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.
Rafi Bastos helped invent standup in Brazil, going from confused bar crowds and BDSM bathrooms to becoming known as the “Jon Stewart of Brazil” before walking away to start over in English. In this episode he breaks down teaching a whole country what standup is, surviving lawsuits and backlash without losing his voice, and why leaving TV fame for late-night spots in New York made him fall in love with comedy again. We dig into writing every word, making it feel improvised, escaping the immigrant-comic box, and how chasing new languages and new scenes can keep your act alive for decades.
