Best Kuan Wen Huang Podcasts (2025)

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Adam from I Kissed a Boy: HIV, Heartbreak & Telling the World 31:53

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He kissed a boy. Then told the villa — and the whole country — he was living with HIV. Adam Williams went on I Kissed a Boy looking for love — and ended up schooling the nation on HIV and therapy. On Outcast World this week, Graeme Smith gets the goss straight from the masseria: Coming out (again) — this time on reality TV and ultimately the entire…

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Junaid Ahmed: Queer, Muslim and Unfiltered on TOWIE 21:22

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Junaid Ahmed is one of the most visible queer Muslims on British television — and he’s doing it on one of the UK’s most-watched reality shows. As The Only Way is Essex returns to ITV2 and ITVX on Sunday nights at 9pm, Junaid sits down with Graeme Smith to talk identity, faith, fame and the reality behind the reality TV. In this candid conversation,…

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Should We Ditch the Apps? Daniel Harding on Queer Dating + UK Eurovision Girlband Remember Monday 26:52

12d ago26:52

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On this week's Outcast World, Graeme Smith is asking the big question: should we finally ditch the dating apps? Author and broadcaster Daniel Harding joins the show to talk about the impact of his best-selling book Letters To My Younger Queer Self, and his new project hitting the streets to find out how queer people really feel about swiping, hooku…

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Manchester Pride Uncovered: B*Witched, Jsky, Paris Munro & Queer as Folk 35:54

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Outcast World goes live from Manchester Pride 2025 with Graeme Smith and Nick Charles right at the heart of the action hosting a podcast and radio show from the site on the afternoon of Graeme's stag doo in the city! As well as speaking to some modern Manchester queer icons and old school pop legends, we're essentially hosting the entire podcast ou…

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Under the Ayatollah’s Gaze: Queer, Iranian, and Unseen 27:02

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“This feeling I was nurturing… was punishable by death.” This week on Outcast World, Graeme speaks with writer and doctor Majid Parsa, author of The Ayatollah’s Gaze — a compelling story about growing up queer in the Islamic Republic of Iran. We explore forbidden desire, the underground queer scene in Tehran — full of joy, glamour, and danger — and…

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TOWIE Essex Drama to Insta famous Floral Drama – Harry Derbidge & Hamish Powell 28:49

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This week we’re going full cultural yin and yang. First, Harry Eric Derbidge (The Only Way Is Essex, ITV2 & ITVX) spills on the brand-new TOWIE season kicking off this Sunday at 9pm – expect sun, sea, and classic Essex drama. Then, we swap spray tans for sculptural blooms with Hamish Allan Powell, the Instagram-famous florist making waves in high-e…

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Grindr, China & the Curse of the Andrews – Kuan-wen Huang at the Fringe 34:37

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Kuan-wen Huang is a queer, Taiwanese comedian, writer, and actor based in London. He’s appeared on Comedy Central, BBC, and Channel 4, and has become a standout voice on London’s comedy circuit. Now, he’s bringing his brand-new one-man show Andrews Are The Worst to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In this episode of Outcast World, Graeme Smith sits d…

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Running the Church: LGBTQ, HIV-Positive… and on the Synod! Philip Baldwin 40:51

2M ago40:51

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The Church of England just met to decide the future of LGBTQ+ people in the Church — again. Still no equal marriage. Still no full acceptance. Still a fight. This week, Graeme speaks to Phillip Baldwin — a gay man, HIV-positive, and one of the few openly queer members of the Church’s General Synod. From inside the Church’s governing body, Phillip t…

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Cliff Joannou on Queer Media, Coming Out & Culture Wars 21:23

2M ago21:23

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What happens when you gather some of the most fabulous, fearless minds in queer media around a breakfast table? OUTCAST WORLD takes you inside the BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Breakfast Club — with legendary Attitude Editor-in-Chief Cliff Joannou front and centre. Cliff is a defining voice in queer journalism — shaping the stories, covers and controversies th…

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S02E31 Your Host Kuan-wen’s Monologue #3 🇹🇼 Comedy Lost In Translation 50:06

