Stuck In The Middle

Toby’s a jazz trumpeter from Melbourne who’s based out of Shanghai and is a regular muso at the legendary JZ Club. He also tours around China playing stadiums with a Chinese pop star. He talked about his journey to China and what’s going on in the jazz scene here. Today’s track is Bubbles by the Toby […]

Andy’s wife Karina has stolen the interviewing mic and today’s guest is Andy. They talked about how he ended up in China running the comedy club, how he was booted out of the China and the plans for KFK. Today’s track is Gust of Wind by Pharrell. Thanks for listening

Ting Ting is the Dutch owner of Shanghai’s only lesbian bar Roxie, and the co-owner of the institutional metal bar Inferno. She’s a pioneer who loves making cocktails and doesn’t want to be a spokesperson for the gay scene. She talked about how her bars came to be. Today’s track is Last Christmas by the late George […]

Kurt Metzger starred on Horace & Pete alongside Louis CK, Steve Buscemi, Alan Alda and Jessica Lange. He’s an Emmy-award winning writer for Inside Amy Schumer and a writer from Chappelle’s Show. Earlier this year, there was a rape incident at a comedy club in NYC. An online mob was raging as rumors came out about […]

ConRank’s a British DJ and music producer who successfully used Shanghai as a base while building an international audience. His latest EP was produced by none other than DJ Shadow, and his story tears down the myth that creatives in Shanghai can’t compete on a global level. Today’s track

Graeme’s a photo journalist who has travelled the globe and found himself in what most people would call the wrong place at the wrong time. He was in Bangkok and got caught up in the Redshirt protests, and was in Sierra Leone when the ebola pandemic broke out. He’s now a creative manager at the […]

Archie Hamilton’s a major music promoter in China. His company Split Works played a huge role growing the music industry in Asia, bringing out a jaw-dropping run of acts including Jason Mraz, Ludacris and Steve Aoki. He organizes the JUE | Music + Art Festival in Beijing and Shanghai, the Echo Park Festival, and the Contemporale […]

Daniel’s at the forefront of the exploding Indian comedy scene, and a genuinely original comics. He’s a force of nature on and off stage, and truly passionate about what he does. We talked about how the scene started there, how it compares to China, and how he runs the gauntlet of censorship. Today’s track is Paper […]

Peruvian chef Eduardo Vargas is a bit of a celebrity on the F&B scene in Shanghai. He’s the man behind one of the city’s longest running foreign restaurants, Azul, and so many other staple joints like Osteria, iiiiit! and Brasa Chicken. It takes a lot of cahones to survive in this city that eats restaurants […]

Elyse Ribbons who is the ultimate make-you-feel-terrible-about-your-Chinese foreigner. She has an MFA in Peking Opera, founded the Cheeky Monkey theater company that was at one point the second biggest privately owned theater company in Beijing, hosts a nationally syndicated radio program, China Radio International’s Laowai Kandian, is currently the CEO and Founder of the charity […]

Kyle Grooms just completed a tour of China and he’s the real deal. He wrote and starred in Chappelle’s Show, was in Chris Rock’s hit movie Top 5, and is a regular at the Comedy Cellar in New York. We had a great chat about doing shows around the world, and about what happens when you […]

James Sing is a restaurateur and raconteur like no other. His family has a long, turbulent history with China. And yet he still moved back here to start the long-standing Australian restaurant Kakadu. Today’s track is Living on Mars by Johnny Utah and the Utards. Thanks for listening

Holistic health coach Lizzy Schieffelin is founder of Shanghai smoothie company Lizzy’s All Natural. She is at the forefront of a flock of ambitious western F&B entrepreneurs upping Shanghai’s food game, and an even smaller crew who fill up the city’s many farmer’s markets. And she had an unexpected take on keeping healthy here. Today’s track […]

Morten Fausbøll is the director of a trading company which connects Africa with China. He’s also a Danish comedian, and a KFK original who was in our first ever stand up show almost 6 years ago. He leaves China today, so we sat down to talk about his 10 year journey, but ended up going […]

Andy Wang is an American third degree Brazilian jiujitsu black belt making him one of the highest ranked jiu jitsu black belts of Chinese descent, in the world. He was on season 5 of the US TV show Ultimate Fighter, competed in the UFC, fought around Asia, and is now living in Beijing as a coach, playing […]

By day Drew Fralick’s a mental health counselor in the Chinese public hospital system, and by night he’s a globetrotting comedian. He’s been in China for the better part of a decade and has some amazing stories along the way, like the time he met Hillary Clinton. Today’s track is No One Knows by Mark Ronson. […]

Ben Wood is the architect who imagined and created Shanghai’s iconic commercial district, Xintiandi. He was a jet fighter pilot who went on to work on some major projects, and is responsible for much of today’s Times Square in New York City. He also revealed me how dangerous it is to be in every high […]

Anson Chen is an incredible magician and the owner of Bund 18, home of Bar Rouge, Mr & Mrs Bund as well as other Shanghai F&B institutions. And he’s about to launch a new show in Shanghai called Lost in Deception (get tickets here). We talked about his journey into magic and how he was brought away from […]

Dwayne Perkins was listed as one of Rolling Stone’s top five comics to watch, just released a Netflix special and was a correspondent on The Jay Leno Show. We caught up in his hotel in Shanghai after his China tour with KFK, and got into a long conversation about trust, and what we’d like to […]

Stephen Wright (not the iconic 80s comedian) is an advertising exec and video producer who worked in Shanghai on big projects for Disney, Ford and Exxon Mobil, just to name a few. He’s the first guest we’ve had who has properly moved on from China, and had a really insightful take on life inside and […]