Comedy with an Accent
Episodes
S02E32 Dimitri Bakanov, Russian Speaker - From Kherson, Ukraine 🇺🇦
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Language itself should be a neutral issue; but it never is in the real world. Dimitri Bakanov is a London-based Ukrainian comedian. He is also a nat...
S02E31 Your Host Kuan-wen’s Monologue #3 🇹🇼 Comedy Lost In Translation
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is it possible to perform stand up in yet another language (aka not English, not your mother tongue, also less fluent) but relying solely on translati...
S02E30 Mike Rice, English Speaker - From County Kilkenny, Ireland 🇮🇪
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Rice is probably THE guest this podcast has had so far who proved to be the best at impersonations and accent mimicry. During the course of this...
S02E29 Spring Day, English/Japanese Speaker - From Kansas City, Missouri, USA 🇺🇸
06 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever tried to learn a foreign language so hard, that it influences and moulds your speech pattern in your native tongue? That you moved to a ...
S02E28 Martin Durchov, Bulgarian Speaker - From Sofia, Bulgaria 🇧🇬
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Martin Durchov has never done any podcast interview - not until this episode popped his podcast cherry. You can find his Instagram profile, but be war...
S02E27 Shalaka Kurup, English/Hindi/(Childhood Malayalam) Speaker - From Bengaluru (Bangalore), India 🇮🇳
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Shalaka is a self-proclaimed nerd with a PHD in trains whilst loading herself with Millennial angst. Those are supposed to be the most interesting and...
S02 Bonus Episode [Recorded in French] En Savoir Plus Sur French It Up ... en français
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This bonus episode (90% in French and the remainder in English) was recorded as part of the conversation with French It Up Comedy Club founder Jeff Vi...
S02E26 French It Up - French Comedy Show in London, Jeff Vitale - From Marseille, France 🇫🇷
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“French It Up est LE comedy club français à Londres. Lancé en 2016 par Jeff Vitale, depuis rejoint par Fabrice Edouard Laroche Francoeur, le conc...
S02E25 Your Host Kuan-wen’s monologue #2 🇹🇼 Learning English v.s. performing stand up comedy in English
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Celiac, dyspraxia, sporran, ricochet, hypochondriac, cheugy, mausoleum, flab… how many of these English words do you - as a non-native English speak...
S02E24 Radu Isac returns (From Vaslui, Romania 🇷🇴; From Season 1 Episode 6-7)
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Veteran London-based Romanian comedian Radu Isac returns after his last interview on this podcast in 2022. Radu catches up with your host Kuan-wen to ...
S02E23 Peter Flanagan - English/Irish speaker, From County Kildare, Ireland 🇮🇪🍀
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Given Ireland and Britain’s complex history, not least over 700 years of colonisation and dominance and the most recent thorny issue of Northern Ire...
S02E22 Tatty Macleod - English/French speaker, From Camors, Brittany, France 🇫🇷 🏴
14 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Name a stand up comedian who’s like the ambassador of both the English and French cultures? Many of you probably think of her bright pink hairs stra...
S02E21 2024 Review + Your Host Kuan-wen’s Monologue 🇹🇼
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! This is a one-off monologue (without a guest!!) before 2024 comes to an end. But hey. monologo(s) do also mean sta...
S02E20 Vlad Ilich - Macedonian speaker, From Kumanovo, North Macedonia 🇲🇰
03 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
North Macedonia’s proudest export to the UK and so far the only North Macedonian comedian performing professionally on the UK comedy circuit, Vlad h...
S02E19 Comedy Por Favor - Spanish Comedy Show in London, Sergi Polo (From Barcelona, From S01E16) returns
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
¿sabias que todos los meses se hace un show de monólogos de comedia en español en Londres?One half of the masterminds behind the popular Comedy Por...
S02E18 Louise Atkinson, English speaker (Hull/East Yorkshire accent) - From Kingston upon Hull, England 🏴
05 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our third ever guest from England hails from Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire. For listeners interested in the numerous accents that exist in the...
S02E17 Donatas Kveselys, Lithuanian speaker - From Raseiniai, Lithuania 🇱🇹
22 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Donatas Kveselys is the second Lithuanian comedian featured on this podcast. This episode, however, feels half-dedicated to the Kingdom and the people...
