Liverpool Comedy ImprovCast

About Liverpool Comedy ImprovCast

Liverpool Comedy Improv is an ever growing community of improvisers that span the globe. Every member of the community brings so much to improv and every player is unique in their own way. This podcast series gives our host Iain Luke Jones the opportunity to delve deep into all things improv and life with a guests from the LCI community and beyond. We want to know how people got into improv? The impact it has had on their life? & What struggles they have had to overcome inside and outside of improv? & away from improv what is their life journey. We want to learn all about the high’s and low’s of each guest’s life and find out what really makes them tick. What is their improv style? What impact has improv had on their life? & What does their improv future hold? We give each guest a platform to tell their story and give you the listener a chance to hear ordinary people telling us about their extraordinary lives. This podcast is the true story of making make stuff up.

Publisher

Liverpool Comedy Improv, Iain Luke Jones

Category

arts · comedy · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

2 Jan 2021

Latest episode

5 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 167 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   5 Oct 2026

   Improv in the Workplace

   This week on the Liverpool Comedy ImprovCast, we welcome friend of the show Cheng Jun Cheong back to the podcast to discuss ‘Improv in the Workplace’. We explore how the skills and principles of improvisation naturally fit into the workplace, and how learning improv can benefit us both professionally and personally. It’s a fascinating conversation that we know you’re going to love. So sit back, relax and enjoy this insightful conversation with Cheng Jun Cheong!

2. 

   21 Sept 2026

   Culture & Diversity in Improv

   This week on the Liverpool Comedy ImprovCast, we welcome friend of the show Cheng Jun Cheong back to the podcast to discuss ‘Culture & Diversity in Improv’. It’s a fascinating and insightful conversation as we explore the importance of culture and diversity within the improv community, and the ways in which our different experiences and perspectives can shape the way we improvise. It’s a conversation we know you’re going to love. So sit back, relax and enjoy this insightful conversation with Cheng Jun Cheong!

3. 

   7 Sept 2026

   Lee Simpson

   This week on the Liverpool Comedy ImprovCast, we’re joined by the brilliant Lee Simpson! Lee is a member of the legendary Comedy Store Players and a founder member of Improbable, so there’s a lot to talk about! We chat about his incredible journey through improv, comedy and theatre, including his experiences performing with the Comedy Store Players and his work with Improbable exploring the more dramatic and theatrical side of improvisation. We also talk about what it’s like to create completely unscripted comedy, how improvisation can be used to create much more than just laughs, and what Lee has learned from decades of making things up on stage. It’s a fascinating conversation with one of the UK’s most experienced improvisers, packed with stories, insights and plenty of laughs along the way. So sit back, relax, grab a brew and enjoy our conversation with Lee Simpson!

Inside a recent episode

Episode 22 - David Jones

Published 14 Jun 2021 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Yeah, but for a lot of people who all of a sudden they didn't have a job to go to. Yeah, like improv really became a big thing and it was happening for them sort of as many days as possible. Were you in that boat where you were still trying to just do as much improv as you could at the time because you couldn't go out or were you still trying to find that balance between work and sort of improv and other things going on in life? I was making sure I was trying to like regularly do improv and I think I think I was making sure I did at least once a week. I think I was trying to bring it up a little bit more so as twice a week. […]

Who has been a guest on Liverpool Comedy ImprovCast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Xavier Chan
• Vince Clavel
• Codie Wright
• Julie Anderson
• Hollie White

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

7 ratings

Spotify

4.7 / 5

14 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 60 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

88

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

82

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