There It Is Podcast

We had the pleasure of speaking to LA-based performer and director, Jet Eveleth! Jet is an improviser, instructor, and the director of Clown Church and The Highland Park Clowns. Jet talks to Jason about starting out in improv in Boston before going deep into exploring the artform in Chicago at Annoyance, The Second City, and iO where she was on one of the longest running teams, The Reckoning, her brilliant advice on how to find a group to do improv with, why you need to backslide to get better, transcribing TJ & Dave shows and making them plays, her cirque show Absinthe, and much more! Find out about Jet's monthly classes for improv and clown on her website: jeteveleth.wixsite.com/my-site-2 Instagram: @clownchurchla,@ThereItIsPod, @JasonFarrPics Twitter: @ThereItIsPod, @JasonFarrJokes Facebook: @ThereItIsPod Subscribe to our comedy newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/e22defd4dee2/thereitis

We have a great chat with actor, producer, and improviser, Jacob Sorling! Jacob and Jason immediately dive into a thoughtful chat about improv principles, approaching scene work authentically, the traps of "trying to be funny," the improv hack to having plot in improv, how specificity helps fuel the humor of scenes, making scenes feel real, the different ways in doing scenes based on a suggestion, and much more! Check out his film work at www.darklingfilms.com Twitter: @ThereItIsPod, @JasonFarrJokes Instagram:@ThereItIsPod, @JasonFarrPics Facebook: @ThereItIsPod Subscribe to our comedy newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/e22defd4dee2/thereitis

Congratulations to us! We're married!! Jason and Justina chronicle their wedding day and give listeners a peek behind-the-scenes of what their special wedding weekend was like! This was a labor of love experienced with many friends of the podcast! It was a momentous occasion filled with so much love and joy and surprises! We'll get more into those details when the "Of the Show" gang returns to do a bonafide recap. For now, listen to what it was like behind the scenes. Special shoutout to our vendors! This isn't a sponsored ad, they were just so amazing that we want to share! Six and Twenty: sixandtwentydistillery.com Smoke on the Water: www.saucytavern.com Sweet Soul: sweetsoul.band The Fun Box Photo Booth: thefunboxphotobooth.com Twigs: twigs.net Mast Photography: mastandcompany.com Events and Judson Mill: eventsatjudsonmill.com Twitter: @ThereItIsPod, @JasonFarrJokes Instagram:@ThereItIsPod, @JasonFarrPics Facebook: @ThereItIsPod Subscribe to our comedy newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/e22defd4dee2/thereitis

We talked to stand-up comedian and actor, Dave Merheje! Jason met Dave many years ago because they both performed on a stand-up show together called The Most Races Show on Earth. After talking about that show, Dave talks about starting comedy in college in his home town in Windsor, his process for learning the structure of comedy, how he got his acting gigs in "Ramy" and "Sometimes I Think About Dying" and what filming those projects were like, what grinding it out early on taught him about finding himself to find his voice, and much more! "Sometimes I Think About Dying": sometimesithinkaboutdying.oscilloscope.net His Special, "Miseducation of a F***boi": youtube.com/watch?v=MgZhon09OB8 Dave's LinkTree: linktr.ee/davemerheje Instagram:@DaveMerheje, @ThereItIsPod, @JasonFarrPics Twitter: @DaveMerheje, @ThereItIsPod, @JasonFarrJokes Facebook: @ThereItIsPod Subscribe to our comedy newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/e22defd4dee2/thereitis

We got to talk to improviser, writer, and filmmaker, Anatasha Blakely! Anatasha and Jason dive right into a thrilling conversation which incidentally is one of our most inspiring we've ever had on the podcast. Anatasha talks about the artistic life she wants to achieve, the wisdom of Rick Rubin and Bruce Lee, the marriage of playfulness and joy with vulnerability in improv, being brave and taking chances in her performances, how she got into films like Predator despite being in a Mormon household, her film work, and much more. Check out her film work at www.darklingfilms.com Watch her film, Inch Thick, Knee Deep, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywv4BxCGiF4 Instagram:@anatashablakely, @ThereItIsPod, @JasonFarrPics Twitter: @ThereItIsPod, @JasonFarrJokes Facebook: @ThereItIsPod Subscribe to our comedy newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/e22defd4dee2/thereitis

