HeyJaredBefore. During. After.
Before. During. After. is a Smirk Experience podcast about performance; from the inside. Every week Sam Carrington will sit down with a professional comedian.
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- 13
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- Sep 30, 2026
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Before. During. After. with Tony Law (opens the original)
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Sam and Tony discuss the relationship between preparation and rigidity, the perils of assuming what an audience will like before you start, how to pull it back when you might be losing an audience and how to make nonsense sound authoritative.
Before. During. After. with Glenn Wool (opens the original)
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Sam and Glenn dlve into what Glenn has learnt by gigging all over the world for 30 years. They cover how he played rooms that had no interest in hearing comedy early on in his career, how stagecraft can control a room without saying a word and how the bad gigs make you a real comedian.
Before. During. After. with Ali Hassan (opens the original)
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Sam and his old show biz mucka Ali Hassan discuss the freedom being totally prepared gives you, that confidence can be projected whatever's happening and however you're secretly feeling and how sometimes you're better off switching analysing a bad gig for a beer with a pal.
Before. During. After. with Ian Moore (opens the original)
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Ian and Sam discuss overcoming, or maybe accepting, imposter syndrome is part of the game, why preparation equals freedom, how comics 'read a room' and how the come down after shows is the hardest part.
Before. During. After. with Sarah Iles (opens the original)
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Sarah and Sam discuss how confidence isn't something you're born with- it's something you build, how nerves aren't the enemy and how taking the risk in the first place is the biggest step to make.
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