On this episode of Never Better Than Late, I welcome my first international guest … Finnish comedian Harri Soinila. Harri talks about the relatively recent birth of standup comedy in Finland, which meant he grew up only able to see comedy on TV originating from other countries. He shares his experiences of touring throughout Europe and the challenges of building a comedy career at age 44 while also being a husband and a father.

On this episode of Never Better Than Late I talk to comedian Chris Alan. Chris is a headliner who also opens on the road for Mark Normand and Neal Brennan. Chris's standup career began while he was in the military, when unhappiness and frustration with finding what he was good at led him to step on stage for the first time at age 28 at an open mic in Las Vegas. 

In this very honest and funny conversation, Chris talks about his struggle with feelings of not fitting in from childhood right up through his standup career.

On this episode of NBTL I talk to New York City-based comedian Brett Singer. Brett began his comedy journey at age 47 by taking a standup class as a way of pulling himself out of a dark period in his life. After cracking open a notebook he’d been writing in for years, he realized he’d already been writing standup material, and he was on his way.