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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 translating whatever existing materials in English you have? Technically - yes. Though some jokes are simply not translatable. Some can be translated but it would not make sense or would not work. Some might s…

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Do Ask, Do Tell: Darkrooms, Drag & exploring modern queerness with Stu Oakley & Lotte Jeffs 51:35

2M ago51:35

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In this episode, Graeme Smith is joined by Stu Oakley and Lotte Jeffs — co-authors of Do Ask, Do Tell, the bold, funny, and radically honest new book that lays queer life, love and culture bare. Stu is a film publicist who’s worked on Star Wars, Harry Potter, and Jurassic World. Lotte is a genderqueer journalist, novelist, children’s author, and fo…

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Post Glasto Double Drop: Bob Vylan & the Rage Machine 28:06

2M ago28:06

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Bob Vylan at Glastonbury sent the outrage machine into overdrive. We’ve scoped 24 hours of GB News to bring you every pearl-clutching reaction from the self-declared defenders of free speech. But here’s the twist: our guest, sex educator and writer Topher Taylor, actually knows someone from Bob Vylan personally — and brings rare, real-life insight …

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Post Glasto Drop: Kneecap, Censorship & the Minister for Wanks 27:53

2M ago27:53

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As the Glastonbury Festival heatwave rolls on, the political outrage is just warming up. Graeme and Nick Charles unpack Kneecap's headline-grabbing set and the pearl-clutching reaction from MPs and a media desperate to censor a culture they don’t understand. Did The 1975 let us down with the announcement mid set they didn't want to do politics.. to…

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S02E30 Mike Rice, English Speaker - From County Kilkenny, Ireland 🇮🇪 54:51

3M ago54:51

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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 interview alone, he improvised a South London, a posh West London, a stereotypical Essex woman and a generic American accent. In his comedy routines and comedy special on Youtube, Mike has done a Germ…

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Jordan Burrow: From reality TV show ‘I Kissed a Boy’ to Speaking His Truth 27:22

3M ago27:22

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Reality star Jordan Burrow won hearts on I Kissed a Boy—the BBC’s flagship queer dating show hosted by Dannii Minogue—but his story goes beyond the groundbreaking global hit show. In this episode, Jordan opens up about using his platform to start real conversations: from coming out in a remote rural village, his love of football and sports, to his …

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Kitty Scott-Claus: My grief for The Vivienne & Getting lean and sober without Ozempic! 37:00

3M ago37:00

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Graeme Smith sits down with UK drag royalty Kitty Scott-Claus, who opens up like never before. As a finalist on worldwide TV show - RuPaul’s Drag Race Global All Stars, Kitty is riding high — but the past year has brought huge personal change. She speaks movingly about her friend and fellow queen The Vivienne, and the impact her tragic passing had …

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SlutDrop - Topher drops by 22:43

3M ago22:43

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Cute lil catchup with Topher and Graeme. Topher is the sexual freedom awards writer of the year 2025 and a longstanding OUTCAST alumni. Once again his services have been in demand on various podcasts to talk about him dating downlow guys, it's worth unpacking what the appeal and issues are. And a chat about coercion and bribery in the chemsex scene…

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S02E29 Spring Day, English/Japanese Speaker - From Kansas City, Missouri, USA 🇺🇸 57:18

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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 foreign land to learn that foreign language, consequently your English vocabulary becomes restricted to the more common words, just so people around you could understand? Such is the story of Spring D…

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Queer grief is different 28:48

3M ago28:48

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Graeme Smith is joined by writer and Queer I Am podcast host Andrew Flewitt for a deeply personal conversation about queer grief — the kind that isn’t always spoken about, but lives quietly inside so many of us. Andrew’s new book, Do You Believe in Life After Loss?, explores the grief queer people carry: the loss of lovers, of friends taken too soo…

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WHAT A GIRL WANTS? - DIVA's Roxy Bourdillon joins the chat 35:46

4M ago35:46

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This week we chat to Roxy Bourdillon, the editor in chief of DIVA magazine, the world's biggest media outlet for queer, trans and non binary women. Roxy has a new book called "What a girl wants" in which she charts the path of her teenage, sexually unsure self all the way to heading up one of the world's biggest queer media outlets, even using her …

