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Friend of a Friend City is a (fully improvised comedy) podcast where I (Heather) interview characters from the big small town of Brisbane. Each episode I get some of my friends (talented Brisbane improvisers) to introduce me to a friend of theirs to chat to.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Heather Hayden turns Brisbane habits and landmarks into patient character interviews with increasingly elaborate comic logic.
Friend of a Friend City begins with Heather Hayden welcoming a friend, then lets an invented acquaintance take command of the conversation. The character-interview setup gives each episode a sturdy frame while leaving room for the premise to mutate.
A tour guide guards the Brisbane sign, and you get to hear her jurisdiction gently tested.
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Dry improv that keeps escalating into strange library lore.
Friend of a Friend's City turns a casual catch-up into stranger and stranger library lore. Heather and Simon begin with a borrowed ice cube tray and a bad glue experiment, then the bit keeps widening into librarians with hats, spores, books that need restoring, and a hidden…
A spider roommate turns a casual interview into household chaos with a straight face.
The episode starts with a friendly, slightly chaotic hangout about a trip in, a bad lactose free iced mocha, and a dessert that ends up being mostly cream.
A sleepy interview turns op-shop tie-dye into a strangely committed conspiracy.
Shayla Derwent and Kyle guide a sleepy hangout into stranger, more committed territory. Heather Hayden keeps things warm with easy check-ins, while the episode keeps turning small practical details - sleeping all day, a half-on jacket, op-shop tie-dye repair - into a very…
A pub gripe blooms into straight-faced nonsense.
George and Dave turn a pub gripe into straight-faced nonsense: beer becomes wine, a second birth arrives with powers, and everyday life admin keeps getting treated like urgent business. Heather Hayden fits the material well.
A deadpan Brisbane gag grows into a trench-coat zoo and keeps getting weirder.
Friend of a Friend's City spins a dry Brisbane joke around a friend, a possum shifted next door with fruit, and a bat colony that turns up after the fruit does.
A deadpan improv scramble that makes hubcaps, chimneys, and wizard lore feel strangely ordinary.
The episode gets a lot of mileage out of a very straight-faced joke engine. Friend of a Friend's City turns stolen hubcaps, lopping, and a Honda Odyssey into borrowed armor, then lets Chutney's backstory run wild through icy rivers, gnomes, an evil wizard, a fish-on-top mermaid,…
Borrowed cars, goose eggs, and seafood mayhem, all played completely straight.
This episode turns a polite catch-up into a very silly criminal diary. Heather starts with a borrowed-car check-in, then Chris pushes things from a backwards-hat insult to a theft from the Newstead Goose Man, and the bit works because everyone keeps acting like the nonsense is…
A foster kitten chat that drifts to the moon, a Greased Lightning rewrite, and deadpan banter that keeps getting stranger.
Friend of a Friend City starts with a foster kitten and a guest who will not stop insisting he is a great person, then keeps drifting into stranger territory until the moon becomes the thing everything circles around.
Tiny debates, treated with heroic seriousness.
Heather interviews Liz Talbot and her friend Nell the Waver, a character played by Caitlin McGrath, in this improv comedy episode.
Heather interviews Shayla and her friend Kyle, an eccentric tie-dye fixer who lives in tunnels and aspires to become mayor of Brisbane to unspool capitalism.
Heather talks with Bren and The Zoo, a Brisbane character who runs a “moving zoo” from a trench coat on Stanley Parade, sometimes under a bridge, and says the setup contains Perry the possum, Milo and Otis the rats, Cricket the cockroach, and Doggie the quokka.
Heather catches up with Simon, and it starts with an ice cube tray full of frozen super glue.
Heather Hayden hosts Friend of a Friend's City with George and his friend Dave, who claims he can turn beer, water, apple juice, and Kool-Aid into wine.
Heather opens with a very ordinary favor and immediately finds three goose eggs in the boot of her car.
Heather Hayden talks with Tayden and his spider roommate Nicholas, who calls himself a huntsman and lives in the house after sliding under the door during rain.
Caitlin brings Lucy into the studio.
Season three opens with Matt and his aunt, the newly named High Priestess of Arismatas.
Kelsey brings in Reginald, her very good friend.
Heather Hayden hosts Taylor Edwards and Chris Martin as Ray The TV Repairer, a character who says he gets Jumanji'd every time he fixes a pristine TV.
Himali Ratnayake brings Vicky the Tour Guide, also called Janette McBride and “Vic,” onto Friend of a Friend City to talk about Brisbane, Northside landmarks, and a 3.0 Google rating.
Improv comedy episode featuring host Heather Hayden discussing hubcap theft with guest Luca, who introduces friend Chutney the Chimney Sweeper—an absurdist character who stomps on roofs looking for chimneys and maintains increasingly bizarre logic about their profession.
In this absurdist improv comedy episode, Heather interviews Rhys and his old school friend—who happens to be the literal celestial Moon.
Jeanette brings Aunty Rani into the room, and the chat starts with a friend of Jeanette's mum.