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My Opening Line

Hosts Keith and Chemda (of Keith and The Girl) ask comedian friends and performers about their first time on stage. Listen to popular comics telling embarrassing stories of their first performances as... Read more

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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

1hr 1min

Ranked #2

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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

51mins

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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

1hr 18mins

Ranked #4

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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

32mins

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Ranked #5

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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

45mins

Ranked #6

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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

38mins

Ranked #7

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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

40mins

Ranked #8

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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

46mins

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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

44mins

Ranked #10

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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

58mins

Ranked #11

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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

37mins

Ranked #12

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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

19mins

Ranked #13

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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

54mins

Ranked #14

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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

1hr 2mins

Ranked #15

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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

34mins

Ranked #16

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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

24mins

Ranked #17

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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

31mins

Ranked #18

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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

44mins

Ranked #19

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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

24mins

Ranked #20

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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

46mins

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