get It… Because I’m Green” with Edward Noil | Cosplayer Extraordinaire and Podcaster

Sep 24, 2017 • 60 min

Edward Noil is a fellow podcaster, independent wrestler and an amazing cosplayer. He never misses a con and never misses a chance to enthusiastically talk about his favorite things… which just so happen to be things that you would find at a conference…

“Strike That Pose” with Kara Cooper | Professional Photographer and Author

Sep 17, 2017 • 33 min

My friend Kara Cooper joins the podcast. She is a photographer who does all sorts of really great pictures: wedding pictures, professional head shots, nudes. Lots of nudes. In fact, she has a book of nudes! It has a happy ending! Kara’s book is actually…

“Take Me To Your Boy Band Leader” with Mike Phirman | Musician and Comedian

Sep 3, 2017 • 48 min

Mike Phirman is a fantastic songwriter of comedy music for kids (not kids music, HUGE distinction. Seriously). I have been a fan of Mike’s since I heard “American Dinosaur” and “Anything” with his band “Hard ’n Phirm” with Chris Hardwick, and saw him…

“Sultry Single Radio Hour” with Donal Connolly | Host of “Behave Yourself” and Scholar

Apr 9, 2017 • 59 min

Watch the sketch on YouTuber here!: Humans do all sorts of weird things, which is why this week’s guest, Donal Connolly, creates his podcast “Behave Yourself” (https://itun.es/gb/RZRQhb.c ) to get them all figured out. With a little bit of psychology,…

“Take Me to Church” with Jimmy Asbell | Author and more than a Survivor… a Thriver!

Feb 26, 2017 • 55 min

Watch the sketch on YouTuber here!: Let me tell you about Jim Asbell. Not only is Jim one of the best people I ever had the pleasure to work with, he saved my tookus more than once and helped me realize I was probably working in the wrong place, but he is…

“I Got That New-Time Religion” with Jim Greenfield | Host of Conservative Talk Show “The Decline and Fall of America”

Feb 19, 2017 • 64 min

Watch the sketch on YouTuber here!: Stuart invites the nororious radio host Jim Greenfield onto the podcast. Jim has been fired from the radio 7 times, which is the same amount of times that Rush Limbaugh has been fired, the biggest difference is that…

“We Can Manage Our Way Through This” with The Sprocket Podcast | Portland’s own Podcast about Bikes and Everything Else!

Feb 12, 2017 • 74 min

Watch the sketch on YouTube here!: The Sprocket Podcast (@SprocketPodcast) consists of Brock (@brockmon) and Aaron (@RdHareAmngHrses, Aaron is a bike in this… he was not very bike-like when we met, but maybe he was in disguise) . The Sprocket Podcast is a…

“It’s All in the Bag” with Katie BBB | You would never guess what she does in real-life.

Feb 5, 2017 • 71 min

Watch the sketch on YouTube here!: Stuart invites his friend Katie BBB to the show and… holy shit it turns out great! We solve swamp ass, discuss artificial intelligence and how pissed off it will be when it awakens and realizes how much we have sexually…

“Wanna Join a Band?” With Aaron Ryder | Sex-positive and the most energetic person… ever!

Jan 22, 2017 • 70 min

Watch the sketch on YouTube here!: This week, Stuart invites his friend Aaron Ryder onto the show because Aaron Ryder is unique. Unique in a way that is delightful and refreshing. He wears two different shoes all the time. He wears a necktie regardless of…

“Foreign Culinary Delight” with TJ Wichman | World Traveler

Jan 15, 2017 • 101 min

Watch the sketch on YouTube here!: Stuart welcomes his friend and world traveler TJ Wichman onto the show. In his first meeting of TJ, Stuart knew that TJ was an interesting guy and he was not wrong. TJ has spent a lot of time circling the globe, knows a…

“Totally Appropriate Audition” with Laura Welsh | Actress and Director

Jan 8, 2017 • 59 min

Watch the sketch on YouTube here!: This week brings the lovely and talented and… okay, to be honest Stuart has a little bit of a crush on this week’s guest. Here’s the story: after the episode with Kelly Guimont, who is also quite amazing, Laura Welsh…

“There is No Cure” with Alisha Holland | Co-Creator of “Sketch Comedy Podcast Show”

Jan 1, 2017 • 71 min

Watch the sketch on YouTube here!: Alisha comes back and does a recap of 2016. We talk about people dying and how Stuart thinks it’s kind of ridiculous that people get all worked up about when someone dies. The sketch reflects how ridiculous our obsession…

“Request for Leave” with Tom Flynn | Surprise guest and incredibly interesting!

