Episodes
Growing up on classic country music, playing honky tonks 7 nights a week, getting a publishing deal in Nashville and getting cuts by Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Hank Jr., George Jones and Barbara Mandrell in the first 6 months, why Nashville wasn't for him, doing radio with cousin Johnny Knoxville, getting on the Jackass soundtrack, gambling on the Outlaw Country Cruise, battling with Mojo Nixon and oh so much more! Check out our chat with the amazingly talented and hilarious Roger Alan...
Published 03/05/24
Published 03/05/24
Seeing the Beatles for the first time, witnessing the first wave of English Punk rock, busking in Paris, playing in bands, beginning his film career with no experience then consequently making over 400 music videos, working with Britney Spears, GnR, and Oasis, filming the Band-Aid project, sleeping through a Willie Nelson concert and oh so much more! Check out our chat with Filmmaker Nigel Dick. Check out Nigel Dick's podcast here: https://www.twostopsoverpodcast.com/ More Nigel...
Published 02/26/24
Growing up on country music, listening to Steve Martin as a kid, learning history through heavy metal lyrics, discovering how the music biz really works, opening for Metallica, hanging with Dave Chapelle and Willie Nelson and oh so much more! Today we sit down with the legendary Jim Breuer.
Published 02/03/24
Today Raelyn and JB discuss Yoga and golf, weird documentaries, doing standup on New Year's Eve, brainstorming in the shower, funny things white people say, break down their Chat-GPT music video and oh so much more! Check out the music video here; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE00r_kLAEQ
Published 01/08/24
Previewing season 3 of Music is Funny, getting robbed by our (former) agent, vans breaking down, ideas on how to make money, water songs, and oh so much more! Check out Raelyn and JB, getting everyone caught up.
Published 12/29/23
Growing up in Seattle, listening to Three Dog Night on his dad’s cassette tapes, discovering Collective Soul, pop-punk, and Christian rock, rebelling by going to church, the ridiculous things young boys do for fun, realizing he wanted to be a comic in first grade, behind the scenes of Last Comic Standing, meeting Colin Quinn on a plane, traveling with Terry Bradshaw, George Foreman, William Shatner and Henry Winkler, and oh so much more! Check out our chat with the hilarious Jeff...
Published 05/17/23
Growing up on Little Feat and Michael Jackson in the UK, finding Nu-Metal, playing in a drone band in high school, starting comedy as a "one-liner" comic, becoming a freestyle rap comedian, moving to LA and NYC, going from clubs to theaters, funny accents, musical comedy, a live freestyle rap and oh so much more! Throw your hands in the air for the hilariously talented Chris Turner. www.christurnercomedy.com Instagram: @ChrisTurnerComedy YouTube: @chrispjturner MusicIsFunnyPodcast...
Published 05/03/23
Growing up outside of Nashville, going to a small K through 12 school and the talent that came out of a class of 42 people, how her sister sabotaged her first talent show as a kid, getting married and selling jewelry door to door, doing corporate jewelry events and using that experience to start standup comedy at a late age, moving to Texas and beginning a comedy career, how a viral comedy clip kept her from working at Target, becoming an “overnight success” after 20 years in the business,...
Published 04/19/23
Growing up on Yacht Rock, taking his parents to a Guns n Roses show, bands having to play their hits forever (except for Iron Maiden), doing crowd work to keep the staff entertained, why Andrew Dice Clay is a punk rock comedic genius, starting comedy in black clubs, avoiding the trap of only performing in front of your fans, touring in the early days, how the pandemic affected his new special, getting advice from Patrice O’Neil, opening for Rock Bands and oh so much more! Check out the...
Published 04/05/23
Growing up in a musical family, having an uncle who co-wrote Country Roads, listening to Madonna at a very young age, writing a break up song in the second grade, working as a page on David Letterman, being Lorne Michaels assistant for 3 years, why stoners might not be good at improv, working with Whitney Cummings on her podcast, starting her own podcast and oh so much more! Check out our chat with Emily Noonan. •Emily Noonan• Instagram: @emilyjnoonan Nice to be Nice Podcast:...
Published 03/15/23
Going from stealing his big sister’s Avril Lavigne CDs to listening to Slayer, wacky Christian Pop stars, falling into social groups based on music, being into comedy as a youngster, seeing Weird Al as a first concert, starting comedy in Boston, moving to LA simply because his cousin had an apartment there, Alice Cooper’s Chinese throwing stars and oh so much more!Check out our chat with Daniel Donohue. •Daniel Donohue•Instagram: @notbaddon Twitter: @notbaddon Basket of Cats Podcast:...
Published 03/01/23
Growing up in Long Island, discovering Eminem as a youngster, doing comedy in 7th grade in a talent show then not doing it again for 10 more years, why food delivery jobs are the best ones for stoners, breaking into the NYC comedy scene, playing in a punk band that broke up because they had to change their name, why ball busting is healthy and oh so much more! Check out the hilarious Brendan Sagalow. •Brendan Sagalow• Facebook:...
Published 02/15/23
Growing up in a strict Christian household, listening to Christian Rock, learning guitar and moving to Nashville to be a session musician, the transition into comedy, why it’s easier to get laughs as a musician, house shows, applying the punk rock DIY formula to comedy and oh so much more! Check out our chat with the hilarious Cortney Warner. •Cortney Warner• Instagram: @cortneywarner13 Website: www.cortneywarner.com MusicIsFunnyPodcast #cortneywarner #RaelynNelsonBand 👉🏽...
