The Laughter Clinic
The Laughter Clinic Podcast brings a refreshingly different approach to mental health education. Your host Mark McConville, is an Australian professional Comedian of 25+ years who also has a Masters Degree In Suicidology from Griffith University. Mark delivers you evidence-based self-care strategies, curated research insights, and meaningful conversations that inspire, educate and entertain.
The Laughter Clinic
Chatting with Comedian Mick Meredith. Finding Your Medicine: Laughter, Exercise, and Mental Wellbeing
Australian comedian Mick Meredith shares his remarkable journey through 25+ years in the comedy industry and reveals how finding the right balance in his life changed everything.
Growing up influenced by his mother's joyful personality and sense of humour, Mick began his performing career in bands before transitioning to stand-up comedy. While he's entertained audiences across Australia and internationally for decades, it was discovering the power of physical exercise that truly transformed his approach to both comedy and life itself.
"If I can't work out, then the black dogs come sniffing around," Mick reveals, describing how his daily workout routine provides not just physical benefits but the mental resilience needed in an unpredictable industry. Now running half-marathons at age 60, he credits this transformation with helping him maintain perspective when facing career challenges.
The conversation takes a fascinating turn as Mick shares his profound experiences entertaining troops overseas—including performing for 25 different nationalities in Egypt, which he calls one of the most memorable gigs of his career. These experiences, along with his evolution from self-described "negative person" to someone who practices positive self-talk, highlight the powerful connection between physical fitness, mental wellbeing, and human connection.
Whether you're struggling with your own mental health challenges or simply curious about the intersection of comedy and wellbeing, this candid conversation offers valuable insights into finding your own "medicine"—be it laughter, exercise, or creative expression.
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Welcome to the Laughter Clinic Podcast with comedian and suicidologist Mark McConville, bringing you practical, evidence-based self-care strategies, the latest research in mental health, along with conversations that inspire, educate and entertain. This is the Laughter Clinic Podcast with your host, mark McConville.
Speaker 2:Hey folks, mark McConville here. Thank you very much for joining me on this episode of the Laughter Clinic where today I'm chatting with Mick Meredith, australian comedian and all-round good guy. Mick's been peddling his wares around Australia and internationally for over 25 years. He's a fantastic comic and a really nice bloke, so I'm sure you're going to enjoy our chat today.
Speaker 2:Mick gives some great insights into what it's like to be a comedian from the mental health aspects and how he's used not only humour and laughter but physical exercise has helped him really lead a fulfilling life both on stage and off stage. Gives some great insights into that, into the importance of physical fitness for your mental health as well. And it's interesting to hear that he rates entertaining our troops. Entertaining our troops overseas is probably one of the most memorable sets of gigs that he's done in his entire career. So it's a great chat. I hope you enjoy it. So please join me in welcoming my good mate, mick Meredith. Mick Meredith, it is so good to have you here with me today, mate. Thank you so much for coming on to the Laughter Clinic podcast. How are you going, brother?
Speaker 3:I'm good after a very stressful start of two old blokes trying to work out tech and coming from a bloke who's trained in sound recording, I had no idea what was happening, yeah, but we got there in the end, which is the main thing which I'm stoked about.
Speaker 2:So, Mikko, the saying laughter is the best medicine, right? Something that's been around for 3,000 years, and now we've got modern research that supports the mental health benefits and the physical benefits of humour and laughter. So when you hear the term laughter is the best medicine, what are your thoughts on that? What does that conjure up for you?
Speaker 3:It's a very old saying but yeah, I still kind of live by that saying. It's actually very good to be a part of that medicine as a comic for the past 20 something years. My mother was a very funny lady, so she was my medicine when I was young. She was a joyful, funny lady and, yeah, I think you've got to have a laugh in your day. There's a lot of misery out there and there's a lot of miserable people. Yeah, I think you've got to have a laugh in your day.
Speaker 2:There's a lot of misery out there and there's a lot of miserable people. Yeah, mate, absolutely. That's interesting because I got my sense of humour from my mother as well. You know she was funny as fuck. Mate, I've got to tell you, One of my fondest memories growing up was on a Saturday afternoon, sitting with my mother and my grandmother watching the old black and white Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Three Stooges movies. And you look back and, as a comedian, you go how cool was that that these guys created comedy that spanned generations.
Speaker 3:Probably had the same childhood. Then I remember watching. I was a mad TV watcher, lying on my belly in front of black and white tv yeah whatever was on. Yeah, my mum was a massive movie buff and comedy fan. Bob hope, all that sort of stuff, yeah, yeah, yeah, similar childhood probably yeah so we were, you encouraged to.