S02E16 Samira Banks, [Unnamed language]/German/English speaker - From an unidentified country in the Middle East
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Winner of the prestigious So You Think You Are Funny competition in 2023, Samira Banks is a bright new star making waves on the UK comedy circuit. Her...
S02E15 Sam Yarb, English speaker - From Post Mills, Vermont, USA 🇺🇸
24 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do you perform and progress on the comedy circuit, when you as a native English speaker already moved to an Asian country where the population doe...
S02E14 Kat Nip, Polish speaker - From Skrzyszow, Poland 🇵🇱
10 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Polish stand up comedian Kat Nip is a Berlin-based but globe-trotting performer. She runs her own comedy show in Berlin but is also a regular at comed...
S02E13 Tiziano La Bella, Italian speaker - From Rome, Italy 🇮🇹
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As one of the founding members of Becomedy - a comedy show production team in the English as well as Italian languages in both Italy and the UK - Tizi...
S02E12 Sam See (From Singapore 🇸🇬, From S01E25) returns
13 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our first returning guest is Singaporean comedian Sam See, previously featured in Episode 25 of the first season.Since the last recording in January 2...
S02E11 Marjolein Robertson, Shetlandic/English speaker - From Lerwick, Shetland, Scotland 🏴
31 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Marjolein Robertson is a Shetlandic comedian, actor and storyteller. She was Scots Speaker of the Year in 2022, ranked number three in The List’s H...
S02 Bonus Episode [Recorded in Mandarin] 原名不詳，中文藝名 404，現居倫敦的中國單口喜劇演員 Blank Peng
23 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a special episode recorded in Mandarin with our guest Blank Peng from last week前一集的英文訪問 Blank 提及她在中國喜劇圈表演...
S02E10 Blank Peng, Mandarin speaker - From Fujian province, China 🇨🇳
16 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Making headway to big comedy clubs’ paid spots within two years of arriving in the UK, Blank got into almost all the major Comedy New Act Competitio...
S02E09 Micky Overman, Dutch speaker - From Almere, The Netherlands 🇳🇱
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Describing her accent as “a beautiful mess”, comedian Micky Overman’s show “The Recipe” was amongst the best reviewed shows at the Edinburgh...
S02E08 Guido Garcia Lueches, Spanish speaker - From Montevideo, Uruguay 🇺🇾
18 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guido Garcia Lueches is a theatre maker, actor from Uruguay. His one man show “Playing Latinx” - though categorised as Theatre rather than Comedy...
S02E07 Philipp Kostelecky, English/German speaker - From Ljubljana, Slovenia 🇸🇮
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Philipp’s comedy set, he likes to open with “Hi, my name is Philipp. I come from Austria, America and Slovenia.” In real life, sometimes Aust...
S02E06 Mark Silcox , Hindi speaker - From Ganj Basoda, India 🇮🇳
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Best known as the mischievous private investigator on Channel; 4's Joe Lycett's Got Your Back, Mark Silcox is an accomplishment stand up comedian in h...
S02E05 Alice Frick, German speaker - From Vienna, Austria 🇦🇹
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alice Frick is a comedian, writer, producer originally from Vienna, Austria, who is also the show runner of "Laughing Labia", an all-female line up co...
S02E04 Arielle Souma, French speaker - From Bossise-le-Roi, France 🇫🇷
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Comedy powerhouse Arielle Souma is the very first French guest on this podcast after more than thirty episodes (FINALLY!). Unapologetic, unfiltered a...
S02E03 Gino Christofaro, German / Portugese speaker - Brazilian 🇧🇷/ German 🇩🇪 Comedian
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Gino Christofaro is the podcast’s first guest whose home city is not indicated in the episode title. He simply cannot name one.Being an embassy kid...
S02 Bonus Episode [Recorded in Mandarin] 來自中國上海卻「入虎穴」台灣的單口喜劇演員 Jamie Wang
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a special episode recorded in Mandarin with our Chinese guest Jamie Wang from last week. For the non-Mandarin-speaking guests, our regular epi...
S02E02 Jamie Wang, Mandarin / Shanghainese speaker - From Shanghai, China 🇨🇳
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do you perform stand up comedy when half of the audience sees you as the enemy at worst, or not knowing what to think of you at best, in a languag...
S02E01 Victor Patrascan, Romanian speaker - From Vameș, Romania 🇷🇴
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Could you ever imagine no longer having a fixed place you call home, not even having a storage space to keep your belongings, that you are just consta...
