Episodes

  • Friday Encore : Stewart Lee
    Oct 10 2025
    We return to our third ever episode with the true icon Stewart Lee! Recorded in 2023! Go see Stewart on tour here! - https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/live-dates/ To get in touch with ABC, please email theteam@alwaysbecomedy.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • #133 Amy Matthews
    Oct 7 2025
    Always Be Comedy - EP133 - Amy Matthews Multi-award-winning comedy nights Always Be Comedy is finally exploiting those sweet, sweet contacts… WITH A GIG-THEMED PODCAST! Guests curate their ideal comedy gig: who would they have open? Close? What dream moment from their gigging days would they love re-enact at this gig? And what live comedy nightmare from their past must not happen again under any circumstances? There’s this and so much more. Today's guest is a comedy superstar and “friend” of the night: Amy Matthews! Order the vinyl of Commute With The Foxes here! - https://www.monkeybarrelrecords.com/product-page/amy-matthews-commute-with-the-foxes To get in touch with the pod, email theteam@alwaysbecomedy.com --------------------------- SPOILERS! MC - Jordan Brookes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoVguj7V_w4 Opener - Elf Lyons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKxedARxY-I Middle - Robbie McShane Closer - Spencer Jones' 50 Minute Disco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgNeyJ2cjyM ABC’s first rodeo.ABC’s Tim Lewis has worked at the biggest and best comedy and entertainment shows in Britain and is invariably tech-ing half the shows at the Edinburgh Festival each year (these aren’t his words, so please don’t accuse him of bragging).Always Be Comedy won Best Pro Comedy Night at the 2023 and 2025 Chortle awards, having previously won Best Comedy Show at the Joe.co.uk Awards. If you’re hungry for more ABC-related knowledge, please visit www.alwaysbecomedy.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 19 mins
  • *Bonus* Alex Lowe (Clinton Baptiste, Barry from Watford)
    Oct 3 2025
    A bonus episode where we're talking to the superb Alex Lowe about the upcoming Clinton Baptiste tour as well as going through his remarkable IMDB Go see Clinton Baptiste on tour here! - https://www.clintonbaptiste.com/tour To get in touch with ABC, please email theteam@alwaysbecomedy.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • #132 Hannah East
    Sep 30 2025
    Always Be Comedy - EP132 - Hannah East Multi-award-winning comedy nights Always Be Comedy is finally exploiting those sweet, sweet contacts… WITH A GIG-THEMED PODCAST! Guests curate their ideal comedy gig: who would they have open? Close? What dream moment from their gigging days would they love re-enact at this gig? And what live comedy nightmare from their past must not happen again under any circumstances? There’s this and so much more. Today's guest is a comedy superstar and “friend” of the night: Hannah East! Go see Hannah on tour here! - https://www.hannaheast.com/comedy/ To get in touch with the pod, email theteam@alwaysbecomedy.com --------------------------- SPOILERS! MC - Roy Keane https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N899dQEGkc8 Opener - Greg Davies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-3YdRDUKFo Middle - Jim Carrey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDsq0pXyCeM Closer - Catherine Tate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-BVgPeZR-Y About us:Host James Gill launched Always Be Comedy in 2011; since then the cream of the comedy world have called ABC their second home. James is a comedian and former journalist, with more than two decades of experience interviewing some of the biggest film, TV and sports stars on the planet… this has got a bit self-aggrandising but we want you to know it’s not ABC’s first rodeo.ABC’s Tim Lewis has worked at the biggest and best comedy and entertainment shows in Britain and is invariably tech-ing half the shows at the Edinburgh Festival each year (these aren’t his words, so please don’t accuse him of bragging).Always Be Comedy won Best Pro Comedy Night at the 2023 and 2025 Chortle awards, having previously won Best Comedy Show at the Joe.co.uk Awards. If you’re hungry for more ABC-related knowledge, please visit www.alwaysbecomedy.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • *Bonus Pod* Discussing the Emmy's and our new gig in Chelsea!
