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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061: Lee Ton - Persistence pays for a comedy career
060: Khaled Khalafalla - How comedy killed the radio star
059: David Tulk - 'No Filter' but still lovable
058: Marty Wilson - More Funny, More Money
057: Paul Sharplin - Jumping in the deep end of comedy
056: Ross Voss - Building the Adelaide comedy community
055: Nikki Osborne - Go hard or go home
054: Cameron James – Building a comedy brand with your own hands
053: Gavin Sempel – The hard road to Raw Comedy
052: Joe White – Developing an audience and giving back
051: Adam Jacobs – The best daze of his life and more
050: Glynn Nicholas – And it all began in Adelaide
049: Chris Asher – The ‘business’ of comedy show business
048: Damian Callinan – Espy zero to Wagga Wagga hero
047: The Kagools – Building a comedic brand on slapstick
See us recording live at The Adelaide Podcast Festival!
046: Adam Rozenbachs – Bringing comedy from Carlton to Kabul
045: Leon Huxtable – A Raw Comedy time machine
044: Tegan Higginbotham – Class Clowns to celebrity comedian
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