We talk to Canada-based stand-up, Amy Bugg! Jason caught Amy while she was on the road in California at the Bergamot Comedy Fest! Amy and Jason have a fun chat about how Amy got started in comedy, doing jokes that weren't true to who she is before finding her voice, how comics can present their POV, her day job in accounting and some tax tips, work-life balance, what it took to produce her own special, and what her lifestyle on the road is like. Amy's YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCttizq2ptbTjkvUHpGweOqg Twitter: @Amy_Bugg, @ThereItIsPod, @JasonFarrJokes Instagram: @AmyBuggie,@ThereItIsPod, @JasonFarrPics Facebook: @ThereItIsPod Subscribe to our comedy newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/e22defd4dee2/thereitis

Inspired to do another bracket we decided to pit actor families against each other. All the actor families (minus several we eliminated) and this is the bracket! Jason is joined by the Bridal Party of the Show to talk all that pop about actor families and more! We've got Best Man of the Show, Trey, Groomsman of the Show, Rob, and Fiancée of the Show, Justina, here to nerd out on who their favorite actor families are. It's a fun chat on a deceptively hard bracket to fill out! (Note: after recording we added the Gyllenhaals, Streep/Gummers, and Fannings to the bracket who were left out due to an unforgiveable oversight and therefore are not in the discussion) Get the bracket here: www.thereitispod.com/post/pop-talk-actor-families-bracket Twitter: @ThereItIsPod, @JasonFarrJokes Instagram:@ThereItIsPod, @JasonFarrPics Facebook: @ThereItIsPod Subscribe to our comedy newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/e22defd4dee2/thereitis

As a means of celebrating, we're sharing snippets of Jason's bachelor party weekend! Previous guests and podcast regulars make appearances. Is it an episode to inspire? ...Maybe? It might inspire you to focus on the fun of friends and family coming together and not the debauchery usually associated with bachelor parties. Look, no one got arrested. No one murdered anyone. It was nothing at all like The Hangover. You can enjoy a relatively quiet weekend in the woods with your groomsmen eating donuts and barbecue, watching the NCAA tournament, and doing the Last Dab. Twitter: @ThereItIsPod, @JasonFarrJokes Instagram:@ThereItIsPod, @JasonFarrPics Facebook: @ThereItIsPod Subscribe to our comedy newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/e22defd4dee2/thereitis

We have a great chat with filmmaker, writer, and actor, Anjali Nath! Anjali is an up-and-comer in the truest sense. She's done so much already and it's super impressive. She's written, directed, and starred in short films and she's even created music for them. We talk to her time at Northwestern, doing theater, her eye for filmmaking, the approach she takes to developing her work, how she developed the music for her pieces, and much more! She is definitely one to watch! https://www.theplastichouse.com vimeo.com/anjalinath Twitter: @ThereItIsPod, @JasonFarrJokes Instagram:@ThereItIsPod, @JasonFarrPics Facebook: @ThereItIsPod Subscribe to our comedy newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/e22defd4dee2/thereitis

We have the "Of the Show" Bridal Party here to talk all that POP about this year's Oscars! Jason is joined by Groomsman of the Show, Rob, Best Man of the Show, Trey, and Fiancée of the show, Justina, to talk about their least and most favorite moments of this year's Oscars telecast and the biggest surprises from the night. It's a fun chat that includes the tears, the laughs, and the love for Messi! You are Kenough. Twitter: @ThereItIsPod, @JasonFarrJokes Instagram:@ThereItIsPod, @JasonFarrPics Facebook: @ThereItIsPod Subscribe to our comedy newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/e22defd4dee2/thereitis