    Sep 26 2025
    James and Tim discuss the Emmy Awards and the roaring success of The Studio on AppleTV. Also we talk about launching a new gig in Chelsea and all that entails! To get in touch with the podcast, please email theteam@alwaysbecomedy.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    38 mins
  • #131 Ben Pope
    Sep 23 2025
    Always Be Comedy - EP131 - Ben Pope Multi-award-winning comedy nights Always Be Comedy is finally exploiting those sweet, sweet contacts… WITH A GIG-THEMED PODCAST! Guests curate their ideal comedy gig: who would they have open? Close? What dream moment from their gigging days would they love re-enact at this gig? And what live comedy nightmare from their past must not happen again under any circumstances? There’s this and so much more. Today's guest is a comedy superstar and “friend” of the night: Ben Pope! Go see Ben on tour here! - https://linktr.ee/benpope Check out his special here! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXER78Jfbw4 To get in touch with the pod, email theteam@alwaysbecomedy.com --------------------------- SPOILERS! MC - Daniel Kitson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7_LSvloa6k / Ivo Graham https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UWwh0i6VWDo Opener - Pierre Novellie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTCpFcT2dHI Middle - Lucy Pearman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OofM0YKdPzc / Lorna Rose Treen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcgG2uHfGT4 Closer - Helen Bauer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVP3mnHw4hw Book Recommendations! Then We Come To The End by Joshua Ferris Hurdy Gurdy by Christopher Wilson About us:Host James Gill launched Always Be Comedy in 2011; since then the cream of the comedy world have called ABC their second home. James is a comedian and former journalist, with more than two decades of experience interviewing some of the biggest film, TV and sports stars on the planet… this has got a bit self-aggrandising but we want you to know it’s not ABC’s first rodeo.ABC’s Tim Lewis has worked at the biggest and best comedy and entertainment shows in Britain and is invariably tech-ing half the shows at the Edinburgh Festival each year (these aren’t his words, so please don’t accuse him of bragging).Always Be Comedy won Best Pro Comedy Night at the 2023 and 2025 Chortle awards, having previously won Best Comedy Show at the Joe.co.uk Awards. If you’re hungry for more ABC-related knowledge, please visit www.alwaysbecomedy.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • *Bonus Pod* Discussing Jimmy Kimmel Being Taken Off Air
    Sep 19 2025
    A rather big chat about ABC's (Not Always Be Comedy!) decision to pull Jimmy Kimmel off air and what it means for comedy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    38 mins
  • #130 Harriet Dyer
    Sep 16 2025
    Always Be Comedy - EP130 - Harriet Dyer Multi-award-winning comedy nights Always Be Comedy is finally exploiting those sweet, sweet contacts… WITH A GIG-THEMED PODCAST! Guests curate their ideal comedy gig: who would they have open? Close? What dream moment from their gigging days would they love re-enact at this gig? And what live comedy nightmare from their past must not happen again under any circumstances? There’s this and so much more. Today's guest is a comedy superstar and “friend” of the night: Harriet Dyer! Go see Harriet on tour! - https://harrietdyer.com/live/ To get in touch with the pod, email theteam@alwaysbecomedy.com --------------------------- SPOILERS! MC - Phil Ellis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n5wKhnCXCU Opener - Joanne McNally https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Dob7-CuI_B0 Middle - Paul Foot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpwMXU4rIto Closer - Maria Bamford https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ysiB8Y7rTU About us:Host James Gill launched Always Be Comedy in 2011; since then the cream of the comedy world have called ABC their second home. James is a comedian and former journalist, with more than two decades of experience interviewing some of the biggest film, TV and sports stars on the planet… this has got a bit self-aggrandising but we want you to know it’s not ABC’s first rodeo.ABC’s Tim Lewis has worked at the biggest and best comedy and entertainment shows in Britain and is invariably tech-ing half the shows at the Edinburgh Festival each year (these aren’t his words, so please don’t accuse him of bragging).Always Be Comedy won Best Pro Comedy Night at the 2023 and 2025 Chortle awards, having previously won Best Comedy Show at the Joe.co.uk Awards. If you’re hungry for more ABC-related knowledge, please visit www.alwaysbecomedy.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 13 mins