During a marathon 4-hour chat with no breaks, hip hop & old skool DJ Sean "Soul" Williams breaks down US Black history, living in Korea for almost a decade & his secret dream of doing stand-up.

Campbelltown auteur Bina Bhattacharya dissects Australian history, education & employment inequities filmmakers of colour face & recounts how her Bengali father navigated the remnants of the White Australia Policy as a young migrant.

Tight 5 Comedy creator Tina Zaman catches up with 2 Black colleagues from her California teaching & poetry days about creativity, moving from writing to other careers & how stubbornly maintaining individualised mental health treatment keeps their lives on track throughout its ups, downs & Covid-19 lockdowns.

Electronic music artist & intermittent stand-up comedian MJ O'Neill talks versatility & writing for rhythm & flow in both modes of expression plus how some comedians' racist responses to Tight 5 Comedy's antiracist mission is proof that we're doing something right.

Your Brain on Comedy: A Documentary Film Executive Producers Tina Zaman & Simon Vannarath, Director of Photography Joseph Guinto & guest commentator Dian Rahardjo compare & contrast the 2019 & 2020 documentary film series that put powerful sex offenders in prison after decades of evading the law.

Actor, stand-up comedian & viral video sensation El Covido creator Lorenzo Laraño deconstructs Australian Tall Poppy Syndrome, crabs-in-a-barrel thinking & how to cut through the bullshit & be great despite the opposition.

The boys of Mt. Druitt-based Cheatcoders podcast join comedian & Tight 5 Comedy creator Tina Zaman plus screenwriter/actress Dalara Williams to talk intersections between US & Australian history including 2020’s Black Lives Matter & Indigenous Deaths in Custody movements.

Blacktown-based filmmaker Matt Vella ponders the similarities & differences between making a movie & a joke effective, plus the problem of toxic grudges & burnt bridges between Sydney's stand-up comedians.

Your Brain on Comedy workshop participant Dian Rahardjo details how seeing a Tight 5 show in early 2020 inspired her to write & perform stand-up comedy informed by a chaotic upbringing in Indonesia & her ongoing struggle to address Australian racism in real time.

Director Fern Mei Sim (At Intersections, 2019) joins Simon Vannarath & TIna Zaman, executive producers of Your Brain on Comedy: A Documentary Film plus Director of Photography Joseph Guinto in exploring themes of race, sex, otherness & transgression between two iconic 1993 films that set the precedent for depicting interracial love & marriage in world cinema.

Melbourne TV actor, stand-up comedian & father of 2 young children Lee Ton (Neighbours, Jack Irish) talks doing & having it all as an artist, even when your parents just don't understand.

Tight 5 Comedy documentary Director of Photography Joseph Guinto weaves together 15 years of diving headfirst into acting, filmmaking & photography while maintaining his daytime metal fabrication career.

Equal parts technical knowledge & creativity, concept artist & producer Travis deVries (Sydney Opera House, Broriginals Podcast) ruminates on the multiple visual, audio & movement arts he's mastered plus how to stay productive by leaning into industry & mental health challenges.

Actor, auteur, stuntwoman & aspiring stand-up comedian Maria Trần (Kung Flu, Enter the Dojo, Bleeding Steel) on being irreplaceable in entertainment, responding to racism in real time & how she became radicalised as a young woman of colour creating sustainability & self-sufficiency among Western Sydney artists.

Canberra stand-up comedian & "Thinking Bogan" Cy Fahey tells us about that time ACT's cold-climate wines got clowned by a Norwegian, where he learned to cry on command & what it's like evolving as a writer & single father to a teenage daughter with deadpan humour.

Tight 5 Comedy documentary Executive Producer & Director Simon Vannarath speaks on his love of analog technology, stop-motion animation & teaching video editing plus giving hundreds of Sydney comedians their first screen credits.

Musician, composer & longtime organiser of Lewisham's Crown Comedy, Sydney's only true comedy open mic, dives into how pursuing stand-up transformed his personality & possibly saved his life.

Human Resources manager, mindfulness junkie & stand-up comedian Maya (pronounced Meigh-ya) uses jokes to organise her thoughts on living with trauma, anxiety & diet culture that misses the point of being seen & satisfied as we are.

Technologist & once-upon-a-time DJ Riv Narak shares tips to being a prolific writer, remixing story elements to create new acts & resisting the urge to pick low-hanging fruit.

Stand-up comedian Anthony Wong reminisces about retelling bits of Eddie Murphy's Delirious as a kid in 1990s Hong Kong, that time he parlayed his Sydney advertising career into nailing joke writing & how he banked 30 minutes of material in his first year.

Doctor of Psychology-to-be, competitive figure skater, actor & stand-up comedian Jonathan David on what to do with stage fright plus finding his voice through writing, public speaking, community organising & jokes.

Human Resources consultant, freelance writer & stand-up comedian Cathy Ngo compares stand-up comedy to that time she jumped from a plane & describes the feeling of taking centre stage & being visible as a woman of colour entertainer.

Mt. Druitt-based rapper, social worker & community organiser Ian "Esky" Escandor on sweating musical & comedic technique, composing & recording original songs, producing & starring in his own music videos & how his first year of stand-up comedy's going.

At the start of the 2020 pandemic, stand-up comedian & English import Deepak Dhessi breaks down why he entered the world of finance, his gap year in the States, & his obsession with not killing the vibe at comedy clubs.

City of Brisbane Indigenous Community Development Coordinator, lawyer & stand-up comedian Leon Filewood reflects on failure, perseverance & success and doing 35 consecutive Tight 5 Comedy shows just as live entertainment returned to Sydney, plus landing unexpectedly at the Comedy Store.

Psychotherapist & trauma expert Jackie Nugara emerges from quarantine to walk us through how first-person storytelling triggers responses in the brain & how stand-up comedians can go beyond limited thinking to effect positive social change while performing to live audiences.