In the midst of the pandemic, I join my old Aussie pal Louis Zezeran from my days in Finland and talk about the early days of performing in Scandinavia and the Baltics.
Today its really good to talk to my old friend Phil Schwarzmann. Phil is an America was there for the early days of Comedy Estonia as a fellow comic and a big help. He was living in Helsinki when I moved there (right as we started the first shows in Estonia) and Phil and I ran a English club in Helsinki together.
Phil was a comedian as well and we both tried to make it in Finland as comedians together. It was fun trying to pull in Finnish audiences cause that was one of the first regular English comedy night there. I can definitly say that loads of the ideas that Comedy Estonia has about putting on fun shows, started with these gigs Phil and I put on. He’s got a great American positive attitude and a really keen brain for comedy, he was one of the first people to break down comedy and break down how the business worked for me.
These days Phil lives in San Francisco so we do this one over zoom. I haven’t talked to Phil for years and it was really good to talk about those days 10 years later.
