Live From Philly 2!

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Performing Arts, Society & Culture, Comedy, Personal Journals, Arts

4.6 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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A Classic RISK! episode from our early years that first ran in April of 2013, when Giulia Rozzi, Nimisha Ladva and Kevin Allison shared stories at a live RISK! show in Philadelphia, presented by First Person Arts. 🎧Live Story: A Little Help from My Friends by Kevin Allison When his comedy troupe The State breaks up, Kevin has to start a solo career, and creates a weird, elaborate, performance-art style comedic character monologue that centers around possibly being (or not being) Charles Manson. He tries it out at the Luna Lounge on a night when the club is packed to the rafters with famous comedians, and one paragraph into the piece, he completely blanks out on the remaining nine pages, paralyzed by stage fright, and unable to trust his own instincts or his vulnerability. Kevin tries to leave the theatre, but the crowd is so huge he can’t go anywhere, and suddenly they grab him and body-surf him around the room, depositing him back onstage, cheering at him that he has to keep performing...and that gives him the boost to find his voice and his lines again, and finish his monologue. keywords: Live story, show host, Host story, Kevin Allison, NYC, New York, comedy, comedy club, standup, gig, failure, blank, memorization, stage fright, script, scripted, Luna Lounge, Charles Manson, character, monologue, think about it Jackass, audience, The State, solo, body surfing, onstage, agent, fear, vulnerability, career. 🎧Live Story: Giulia Rozzi Shaves Her Toes! by Giulia Rozzi 🎧Live Story: An American Family by Nimisha Ladva Nimisha's Indian family is not happy to hear she's marrying a Jewish guy, but they do their best to get over it. At the epic Indian wedding, Nimisha's mom makes the groom a gift, and makes a big deal of presenting it to him. It's emblazoned with a swastika, which has its own historical meaning in Indian culture. It's an extremely awkward moment, but love saves the day and the family acknowledges the mistake, conceding that no swastikas should be present during the wedding. 🌈 Support RISK! & Get Involved • 🎟 See RISK! live⁠ • ✍️ Pitch your story⁠ • ❤️ Support us on Patreon⁠ or ⁠make a one-time PayPal donation⁠ • 📚 Shop merch or the RISK! book⁠ • 🎓 Take storytelling classes with us⁠ • 🎥 Hire Kevin as a coach or get personalized videos Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey folks, this is Risk, the show where people tell true stories they never thought they
0:04.9	dare to share. I'm Kevin Allison, and every Thursday we release these special episodes
0:10.1	where we look back at content from our earlier years. This week, it's an episode that
0:15.3	premiered in May of 2013, an episode we call live from Philly, too.
0:22.8	Music Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Wow! Oh, wow! Wow! Wow! We're going to be. Oh, wow. Hello,
0:57.0	Hello, kids, this is Risk, the show where people tell true stories.
1:16.7	They never thought they'd dare to share.
1:18.7	I'm Kevin Allison, and this is Ronda behind me now.
1:23.2	Well, I'll tell you, we had such an amazing time.
1:26.7	The first time we took risk down to Philadelphia
1:29.3	that we decided to get down there again as soon as possible.
1:33.9	The people at the First Person Arts Organization are so wonderful to work with.
1:39.6	Jamie Brunson, James Claiborne, Karina Kasala.
1:43.3	We love them.
1:47.3	So we went back down to Philly and did a show at the free library there a couple weekends ago, and it was so solid, we decided to give you the whole
1:54.3	enchilada. But it's a wee bit long for one episode, so we've split it into two parts. Three stories this episode, three stories
2:03.1	the next. We'll start off with one from me. I first told a version of this story at one of the
2:10.2	very first risk shows ever in 2009, but this is kind of a revamp of it. So without further ado, let's get to it.
2:19.6	We revisit the city of brotherly love.
2:22.4	This is Risk.
2:23.5	Live in Philly, too.
2:47.0	Oh, boy. Oh boy, this goes back to, you know, my first days when I started performing on stage as a solo guy. The story kind of starts with a little bit of a brain fart, and it ends with a full body belch,
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