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Funny In Failure

A podcast that interviews funny and interesting people to discuss their careers and some of the challenges they have faced. I hope to use this platform to normalise and encourage the discussion of failure, particularly through the lens of the entertainment industry, to show that it can be a stepping stone towards the road of success. Nothing is better than humour to normalise a situation, so having deep and meaningful conversations, interspersed with comedy and laughter, helps us celebrate and

comedy comedy interviews

All Episodes

01:14:33

#316: Nikki Justice - Nothing to Lose

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2025/12/08

Nikki Justice is an award-winning internationally touring stand-up comedian known for her sharp wit and savage punchlines! Nikki's brand of humour has been described as chaotic, bold & boundary pushing by critics. Drawing on her extraordinary life experiences, Nikki grew up in a crime family in Australia. Ran away with a circus. Married (and divorced) a motorcycle gang member. Married a stranger in Vegas. And now, she's an award-winning comedian. Taking out WA's Best Comedy award at Fringeworld

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01:09:41

#315: Matt Ritter - Friendship is the Ultimate Life Hack

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2025/12/01

Matt Ritter—a former lawyer turned Hollywood multi-hyphenate who's fast becoming the definitive voice of the modern friendship movement. Matt is the creator, writer, producer, and star of The Buddy System, a hilarious and heartfelt Audible Original which has just launched. The special blends personal storytelling with cutting-edge research on social fitness—challenging the idea that friendship is a luxury and making the case that it's actually the most important wellness tool we have. He's also

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01:18:18

#314: Diesel (Mark Lizotte) - 10,000 hours

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2025/11/24

Mark Lizotte or Diesel is an American-born, Aussie-based roots rock guitarist and singer. He has spent decades cementing his status as one of Australia's greatest music success stories. First turning heads with his first band, Johnny Diesel & the Injectors, Diesel soon launched a solo career in the 1990s, introducing the world to Diesel – and the rest truly was history. With multiple #1 albums, several ARIA Award wins, including three consecutive wins in 1993, 1994 and 1995, Diesel has remained both

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01:26:58

#313: Matt Colwell (360) - Authenticity

Funny In Failure ·

2025/11/17

Matt Colwell or 360 is one of Australia's most iconic and beloved rappers. 360 erupted onto the scene in the early 2000s, taking home multiple ARIA Award nominations and two wins along the way. Peaking at #4 on the ARIA Albums Chart, Falling & Flying went on to become certified double platinum, and also secured wins at the 2012 ARIA Music Awards for Breakthrough Artist – Release and Producer of the Year. From here, 360 released 2014's Utopia, 2017's Vintage Modern and, most recently, his latest

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01:05:40

#312: Phil Rosenthal - Writing Your Own Ticket

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2025/11/10

Phil Rosenthal is the award-winning creator, executive producer, and host of "Somebody Feed Phil," as well as a two-time New York Times Best Selling Author and soon-to-be restaurant owner. "Somebody Feed Phil" – one of Netflix's most popular food and travel shows – has garnered a cult-like following and released its eighth season on June 18th in 190 countries. The Emmy-nominated series is Netflix's longest unscripted series and combines Rosenthal's love of food and travel with his unique brand of

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01:30:55

#311: Justin Spitzer - Incremental Progress

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2025/11/03

Justin Spitzer is a co-creator and executive producer of "St. Denis Medical." Prior to that, he created and ran NBC comedies "Superstore" (2015- 2021) and "American Auto" (2021-2023). His other writing/producing credits include seven seasons of "The Office", as well as "Scrubs", "Committed", "Courting Alex", and "Mulaney". We chat about Superstore and leaving, creating shows, rejection and moving forward, collaborating and the writer's room, working on The Office, Bill Lawrence, when shows end,

