You probably didn't know that Adelaide Comic of the Year, Jason Chong, kick started his own stand-up comedy career by attending a stand-up comedy course. That was twenty years ago. Since then he's become a regular face of Adelaide comedy, on stage, TV and radio.
In this School of Hard Knock Knocks podcast episode, host Steve Davis talks to Jason about discipline, getting gigs, the Tarago Test, and The Black Box Experiment. Jason also shares a tip from his very first stand-up comedy lesson - keep asking 'but what do you mean?' Listen to find out what he means.
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101: Tom Siegert - Fighting for Comedy
100: Katie Burch – Avoiding the waffle and being cruel
099: Ashley Fils-Aime – Reinventing yourself in comedy
098: Wayne Deakin – Overcoming the wilful ignorance in comedy
097: Lewis Spears – The consummate professional behind the 'Spears' brand
096: Charles Firth – Exposing truths and undermining power structures with satire
095: Ian McFadyen – Creating an Australian sketch comedy national treasure
094: Simon Kennedy – Crossing the line and the Art of Happiness
093: Daniel Muggleton – Comedy during Covid and Three Stripes
092: Stig Wemyss – Is This Thing On?
091: Scott Dikkers - Pointing out stupidity with The Onion
090: Morry Morgan - Coronavirus and comedy
088: Marty Bright – Optimism and being easy to work with
087: Fady Kassab - Winning Raw Comedy from the back of his head
086: Lee Ton – Where are you from from?
085: Mickey D – Pain is just an emotion
084: Viet Bui – Vietnam to VB
083: Steven Oliver – Comedy scripts, sketch, and sluts
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