Colman Hayes, Chris Groves, Mauricio Lombardi
23 episodes listed below
Stand-up bits before they behave.
Building an Hour is a comedy workroom where three comedians bring half-built jokes, current affairs, personal gripes, and odd stories to the table. The appeal is watching the bit change shape as they interrupt, challenge, tag, and occasionally abandon it.
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Building an Hour is less a finished comedy show than a recorded writers' room for stand-up. Its central pleasure is process: a comic brings in a rough premise, a stage clip, or a half-formed rant, and the others start kicking it until the funny part shows itself. The show has a brisk, interruptive rhythm. It does not pause to make everything tidy. A Bible bit becomes an argument over topicality, then a riff on Eden, Noah's Ark, and the awkward labor politics of being left off the boat. A Trump and Iran premise turns into questions about pronunciation, gas prices, negotiations, and whether modern wars have made the old good-guy framing useless. Marmalade news somehow becomes Paddington, British identity, theft, and fruit preservation. That is the show at its clearest: low-stakes oddities and grim headlines both get treated as raw material. The comics care about the joke mechanics as much as the joke. They ask whether a phrase needs an origin, whether a setup arrived too quickly, whether the angle belongs inside a larger bit, and whether a premise has enough weight to survive onstage. Stage videos and screen-shared clips give the discussion a practical edge. This is not polished panel comedy, and it is not a formal interview show. It is a working room with cross-talk, false starts, mock authority, and plenty of second-guessing. Some ideas sharpen immediately. Some hit a wall. Some become useful only after someone else finds a nastier, sillier, or more specific path through them. The public episodes tend to use current affairs, internet stories, celebrity deaths, skaters, tattoos, and strange news as shared prompts. The Patreon material is described as more personal and more directly tied to hour-building. The result suits listeners who like comedy as craft, not just performance. It lets the scaffolding stay visible, which is exactly the point.
Made for: For comedy fans who like hearing premises get argued into shape, especially listeners interested in stand-up writing and rough-room banter.
What sets it apart: Most comedy podcasts present the finished personality; Building an Hour makes the unfinished joke the main event. The show's tension comes from watching comics diagnose why a bit works, fails, or needs a harder turn.
Follow three comedians as they build their stand-up comedy hours, from first ideas and half-working bits to rewrites, doubts, and what actually survives on stage.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Building an Hour makes stand-up craft audible by testing topical premises, challenging weak angles and revising jokes in real time.
Building an Hour lets Mauricio Lombardi, Chris Groves and Coleman Hayes turn topical premises into stand-up material while the ideas are still loose.
A Chuck Norris idea stalls, and you get to hear three comedians search for a better angle.
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A loose comedy workshop that works best when ideas are still taking shape.
The public feed feels like a workshop: three comedians build comedy in front of listeners, with the public episode staying on the news while Patreon holds the personal material, the sets, and the hour as it takes shape. The Chuck Norris chat makes that split easy to hear.
A lively comedy room that keeps building the joke as it goes.
Building an Hour turns this public episode into a lively comedy room for Mauricio Lombardi, Chris Rose, and Colin Hayes. It opens with a knowingly overdone intro, then keeps shifting through internet heat, a war-joke dispute, and a bomb-in-the-ass premise that gets recast…
A public session of joke-building with a pace that runs hot.
Building an Hour follows Chris, Coleman, and Mauricio as they shape news into comedy in real time, and that public-workshop energy gives the piece its appeal.
A loose, fast comic workshop that turns a small pronunciation dispute into bigger, sharper jokes.
Three comedians take a simple pronunciation dispute about hurricane and keep pushing it into storm-name absurdity, which gives Building an Hour its best momentum.
A public episode where weather warnings, Barbie, Claire, and the winter Olympics are worked over in real time.
Building an Hour plays as a loose, live-feeling public episode in which Mauricio Lombardi, Coleman Hayes, and Chris Groves keep moving from setup to correction to escalation.
Hosts Mauricio, Coleman and Chris open with school-newsletter and fake-news-segment censorship stories before moving to the Ed Sheeran and Macklemore controversy, which Mauricio recaps from ChatGPT.
A comedian performs a bit about Adam and Eve being a toxic relationship, with a backstory about potential joke similarity to Ricky Gervais.
A comedian works through a new sketch idea about America as a judge that 'allows' controversial actions, using Trump and Iran as a starting point.
A comedic discussion about the potential EU regulation requiring marmalade to be called citrus marmalade, with jokes about British culture and Paddington Bear.
A comedian discusses a previous comedy bit about a tattoo kit on Amazon and shares a video of his stage performance.
A comedian rants about his hatred for skaters in Barcelona, using a recent news event as a springboard for his material.
The public episode opens with the hosts framing Building an Hour as a place to watch three comedians build comedy in real time.
Building an Hour opens with Mauricio Lombardi, Chris Rose, and Colin Hayes joking that the intro feels like a game show.
It opens with a reminder that this public episode is out in front of the audience.
The trio opens by framing the show as a public look at the comedy hour they are building.
Building an Hour opens with Mauricio Lombardi, Coleman Hayes, and Chris Groves slipping into presenter voice for a public episode.
Three comedians banter about their podcast format, patreon, and interruptions while building comedy material.
A podcast host leads a casual discussion about a set review, with banter about a co-host's impending fatherhood and a bet on the baby's due date.
Comedians Colman, Marietje, and Chris discuss how they turn news items into comedy material for their stage shows.
Three comedians introduce themselves and explain the concept of their podcast about building a comedy hour.