Comics Coming Up

Jane Borden (@JaneBorden) takes a little time off before her recent storytelling master class at Improv Boston to sit down for an interesting conversation. We talk about her recent book “I Totally Meant To Do That”, about growing up in the south and adjusting to life in New York City, the process of getting the […]

Ken Reid (@KennethWReid) returns! He was one of two guests in Episode 11, this time it’s just him. We talk about his recently staged One Man Show “Shirt Tales”, house hunting/home owning stories, working on cable access at age ten, vigilante justice, beginning standup in London England and more. He helps Matt with some of […]

Mike Mulloy (@Mike_Mulloy) joins Matt Kona and Producer Tom in a podcast of multiple firsts. We are recording in a truck in the parking lot before a Boston Comedy Softball League game, and it’s also the first of a different kind of bonus theme show. We talk about professional wrestling and preview the upcoming WWE […]

Kelly MacFarland (@KellyMacFarland) and Leah Bonnema (@LeahBonnema) venture into The Ratscellar** before their show at Nick’s Comedy Stop. We talk about their mutual (but differing) roots in Maine, how they came to comedy through various roads (a hip hop group, on a dare…) wearing an outfit for an opening joke as a new comic, producing […]

Part 2 of the very special, never to be done again DIY Recording of a live show at Grandma’s Basement. Matt sits down with Shari Vanderwerf (@ShariV67) to have the tables turned on him and be interviewed, then he tries to figure out how to get 19,000 twitter followers. John Baglio comes back on the […]

Some new faces (ok voices) on the Boston Comedy Scene as well as another brief chat with Grandma’s Basement guru Benny Bosh. We talk to Christine Crocker before she leaves for military service, things get real personal with Bob Friend (@BFriend) right off the bat for some reason, and Dan Sally does a brief interview […]

Tony Moschetto (@LordMoschetto) sits down for an in depth conversation about his life as a comic. Boston comedy in the 90′s is covered as well as misconceptions that non comics have towards this lifestyle. There is a lot of insight and things to learn for up and coming comedians through some of the experiences he […]

James Fritz (@JamesFritzComic)! While in Chicago I did one of my favorite podcasts “You Could Be Dead” that James hosts and we kept talking afterwards. Joining us briefly is fellow podcaster Brandon Weatherbee from You, Me, Them, Everybody (@ymte) and we talk about music, Chicago, James’ home town in Kentucky and many bizarre things as […]

Geek Week (April 25-29 at Improv Boston www.GeekWeekComedy.com) brought us along and we did some field recordings and a mini podcast with audience. Be sure to check out all the new friends Matt met while wandering around handing out Comics Coming Up Posters (free if you leave an itunes review and tweet at me w/your […]

Maggie Monahan (@MakeWay4Maggie) talks about her involvement with the sketch Group “Chocolate Cake City”, being extremely new to standup, sketch writing, embarassing childhood trauma and more! Louie Bercelli talks about relocating from New Hampshire to Boston, starting standup in exchange for a whiskey, being sick of jokes, adapting a fiction writing degree to joke writing, […]

Hank Thompson (@Hank_Thompson), from The Winners and Losers Show Podcast (www.winnersandlosersshow.com) sits down with Matt to get really gritty and honest with sexual mishap stories, comedy and more! Check out Hank’s podcast in a few weeks for the other side of the podcast coin and leave a review for both on itunes.

Mick Greenwood (Micktacular) comes by Side Two Studio for a chat with a slightly slurry/self medicated Matt Kona to talk about how he came to be a part of the Boston Comedy scene by way of hosting a mixed open mic, his band The Self Proclaimed Rock Stars ( www.sprband.com, performing this Saturday at The […]

Will Noonan (@WillNoonan) comes back to The Side Two Studio. Will was the show’s first guest and has since gone on to do many things since then. He’s released a CD, has got more out of town road work (and less…we talk about that too) and more. All while battling weird pirate radio music in […]

Brad Hemesath (@BradHemesath) is my guest inside Side Two Studio at the tail end of a long podcasting day for Matt. It’s one of the more loose conversations we’ve had so far. Some of the hard hitting topics involve, being on the fence about trying to get an out of town comic guest in the […]

Jeff Koen sits down to talk about his role in the film Heavy Times and the chaotic and death defying behind the scenes making of stories, standup comedy, youtube sabotage, goldschlager and more! (Follow the film makers on Twitter @NutPonyFilms and check out the trailer at www.heavytimesmovie.com ) and friend Jeff on facebook for standup […]

Live from Grandma’s Basement Travel Stories/Strangers. Matt is home from The North Carolina Comedy and Arts Festival. He talks with Ryan Darmody about Las Vegas (and what does not stay there) Erik Levi about illegal activities with mysterious strangers. Christa Weiss shares a couple of stories about strangers on a bus and Shea Spillane talks […]

Live from Grandma’s Basement. Jason Cordova (@Hard_Cordova), Kailey Godoy (@KaileyGodoy_vey), Steve Halligan (@Steve_Halligan) Robbie Goodwin (@RobbieGoodwin) and Steve Macone form the panel to talk about the usual array of random topics. Some of which include the impending advent of creepy european stalker technology, explaining Canasta and other board games to Matt, being attacked by offended […]

Nick Lavallee (@TheOtherDude) sits down in the lobby of the Howard Johnson before his Boston record release show for “The Other Dude” at Grandma’s Basement. We talk about growing up watching SNL with his family at the breakfast table, coming up in bands, the DIY ethics of underground music and transitioning over to comedy. Find […]

Jessie Baade (@JessieBaade) sits down for a conversation about coming up as a comic in New York City alongside some notable standups (Sarah Silverman, Greg Geraldo among others) being an actor in SAG, moving to Boston, quitting comedy mutliple times, epileptic seizures and more! Check out Jessie’s Blog http://jessiebaadeblog.blogspot.com/ and check her standup out in […]

Mike Dorval drops by Grandma’s Basement to talk about starting out as an actor, working his way up through clubs in the early 2000′s, developing and performing his one man show “Death By Chocolate” and his current project, The Trials of Love, where he hears both sides of an issue between two couples in a […]