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01:33:33

#310: Dean Redman - Your Unique Blueprint

Funny In Failure ·

2025/10/27

Dean Redman is a well-known and accomplished actor and voice actor with over 100 film, television, and voice acting credits to his name. He is most notable for his strong performances in major Hollywood Blockbusters, such as Legendary/Blizzard Films' "Warcraft," where he took on not one but two major character roles alongside Travis Fimmel, Dominic Cooper, and Paula Patton. He is equally known for his aggressive performance in 20th Century Fox's Oscar-nominated epic "War For The Planet Of The Apes,"

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01:25:35

#309: Jessica Camacho - Trial and Error

Funny In Failure ·

2025/10/13

Jessica Camacho is an actress who can currently be seen in a series regular role in Amazon Prime's action series, COUNTDOWN, opposite Jensen Ackles and Eric Dane. Jessica is perhaps most known for her series regular on the CBS (OWN) drama series, ALL RISE. Jessica can be seen recurring on CBS's S.W.A.T. and Amazon Freevee’s BOSCH: LEGACY and will soon be recurring on CBS's comedy series, DMV. Previously, Jessica has recurred on HBOs WATCHMEN, Netflix’s sci-fi drama, ANOTHER LIFE, CW’s THE FLASH, and

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01:14:19

#308: Andrew Thorp King - The Calling Journey

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2025/10/06

Andrew Thorp King is an executive fintech banker, spy novelist, speaker, punk rocker, podcaster, ex-bodybuilder, cigar lover, and serial entrepreneur. He founded two independent record labels—Thorp Records and Sailor’s Grave Records—and has invested in many spaces, including online lending, fitness, lead generation, and independent music. When it comes to finding meaning in failure, Andrew Thorp King is living proof. Andrew draws on two decades of leadership, entrepreneurship, and a series of

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01:38:20

#307: Joel de la Fuente - Running Towards Failure

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2025/09/29

A veteran of stage and screen, Joel de la Fuente has spent the last ten years touring Jeanne Sakata’s one- person play, “Hold These Truths” around the country to critical acclaim. Also, during this time, he starred as Chief Inspector Kido in Amazon Prime’s most viewed series, “The Man in the High Castle” and as Dr. Johann Pryce in Netflix’s Emmy Award-winning, “Hemlock Grove,” and opposite Patrick Dempsey & Alessandro Borghi in the international series, “Devils.” Joel can be seen in season 2 of the

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01:52:14

#306: Rob Paulsen - I'm in the happy business

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2025/09/22

Rob Paulsen is an award-winning voice-over artist, coach, and author of Voice Lessons. With over 2,000 half-hour programs, dozens of films, video games, and other animated media to his credit, Rob has been one of the industry’s hardest-working, most in-demand, and most beloved voice artists, earning him a Daytime Emmy, Peabody, and three times winning the Annie Award. For nearly three decades Rob has voiced some of the most beloved animated characters such as Pinky from Pinky and the Brain, Yakko

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01:28:49

#305: Al Jean - No One Knows Anything

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2025/09/15

Emmy Award-winning producer/writer Al Jean has worked on THE SIMPSONS since it became a series in 1989. He has a credit on over 600 episodes and been showrunner for 22 seasons. In addition to nine Emmy Awards, he has won two coveted Peabody Awards and was nominated for two Golden Globes. Currently he serves as executive producer and showrunner. He also served as writer and producer on “THE SIMPSONS MOVIE” (which took in over $525 million worldwide), working heavily on the film throughout its entire

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01:37:45

#304: Mircea Monroe - Silver Linings

Funny In Failure ·

2025/09/08

Mircea Monroe is an actor who is perhaps best known for her stand-out series regular role as “Morning” in Showtime’s critically acclaimed comedy EPISODES, created by David Crane and Jeffrey Klarik and starring opposite Matt LeBlanc for five seasons. She also starred as Tansy Truitt on The CW’s HART OF DIXIE and was a series regular on TV Land’s IMPASTOR opposite Michael Rosenbaum. Most recently, Mircea appeared in a recurring role on ABC’s THE ROOKIE with Nathan Fillion, CBS’s DINNER WITH THE