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S02E28 Martin Durchov, Bulgarian Speaker - From Sofia, Bulgaria 🇧🇬 50:50

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Martin Durchov has never done any podcast interview - not until this episode popped his podcast cherry. You can find his Instagram profile, but be warned there’s not a single comedy-related content on it. The Bulgarian native is one giggly and happy chap, described by your host Kuan-wen as a very “settled” immigrant in the UK. Even his accent mello…

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“Dear Younger Me...” 39:14

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This week on OUTCAST WORLD, Graeme and newly crowned Sexual Freedom Awards Writer of the Year Topher Taylor are talking about how Trump's budget cuts in the US have impacts for queer people everywhere. We’re joined by journalist and author Daniel Harding, whose new book Letters to My Younger Queer Self is already being called essential reading. Tog…

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Queer groupchat: Trump / Reform and the Conclave 28:23

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OUTCAST WORLD residents the queer writer, journalist and Only Fans model Topher Taylor and Loud Brown Gays podcast host Nick Charles join Graeme Smith for a groupchat to talk through the latest happenings for LGBTQ+ people around the world: Has the rapid rise of Trump and the American evangelical right wing created an existential crisis for the LGB…

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S02E27 Shalaka Kurup, English/Hindi/(Childhood Malayalam) Speaker - From Bengaluru (Bangalore), India 🇮🇳 56:14

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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 unique things about her. However, just because she’s from India, the audiences in the UK expect her to talk about being Indian or South Asian. In this episode, Shalaka eloquently explains her own cod…

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S02 Bonus Episode [Recorded in French] En Savoir Plus Sur French It Up ... en français 15:34

4M ago15:34

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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 Vitale, the majority of which was released as season 2 episode 26 in the previous week. ------------------- Cet épisode bonus est un extrait de l’entretien publié la semaine dernière avec Jeff Vitale, f…

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Gay and illegal - OUTCAST WORLD from Trinidad 25:23

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Graeme Smith and his husband Steven John travel to Trinidad and Tobago to launch series 6 of OUTCAST just days after the country’s shock court ruling recriminalised homosexuality, reinstating a colonial-era law that now carries a 5-year prison sentence for same-sex intimacy. In this on-the-ground exclusive, OUTCAST WORLD meets Jason Jones, the acti…

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S02E26 French It Up - French Comedy Show in London, Jeff Vitale - From Marseille, France 🇫🇷 42:58

5M ago42:58

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“French It Up est LE comedy club français à Londres. Lancé en 2016 par Jeff Vitale, depuis rejoint par Fabrice Edouard Laroche Francoeur, le concept séduit un public francophone de plus en plus large et fait émerger une nouvelle scène d'humoristes français à Londres.” After introducing London’s Comedy show in the Spanish language Comedy Por Favor i…

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S02E25 Your Host Kuan-wen’s monologue #2 🇹🇼 Learning English v.s. performing stand up comedy in English 32:05

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Celiac, dyspraxia, sporran, ricochet, hypochondriac, cheugy, mausoleum, flab… how many of these English words do you - as a non-native English speaker - know? Similar question for the native English speakers again: any of these words that you are not aware of? These are just a sample of words in the English language that your host Kuan-wen has acqu…

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S02E24 Radu Isac returns (From Vaslui, Romania 🇷🇴; From Season 1 Episode 6-7) 45:55

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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 chat about how his career plans and gigging pattern change along with the moving landscape of the comedy industry. Between this episode and the first interview three years ago, Radu released his comed…

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S02E23 Peter Flanagan - English/Irish speaker, From County Kildare, Ireland 🇮🇪🍀 46:12

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Given Ireland and Britain’s complex history, not least over 700 years of colonisation and dominance and the most recent thorny issue of Northern Ireland’s border during Brexit negotiation, what does a comedian’s Irish accent represent in the eyes of British audience? There are in fact quite a few Irish comedians in the UK. Peter Flanagan is our ver…

