26: Kicking Through The Ashes with stand up comedian Ritch Shydner

Be Here For A While

Comedy Interviews, Education, Self-improvement, Comedy

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🗓️ 3 November 2016

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

It was nearly impossible for Rachael to become any more obsessed with the history of stand up comedy, but after today's guest, it has happened. Stand up legend Ritch Shydner is here to tell Rachael his craziest stories from the comedy club boom of the 1980's -- many of which you'll find in his new book, Kicking Through The Ashes. Rachael learns how Ritch's groundbreaking career unfolded and what set his comedy apart.

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0:00.0	Oh, Hello everyone welcome back to another episode of Be here for a while I have a
0:19.4	legend here today he is a comedian. He's done numerous television shows and TV spots as a comic,
0:29.7	the tonight show. And he's also the author of a new book coming out is it already out?
0:36.0	Yeah it's called kicking through the ashes my life is a stand-up in the 1980s
0:40.6	comedy boom which is something that fascinates the shit out of me I am like
0:45.8	obsessed with like learning about you know because it's not like that now but anyways
0:50.2	welcome rich thank you the name is rich schidner thank you Anyways, welcome, Rich. Thank you, Rachel.
0:55.0	His name is Rich Schiedner.
0:54.6	Thank you, Rachel.
0:55.3	I forgot to say your name before I got excited.
0:57.3	That's how excited I was that you were here.
1:00.3	Rich Schiedner.
1:01.5	I got to say it right, too. I got a speech impediment guys just go with it.
1:05.2	Yeah, so happy you're here. Thank you so much for doing this. This is the first time Rich and I are meeting
1:10.5	This was set up because of his book, but I started reading his book on the plane home the other day from Charleston and it was all like the entire
1:19.5	Five-hour plane ride. I was like could not stop reading it. I could not put it down. It's amazing.
1:24.7	Wow. You're an incredible writer. Oh thank you. Really? Because I've read other
1:29.2	stand-up comedy books before and like we're dying up here for example and it was I was fascinated by the
1:36.4	stories but now that I've read a book about this time from someone who was
1:41.6	actually a comic it wasn't just
1:43.0	interviewing comics it's a way different perspective because you're
1:46.2	writing like a like a comic you know it's funny but like deep and yeah I try to
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