Speaker 2:You know, go down the performing like went at school and that sort of stuff was performing always going to be something that was on your radar as you're growing up I was always attracted to music with that extra element like sky hooks and kiss.
Speaker 3:Yeah the sweet. Not that, not only did they sound good, but they looked good. Yeah, yeah yeah. I liked the visual content as much as what was going in my ears.
Speaker 2:Mate, we grew up in such a glory time for music and rock and roll in Australia, didn't we? You know, being able to go and see, like you said, the Skyhooks, and you'd see the Fs and Midnight Oil in pubs and clubs.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, yeah. My daughter, who's 28, still loves all that stuff. Like she'll roll up to a coffee with me with a Kiss shirt and I'll just piss myself laughing. She says did you just buy that because you like the pattern? She goes, no, no, I like them, I like them. I remember hearing you play them all the time. I'm like, oh okay, that's good. My son I've no idea what he likes, but yeah, it was a great era and I still listen to it all the time.
Speaker 2:Oh, me too, mate. Absolutely, absolutely.
Speaker 3:I'm a list man, I like a list. I make little Spotify playlists, yeah, nice, when I'm training or when I'm running, or just I'll have it on in the background. If I'm on a cruise ship, when I'm getting dressed, just to get pumped, yeah, and I like to walk on stage to a song that makes me feel good.
Speaker 2:Do you have one specific song that you go to for coming on stage now?
Speaker 3:I like Dropkick Murphy's. Is it Heading Up to Boston? But yeah, you can't always get it because it's not a super popular song. But anything by you know, like Kiss and I like Motorhead and I like anything with that good drum beat at the beginning. So you walk out stage going at least the crowd's kind of clapping along to a rhythm as well. Yeah, that's my theory, anyway, that's my.
Speaker 2:And mate, having worked with you, you know, over a couple of decades now and being a massive fan of yourself as a comedian, not only as a comic but as a musical comic, you know, like your musicianship, if that's a word I'm a big fan of. So were you when you, you know, went into being in bands and that sort of stuff, were you self-taught as a guitarist or did you actually go and get lessons and go down that whole route of learning how to read music and everything?
Speaker 3:I probably had 10 lessons in my lifetime, yeah right, yeah, I just didn't. It was just I had a very good ear for the music.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:A mate, warren, who lives up in Brisbane now. He taught me how to play guitar and I picked it up pretty quickly.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:But I never really got to a level of genius. I'm just. It's all smoke and mirrors. What you see, what I do on stage Like a real musician, will look at me and go. He's a bit shit.
Speaker 2:Isn't it amazing.
Speaker 3:Whereas a layman will just go. Well, look at him, go Look at him go.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I remember years ago someone saying that you know, to be able to play the guitar, to get away with it, you need what was it a head? Half a dozen or a dozen chords and a handful of tricks.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's exactly what I'm doing. Sorry to give it away.
Speaker 2:Well, mate, you do it beautifully. So tell me about when you were in the bands you know, like in the 80s.
Speaker 3:Did you have the long hair and all of that jazz going on? I had. I went bald. Pretty young though 23.
Speaker 2:Oh, really Okay.
Speaker 3:So I never really. I was in like teenage bands, so I would have had long hair then. Yeah, First band was just schoolmates. It was a sort of a punk.
Speaker 2:Do you remember the name?
Speaker 3:Molten Plastic.
Speaker 2:Molten Plastic.
Speaker 3:How did you come up?
Speaker 2:with these names mate Molten.
Speaker 3:Plastic. Me and Warren were very creative. He was a really good artist, like an incredible artist. Yeah right, portrait artist. Such a talented kid, me and him. Come up with all the names. And we had our stage names. I was Winston Drainpipe. You were not. I was Winston Drainpipe. Had outfits. Had me mother? My mother was a dressmaker. She made us outfits. So, yeah, I had like a white. It was an old white raincoat which I turned into like a white vinyl jacket.
Speaker 2:Is that right?
Speaker 3:Yeah, and we all had colours. My colour was red and Warren's was yellow. Warren was Waldo Vine and the drummer was Arnold Gutter.
Speaker 2:What who's that? Is there any photographic evidence of this, Mick?
Speaker 3:There is, but I think it's in an old photo album. I just had my 60th and my sister found old photos, but she didn't find any of them, so I must have them somewhere in an old photo album.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. Happy birthday, mate, again for the other day. So how did you embrace turning 60?