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S02E22 Tatty Macleod - English/French speaker, From Camors, Brittany, France 🇫🇷 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 52:44

8M ago52:44

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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 straight away. Yes, you have Tatty Macleod in mind, and she really has been given the title of an honourary ambassador for the British Council and was invited to host the alumni day by the French embassy in…

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S02E21 2024 Review + Your Host Kuan-wen’s Monologue 🇹🇼 44:11

9M ago44:11

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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 stand up comedy in Spanish and Italian. This episode covers the 2024 Spotify for Podcast unwrapped to share with the listeners data of your consumption of this Podcast this year, supplemented by statisti…

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S02E20 Vlad Ilich - Macedonian speaker, From Kumanovo, North Macedonia 🇲🇰 49:32

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North Macedonia’s proudest export to the UK and so far the only North Macedonian comedian performing professionally on the UK comedy circuit, Vlad has appeared on BBC Stand Up for Live comedy in 2021. He took home various awards wins from Comedy Store London King Gong, Up The Creek Comedy Club’s One To Watch and The Stand Up Comedy Club’s “Get Up, …

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S02E19 Comedy Por Favor - Spanish Comedy Show in London, Sergi Polo (From Barcelona, From S01E16) returns 42:10

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¿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 Favor show, Sergi Polo returns to talk about how the idea of a comedy show in Spanish in London came about and why the brand has been a massive success in the Spanish and the wider Hispanic community -…

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S02E18 Louise Atkinson, English speaker (Hull/East Yorkshire accent) - From Kingston upon Hull, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 39:39

11M ago39:39

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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 UK, the Hull accent is considered one of the most distinct accents. Louise Atkinson has provided the tour support for Live at the Apollo stars Sarah Keyworth and Esther Manito and her solo show “Mates…

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S02E17 Donatas Kveselys, Lithuanian speaker - From Raseiniai, Lithuania 🇱🇹 40:57

11M ago40:57

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Donatas Kveselys is the second Lithuanian comedian featured on this podcast. This episode, however, feels half-dedicated to the Kingdom and the people of Sweden, for Gothenburg, Sweden is where Donatas currently lives and where he started performing stand up comedy (in English). Donatas is a London Comedy Store Gong Show winner. He also secured the…

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ESTHER GHEY & JAXON FEELEY: BRIANNA'S LEGACY 1:12:49

11M ago1:12:49

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The week after Esther Ghey accepted the Attitude award for her daughter Brianna posthumously at a ceremony in London attended by the great and good of the LGBTQ+ community. We got Esther and close friend Jaxon Feeley, who presented the award on the night to sit down in a studio in Manchester to chat about that awful period, what she learned and how…

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HALF AN HOUR WITH BRADLEY RICHES: QUEER, AUTISTIC & GORGEOUS 27:53

11M ago27:53

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The worldwide hit LGBTQ+ show Heartstopper is back on Netflix for its highly anticipated third series. Just ahead of the launch, Bradley Riches caught up with Graeme Smith live in the studio in London to talk about how he got on the show, navigating life as a queer autistic person and how it really was in Celeb Big Brother earlier this year. THIS I…

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S02E16 Samira Banks, [Unnamed language]/German/English speaker - From an unidentified country in the Middle East 36:15

12M ago36:15

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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 trademark jokes include her family’s journey fleeing their homeland as refugees. The crowd’s laughters are often raucous but some sensitive souls amongst them also pull their faces wondering. “Are we…

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S02E15 Sam Yarb, English speaker - From Post Mills, Vermont, USA 🇺🇸 35:29

12M ago35:29

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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 does not speak English as their mother tongue (and there really isn’t much stand up comedy going on)? Such is the story of Sam Yarb, co-founder of the leading comedy club in Taiwan - Two Three Comedy Clu…

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S02E14 Kat Nip, Polish speaker - From Skrzyszow, Poland 🇵🇱 45:34

1y ago45:34

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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 comedy clubs in London, including the popular Top Secret Comedy Club. Winner of London Comedy Store gong show, Kat Nip has written for and acted in Comedy Central Poland’s “Mini-Mock” series in 2022 and 20…

