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What"s The Mate?

What’s The Mate is a completely improvised show where a rotating cast of improvisers turn the wacky Berlin tales into long-form hilarity! Join Julia Joubert and her incredibly funny guests for an improv experience unlike any other - it’s so Berlin.bearradio.org/whatsthemate

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#50: The Episode With How Money Works and East Side Sap

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2023/06/15

In this episode we are joined by the talented Tina Marie Serra, Salim Fadhley, Zhenya Armazov and Johanna Gustin, at Podfest Berlin with a live studio audience!The nightmare story of someone's morning routine, the phanton rain from trees in Berlin and the time Zhenya swindled a child for a game of Jenga are turned into hilarious improv skits with the sisters Hildie and Hilda, two sneaky sorceresses, a new improv podcast called What The Aphid and the turbulant tale of a family and their prized

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#49: The Episode With 9-1-1-1-1 and The Reindeer Killer

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2022/12/15

This episode brings a fun but not unfamiliar change of pace: two-prov! This time we’re joined by Kevin Napier and Andrew Blumhagen of Bloodthirsty for a slow burn that gets weirder and weirder the longer you listen. Stories of smart appliances locking people in, abandoned e-scooters and Christmas Market bouncers inspire a newsworthy but unmemorable robbery, an emotional rollercoaster in a cellphone store and a festive season thug who’s been getting the wrong end of the stick this whole time. This

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50:03

#48: The Episode With Todd the Tick and Walking...

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2022/12/01

This episode of What’s The Mate brings together three familiar favourites; Angie Cornwell, Tina Joaquim and Carl Clancy.Stories of camping gone wrong, horrendous choice of advertising space, and viral videos of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz get turned into some of our favourite improv skits with little ticks and their “Blood Mothers”, political activists turned entertainers and employees who should seriously read the fineprint on their contracts.This episode is brought to you by Bear Radio. Hosted

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44:00

#47: The Episode With Rotten Meat Parties and The...

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2022/11/17

*Not Safe For Over Thirties* This episode contains content that will make you feel old, but don’t worry, everyone behind the mic is with you. Matilde Kaizer, Trevor Silverstein and Lauren Sedger from the Comedy Cafe Berlin house teams join us for another raucous episode of What’s the Mate?. Julia shares news from the Langenscheidt Publishing House and what the public have determined is the 2022 German Youth Word of the Year, a real-life story about what happens at her adult sleepovers, and Matilde

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42:28

#46: The Episode With Unqualified Archaeologists and...

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2022/11/03

This episode of What’s The Mate comes to you LIVE from Comedy Cafe Berlin for our Halloween Special! We bring you spooky adjacent stories about spiders scary enough to call emergency services, a skeleton who’s story doesn’t add up, and shared dreams that just don’t sit right. Our improvisers, Noah Telson, Amy Jane and Amanda King run with the tales and spin hilarious scenes throughout, all while dressed in costume with a live audience to egg them on!This episode is brought to you by Bear Radio

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53:27

#45: The Episode with the Yassamagician and Unlucky...

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2022/10/06

This episode of What’s The Mate brings together three familiar favourites; Angie Cornwell, Jenna Stone and Blake Farha of Kaleidoscope, this time under the umbrella of Macaroni Raincoat Shoe. Their choice, not ours. Stories of Yassification, pet dryers, 3D printed steaks and an unlawful house party get turned into the wackiest improv skits with bizarre magicians, a family who takes rules into their own hands and Duckie the overworked Dog. This episode is brought to you by Bear Radio. Thanks again to

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53:55

#44: The Episode with Nuts, Butts and King...

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2022/09/08

In this episode of WTM we are joined by the incredibly talented Billy Mason-Wood, Alice Schmid and Noah Telson.We explore stories from the “notorious” Berlin swimming pools, bungled Amazon orders and Millennium school busses. Our improvisers take us on magical adventures featuring Elton John, soft cops, contactable rainforest dwellers, talented class presidents and *multiple* accents.This episode was brought to you by Bear Radio, produced and edited by Julia Joubert and Jill Beytin. Thank you as

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42:46

#43: The Episode With a Killer Hat and Cats with...

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2022/08/25

In this bananas episode of What’s The Mate, we bring you wonderful tales from our very own Berlin, and improvisers Kevin Napier, Tina Joaquim and Blake Farha spin hilarious sketches throughout. This episode has everything: horse wars, uranium-laced fireman suits from Chernobyl, and an uppity hospital patient named Oscar. This week’s stories include Julia’s experience with the cute vintage hat that tried to kill her, the 23,000 (!!) charming gas lamps still burning in Berlin, and how Tina’s cat’s

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46:01

#42: The Episode with Berlin's Yetskis and the...

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2022/08/11

This episode comes to you from the Lakeside Film Festival where we were joined by Fünfdollar - featuring Caroline Clifford, Amanda King, Richard Killiam and Kieran Humphries - as well as a live audience!We hear all about the Berlin Police and their latest investment for patrolling the Spree, Julia's nightmare dog-sitting experience, Caroline's 70 000 euro transfer faux pas, and Richard's unexplained willingness to let anyone put anything into his mouth. As you can imagine, the improv that follows

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51:41

#41: The Episode with a Piano Playing Parrot and...

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2022/07/28

We’re back baby! And live from Podfest Berlin 2022!To kick off Season 4, we bring you Berlin’s newest musical-improv troupe - Jam Sandwich! Tina, Jenna, Angie, Blake, Richard and Joseph (on piano) join us LIVE to explore some of the weirder Berlin stories, including Julia’s metal-smelting ex housemate, an audience story about airport security and the team’s uneasy relationship with the German use of “hallo!”.These tales inspire some weird, wacky and gloriously catchy improvised skits - take a

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44:10

#40: The Episode with Hot Pizza Veggie (HPV) and a...

