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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

57:44

Comic/Film Animator Gene Hamm joins host Rich Stein

Catching Up With Comedians ·

2025/12/06

Today, joining me for his second visit is Gene Hamm; a writer- producer and Animation Film Maker.Gene has been working in animation for over 40 years… …….starting out with Hanna-Barbera where he was a model maker and then onto Prema Vision as the in house free lancer with the iconic "Art CLOKEY" who created Gumby, Pokey and so many other Beloved childhood characters using stop action editing. In the ensuing years he worked for the likes of Disney// Sega video games,

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50:52

Comedian Wyatt Cote joins host Rich Stein

Catching Up With Comedians ·

2025/11/23

Welcome to the show today, Wyatt Cote. Wyatt had figured out very young that he was a water child. He loved the ocean and by six years old, he was starting to surf the inside breaks in Long Beach and Huntington Beach. He loved the beach vibe and has been a surfer ever since.Though he attended the University of Hawaii as his father wanted him to pursue a professional career, Wyatt decided early on the collegiate life was not for him and against his father‘s wishes he quit school and decided to start

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68:14

Comedian Max Dolcelli joins host Rich Stein

Catching Up With Comedians ·

2025/11/09

Max Dolcelli is a man who has had to claw and fight for anything he ever had in life. Born in Liguria, Italy the first son of a ship builder, he lost his father when he was but five years old but under him were a 3 year old sister and a baby brother. Life got immediately harder as mom couldn’t raise three young children without a job so Max and his sister went into a catholic orphange and mother moved in with Grandma with her infant and they would put one foot In front of the other to cope with

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72:09

Comic Erin O'Connor joins host Rich Stein

Catching Up With Comedians ·

2025/10/26

Erin started her career in the Bay Area ( San Francisco) after earning her degree from San Jose State in Marketing and Advertising. She worked for a few years in marketing and walked by a comedy club one day and thought, Wow, what is this?Just a young woman in her early twenties and comedy was barely one to two years away from experiencing a BOOM! Comedy clubs would be opening in every major city in the country, with smaller satellite clubs putting on amateur and open mic. night comedy nights in

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63:12

Comedian John Caponera joins host Rich Stein

Catching Up With Comedians ·

2025/10/12

John Caponera grew up in a large family on the south side of Chicago. The family home sat just across the street from a large park which became a playground for him and his friends. No matter what season, they played baseball in the warm months and when the pond froze over in winter they played hockey and fit in every other sport in between. John went to college wanting only to play baseball but he felt he wasn’t getting enough playing time so he took his English Professor's request and

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73:18

Comedian Denny Johnston (PART TWO) with host Rich Stein

Catching Up With Comedians ·

2025/09/28

Denny Johnston returns for a second episode. After amassing fifty plus years between his musical and comedy career, I feel it is only right to devote at least two episodes to Denny Johnston. I already wrote a lengthy bio for Denny in the previous podcast #43 so let me just say that we go a little deeper into his beginnings. If you have ever listened to the great theme song for the TV show: THE ROCKFORD FILES, you will hear the work of the student who was in the same metal shop class with Denny. None

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65:40

Comedian Denny Johnston joins host Rich Stein

Catching Up With Comedians ·

2025/09/15

Denny Johnston started his entertainment career performing with the Back Porch Majority in 1967-68 and went on to work with The Christy Minstrels in 1969. Young comedian Steve Martin was opening for these musical acts at the time and Denny watched Steve carefully and was amazed how he came out every night to just entertain the audience using every tool he had in his bag to be funny!Denny became friendly with Steve Martin, Gary Muledeer and other comedy acts who used musical instruments, lyrics,

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64:05

Comedian, musician, actor Pete George joins host Rich...

Catching Up With Comedians ·

2025/09/01

Pete George is one of those guests who comes on and just wins you over immediately. He is a fount of energy and enthusiasm. Every comedian has their own story which is what makes doing this podcast so exciting and entertaining for me, and hopefully for my listeners as well. Pete came from a musical background as his Dad played the accordion, which has spawned its share of jokes over the years but he was the first accordion soloist at West Point, and in the course of his duties he played for

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01:09:25

Writer, Producer, Comic, Jann Karam joins host Rich...

Catching Up With Comedians ·

2025/08/18

Comedian Jann Karam started out close to home in Arizona when she embarked on her journey in Stand Up Comedy. She soon traveled to Chicago where she studied in The Second City School of Improv, doing comedy sketches. Before long she traveled To New York City where she ultimately met the people and made the connections with the comics, writers, agents and clubs which helped define the path her career would take for the next thirty plus years. She not only got on those early stand up TV shows like

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01:00:25

Film Director Brian Burkhardt and Comic, artist,...

Catching Up With Comedians ·

2025/08/04

There are more layers to this podcast that could fill the podcast time alone, much less a short description. Film Director: Brian Burkhardt raised in New Orleans had a rather colorful childhood which led him to performing his first stand up comedy in a federal prison in Texas. Mickey Joseph: born and raised in the Bay Area of San Francisco started comedy back in the hey day of the comedy boom and through some rough roads of his own still does comedy today as well as produces and sells some very

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47:52

Comedian, Writer, Producer Tommy Moore joins host...