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01:21:31

#303: Jonathan Frakes - Failure doesn’t scare me

Funny In Failure ·

2025/09/01

Jonathan Frakes is a prolific director, producer and actor. He is best known to audiences for his portrayal as ‘Commander William Riker’ on “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” Frakes has most recently returned to the Star Trek family by directing episodes of “Star Trek: Discovery", "Star Trek: Picard," and "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" for CBS All Access as well as the new LEVERAGE: REDEMPTION for ELECTRIC ENTERTAINMENT on IMDB TV. He discovered his love and talent in directing during his seven

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01:17:50

#302: Albert Bramante - Reframing Rejection

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2025/08/25

Albert Bramante is the CEO of Bramante Artists, where he’s guided talent across Broadway, film, and television. He’s also a psychology professor and certified hypnotist, blending mental performance tools with creative strategy. Lately, he’s been teaching creators how to harness AI tools like ChatGPT to boost productivity and content creation. His book, "Rise Above the Script," focuses on breaking through fear and building success. With over 20 years of experience at the intersection of psychology,

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01:25:27

#301: Anthony Brandon Wong - Reframing our Mindset

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2025/08/18

Anthony Brandon Wong is an award winning actor, who has worked for 40 years in movies, TV and theatre all over the world, a singer-songwriter and one of Australia’s most sought- after acting teachers and coaches. His numerous film and TV credits include: the role of Ghost in “The Matrix Reloaded”, “The Matrix Revolutions” and the “Enter the Matrix” video game, opposite Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Jada Pinkett Smith and Hugo Weaving, Steven Soderbergh’s “Haywire” opposite

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01:37:56

#300: Mike Scully - Janitor to Simpson’s Showrunner

Funny In Failure ·

2025/08/11

Episode 300! thank's so much. Emmy, Peabody, and Writers’ Guild of America Award winning writer/producer Mike Scully has written many forms of comedy: animation, single-cam, multi-cam, hidden-cam, award shows, and live performance. After seven years of writing for shows you’ve never heard of, he joined The Simpsons writing staff as a producer in 1993. He was promoted to showrunner in 1997 for Seasons 9 thru 12 (considered the four most consecutive seasons of the show) and co-wrote and co-produced

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01:30:15

#299: Matt Tilley - Ghost Laughs

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2025/08/04

Matt Tilley is a former comedian and radio presenter and now the CEO of FightMND. He was one of Australia’s most respected radio personalities, with more than 20 years on air on major stations like FOX FM and Triple M. Many remember from his famous Gotcha Calls which were a national hit across Australia. Matt’s Melbourne breakfast shows have consistently reached number one for over 14 of his 20 years in breakfast radio. The Matt and Jo Show on Fox FM was a long running breakfast show that was known

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01:44:13

#298: Brennan Brown - Flow State

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2025/07/28

Brennan Brown is a stage and screen actor known for portraying complex and multifaceted characters. After graduating from Yale School of Drama, he landed roles on Broadway in revivals of Shaw’s Major Barbara, and Stoppard’s The Real Inspector Hound and The Fifteen Minute Hamlet, and in leading theatres throughout America. On screen Brennan has worked with such visionary directors including Tim Hooper on HBO’s “John Adams”, John Requa and Glenn Ficarra on both of their films, I Love You Phillip

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01:34:24

#297: Maurice LaMarche - Living In The Now

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2025/07/21

Maurice LaMarche is a Canadian comedian and voice actor from Toronto. He is most well-known for voicing The Brain from Steven Spielberg Presents Pinky and the Brain (for which he was nominated for a Daytime Emmy), Kif, Lrrr, Morbo and Calculon from Futurama (for which he has won two Primetime Emmys and been nominated for a third), Mr. Big from Zootopia, King Agnarr from Frozen, Mr. Freeze from Batman: Arkham City, Yosemite Sam from The Looney Tunes Show, Abradolph Lincoler from Rick & Morty, Toucan

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