Having a successful podcast can transform a comic’s career, while even niche titles can be immensely valuable in broadening a comedian’s audience, developing new skills and allowing creators to follow their passions and interests.
Here, Arts Hub talks to four Australian comics on the role podcasting has played in their careers.
Since debuting late last year, Lizzy Hoo’s podcast S**tuations has told stories of heartbreak, divorce and professional woe, but it originally had a very different focus. “This is a gross origin story, but we were all sharing our worst travel diarrhoea stories, and I [thought], ‘I need to make a podcast about this!’,” she laughs.
