ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Before. During. After. is a Smirk Experience podcast about performance; from the inside.
Every week Sam Carrington will sit down with a professional comedian. He'll find out what they do in preparation for a show, what they concentrate on while they're performing and what they focus on when it's done, all to maximise their performance.
Because great performances don't just happen, they're built.
Every week Sam Carrington will sit down with a professional comedian. He'll find out what they do in preparation for a show, what they concentrate on while they're performing and what they focus on when it's done, all to maximise their performance.
Because great performances don't just happen, they're built.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
74 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
35 episodes
since March 17, 2026
episodic
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Welcome to the final instalment of our Best of bonus eps.This 1 is simply a collection of our favourite yarns and tips from some of the awesome guests we've had for Seasons 1 and 2.Expect to hear from Nathan Caton, Russell Hicks, Jason Patterson, Patrick Monahan, Chris Dangerfield and Dan Antopolsk…
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Welcome to the 3rd instalment of our 'Best Of' episodes- this 1 is a selection of tips, tricks, techniques and mindsets all about analysing a performance. Thoughts from Garrett Millerick, Ria Lina, Robin Ince, Matt Green, Jenny Collier and Adam Greene.
Join us for a look back at some of the best bits from Seasons 1 & 2. This selection is from the During section, with tips about mindset, stagecraft and lots more. Featuring clips from chats with Glenn Wool, Tony Law, Matt Price, Tom Price, James Dowdeswell and Dominic Frisby
Join us for a look back at some of the best bits from Seasons 1 & 2. This selection is from the Before section; what acts do to get themselves in optimal mood to perform. Featuring clips from interviews with Ian Moore, Ali Hassan, Nathan Cassidy, Adam Bloom, Alexis Dubus and Sarah Iles.
After 2 seasons of back to back episodes we are taking a break.The plan is to rest, regroup and come back even stronger for Season 3. In the meantime expect some 'Best of' episodes, plus you can always go back through our back catalogue of episodes.See you in a few weeks.Sam and BDA team.
Sam and Adam have an in-depth look at how to look good in front of a crowd. They cover how great performances start before you've said a word, how being present beats being perfect and how confidence isn't something you're born with but something you earn.
If you're interested in reading Adam's bri…
Sam and Tony discuss the relationship between preparation and rigidity, the perils of assuming what an audience will like before you start, how to pull it back when you might be losing an audience and how to make nonsense sound authoritative.
Sam and Glenn dlve into what Glenn has learnt by gigging all over the world for 30 years. They cover how he played rooms that had no interest in hearing comedy early on in his career, how stagecraft can control a room without saying a word and how the bad gigs make you a real comedian.
Sam and his old show biz mucka Ali Hassan discuss the freedom being totally prepared gives you, that confidence can be projected whatever's happening and however you're secretly feeling and how sometimes you're better off switching analysing a bad gig for a beer with a pal.
Ian and Sam discuss overcoming, or maybe accepting, imposter syndrome is part of the game, why preparation equals freedom, how comics 'read a room' and how the come down after shows is the hardest part.
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