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S02E13 Tiziano La Bella, Italian speaker - From Rome, Italy 🇮🇹 49:52

1y ago49:52

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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 - Tiziano La Bella is a stand up comedian performing professionaly in both languages. He has appeared on Comedy Central Italia and Amazon Prime and only just recently relocated from London back to his home …

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GRINDR AT 15 SPECIAL: WHERE ARE WE NOW? WITH DANIEL HARDING 48:36

1y ago48:36

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The app that changed the way we love, make friends and hook up at it's 15th birthday. In this special programme, The LGBTQ+ journalist and author of "Gay Man Talking" Daniel Harding looks into how the community are using the app we all take for granted. Watch this episode on our Youtube - search for thisisoutcastworld ---THIS IS OUTCAST WORLD --- L…

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DOUBLE QUEENS - KITTY SCOTT CLAUS ON NEW DRAG RACE GLOBAL ALL STARS AND MORE DRAG AT THE FRINGE 31:59

1y ago31:59

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Graeme catches up with the amazing Kitty Scott Claus with news of the new Ru Paul’s Drag Race Global All stars launching this week around the world. The best queens from around the world go head to head for £200k in cash! Also back to the fringe in Edinburgh for a catch-up with the legendary Kate Butch whose standup drag show has had the critics so…

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S02E12 Sam See (From Singapore 🇸🇬, From S01E25) returns 39:05

1y ago39:05

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Our first returning guest is Singaporean comedian Sam See, previously featured in Episode 25 of the first season. Since the last recording in January 2023, Sam has uprooted himself and relocated from Singapore to the UK as - in his own words - he has reached the ceiling in Singapore. Sam shares his gentle criticism of the comedy audience in Singapo…

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UK BLACK PRIDE / THE QUEER EDINBURGH FRINGE 2024 29:28

1y ago29:28

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UK Black Pride took place on Sunday 11th August 2024, just a week after racist violence erupted on the UK's streets. Far right rioting, violent public racist attacks and inflammatory rhetoric have left some people of colour fearful or in their own homes. The UK's black and brown population have barely begun to process what has gone on. UK Black Pri…

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GRINDR AT 15! - QUEER AUTHOR DANIEL HARDING LIVE IN THE STUDIO 39:32

1y ago39:32

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Graeme is joined in the studio by Daniel Harding the author and LGBTQ+ journalist to talk about the 15th anniversary of Grindr and his special documentary that you can watch exclusively from OUTCAST UK on your Spotify feed. Daniel is also the author of best selling LGBTQ book "Gay man talking" and has a new book coming next year called "Letters to …

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UK GAY RAPPER JAMES INDIGO - "BUT YOU SAID WE HAD A CONNECTION" 35:44

1y ago35:44

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UK LGBTQ rapper James Indigo has been delighting audiences around europe and hitting us with sexual energy to his music like "Daddy's coming home" and rapping about being a top and "D Print" for the last few years. The Birmingham born queer rapper with a staunchly catholic mum mixes his Jamaican / British background with his queer perspective on po…

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S02E11 Marjolein Robertson, Shetlandic/English speaker - From Lerwick, Shetland, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 56:54

1y ago56:54

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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 Hot 100 as one of the top Scottish cultural contributors. Hey 2023 Edinburgh Fringe show “Marj” also received award nominations and was one of the best reviewed show at the Fringe. Technically, Marjolein …

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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 34:11

1y ago34:11

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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的一些經驗，第二段用中文訪談，主持人與來賓都能比較自然地暢所欲言（但也不能到太暢所欲言啦......這就點到為止就好）。Blank 解釋為何她的普通話在中國被視為不夠標準，甚至她的閩北口音會被其他省份的中國人嘲笑為『台灣口音』，主持人一同討論台灣與中國一些中文用語和發音的差別。在表演部分，Blank 也剖析為何她會在台上稍微觸碰政治的議題，為何她現在在英國選擇先專心發展英文的單口喜劇演出，以及她對倫敦當地中文單口喜劇的觀察。 The next English bi-…