Kung Fu Komedy

We did a live podcast and the audio is good! Our hosts go live from Stand Up NY with Des Bishop (@DesBishop), Francis Ellis (@Francisbarstool), Sherrod Small (@Sherrod_Small) and Anthony DeVito (@AnthonyDeVito_). The guys talks topics like Black Panther in China, living homeless in Hawaii, and performing comedy in Chinese when you don’t speak Chinese. […]

Petey Rancel is a New York City comedian working his way up the NYC comedy circuit, but in a previously life he was the son of a South Florida cocaine dealer who joined the US Marines in 2003 to escape a tough upbringing. Petey tells Turner (@TurnerBSparks) and Kap (@KapInAmerica) about his childhood in Key […]

Pod boss Iqram Magdon-Ismail is on today to talk about life before he became American, before he founded Venmo and before he founded Ense. Iqram talks about his childhood in Zimbabwe, Zambia and Virginia, and his Dad Enses in to answer a burning question. This podcast is brought to you by Ense, available here: ense.nyc/ This […]

DC Benny joins the show to talk about his life coming up in comedy as one of the only white guys performing at the black clubs in New York City in the 1990’s. Before that, Turner (@TurnerBSparks) and Kap (@KapInAmerica) call pod lawyer Blue Shirt Esq. to help them figure how to take legal action […]

Comedian Misha Han returns for our annual Chinese New Year episode! Plus, this year we bring Ye Ye in to answer every question about the Year of the Dog that Misha can’t, which turns out to be every question. All this plus Turner (@TurnerBSparks) calls Kap(@KapInAmerica) from Shanghai to check in on Kap’s PTA meeting. […]

This week Turner Sparks calls Kaplan  from Thailand to talk about Carl’s Jr in Bangkok, Expat Town and the general lack of zoning laws in Thailand’s capital. Also, Kap recounts his day as the volunteer chaperone for Teddy Kaplan’s field trip to see an improv group. This episode is brought to you by Ense, available […]

Adam Valen Levinson, author of The Abu Dhabi Bar Mitzvah is on the podcast today with a cautionary tale of becoming addicted to traveling to increasingly dangerous countries that don’t like Jews. It turns out, they don’t all think Jews are so bad and our preconceived notions of places like Afghanistan, Syria and Somalia aren’t […]

Comedian Paul Johnson spent two years in Germany on a Mormon mission way back in his youth. No longer a Mormon, Paul tells the Turner Sparks (@TurnerBSparks) and Michael Kaplan (@KapInAmerica) all the details of the mission and why he has no regrets. Also, for the intro to the show Turner is in Hong Kong […]

Playwright Jeremy Kareken is a true modern day renaissance man. He has had his plays produced all over the world, he wrote for Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson in his 2012 and 2016 presidential campaigns, he recently got mixed up with the Cuban Libertarian Party and for the last 17 years he has worked on “Inside the […]

The J-Train, comedian Jared Freid joins the guys to talk about his trip in 2016 to do comedy in China as well as his new dating advice podcast “U Up?” on Itunes. Jared also hosts the popular J-Train Podcast on Itunes and tours the country doing comedy. This episode is brought to you by Ense, […]

Our hosts look back at the year that was for Lost In America. The guys hand out awards including “Best Rant”, “Best Billion Dollar Idea”, “Best Hot Take” and of course “Best American Loser of the Year”. Thank you to all of the listeners in 2017, everyone who has helped this podcast grow by 10 times […]

The Daily Show correspondent Ronny Chieng joins our hosts to talk about his childhood between Malaysia/ Singapore and the US, his comedy life in Australia and his current job on The Daily Show. They go deep into the pros and cons of expat life in Asia and Ronny tells the guys why he doesn’t like […]

Argentinian comedian Adrian Minkowicz hangs out with the guys to talk football aka soccer in his home country, his path from lawyer in Buenos Aires to comedian in New York and his tango dancing past. Before that, Turner Sparks (@TurnerBSparks) and Kaplan (@KapInAmerica) begin the show by recapping the live pod one last time and […]

This is it! Our hosts are finally releasing their live podcast, recorded at the legendary Stand Up NY comedy club on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with guests Ronny Chieng (@RonnyChieng) and Michael Kosta (@MichaelKosta) from The Daily Show. Plus podcaster/ entrepreneur/ author James Altucher (@JAltucher) sits in for the news! This episode is brought […]

Comedian Jocelyn Chia tells the guys all about her life growing up in Singapore from her early education in caning laws all the way to her dating experiences as a teenager. Jocelyn moved to the US for college, became a lawyer and then gave it all up to be a full-time comedian. Turner (@TurnerBSparks) and Kap […]

Brian Goldberg, founder of one of New York’s most popular new eateries “Mr Bing”, sits down with our hosts to talk about his wild life. Brian tells the guys about his early-life adventures as the founding member of the Israeli Luge Federation and later his odyssey through Asia which culminated in him bringing jianbing, China’s most […]

Comedian Eman El-Husseini joins our hosts to talk about her life being born in Kuwait to Palestinian parents, raised in Montreal, Canada and eventually moving to New York City. Along the way she came out as a comedian, then came out as gay and finally married a Jew. Kap and Turner get the full story. Tickets […]

Comedian Ruben Paul talks today about his life growing up as the only Haitian-American kid in Carson, California. Everything he experienced was colored by his Haitian upbringing from dating, to eating school lunches to playing high school football. Before that, Turner Sparks (@TurnerBSparks) and Hollywood Kaplan (@KapInAmerica) are still stuck in the park and kill […]

Powerhouse comedian Jimmy Shubert performs a hostile takeover of the podcast this week sounding off on topics like the US election, abortion laws in America and country club memberships. Once that’s taken care of, the guys settle into a discussion about Jimmy’s extensive experience performing for the US troops in the Middle East and South America […]

Comedian Anthony DeVito joins Turner Sparks our hosts to talk about the year he spent as a bartender in Paris from 2007 – 2008. Also, something happens between DeVito and Turner in the middle of the hour which has never previously happened on the pod. Enjoy! To use the Amazon link and contribute to the show […]