Published 02/02/23
Officiating Mark Normand’s wedding, why food on the road sucks, watching the Super Bowl with an illegal weed delivery guy, never trying Moonshine but wanting to, having stalkers, trading Air BnB stories, why flying sucks, and oh so much more! Today it’s the return of the hilarious Sean Patton. •Sean Patton • http://meseanpatton.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mrseanpatton Instagram: @mrseanpatton Twitter: @mrseanpatton #SeanPatton #MusicisFunny #RaelynNelsonBand Subscribe and Like...
Published 01/18/23
How does one go from growing up in a trailer, to graduating in a class of 12 in a small Oklahoma town, to making one minute Vine videos, to creating an internet character and going viral, to selling out 5 consecutive nights in a theater for her first ever attempt at stand up comedy, to becoming a theater headliner and touring all over the US? Find out this and oh so much more by checking out our chat with the amazing and hilarious Chelcie Lynn and the return of Libbie Higgins. •Chelcie Lynn•...
Published 01/04/23
Impersonating Michael Jackson and doing comedy in the high school talent show, why dancing is easier than comedy, why Gangsta Rap was more influential than Grunge in the suburbs, the importance of Eddie Murphy, the influence of improv, shooting a comedy special in all three rooms of the legendary Comedy Store and oh so much more! Check out our chat with the hilarious Fahim Anwar. •Fahim Anwar• Instagram: @fahimanwar Twitter: @fahimanwar Website: https://www.fahimanwar.com...
Published 12/28/22
How does one go from throwing rocks at cars as a kid, to dodging bottles onstage as a young comic, to opening for Bill Burr, headlining clubs across the country, and having not one, but two successful comedy podcasts? Find out as we discuss this wild ride with the hilarious Paul Virzi! •Paul Virzi•Instagram: @paulvirzi Twitter: @paulvirzi Website: https://paulvirzi.com #MusicIsFunnyPodcast #paulvirzi #RaelynNelsonBand 👉🏽 https://youtube.com/c/RaelynNelsonBand#RaelynNelsonBand...
Published 12/21/22
Singing the Sesame Street theme song, witnessing the birth of hip hop in New York, watching Eddie Murphy, calling Ad Rock’s mom, getting hammered on the road, why some comics quit drinking, why rock stars should be dead at 40, maxing out Nate Bargatze’s credit card, why comics like history and musicians like drugs and oh so much more! Check out our absolutely hilarious chat with one of our favorites, Yannis Pappas. •Yannis Pappas• Instagram: @yannispappas Youtube:...
Published 12/14/22
Growing up in an Indian household, getting introduced to new music from a younger brother, why Weezer has become a Weezer cover band, why people laughing at his poetry as a teenager led him to comedy, how Romeo and Juliet were having a mid-life crisis, moving to Seattle to be an immigrant rights organizer and doing comedy, how difficult breaking into the New York comedy scene is, why baseball jokes don’t work, the best road snacks and oh so much more! Check out our convo with Hari Kondabolu....
Published 12/07/22
Growing up in Cleveland, the strange phenomenon of sad songs with happy melodies, making her brothers cry, getting a radio gig after her first open mic, what touring was like for women in the 90’s, why forks are excellent weapons, behind the scenes of Last Comic Standing and oh so much more! Check out our chat with the hilarious Tammy Pescatelli. •Tammy Pescatelli• Instagram: @tammypescatelli Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TammyPescatelli1?mibextid=LQQJ4d Twitter:...
Published 11/30/22
Growing up in St. Louis, wanting to get into the creative arts but being a shy girl, discovering Steve Martin, quitting her job as a school teacher to pursue comedy, coming up with characters to post online, going viral with a McRib rant, meeting, touring, and living with Chelcie Lynn, why music makes her cry and oh so much more! Check out our chat with the hilarious Libbie Higgins. •Libbie Higgins• https://libbiehiggins.com Instagram: libbiehiggins_ Facebook:...
Published 11/23/22
Growing up in New York, doing a battle of the bands in his back yard, getting “gonged” at a high school production of the Gong Show, how Adam Sandler inspired him to be a comedian, why comedians hate parody songs, driving Steven Tyler while working for Uber, getting trashed by Alex Jones and oh so much more! Check out our wild ride with Stephen Spinola. •Stephen Spinola• http://www.stephenspinola.com Instagram: @mr_mcstevie Facebook:...
Published 11/16/22
Growing on 90s Grunge music, why not trying comedy was more scary than trying it, doing his first open mic in a Chinese restaurant at 18, why young comics are more business savvy than they used to be, moving to NYC from Boston, the value of ball busting, writing and starring in a movie with Louis CK, hanging out with Paul McCartney and oh so much more! Check out our chat with the hilarious Joe List. •Joe List• https://www.comedianjoelist.com Instagram: @joelistcomedy Twitter:...
Published 11/09/22
Watch new special here: https://youtu.be/c1oFTTdl_Bs https://www.bobbyjaycox.com Growing up in “the meth capitol of the world”, playing exactly one show in a high school punk band, getting inspired by Dane Cook, signing of for his first open mic through MySpace then chickening out, touring and playing guitar with Nikki Glaser, incorporating music into his comedy for the first time, hanging out in Nashville, why bombing gets easier, recording a comedy special in front of strangers and oh so...
Published 11/02/22