Ranked #1
43: Lenny Marcus’s First Time
43: Lenny Marcus’s First Time
From putting together a bringer show of 60 people to performing multiple times on late night TV, Lenny Marcus covers the... Read more
22 Jun 2019
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1hr 1min
Ranked #2
2: Jared Freid's First Time
2: Jared Freid's First Time
Jared’s first time doing stand-up was at an open-mic known for being super supportive of new performers. Unfortunately, ... Read more
27 Jan 2018
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51mins
Ranked #3
10: Kevin Allison's First Time
10: Kevin Allison's First Time
Kevin Allison, from MTV’s The State and host of the Risk! podcast, shares his monumental firsts on stage. From his first... Read more
17 Mar 2018
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1hr 18mins
Ranked #4
3: Adam Conover's First Time
3: Adam Conover's First Time
When Adam first did stand-up, he chose to play a character of a tree doctor who healed trees while hating bushes. He was... Read more
27 Jan 2018
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32mins
Ranked #5
26: Mike Lawrence's First Time
26: Mike Lawrence's First Time
Roast Battle Grand Champion Mike Lawrence worked at McDonald's for 7 years before landing multiple TV appearances. Mike ... Read more
3 Aug 2018
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45mins
Ranked #6
5: Ophira Eisenberg's First Time
5: Ophira Eisenberg's First Time
NPR host and award-winning storyteller Ophira Eisenberg joins us to talk about her very first time on stage. Was the $30... Read more
10 Feb 2018
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38mins
Ranked #7
23: Bonnie McFarlane's First Time
23: Bonnie McFarlane's First Time
Bonnie McFarlane talks about starting her comedy career in Canada, making her way to clubs in the U.S., and the differen... Read more
6 Jul 2018
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40mins
Ranked #8
12: Gilbert Gottfried's First Time
12: Gilbert Gottfried's First Time
Legend Gilbert Gottfried covers his first times in comedy while sharing his need for attention and being raised by telev... Read more
7 Apr 2018
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46mins
Ranked #9
45: Katharine Heller's First Time
45: Katharine Heller's First Time
Whether it’s starring in commercials, acting in voiceover work, entertaining an audience through improv, written sketche... Read more
21 Jul 2019
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44mins
Ranked #10
44: Andrea Allan’s First Time
44: Andrea Allan’s First Time
After her first stand-up experience (at an open mic night while plastered), Andrea Allan still knew she wanted to perfor... Read more
4 Jul 2019
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58mins
Ranked #11
6: Laurie Kilmartin's First Time
6: Laurie Kilmartin's First Time
Emmy-nominated New York Times bestseller Laurie Kilmartin tells us when she first learned the shocking news that comedia... Read more
17 Feb 2018
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37mins
Ranked #12
14: Dan Soder's First Time
14: Dan Soder's First Time
While selling the radio station records he was supposed to be playing, Dan Soder painfully learned how to write jokes, s... Read more
21 Apr 2018
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19mins
Ranked #13
11: Alia Janine's First Time
11: Alia Janine's First Time
Comedian Alia Janine not only talks about her first time performing stand-up, which happened to be with Andrew Dice Clay... Read more
24 Mar 2018
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54mins
Ranked #14
35: Dante Nero's First Time
35: Dante Nero's First Time
Dante Nero talks about how he leveraged his (male) stripper work into a stand-up comedy career. From his introduction an... Read more
21 Jan 2019
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1hr 2mins
Ranked #15
25: Carmen Lynch's First Time
25: Carmen Lynch's First Time
Carmen Lynch talks about being in the Top 20 on Last Comic Standing within 2 years of performing stand-up before regalin... Read more
21 Jul 2018
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34mins
Ranked #16
22: Jimmy Pardo's First Time
22: Jimmy Pardo's First Time
Jimmy Pardo, host of Never Not Funny, talks about what he experienced in 30 years of stand-up , from soup to nuts. Jimmy... Read more
29 Jun 2018
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24mins
Ranked #17
28: Abbi Crutchfield's First Time
28: Abbi Crutchfield's First Time
Abbi Crutchfield shares how it all started, including her cultivating her own comedy… group? club? in college. Abbi talk... Read more
30 Aug 2018
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31mins
Ranked #18
34: Jesse Joyce's First Time
34: Jesse Joyce's First Time
Jesse Joyce, writer for the Oscars and Comedy Central Roasts, discusses his very first jokes as a child, alcoholism, and... Read more
24 Dec 2018
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44mins
Ranked #19
16: Nick Thune's First Time
16: Nick Thune's First Time
Comic and musician Nick Thune lets us know where and how it all began, the differences between comedy music and regular ... Read more
5 May 2018
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24mins
Ranked #20
20: Julian McCullough's First Time
20: Julian McCullough's First Time
TV regular and stand-up veteran Julian McCullough discusses his first times on stage including when he performed stand-u... Read more
9 Jun 2018
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46mins