Comedy with an Accent is back! Season 2 incoming
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Comedy with an Accent is back! Sorry for the prolonged break but we are back with another fun season, First episode will be out at 7am (GMT) on Tuesd...
S01E31 Vidura Bandara Rajapaksa, Sinhala/English speaker - From Colombo, Sri Lanka 🇱🇰
18 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
One of the fastest rising stars selling out venues across European cities, Sri Lankan born Vidura spent his childhood, his teenage years and his young...
End of Season 1 Announcement (But NOT the Podcast!!)
16 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hi all! Thanks so much for your support in the last year. Season One of Comedy with an Accent Podcast is coming to an end at episode 31 - there's one...
S01E30 Denis Chuzhoy (Dan The Stranger), Russian speaker - From Kursk, Russia 🇷🇺
04 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When your host messaged Dan about the interview at the start of this year, he replied that he was still on the move after leaving Russia. He could not...
S01E29 Schalk Bezuidenhout, Afrikaans / English speaker - From Kempton Park, South Africa 🇿🇦
20 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Schalk Bezuidenhout was tour support for Trevor Noah and won South African Comics' Choice Awards' Newcomer and Break Through Act of the Year. This epi...
S01E28 Joshua Bethania, Kannada/ Tamil/ Hindi/ English speaker - from Bengaluru, India 🇮🇳
06 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Having only started performing comedy in the UK in 2021, Joshua was crowned winner of So You Think You Are Funny in 2022 and bagged another win at Lon...
S01E27 Jomi Cruz, Portuguese speaker - From Cascais, Portugal 🇵🇹
23 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our very first Portuguese guest is comedian Jomi Cruz who radiates tons of youthful energy and resembles a junior Eurovision contestant. Jomi shares h...
S01E26 Evaldas Karosas, Lithuanian speaker - From Rokiskis, Lithuania 🇱🇹
09 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Evaldas could have stayed in his native Lithuania and earned much more from doing comedy. After all, he started performing at a critical time in Lithu...
S01E25 Sam See, English / Singlish speaker - From Singapore 🇸🇬
25 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Described by some as the "mother hen" of Singapore's burgeoning stand up comedy scene, Sam has just performed his solo show "Government Approved Sex" ...
S01E24 Anne Klein, Luxembourgish/ German/ French speaker - From Luxembourg 🇱🇺
11 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Actor and comedian Anne Klein is the first Oscar nominee (In the short film The Red Suitcase) and the first Luxembourgish guest on this podcast. Fluen...
S01E23 Adam Hopkins, English/Mandarin Speaker (West Yorkshire Accent) - From Leeds, England 🏴
28 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, your host Kuan-wen would like to introduce the burgeoning comedy scenes in his native Taiwan - both in English and in Mandarin - as an exam...
S01E22 Viggo Venn, Norwegian speaker - From Oslo, Norway 🇳🇴
14 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our mini Scandinavia tour comes back to Norway again after two recent episodes feauturing guests from Denmark and Sweden. Viggo Venn, previously half ...
S01E21 Evelyn Mok, Swedish / Cantonese speaker - From Gothenburg, Sweden 🇸🇪
28 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Evelyn Mok is well known for being the former co-host of the (now retired) Rice to Meet You Podcast and the creative mind behind multiple popular sket...
S01E20 Stephen Buchanan, English speaker (Glaswegian accent) - From Glasgow, Scotland 🏴
14 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“Are you the WHSmith guy?” Stephen Buchanan is known by strangers these days for his viral sketch clips, shared so widely that he’d be stopped ...
S01E19 Cansu Karabiyik, Danish / Kurdish / Turkish speaker - From Copenhagen, Denmark🇩🇰
31 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"What's your mother tongue?" A simple question.. Cansu Karabiyik, our guest this week, replied, "That's a complicated question. I don't really have a ...
S01 Bonus Episode [Recorded in Mandarin] 美國相聲暨中文脫口秀 / 單口喜劇演員艾杰西
22 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
[Notes for our non-Mandarin-speaking listeners, this is a one-off special episode recorded in Mandarin. We will be back to our normal bi-weekly episo...
