Hot Breath! (Learn Comedy from the Pros)

Updated: 15 Jan 2024 • 225 episodes
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Every Monday listeners get exclusive access to the most influential minds in comedy. Award winning comedian and host Joel Byars captures the inspiring stories and insightful techniques behind your favorite comics with interviews NPR describes as "discovering the desire to be a comedian, their craft and their unifying bond found within the world of stand up comedy."

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We're back with killer episode hitting on all the topics from comedy headlines to practical comedy advice based on your questions from this week's live Q&A. Topics covered are: Joel's Hilarious Katt Williams storyWhat comics can learn from Katt WilliamsHow Jo Koy's bomb saved The Golden GlobesClean vs. Dirty ComedyBuil

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Happy New Year Hot Breathiverse and welcome to our first official episode of HB! Live 2024. In addition to interviewing your favorite comics, we're going to start experimenting with different styles of content to help you level up your comedy game faster. This episode is from our weekly YouTube livestream we do every T

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01 Jan 2024 • EN

The Top 5 Episodes of 2023

We're back with the final episode of 2023 and our first ever "best of" episode. Joel and Yoshee breakdown their top 5 episodes of 2023 and see how they compare to what the analytics say the top 5 are. We'd also love to hear what your time 5 episodes of 2023 are so join our Facebook group below to join the conversation.

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The champ is here! After several months in the making, Earthquake is on the show! All of this started over a year ago when we did a review of his comedy special: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHQ9UhGSY5U&t=572s Quake was so excited about the review that he reposted and reached out about being on the show. And thus th

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Love him or hate him, you can’t deny Brendan Schaub’s impact on comedy. Regardless if you believe his impact is for better or worse, you can’t deny he gets more online hate than other comedian. I’m all about comics helping comics and wanted to get to the bottom of this mystery, so I flew out to LA and spoke to Brendan

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Gianmarco Soresi joins the Hot Breathiverse for a crowd work masterclass. Over the past year he has built a huge social media following that is now converting to sold out shows. With every comic trying to find their lane online, Gianmarco shares all the game on how to stand out. We go deep on topics like: How to do cro

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