Speaker 3:We had some mates together and it was just a fucking joyful day. It was very good, got very drunk Feminist.
Speaker 2:Nice.
Speaker 3:My oldest friend, wayne, who I've known since under five's soccer. He turned up, we were crying. You know that's what it's all about. Yeah, great, he said goodbye, crying. Then he'd come back crying. Another goodbye, again, crying, and then.
Speaker 3:I probably won't see him for another year. That's what men do you know? We need each other, but I think, now that I've hit that 6-0, I might reach out a little bit more than I usually do, and even with you. Like, we never see each other, when we do see each other, it's a joyous time, isn't it?
Speaker 2:Mate, you know, you get so lucky that you have those people in your life that you don't talk to. You've got a handful of people in your life that you cannot talk to for a year or a year and a half, two years, and as soon as you catch up, bang. It's like you were chatting yesterday. I love that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and on the other end of the spectrum you've got people that drag you down into the mud. But you've just got to find those, like when you say laughter is the best medicine, like if you've got a good mate, if they're making you laugh, that is the best medicine. Oh, yeah. They'll remember a stupid thing you did and I'm like, all right, that's funny. You've got to have them. People, yeah. And females like funny females. I grew up with very funny females. My sister and all her friends very funny.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So, mate, how is the journey from going from the band right into doing stand-up, like, at what point did you get that moment where you've gone? You know what? I'm going to ditch the suits, the outfits and I'm going to have a crack at telling some jokes.
Speaker 3:Well, I was always the funny bass player in the band, but I kind of quit music. When I got married the first time, yeah, and it was always a dream to do comedy, but I got married the first time.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And it was always a dream to do comedy. But I just kept putting it off and off, and off and off and I used to play funny songs at parties. So I guess that was kind of the beginning of comedy for me. Yeah, I was always the funny bloke at the parties. I'd have like a 10-minute routine and people would say, play your song. And I played with another guy for a while. We called ourselves the Original Deros and we had, you know, beer-drinking songs. But then I did a course in the 90s and the final night of the course was you had to do a gig on stage. So that's how I got into it really.
Speaker 2:So it was a course like doing stand-up comedy course.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, yeah, it just got me on stage. Just once you get up and you, you know, pop that cherry like we were talking about before. Like once you, if you feel you belong there, then, yeah, someone told me, if you last two years in comedy, you'll last forever. Yeah right, I think that's kind of real.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. And I should just reiterate that when Mick says that we were talking before about Poppin' Cherries, that we were actually referring to the fact that Mick's very kindly been my first comedian guest on the Laughter Clinic. So two years. Yeah, mate, you're right, two years, and I think it takes probably two or three years to find yourself on stage as a comic. Oh yeah, you've got to stumble a lot.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it won't be a good comic. Unless you stumble a lot, you might be a little bit of a delusional comic which exists, I think, in the comedy world.
Speaker 2:Yeah, can you remember the night, your first ever gig, where you just went tonight and you didn't hold in Sully's stand-up?
Speaker 3:Yeah, probably two years in, Two years in, and there was a lot of older comics that I looked up to who laughed. I remember Peter Berner who was, I think he was headlining and he was up the back and he was pissing himself at what I was saying and I'm like super, super, very good comic, much respected by me and everyone, and he was pissing himself and I went hang on, I'm all right, I'll be fine.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's one of those things that once you get bitten by the bug, when you first start out, you know you turn a corner. I reckon around the two or three-year mark if you keep going at it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, the gigs are still the best part of the comedy. I think the travel is the worst, but the gigs are still the best part of the comedy. I think the travel is the worst, but the gigs are still. Once I get up there, I'm fine. If it's cooking, I'm cooking. I'm feeling good.
Speaker 2:Oh, mate, that's it. There's never a truer statement than feeding off the energy of the audience, absolutely, you know. So that's back in the late 80s, early 90s. So now, here we are, 2025, mate, we're still tripping around doing gigs and, you know, going about our business. So what do you reckon has been some big changes in the time that we've been doing it?
Speaker 3:Everyone's gotten younger.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's right. I do feel pretty old sometimes, oh my God.
