Elektra Podcast

Elektra Podcast is a Dutch comedy interview show about the nights performers would rather forget, except those nights often make the best stories. Wouter Monde talks with cabaretiers, stand-ups, and comedy organizers about stage failures, strange venues, poor timing, and the practical mess of making live comedy happen. The tone is warm and unfussy. Guests are allowed to ramble toward the point, and the show often gets better because of it. A story can begin with someone misrecognizing Ruud van Nisselrooy, then turn into a larger conversation about audience interaction and technical routines. Another episode can start inside a dusty Utrecht building site and become a portrait of the Comedy Huis trying to build its own club, with all the freedom and responsibility that comes with having the key. Lisa Ostermann’s stories move through early gigs, living-room festivals, echoing churches, foodtruck tents, and the awkward grind of learning by doing. Jeroen Bloemhoff’s episode circles open mics, gong shows, and the uneasy comedy economy where performers sometimes become each other’s only audience. Other conversations pull in village halls, cafe stages, canceled school events, theater nerves, and tiny rooms where one bad lighting choice can become part of the legend. The show is not polished industry chat. It is more like sitting near the artists’ table after a show, hearing people compare scars with enough humor to keep the mood light. Elektra understands that a bad performance is rarely just bad material. It can be the room, the sound, the booking, the audience, the performer’s panic, or one wild decision made two seconds too late. That is what gives the show its texture. It turns embarrassment into craft talk. It also gives comedy a lived-in archive, one messy evening at a time.