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Each week host Matt Kona talks with guests of ImprovBoston's monthly Naked Comedy Showcase (first Thursday of the month at 9:30pm) while the standup show is happening about their experiences life, comedy and of course telling jokes without any clothes on.
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
It captures stand-up performers thinking aloud amid stage nerves, backstage commotion and the uncertain work of building a comedy life.
Matt Kona turns the backstage of a naked stand-up show into a candid record of performers before and after they face the room. The novelty supplies plenty of nervous energy, yet the conversations keep returning to the work itself: first attempts at comedy, stage anxiety, time…
A comic remembers the cold floor; you get the less glamorous side of naked standup.
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An improvised opener gives way to a loose backstage conversation about lost stage time, life offstage, and a risky housing effort in New Hampshire.
Matt Kona opens Backstage at the Naked Comedy Showcase with Valley D and Ryan Clausen, and the room quickly settles into a playful, improvised groove.
A loose backstage comic crawl from a title flub into a Shia LaBeouf spiral.
The piece opens with Matt Kona working through the show title, and the room tracks the face he makes as he rebuilds the words in order. From there, it moves through Shia LaBeouf, child stars gone sideways, and the repeated hunt for the right name, which lands on Joaquin Phoenix…
A loose backstage hang where naked-show nerves and Maine room names do the work.
Matt Kona opens Backstage at the Naked Comedy Showcase by settling into the show’s own ritual, with Alicia Siegel looking back on being behind the microphone before, the joke about jeans and exposed anatomy, and the first time she backed out when asked to do it.
Cold floors, naked-show nerves, and comic origin stories keep the backstage talk moving.
Backstage at the Naked Comedy Showcase keeps its focus on one small, memorable detail: the first thing that lingers is how cold the floor was.
Matt Kona opens loose.
Tracy Brown explains hula hooping 'flow' as losing all sense of time, comparing it to a runner's high.
Matt Kona kicks things off by finally getting the show’s full name out cleanly, and the room notices right away.
Matt Kona opens backstage at the Naked Comedy Showcase.
At Improv Boston in Cambridge, the Naked Comedy Showcase is set up as a first-Thursday, 9.30 room with host Andy Ofeisch.