My turn to be on Todd Van Allen’s podcast
Yes – I did warn you I would be on it. And here it is. My edition of Todd Van Allen’s podcast – where I talk a lot about my husband, some about voice work and I seem to swear a lot. At least that’s the comment my Mum left. I strongly suggest you subscribe to Todd’s podcast if you’re interested in comedy – he has great guests and I always enjoy listening to each episode. To listen to my episode go to this page of Todd’s website. And check out the...
Read MoreRill and Josh Talking Bollocks – episode one
Josh Rachlis was in my stand-up class. He’s a nice Jewish boy, so naturally I gravitated towards him and a beautiful friendship began. We decided pretty much right away that we wanted to do a radio show together and that it should be called Talking Bollocks. Unfortunately we don’t have any shlep with any stations so instead of waiting for something to happen we decided to make it happen and just recorded our first episode. We did it on video because that seemed easier than finding...
Read MoreMy first bomb
Wow. So now I know how it feels. And it sucks. Ass. Big time. There was a very small crowd tonight at the Diesel Playhouse and they didn’t dig my gags and the lights were in my eyes and…and…and…. Okay. Enough whining. It felt awkward and uncomfortable and I’m not experienced enough yet to know how to turn it around or work a small crowd. I wasn’t the only one who bombed. It’s just never happened to me before. My friend Inge swears up and down that it...
Read MoreMy first live radio performance
This coming Thursday (6th November) I have a five minute set at the 7 o’clock show of Live at the Diesel Cabaret at, where else, the Diesel Playhouse. This is my third public performance and it’s being broadcast live on XM Radio. Jake Labow is running the show and it’s thanks to Dawn Whitwell (yet again) that I got this gig. She emailed Jake the link to my website where I’ve posted my stand-up debut and he asked me to be on the bill on the strength of it – hurrah!...
Read MoreMarilla who?
I am a British-born actress and stand-up comic who does lots of voice work (for commercials, cartoons and corporate clients) and sometimes, when I'm very lucky, tv and film. When I was in England I did mostly theatre. Now I'm in Canada I spend the majority of the time writing and performing stand-up. When I'm not making episodes of Talking Bollocks, that is. And that's me for you.