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Catching Up With Comedians

Rich Stein, a long time standup comic, took a few years off the road to teach high school, get married, and have a kid. Now, retired from teaching, he is back on stages and reconnecting with old friends and trying to Catch up with Comedians. Plenty of funny stories, anecdotes and tributes to the greats both famous and infamous!

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All Episodes

01:17:50

Comedian, writer, producer Paul Boland joins host...

Catching Up With Comedians ·

2025/03/03

Paul Boland joins me on the podcast this week.Paul was interested in the theater as a young man and acted, sang and performed in plays and musicals during high school and later in college and community theater. He grew up on the east coast but visited his Dad in Los Angeles when he was 22 and decided to just stay and see what he could do in the LA theater scene. From doing impressions and impersonations as a waiter he landed a role on Rick Dees late night talk show and everything kind of

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01:00:38

Comedian Ritch Shydner joins host Rich Stein

Catching Up With Comedians ·

2025/02/17

Stand up Comedian, writer and show biz historian RITCH SHYDNER comes on the podcast this week. A native of Pennsville, New Jersey, oldest son of a large family and his Dad was funny and showed his oldest boy the comedy of Jackie Gleason from his first sketch show on TV. By the time Ritch was of college age he was a fan of the brilliant comedy of Pryor, Carlin, Klein and other up and comers and he himself worked as a bartender and was known as a funny guy among his friends and bar

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01:11:36

Comedian Darren Carter joins host Rich Stein

Catching Up With Comedians ·

2025/02/03

Darren Carter joins me this week on Catching Up With Comedians.Darren is a natural upper and one of those people who represent the comedy profession in the most positive way. Despite his youthful appearance and high energy style, it’s hard to believe he has been performing for over thirty years. Growing up in Fresno, his first years in comedy were in San Diego but he was on the "ROAD” quickly as an opening act due to his many years of performing comedy style raps around California. He also took

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58:31

Comedian Steven Lolli joins host Rich Stein

Catching Up With Comedians ·

2025/01/20

Welcoming Steven Lolli to the podcast this week. Steven is a big personality and a very strong comedian who after 20 years is headlining around the country and really starting to create some heat. He performed on NETFLIX IS A JOKE last summer on the same bill as Whitney Cummings, Nikki Glaser with Howie Mandel and Arsenio headlining. He has a starring role in “Last Chance” a Film opening in 2025. As a writer he has worked for Katt Williams, Eddie Pepitone and was a regular on Eddie’s podcast. He

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01:11:52

Comic Phil Tag joins host Rich Stein

Catching Up With Comedians ·

2025/01/08

Phil Tagliaferri bounced onto the stage of the Emerald Princess this past October while the wife and I were celebrating our second honeymoon// empty nest vaca.This was a fourteen day cruise and the first one we had gone on without friends, relatives or castaways so we were determined to see every comedy show and as many of the large shows as we could fit in. Phil who wisely whittled his last name down to TAG, ( after countless teachers, coaches and cruise directors had no doubt been butchering it

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58:46

Comic David Testroet joins host Rich Stein

Catching Up With Comedians ·

2024/12/23

David started out as a deejay but as is often the case it took only a dare from friends for him to try out comedy and take second place on his very first try. Born and raised in Dubuque,Iowa, David was on his way to the west coast when he stopped in Colorado on advice from his brothers and that has been his homeland and home base in comedy ever since. He is a member of the 35 plus year club in stand up. He has always enjoyed and loved the driving and scenery of being a road comic. After years

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52:15

Comic Linda Markus Smith joins host Rich Stein

Catching Up With Comedians ·

2024/12/09

Comedienne Linda Markus Smith came to national attention during the pandemic when she started her Zoom podcast "Comics Spot."Most comics weren't working much, if at all, so her timing was perfect. She had no agenda other than to just interview comics and hear their stories. She had only started her comedy career maybe five years prior to the Pandemic so she was a newbie and relative unknown, which was also a plus for her because comics far and wide were not intimidated or suspect of someone who

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50:30

Steve Klasky joins host Rich Stein

Catching Up With Comedians ·

2024/11/25

Steve Klasky grew up in Los Angeles and remembers using his early school years as his first stage for entertaining his peers. Always looking for laughs and vying for the attention from the fairer sex, he found theater and drama in high school and became his high school’s most celebrated actor.In College, beyond simply acting, he also took to learning the technical and theater production sides of the business. Before long he was a union stagehand working on Carol Burnett, Julie Andrews and other

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01:02:25

Scott Shimamoto joins host Rich Stein

Catching Up With Comedians ·

2024/11/11

Scott Shimamoto the oldest of three boys was raised in the San Gabriel Valley and unlike many comedians he was a happy, energetic and industrious kid. Always a funny kid he did what he could as a smaller lad to keep his classmates and friends laughing as opposed to giving beat downs. His natural friendliness was his best anti-fight kryptonite as he said the fighting part was never much of a problem in his life. From his earliest jobs at places like McDonalds , he was a go getter and learned the

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01:37:11

comic Mark Cordes joins host Rich Stein

Catching Up With Comedians ·

2024/10/28

Mark Cordes originally, from the midwest, had made a good living in real estate with Coldwell Banker and one night he took the dare to go up at a comedy open mic night. He caught the bug immediately and within a short time he let his realtor license lapse and told his guys he was burning the boats and they replied that he could always come back if he wanted to..... that was over 35 years ago and he has not only made a living in comedy but done it on his own terms. Mark's up tempo personality

