Your weekly guide to comedy mastery with over 400 interviews featuring your favorite comedians.
Hot Breath! is the award-winning weekly podcast designed to be “your weekly guide to comedy mastery.” What started as a platform to highlight Atlanta comedians has since evolved into a masterclass on the craft of comedy that performers and fans alike have voted to be the “Best Atlanta Podcast” in Creative Loafing and featured in Atlanta Magazine.
Your host, comedian Joel Byars, conducts well-researched interviews with comedy’s most influential players with one goal in mind, to educate and entertain.
Morgan Gallo went from secretly writing one-liners on Zoom workdays and grinding Hot Breath’s online writing contests to building a six-figure following, moving from small-town Florida to Denver, and co-running a fully booked comedy studio in barely three years of stand up.
In this episode they go deep on the real grind behind the glow up: creepy DMs and the “Boston booty sniffer,” filming every set with her own gear, learning to look like a “real comic” online before anyone knew her name, surviving brutal Florida rooms as one of the only women on the show, and the night she bombed so hard opening for Smash Mouth that 6,000 people booed her offstage.
If you are anywhere from thinking about your first mic to five years in, this one feels like a field guide and a therapy session in one.