Speaker 3:Fairly younger than my kids. I'm like Jesus Christ. Yeah, that's right, I do feel pretty old sometimes. Oh my God, fairly younger than my kids. I'm like Jesus Christ. Yeah, right, it's just, I don't know. There's just different styles of writing now. There's different styles of comedy. There's lots of genres. Comedy comes under a big umbrella of different things. Now, I think when we started, it was pure joke telling. Yeah, I mean, when we started, we were probably called the new age of comedy, which I found a bit weird. But I still love to watch comedy. I think that's why I'm still in the game as well. If I'm headlining, I'll get there 10 minutes before the whole thing starts and I'll watch everyone. I'll always tell a comic if they were great too. I think that's our job as well.
Speaker 2:Oh, absolutely without a doubt. And so if you reckon the… If, they listen, they don't.
Speaker 3:What's that? If they listen, they listen. If they don't, they don't.
Speaker 2:Who's?
Speaker 3:this old bloke. What's he talking about?
Speaker 2:Well, the thing is, Vic, is I'm sure that you feel the same way about this that I do that I'm protective of our industry. I feel very proud to be still here after 25-plus years, and I'm protective of the stand-up comedy industry. I've put a lot of value in it.
Speaker 3:It's an honour to be doing it really.
Speaker 2:Absolutely.
Speaker 3:And still very good at it. Oh yeah, I'm still getting a tap on the shoulder. Come on, old man, you're not getting a tap on the shoulder. Pack up your stupid songs and piss off.
Speaker 2:I'm telling you now, mate you know, having worked with you in the last 12 months you are not getting a tap on the shoulder any time soon. My man, let me tell you You're still cracking it. Thank you, you know, because I love seeing people like yourself light them up. I love seeing light an audience up, like I mean, and people that know comedy will know what I mean when I say you get out there and you light them up.
Speaker 3:Yeah, thanks, mate, and you too, it's good to see you. I love. I mean, we've seen a lot of each other's routines, but when you start rolling out some stuff that I've heard before, and I go, here, we go, here we go. Yeah, because you know what's coming, here we go yeah because you know what's coming, here we go and then you see someone's head just flip back with laughter.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so the advent of the technology, mate. You know, since we started, you know, in our time, we've seen, you know, the internet and YouTube come in, and smartphones and all the YouTube, you know, videos and all this sort of stuff. What's your thoughts on all of that in relation to how it's affected our live industry?
Speaker 3:What like posting.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Clips. Yeah, look, I mean I've tried it myself. I don't think I'm very good at it, but I mean I'll sit and watch clips all day long. Yeah, I'm just having a bit of a hiatus from social media because I think I did it too much. I love it. I mean I look at, I was talking to another comic called Andrew Barnett and we were just talking about some clips that people put up. We just said to each other why do we even bother? We can never be that funny Like some of them. You just think, jeez, that's funny, just crying and laughter. Funny like some of them. Well, you just think geez, that's funny.
Speaker 2:Well, make laughter, can I tell you. You talk about that and and it's great that you brought that up, because this actually leads into something that I really did want to talk about and compliment you on was when covid hit. Right when covid hit, everyone in our industry, you know, know, we lost eight, 10, 12 months' worth of work in the space of four days when they shut everything down. And you know a lot of, I know I found it personally a struggle, mental, health-wise, in relation to, you know, not only the financial insecurity of not knowing what the hell's going on, but I actually missed doing the gigs, you know, yeah, and the joy that you put out there during that time, in relation to those videos that you put out during lockdowns and that sort of stuff, mate. They were. You gave so much to so many people during that time, you know, and I just think it was awesome to see. Thanks, mate, I loved it. They're bloody cracking videos, mate. You know I don't wear pants if I want to. You know, crack it, mate.
Speaker 3:I don't even know where it came from. It was just, I guess, a cabin fever.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Single swimmy. So I decided to swim and just come up with a couple of stupid ideas. And I'm pretty good at filming stuff and I'm good at editing. Yeah, when I told my wife about that no Pants video, like she was just like where did that come from? I said, oh, I was just sitting around, I thought I might just do this, and then it kind of just flowed fairly quickly and it's good, you've got a great comedy brain.
Speaker 2:I've got to tell you you've got a great comedy brain for thinking up all that stuff and the videos, the way you put them together. And I was kind of thinking, you know, I talk about in the live laughter clinic presentations about the research that talks about the difference between generating humour and appreciating humour. So there's actual research to show that as much as an audience gets a kick out of sitting and watching comedians do their thing whatever, there's research to show that actually making someone laugh is more beneficial than actually laughing yourself oh, mate, it's.
Speaker 3:That's a magical moment when you go from the birth of a joke or a song and performing it on stage. So good.
Speaker 2:And a lot of people will never experience that. But for you personally during COVID, it must have been so rewarding to see the feedback that you were getting from those videos that you were putting out.