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01:29:36

Chris Lewis joins host Rich Stein

Catching Up With Comedians ·

2024/10/16

Chris Lewis started out his show biz career as a child actor which he describes in the podcast. He was even a contestant on a famous kids show which is even more interesting given the career trajectory of the once popular host. Chris has been continuing to audition and act in commercials and indie films while also making a name for himself in the L.A. stand up comedy circuit. Once listening to Chris I'm sure you'll agree that his charming personality, youthful demeanor and quick wit are all

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51:03

Frances Dilorinzo joins host Rich Stein

Catching Up With Comedians ·

2024/09/28

Frances DiLorinzo one of four siblings never fancied a comedy career but with encouragement from a professor at Saddleback College she found out she had a gift for public speaking and getting some laughs. She plowed through her Undergraduate degree thinking it was just a phase but the spark was re lit when she stopped by the Laff Stop comedy club one night. Before long she was hooked and one of many who joined the eighties comedy boom. While many fall by the wayside she kept plugging away and has

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01:32:52

Chance Langton talks MUSIC & Comedy with host Rich Stein

Catching Up With Comedians ·

2024/09/12

Chance Langton had been writing and playing music since a young boy. Long before his comedy career, he was a working musician and his journey took him from Massachusetts to New York, Nashville, Los Angeles and many parts in between. His story is interesting, to say the least and Chance is such a great storyteller that I felt it very important that I capture as much of his story as I possibly could. From Doug Westin's Troubadour in Los Angeles and all the way down to the Mussel Shoals hitmakers in

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01:15:07

Greg Hilbers joins host Rich Stein

Catching Up With Comedians ·

2024/09/02

Greg "Hilby" Hilbers a proud Oregonian and fan of comedy made his way to the Comedy Store in 1974, just two short years after it opened its doors on April 7, 1972. Although getting laughs and a strong response on his first stage performance, he headed back to Portland to develop more in his local scene but returned in 1976 to re establish his stand up career at The Comedy Store and became a paid regular within a pretty short time. He was part of that early wave of comedy pioneers who came from all

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01:03:55

Comedienne Julie Kidd joins host Rich Stein

Catching Up With Comedians ·

2024/08/15

Julie Kidd raised three kids as a single mom, taught dance at night and started doing comedy once she re connected with her step sister Cindy Burns. They struggled for years but eventually helped form The Laff Pack and that led to co-founding The Funniest Housewives of Orange County. It took off pretty quickly and they were soon filling up large venues for monthly shows and corporate shows all over So.Cal. and beyond. Julie and Cindy started getting spots on The View, The Tonight Show, opening

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01:03:59

Michael Jovanovski. aka JOVO joins host Rich Stein

Catching Up With Comedians ·

2024/07/31

Please welcome JOVO to the podcast today. After working as a Set Designer/ Decorator and Lead dresser behind the camera for thirty years, Jovo threw caution to the wind and took the plunge into full time acting in 2020. The first time I met Jovo was on a movie set and I could instantly tell he had the chops of an actor and a funny one at that. The man is from Windsor Ontario, Canada for goodness sakes, so just add him to that already long list of funny Canadians. His story reads like a Screenplay

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01:20:23

Comic Willie Randolph joins host Rich Stein

Catching Up With Comedians ·

2024/07/17

Willie Randolph was fresh out of the air force and looking to go pre-med when he strolled into the Claremont, Ca. Laff Stop one night. An Ohio native, his family had transplanted to San Bernadino, California and Willie had never planned to be a comic but his natural talents, charm and likability gained him quick amateur status and before long he became a dependable and sought after emcee, host and booker. I took no time at all for Willie to fall in love with the comedy life, night life and

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01:28:10

Ron Coleman joins host Rich Stein

Catching Up With Comedians ·

2024/06/28

Ron Coleman started his comedy career in southern California around 1989. He found success quickly and before long he was a sought after opening and feature act on the road. Once he started working he was picked up by The Improv, Catch a Rising Star and other chain clubs and he was working week long engagements. By the late nineties comedy had cooled off from the boom of the eighties. Ron married and moved to Las Vegas around the year 2000. Before long his family grew to four and he started his own

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54:06

Sam Fedele joins host Rich Stein

Catching Up With Comedians ·

2024/06/17

I first met Sam Fedele in the early nineties. I had been working the stand up circuit for at least five years but he came in with nothing but pure energy and enthusiasm. As it turns out Sam had grown up in New Jersey and after serving his country as a marine, he had married young, and started his own blueprint business. He had grown dissatisfied with that job and with the encouragement of his wife Kim ( and a growing family of one daughter and one on the way) he jumped into stand up comedy and has

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01:31:16

Chance Langton joins host Rich Stein

Catching Up With Comedians ·

2024/06/08

Chance Langton was born and raised in Quincy Mass. Music and songwriting were his first loves and he had been writing songs and performing music as a pro when he was performing at The Troubadour in Los Angeles and one day happened to drive past the Comedy Store in the late seventies. Doing 6-7 minutes was like a walk in the park for Chance so when he was passed by owner Mitzi Shore at his very first audition, he joined a very elite cadre of comics who were already regulars at what was the first

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