Dec 18, 2016 • 26 min

Watch the sketch on YouTube here!: This was an interesting episode! What makes it interesting? Well, it was the first time Sketch Comedy Podcast Show made it onto the radio (okay, the first and only time), the final product was played at a fundraiser in…

“Nostalgia for Christmas” with Joseph “Zombie” Zuko | Author of “The Infected” Series of Books

Dec 11, 2016 • 74 min

Watch the sketch on YouTube here!: You know what you need in the middle of the summer? More Christmas! This week’s guest is Joe Zuko, who is an increasingly popular author of “The Infected” series of books (which is, unlike so many other of the other…

“Steamy Conversation” with Kris Keppeler | Host of the “Does This Happen To You?” Podcast

Dec 4, 2016 • 64 min

Watch the sketch on YouTube here!: Fellow podcaster and #PodernFamily member Kris Keppeler joins me in recording. Kris has a show called “Does This Happen To You?” where she explores the bizarre ways of getting through your day. On the show she reads…

“Can I Interest You In a Mattress?” with Super Fan Bob | The Biggest Fan of the Podcast

Nov 27, 2016 • 68 min

Watch the sketch on YouTube here!: Super Fan Bob joins Stuart for this episode. Bob Rhodes is a friend of Stuart’s in the real world and they both work in the same industry… you probably won’t be able to guess what industry that is. Bob used to be…

“(De)Motivational Speaker” with Dave Bullis | Host of the Film-Making Podcast “The Dave Bullis Show”

Nov 13, 2016 • 60 min

Watch the sketch on YouTube here!: Dave Bullis (@Dave_Bullis) of the, get this, “Dave Bullis Podcast” (DaveBullis.Com). I know! How amazing that he happens to host a podcast that has HIS NAME IN THE TITLE! That’s what I call Serendipity… which I would…

“Inside a Record Store Circa 1992” with Steve Cox | Lawyer and Theater Director

Oct 30, 2016 • 71 min

Watch the sketch on YouTube here!: Hey Everyone! The guest this week is my friend Steve Cox, who is a lawyer fighting for people’s living places during the day and is a playwright, comedian, producer and author during the evening. He is just finishing up…

“Everyone Loves the Goonies!” with Kelly Guimont | Tech Journalist and Fellow Podcaster on “The Aftershow”

Oct 23, 2016 • 89 min

Listen to the sketch on YouTube here!: Hey Everyone! This week’s episode features Kelly Guimont (@verso) who is a tech journalist, fellow podcaster and also one of the heads of an organization that I absolutely adore: App Camp for Girls. App Camp is a…

“DADvice” with Ken Hansen | Director of Youth Social Programs

Oct 9, 2016 • 63 min

Listen to the sketch on YouTube here!: Hey Everyone! This week I invite a friend of a friend onto the show, Ken Hanson. Ken started having children REALLY EARLY in life, so all of his adult life he has been dealing with his own kids (and exes) as well as…

“This Debate is Masterful” with Margaret and Ali | Podcast Hosts of the “I Can’t Even” Podcast

Oct 2, 2016 • 61 min

Listen to the sketch on YouTube here!: Hey Everybody! This week’s episode is a threesome! Now that I have your attention, this episode features myself as well as Ali (@ali) and Margaret (@marg) of the “I Can’t Even” podcast, the show that discusses…

“I Dream of India” with Amber Peeler | Stuart’s Daughter and fan of “The Walking Dead”