Catching Up With Comedians ·

2025/07/21

Tommy comes back for a part two where he deftly and hilariously lays out the second part of his comedy career; once the 90's came and out went the once burgeoning comedy clubs. Thankfully what happened for Tommy and other enterprising and well rounded entertainers were The Poconos ( resorts) The Catskills ( much more varied) than most folks had come to believe, The Casinos, Atlantic City, Day Cruises, and wherever a group of folks assembled of any race, color or creed and entertained the thought

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49:34

Comedian, Writer, Producer Tommy Moore joins host...

Catching Up With Comedians ·

2025/07/07

The Legendary, Comic, Writer, Producer from Philadelphia joins me for a much anticipated second appearance. Because he is such a fan favorite and an old school gent, I was able to persuade him into ( A TWO PARTER ) telling us stories that chronicle over fifty years in the business of fun, funny and making people laugh. In this first episode # 38, Tommy regales us of stories that predate the comedy clubs which slowly started appearing in the seventies. Then a comedy boom started across the country

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01:19:17

Comedian Kivi Rogers joins host Rich Stein

Catching Up With Comedians ·

2025/06/23

Kivi Rogers, who I worked with early on in our stand up careers, went on to work in television sit coms, series, movies and has been happily employed as a Top Headline Comedian on the Royal Caribbean line of cruise ships since 2008. In his early days he worked on the road at comedy clubs as well as the college circuit. After getting into Las Vegas and getting more of a name for himself he was a top opener for the Temptations and other high profile music acts for a period of time between the

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01:32:55

Comic, writer, producer Carrie Snow joins host Rich...

Catching Up With Comedians ·

2025/06/09

Carrie Snow was raised in the Bay Area with one sister and two parents. These days that might not always be the norm but in her day it generally was.In 1978, she took an under grad degree from ( CAL) Berkeley, and to the sheer delight of her parents, started doing stand up comedy at what she, nor anyone else knew, was to be the advent of a comedy boom unlike any other time in American or modern day history. Many things contributed to that timing but Carrie was actually hopping on to a train that

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42:07

Comedian, actor, writer, producer Craig Shoemaker...

Catching Up With Comedians ·

2025/05/25

Craig Shoemaker says you can’t hit a moving Target and he proves that every day.He started comedy as a junior in high school and put himself through college doing stand up. Craig Shoemaker may not have hit the ultra fame of Seinfeld, Tim Allen or some but he has gone far beyond the limits of many comedians. He tore through the early years doing every show that comedians did like Evening At the Improv, Caroline’s, Comedy Central, and as his career flourished he did two Comic Reliefs and through

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57:16

Comic Bruce Baum joins host Rich Stein

Catching Up With Comedians ·

2025/05/12

Bruce Baum first attended UC Davis as a Poli/Sci Major and intended to play for the Football team. But providence stepped in and he joined up with his cousin Ken and started a comedy duo on campus where they also played guitar and banjo, sang funny songs and started getting people's attention. Before long he wrote a screenplay and moved back to LA and was accepted into the UCLA Film Dept. based on Bruce's screenplay and their ever growing list of gigs they were performing around town. AS Bruce

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01:05:02

Comedian Mark Knope joins host Rich Stein

Catching Up With Comedians ·

2025/04/28

Comedian Mark Knope has the distinction of getting divorced and doing his first stand up comedy spot on the same day. It was in Albuquerque, N.M. at the New China Town Restaurant, way back in 1986.That sounds more like the start of a Farrelly Brothers comedy film but for Mark it was the start of a new life and his comedy career has been going strong for 40 plus years. Mark had been working in some type of insurance business but once he found comedy he attacked it with the type of perseverance that

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01:04:55

Bruce Fine joins host Rich Stein

Catching Up With Comedians ·

2025/04/14

Bruce graduated from Boston University with a business degree in marketing in 1988 and quickly headed to Los Angeles to try his hand at stand up comedy and acting. From the first time I met Bruce he always had a smile on his face and a positive spirit and determination that whatever he was doing it was going to work. He took his training in competitive wrestling (Freestyle State Champion) and Powerlifting ( He set National Records) and used that ambition to drive him to success in stand up comedy

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57:17

Comic Rick D'Elia joins host Rich Stein

Catching Up With Comedians ·

2025/03/31

Comic Rick D’Elia is on the podcast this week. Born and raised in Boston he came up in comedy in his freshman class with Bill Burr, Dane Cook, Patrice O’Neal and many other notables. A booker told him early on to work clean as he was opening up for Joe Rogan and Louie C.K. Afterwards the booker told Rick those two guys are funny but they will never succeed in the business because they are too dirty. Rick later called him out on that remark and he said, “ Don’t ever listen to a booker!” Rick later

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01:21:00

Comic Jeff Wayne joins host Rich Stein

Catching Up With Comedians ·

2025/03/17

Born and raised in Northern Kentucky and the oldest of six boys, Jeff brought a certain wisdom to his stand up as he witnessed many comics, singers and entertainers in a club his father introduced him to as a young teen; The Beverly Hills Night Club just outside of Cincinnati. Not only did he see young comics like Kelly Monteith but he also got to meet legends like The Ritz Brothers!Inspired by WC Fields, The Marx Brothers and beyond, Jeff made it out to California before the Comedy Gold Rush. He

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