What The Heck With Richard Dweck

Vishnu Vaka is a standup comedian performing all over the country. Featured for Russell Peters, seen on ‘In Godfrey We Trust’ podcast. Originally from India he went through 14 schools by the time he hit 5th grade. He moved to US as a teenager but kept his accent as he loves it. He got fat and became an American citizen in that order. Vishnu wants every one to be happy and laughing all the time. Vishnu is doing his part by being the best damn comedian on the land, he is also an extremely good looking man. He believes people who take themselves seriously are nincompoops

Mike Honore Louisana comic is back on the podcast. His episode did really well with being the highest played tied with Daniel Caprio’s last appearance on the podcast with 326 plays . We talk about comedy and pro wrestling . Just a really fun conversation.

Lindsay Glazer is the second most famous comedian out of Peoria, Illinois (Sam Kinison lived in East Peoria you rubes a totally different city!). Lindsay can be heard on Sirius XM Radio, Spotify, (maybe still?) Apple Music, ITunes, Deezer, Amazon music, Tidal and Pandora and can be seen on Comedy Central. She is a standup comedian, voiceover artist, writer, lawyer and expert witness who tours all over the country and is a paid regular at clubs all over the country. She has shared the stage with Russel Peters, Steve Byrne, T.J Miller, D.C. Benny and Jim Florentine. She’s been seen at Gilda’s Laugh Fest, Asheville Comedy Festival, Big Pine Comedy Festival, just to name a few of many. In addition to being on Comedy Central’s Sit N’ Spin she won her round at the US Comedy Contest in 2019. On the screen she has also been seen on “Burn Notice” and “Court TV” and ‘Sex Life”, Justice for All with Judge Cristina Perez (TV Series) Holly Praether, CoCoa No No, Holly Praether Hide Hide Self, Comedy Doctors (TV Series), G

OE PONTILLO HAS BEEN SEEN ON AXS TV'S GOTHAM COMEDY LIVE, MTV'S THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT SHOW, AND HAS BEEN HEARD ON SIRIUS XM. IN 2018 HE RELEASED HIS FIRST SPECIAL ON AMAZON 'DELETE YOUR ACCOUNT' AND COMING SOON WILL BE HIS SECOND SPECIAL 'NO ONE ASKED FOR THIS'. YOU CAN HEAR HIS JOKES ON ITUNES AND SPOTIFY. HE HAS BEEN FEATURED IN THE WASHINGTON POST AND TIMEOUT NY. WHEN HE'S NOT TOURING THE COUNTRY HE IS CREATING RECURRING SKETCHES LIKE 'COMEDIANS IN CARS WITH NO PARTICULAR PURPOSE', AND 'PONTILLO & ASSOCIATES'. YOU CAN WATCH THEM AND MORE ON HIS YOUTUBE AND INSTAGRAM. GO LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE TO ALL OF HIS SOCIAL MEDIA!

Kyle Lucero is about a year and half in to doing stand up. We talk about his influences from Jo Koy and Russell Peters as a Filipino American himself , being young in comedy at almost 24

Cody Webb is back ! He’s on Tik-Tok at thefakecodywebb and therealcodywebb. We get more into sexuality with his asexuality and his Ace Council character on Tik-Tok. Just a really great conversation with a fantastic comic

Terry Donahue is a fantastic prose poet and a part of Damian Rucci’s New Jersey Poetry Renaissance.

Third episode with Angelo Gingerelli check out his special/ album Stuck In The Middle . It’s available on Spotify and YouTube

Dan Wilbur is a fantastic comedian who has cut his teeth in comedy for many years - his bio: stand-up has been featured on Sirius XM, the RISK! podcast, in the Boston Comedy Festival, the Cleveland Comedy Festival, Out of Bounds Comedy Festival, Cape Fear Comedy Festival, and the North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival. I’ve been an actor in sketches for College Humor, IFC, Funny or Die, MTV.com, and Distractify (one of which ended up on the Today show). I have written for College Humor, McSweeney’s, The Onion News Network on IFC, Someecards (where I was the Ecards Editor for over a year), TL;DR Wikipedia, Reader’s Digest, and a couple web series you’ve never heard of that paid me with checks that said, verbatim: “Cheese Jokes.” I was an “Adjunct Scholar” for Lapham’s Quarterly, created the Better Book Titles blog and wrote my own humor book for Penguin in 2012 called How Not to Read: Harnessing the Power of a Literature-Free Life and AM Universal put out another collection from the blog called Never Flirt With

Damian Rucci is a powerhouse of perseverance, a poet who has formed the New Jersey Poetry Renaissance that has been around for a decade. Recently appearing on PBS with the documentary Voices In The Garden which was filmed right in on our own open mics . Since collaborating with the poetry renaissance our open mic scene got a shot in the arm and it’s been awesome . Poets and comics are similar creatures , so we get along perfectly . Damian and I hit it off right away , like I mentioned he’s a powerhouse of perseverance, an epic egalitarian , he is truly a revolutionary and he’s funny . To Catch him on tour check out his Instagram @damianrucci

Rob Bloch is a year into doing stand up, he is a story teller comic, Italian and we get into all of it!

Gene Grey came into the scene close to 2 years ago, he’s a fantastic comic and we go through his upbringing , his love for comedy , his notable deep voice as he was born in Ukraine and moved to the US at 7. His pursuit into voice over work, getting more personal on stage.

Mike Mar and I have become pretty good friends in his time doing stand up, Mike is an incredibly talented comic with experience in bands and sales, going from writing jokes 10 years ago to finally being able to do them. **also a cameo from VJ again like the Jordan Episode due to my poor planning

Josh G started in 2008, took a break, we talk about how his return to stand up has been, his origins in the early New Jersey comedy

Nerdy, wordy with a touch of dirty Chica Loca is an a great host and comic. I know her through her hosting at Bar 13 in Delaware , we talk about hosting, her getting spots on shows quickly and being able to do shows like those with legends like Jackie “ The Joke Man” Martling . The background on her stage name and the reactions to it. This was an absolutely awesome episode

Drew Landry is a stand-up comedian & writer from Baltimore, currently based Landry started doing comedy when he was 13, and went on tour with Carlos Mencia a week after graduating high school. He has also toured as an opening act for Dana Gould and Iliza Shlesinger. ​ Landry performed at Just For Laughs in Vancouver in 2022. He has also performed at The Laughing Skull Comedy Festival, The San Diego Comedy Festival, headlined The Charm City Comedy Festival, and he hosts the monthly show Salty AF at the Hollywood Improv. ​ Landry writes the humor section for the popular hip-hop site DJBooth, as well as video essays for the YouTube channel HipHopMadness, and was a satire writer for the college websites Total Frat Move and Total Sorority Move. His articles on Medium have received a total of over a million views, including his piece "I Have A Theory That Donald Glover and Childish Gambino Are Secretly The Same Person" which went viral. He was recently named one of the official top 50 Humor writers on Mediu

Pat danger is new to doing stand up comedy but he’s enthusiasm is awesome .

Mela Shea introduced me to Lakisha as a guest for the podcast. She’s a phenomenal comic who has been praised by Joey Diaz, she’s a great writer with a lot of creative spark.

Emily Paige got started during the pandemic , she started at studying American Comedy Institute in New York, we talk about starting at 30 as a newly divorced single mom, she’s a great comic with a great positive perspective.

Carl Callan returns with a great in person edition of the podcast which I always love getting to do. I ask all about his style and we bond over how hard it is to do comedy even though we still love it, we also talk a lot about his podcast audio-sitcom Balls which is available on Spotify . We also we’re able to geek out over Matchbox 20 and Rob Thomas