WeMakeTheFunny.com

WeMakeTheFunny.com takes its name from a comedy website, and that website gets plugged with real enthusiasm. Two interview series appear under the name. Let's Chat Comedy is hosted by K.L. Thomas, while the Adam Hamway Podcast belongs to Adam Hamway, who says on air that he runs the WeMakeTheFunny.com site. Both talk with comedy performers about what they are making, and both use the interview format as something to lean on rather than something to obey. A straight question goes out. The answer comes back, and within a line or two it has become a premise. Asked what kind of pie she would be, Jenn Dodd settles on something chocolatey or maybe pecan, which prompts a short tribute to pecans as good for the heart. Tim Girrbach arrives with his own song playing under his introduction and soon promotes his interviewer to Dr. Hamway, a title quickly declared to mean nothing. His long list of trades gets squeezed into a nickname, 'Tim of all entertainment trades', which then proves too long to say in full. Under the riffing there is real shop talk. Ryan Stanisz explains that Clip Show started as the best clips from a made-up sitcom that supposedly aired decades ago. The group found that idea restricting and kept the name anyway because the poster already existed. He also makes a case for the Creek and the Cave as an artist-friendly room where performers can run tech. Jenn Dodd's conversation covers throwing everything at the wall across stand-up, improv, sketch and writing, then narrowing toward solo character work. Tim Girrbach remembers playing the sad, beige, frozen-meat burger joint in Wendy's commercials. Marcus Monroe's cruise ship gigs get airtime, along with a contest that has semifinals and finals. Sharon Jamilkowski's episode starts with praise for her animated, rubber-mask face and drifts toward the pull between character work and the advice to just be yourself. The two series have slightly different shapes. The Let's Chat Comedy conversation takes place at Sweet Leaf, a coffee shop beside the venue, and stays close to one show and the room it plays in. The Adam Hamway Podcast describes itself as a home for people juggling many things in entertainment and sometimes business, which gives guests room to run through reels and commercial credits. The plugs are part of the act. Handles, URLs and email addresses get repeated until they turn into bits, listeners are invited to submit comedic art, and a newsletter is proudly rebranded as the 'laugh letter'. The tone stays excited, teasing and admiring toward guests, and it is never reverent for long. A good first listen is the Tim Girrbach conversation, which has the Wendy's story, the Dr. Hamway upgrade and the nickname in one place.