The Comedy Club Podcast · The Comedy Club of Kansas City

Michael Palascak On City Sports Teams, Comedy During Covid, & Having Kids | Ep 42

·30 min

Dustin Coffman opens the show from the Comedy Club of Kansas City and brings Michael Palasek in for a loose, talky interview. It starts small. Michael is wearing a watch, but that quickly becomes a bit about metal allergies and how his skin reacts badly to jewelry. Dustin and Michael trade lines about allergies, strings, Velcro, and the simple annoyance of wanting to wear something normal without setting off a mess. Then the conversation turns to school history. Michael walks through being moved between schools, changing districts, and ending up in alternative education after getting into trouble. The story gets rougher as he gets older, but it stays grounded. He talks about catching up fast when the work was laid out clearly, then eventually getting his GED, doing a little community college, and going out on the road. Dustin keeps the pace light and keeps nudging the story forward. The interview has that club rhythm where one joke opens the next topic and nobody bothers with a neat transition. Michael sounds comfortable in that mess. He gives enough detail to make the run of schools feel real without trying to turn it into a speech. The middle of the episode is less about punch lines than about the absurd logistics of getting through adolescence with your credits, your district, and your patience all in the wrong place. Near the end, the talk shifts toward upcoming dates. Michael mentions Wise Guys in Salt Lake City, Irvine Improv, Ontario Improv, Appleton, and Janesville. He spells out how to find him online. Dustin does the usual subscribe-and-share routine. The closing has the kind of self-aware, half-serious energy that fits the rest of the episode. It knows it is a local podcast conversation. It does not pretend otherwise. That is part of the charm.

As heard by us

Loose club-room banter that turns small details into easy laughs.

Michael Palasek and Dustin Coffman spend most of this conversation trading stories the way comics do when the room is loose and nobody is rushing them.

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Press play for a loose comedian interview that turns school changes and a GED story into road-life talk.

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