Sep 25, 2016 • 61 min

Listen to the sketch on YouTube!: Hey Everyone! This episode was one of the most special and was ultimately one of the most frustrating episodes I ever recorded. After living on a farm in an intended community my daughter came back and had really opened…

“The BEST Accommodations” with Adelaide | The Most Interesting Person In The World

Sep 18, 2016 • 63 min

Listen to the sketch on YouTube here!: https://www.youtube.com/embed/lh-RE9fHc8s Hey Everybody! Thanks for tuning in! Maybe you even did it from TuneIn Radio, which is great because you can tell Alexa that you want to hear our show just by asking for it!…

“THOSE Two Dads” with S. Anthony Thomas | Comedian and Host of the “S. Anthony Says…” Podcast

Sep 4, 2016 • 88 min

Listen to the sketch on YouTube here!: https://www.youtube.com/embed/MhR0fdDrKPE Hey Everyone! This week has one of my personal favorite podcasters on the show: S. Anthony Thomas. His show “S. Anthony Says…” is one of the funniest, smartest and rawest…

“It’s All In The Arm” with Josh McCullough | Co-Host of the “Shotgun and Scotch” Podcast

Aug 28, 2016 • 91 min

Listen to the sketch on YouTube here!: https://www.youtube.com/embed/6THn4MDEixM Computer issues abound!!!! Stuart invites his friend Josh McCullough of the “Shotgun and Scotch” podcast (good luck finding it on the internet) but if you can find episode…

“We Won the Olympics!” with Dr. Kiki Sanford | Scientist and Host of “This Week In Science”

Aug 21, 2016 • 90 min

Listen to the sketch on YouTube here!: Hey Everyone! This week’s episode is the first time we had ever had a guest on the podcast: Dr. Kiki of “This Week in Science”. She was a fantastic first guest and hopefully will be willing to come back for more!…

“Kreative Kheerleading Kompetition” with Alisha Holland | Co-Creator of “Sketch Comedy Podcast Show”

Aug 16, 2016 • 65 min

Watch the sketch on YouTube here!: Alisha comes back (or forward, depending on how time works for you). She’s fun, she co-created the original show, blah blah blah. First off, apologies for the apparent vacuums that are coming out of our faces. This was…

“Fitbit Truth” with Alisha Holland | Co-Creator of “Sketch Comedy Podcast Show”

Aug 15, 2016 • 61 min

Watch the sketch on YouTuber here!: So this episode and the next episode feature Alisha Holland, because we had episodes we had recorded and never released. This one was full of conflict during the recording of the sketch, so if you like awkward silences…

“Did You Get That?” with Alisha Holland | Co-Creator of Sketch Comedy Podcast Show

Aug 14, 2016 • 44 min

Listen to the sketch on YouTube here!: https://youtu.be/RGJQnvKXOVM This is one of my favorite all-time sketches that Alisha and I did, I think it is fantastic and really just well executed. Sometimes some of my favorite humor is when a character gets…

“The Tinder Games” with Alisha Holland | Co-Creator of Sketch Comedy Podcast Show

Aug 7, 2016 • 64 min

Listen to the sketch on YouTube here!: https://youtu.be/EmRV86iTXQc This week, we go back to the laboratory and try something different with the format of the show, as was suggested by friend of the show Jason Marshall (@jasonmarshall2) who he himself has…

“I Want a Pony!” with Alisha Holland | Co-Creator of Sketch Comedy Podcast Show

Jul 31, 2016 • 60 min

Listen to the sketch on YouTube here!: https://youtu.be/jP03Pas3jmQ Hey everyone! It’s the second episode! Once again I am lucky to have Alisha Holland on the podcast with me and we have a great time coming up with a sketch about childhood dreams gone…

“One Night Stand” with Alisha Holland | Co-Creator of Sketch Comedy Podcast Show

Jul 24, 2016 • 68 min

Listen to the sketch on YouTube here!: Welcome to the first episode of Sketch Comedy Podcast Show! Well, not the first episode, but the first episode of the revamped Sketch Comedy Podcast Show. Catch the sketch alone on YouTube here:…