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2021/10/28

Coming to you live from Podfest Berlin 2021, it’s What’s The Mate! In this episode we bring you an all-lady powerhouse hailing (or wailing) from the streets of Berlin – Rhymes With Witches! Maria, Tina, Jenna and Nanda join us LIVE to explore some crazy Berlin tales, including Jenna’s wild time at a protest and her run-in with the cops. They introduce us to the brilliant yet terrifying concept of vaccine pizzas, we meet the city’s raver sheep and Tina gives us her best pug impression. It’s wild.This

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53:13

#39: The Bonus Episode with COVID-19 and Machete Man

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2020/05/14

Coming to you from the bowels of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, it’s What‘s The Mate!In this bonus episode we are joined, virtually and from across the globe, by GRILL TALK. Matilde Keizer dialed in from Berlin, Nacho Sanguinetti from Uruguay and Trevor Silverstein from California to bring you some of the funniest improv comedy!Together they explore bizarre stories that have come out of life during corona, where the drama of a machete-wielding man inspires “smart-social police officers” who use TikTok

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62:58

#38: The Episode with Celebrity Steak Addiction and...

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2019/11/21

It's our season finale, and we honestly couldn't think of a better way to end an incredible year! Julieta Degese, Trevor Silverstein and Gaston Stabiszewski join Julia for another side-splitting episode of WTM. We start with the story of meeting Pablo Francisco, which inspires a restaurant where anyone could be a celebrity, we hear the tale of a terrible Berlin club, the reason for Julia's "sexy voice" and the worst Coat Check of all time, and we end things with Julieta's experience with a German

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44:36

#37 The Episode with Head Cheese & a Swingers Buffet

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2019/11/14

Friends With Benefits join us for this week’s hilarious episode of What's The Mate! Antonia Bär, Caroline Clifford and Matilde Keizer dive right in, with the German Record of 268 litres of Solyanka, a traditional Russian soup, inspiring an unhealthy relationship between Antonia and Ramen noodles, 300 German swingers being evacuated from a building educated us on the realities of a "Swingers Buffet" and Matilde's horrible interaction with someone on public transport found us in a world where you

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50:20

#36: The Episode with Coke Taxis and The Wizard of...

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2019/11/07

The Skeleton Brains are back! Blake Farha, Daan Henselmans and Jake Potashnick join Julia in studio for another wild ride. From coke taxis delivering pizza to teenage birthday parties, family reunions gone awry and the Wizard of Wedding turning people into Pigeons, this episode is one for the books.This episode was brought to you by Bear Radio with support from Hindenburg and Tom Evans of Particle Studio.Follow Skeleton Brains on Facebook to find out where they are performing next. If you’re

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#35: The Episode with the Devil's Utensils & a Live...

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2019/10/31

Werewolves, vats of blood and Berlin's 10pm curfew - it's the What's The Mate Halloween episode and it's LIVE with GLB! Noah Telson (@telsonia), Nicole Ratjen (@rattynikki) and Josh Telson (@joshwithpowers) join host Julia Joubert for the spookiest improv this side of Transylvania. Julia’s gripping story of the Werewolf of Bedburg (Bedbug?) gets things started, followed by an unsettling tale from Nikki where vats of blood were found on her bus, and we end with our new favorite comedy genre, “Whisper

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65:15

#34: The Episode with Granny Tom Cruise & Not...

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2019/10/24

I, Contact makes their What's The Mate debut with this brilliantly funny and four storied episode! Blake, Ben and Justin dive into what it would mean to be stuck with a stranger's luggage on the S-Bahn, and we find out that Germany has over 3200 varieties of bread and that they celebrate "Buttered Bread Day". Justin's Oktoberfest experience opens our eyes to the fact that the Beer Festival isn't even in October and Ben's interaction with Reggie Watts takes us down a rabbit hole of Tom Cruise,

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#33: The Episode with All the Movies & Murder on the...

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2019/10/17

Double XL promised us a weird episode, and what a weird one it is! Nacho Sanguinetti and Trevor Silverstein join us for the „Ultimate Berlin Episode“ with stories about volunteering at the unfinished BER Airport, the fire at Mustafa’s Gemüse Kebap and living the Freelance Life in Germany’s capital.This episode is brought to you by Bear Radio with big thanks to Tom Evans of Particle Studio and Hindenburg for their support. Catch Trevor and Nacho at various shows and in various groups at The Comedy

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54:09

#32: The Episode with Radical Honesty & Julia's "Big"...

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2019/10/10

Amanda King, Kieran Humphries and Carl Clancy come together for the first time on What's The Mate as Two and a Half Micks. They unpack some hilarious stories, including Julia's tattoo experience and Radical Honesty, to a real-time example of why you should do a little research on the man who sent you a letter from prison. From cat funerals and assertiveness class to radical riddles, pen pals and Julia's existential crisis in studio, this episode is not to be missed! This episode is brought to you by

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51:25

#31: The Episode with iRats & Eunuch-Cycles

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2019/10/03

Skip Recap join us for the first time on What's The Mate and it's killer! Jakob Wagner, Kevin Napier and Tyrone Stallone step into studio for this week’s episode and turned our Berlin tales into inspired scenes. From a Python who is adamant that Chernobyl didn't happen to an Apple Genius who hates his job and a group of guys who hate pedestrians, Skip Recap went all in to give you some of the wackiest comedy Berlin has to offer.This episode is brought to you by Bear Radio, with support from the kind

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