S01E18 Jesse Appell, Mandarin Standup performer, English speaker - From Boston, USA 🇺🇸
17 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ahead of the Chinese New Year, we are rejiggling the podcast's format slightly. Our guest this week is Jesse Appell, a native English speaker from Bos...
S01E17 Steffan Alun, Welsh speaker - From Abertawe (Swansea), Wales 🏴
03 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Blwyddyn Newydd Dda! The first episode in 2023 took your host to the Land of Song on the British isles - Wales. Steffan, more often in his Welsh tongu...
S01E16 Sergi Polo - Catalan/Castillan Spanish speaker, From Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain🇪🇸
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Bon Nadal! Feliz Navidad! Our last guest in 2022 is our third Spanish-speaking guest - also the podcast's first Catalan speaker - the self-titled "Lov...
S01E15 Jin Hao Li, Mandarin/Singlish/English speaker - From Singapore 🇸🇬
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Baby comic Jin Hao Li is still studying at the University of St Andrews, but he already amassed a remarkable win at the legendary Comedy Store Gong Sh...
S01E14 Freddi Gralle, German speaker - From Berlin, Germany🇩🇪
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Your host Kuan-wen describes Freddi as one of the best kept secrets to comedy audience in the UK and the US.Freddi has been a veteran on the Berlin st...
S01E13 Sahil Shah, Hindi/ Gujarati/ Marathi speaker - From Mumbai, India 🇮🇳
08 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
India's stand up comedy star Sahil Shah has been in this business for over a decade.He has been at the forefront of India's modern stand up comedy sce...
S01E12 Esther Manito, English/ Arabic Speaker (Essex Accent) - From Saffron Walden, England 🏴
25 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Live at the Apollo star Esther Manito started performing stand up comedy only as recently as 2016 - not to forget we should probably count two years o...
S01E11 President Obonjo, Laftian (?) speaker - From Lafta Republic (?)
10 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For the avoidance of doubt, President Obonjo is a comedy character created by Anglo-Nigerian comedian Benjamin Bankelo Bello.In clear contrast to the ...
S01E10 Victoria Olsina, Spanish speaker - From Córdoba, Argentina 🇦🇷
26 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Fresh from winning the LGBTQ+ New Comedian of the Year in the UK, Victoria was featured in the Guardian (See link to the article) a month after this p...
S01E09 Hubert Mayr, German speaker - From Lamprechtshausen, Austria 🇦🇹
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The very first German speaker invited to this podcast is not from Germany, but from Austria - a relatively small country that produced a range of hous...
S01E08 Isa Bonachera, Spanish speaker - From Almeria, Spain🇪🇸
30 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Isa celebrates being "weird" in their comedy approach. They got into the comedy world by accident when they tried to impress a girl - well, Isa did no...
S01E07 Radu Isac, Romanian speaker - From Vaslui, Romania (Part 2)🇷🇴
16 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the second part of interview with Radu, the chat wandered off at times to include the funny geopolitical situation of Romania and how that gets ref...
S01E06 Radu Isac, Romanian speaker - From Vaslui, Romania (Part 1)🇷🇴
16 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Radu is the type of performer that is regarded by many fellow comics as a comedian's comedian.He not only wins over audiences at comedy clubs, his con...
S01E05 Yuriko Kotani, Japanese speaker - From Japan (Part 2)
02 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The hilarious interview with Yuriko continues in this episode.In the last episode, your host Kuan-wen and Yuriko started the discussion of the partial...
S01E04 Yuriko Kotani, Japanese speaker - From Japan (Part 1)
26 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
After two episodes centring on European languages, we are back to Asia this week to discuss comedy and foreign accents with the brilliant Japanese com...
S01E03 Luca Cupani, Italian speaker - From Bologna, Italy 🇮🇹
12 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The effortlessly charming and cultured Italian comic Luca Cupani, who at some point in his life was more fluent in Latin and in ancient Greek than in ...
S01E02 Thor Stenhaug, Norwegian speaker - From Bergen, Norway 🇳🇴
28 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It is not uncommon to name boys after the Norse hammer-wielding god in Norway, but it is a bit weird to use Thor as the first name but also "Odin" (Th...
S01E01 Chin/Qin Wang, Mandarin speaker - From Xi-An, China 🇨🇳
15 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hailing from Xi-An（西安） , Northwestern China, Chin Wang won the legendary London Comedy Store gong show in March 2021 and has since been on a m...