Ep. 557 - Alyssa Kyria AKA The Funny Mummy - viral comedian and award nominated actor
My Time Capsule
Cast Off Productions
4.8 • 842 Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Alyssa Kyria is a comedian, actor and writer, best known as The Funny Mummy, whose relatable comedy sketches regularly go viral and have amassed over 23 million views. She received a Best Supporting Actress nomination from the Dublin International Comedy Festival for her role as Annalise in the feature film Ashens and the Polybius Heist, which won Best Film at the London Film Festival 2021, and was a finalist in the Royal Court Theatre’s Screenshot competition in 2021. An accomplished voice actor, Alyssa has worked extensively with Audible and BBC Radio 4, and can currently be heard in Audible’s Sleeping Beauty, starring Stephen Fry and featuring the London Symphony Orchestra, where she voices multiple characters ranging from an Arabic Queen to an evil thorn .
Alyssa Kyria is our guest in episode 557 of My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; four she’d like to preserve and one she’d like to bury and never have to think about again .
For everything Alyssa Kyria, visit - https://alyssakyria.com .
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to my time capsule. My name's Mike Fenton-Stevens, and my time capsule is the podcast where people tell me five things from their life they wish they had in a time capsule, four |
| 0:22.0 | things they love and one thing they'd like to bury and forget. My guest in this episode is the |
| 0:27.9 | actor and comedian, Alisa Kiria. Elisa is an actor who does stand-up comedy. She's currently |
| 0:34.5 | working on a one-woman play called Congratulations, but it's her stand-up comedy that has really taken off. |
| 0:40.3 | Elisa's comedy is silly, relatable and very funny. |
| 0:44.3 | As you can see from her videos and sketches on Instagram, which regularly go viral, and have had over 23 million views. |
| 0:52.3 | Elisa is mum to Lola, who inspires a lot of her material, |
| 0:57.2 | and when she performs live and on social media, |
| 0:59.9 | she talks about everything from motherhood to perimenopause and mental health, |
| 1:04.4 | through her hilarious one-woman show as The Funny Mummy, |
| 1:08.1 | all about the strange world of parenting, |
| 1:10.0 | from pregnancy to play dates, |
| 1:12.4 | WhatsApp groups and school runs. There's a link in the written description to her Instagram page. |
| 1:17.9 | It's well worth a look. Elisa is the co-creator of Bring Your Own Baby Comedy, |
| 1:23.1 | where she and others perform comedy to audiences across the country. She's appeared on the BBC, ITV and Sky, |
| 1:30.5 | and now she's going to talk to me |
| 1:32.5 | and reveal the five things from her life |
| 1:34.8 | she'd like to have in a time capsule. |
| 1:37.2 | So here is Alisa Kiria. |
| 1:43.5 | Hello! |
| 1:45.1 | Hello, Alita. |
| 1:46.0 | How are you? |
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