Speaker 3:It was good. Yeah, I did a couple of live shows and they got great response. I've always had pretty good, pretty positive feedback to comedy. I've never had that much negative feedback. Yeah, and I know people online cop a lot of it, which is very bad for your mental health, isn't it?
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely, but I've always had good, positive feedback. Well, and that's the thing is, there's that fine line, isn't there? It's a balancing act between deciding whether or not to switch the comments on or off. You know, on those videos and stuff, do you allow comments or not? Because on one hand you go, I want to be engaged with my audience, I want to have that two-way conversation, and then on the other hand, exactly like you said, you know, there's a lot of people out there that are pretty quick to tear others down.
Speaker 3:Yeah, absolutely, absolutely.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't read the comments so talking about the uh, you know people commenting after about what it is that we do. So, you know, has there been instances over the years that come to mind in relation to audience members coming up to you after a gig and, you know, talking about what that show's meant to them in relation to what they've been going through in their life, and that sort of stuff.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I've always said I'm pretty shy after a show because a lot of times you don't really get people have a bit of a what's the word? They kind of have a. It's an Australian way to have a go at a what's the word? They kind of have a go at you. It's an Australian way to have a go at you for being good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, right, Like okay. So we both work on cruise ships, right, Okay? Well, you know, I've done for like 16 years.
Speaker 3:Yep.
Speaker 2:And for a lot of people. They find it hard to comprehend what it's like for us to go from being Mr Nobody tripping around the cruise ship like another passenger doing your bit, and you go from that to overnight everybody knows yeah yeah, and then in that instance, after that, you're now fundamentally living with your audience for the next three days, five days, whatever.
Speaker 3:It's a weird thing, isn't it Like if you don't have a good gig, ho ho ho, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you're spending a lot of time in your cabin, aren't you?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I've never really had super bad feedback. How about you?
Speaker 2:No, I've been pretty lucky mate. The only time where it's not gone as well as I would have liked is when the circumstances were against me.
Speaker 3:Yeah, same.
Speaker 2:Like you know, let's get the. I know this is a great idea. Let's get the comedians to do a nine o'clock in the morning show in the restaurant. Yeah, I remember those days, Jesus, you know like I mean, come on, I just there was nobody there and I didn't want to interrupt people while they were having breakfast. I just grabbed the cordless microphone and went into the kitchen and chatted to the chefs.
Speaker 3:Fucking brilliant. Probably get a better response.
Speaker 2:You know, but living with your audience, that did take a bit to get used to for me.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, I've just got off a cruise. It was a long cruise. It was a boring cruise.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 3:But yeah, all the feedback was pretty positive. The funniest one is when you'll be still on the cruise and someone will send you a private message via your social media. I'm like you could set this to your face yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:I gotta tell you it was nice when you're able to easily sell merchandise after your gigs and all that sort of stuff. They made that a lot harder now, haven't they?
Speaker 3:well, that's when you got the good feedback, because, yeah, I remember put out the first album and yeah, there was a queue out the door. That's it. That's when you got the good feedback, because you know, I remember putting out my first album and, yeah, there was a cue out the door. That's a. You know. You don't need anyone to tell you you did well, because they're willing to buy something of yours.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there and then and plus they get a chance to chat to you one-on-one, that sweet extra cash. You ever been heckled before a gig on a ship when someone's found out you're the comic?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I was on a ship once with a magician and he'd done his show, so he was the king of comedy, basically. Yeah, and I was hanging around with him and all young blokes well, you know, young blokes, tough kid, like tough, tough group tattoos, mullets, yeah but I was, I was the guy hanging around like the old dude hanging around, and yeah, some of the young blokes, they sort of heckled me before I said, oh, you don't look very good. And I'm like, oh well, you don't have to come to the show, mate. That's what I would say. You don't have to come to the show, mate. And I had a crusher. And then they all come up afterwards and said, oh mate, everyone's raving about you. You going to do another show.
Speaker 2:And I went boys no. So as a comic over the years, have you been surprised by the misconceptions people get about comedians, do you reckon?
Speaker 3:What they're all depressed.
Speaker 2:That's probably the biggest one, isn't it? That's probably the biggest misconception. Well, they think you're funny all the time.
Speaker 3:Yeah yeah, you're funny all the time. Yeah yeah, I. My last long relationship, all of her friends. I just never really gelled with them and I'd just go out with them and be polite and they were very loud. There was a couple of them were Americans, so they did all the talking. It's just like, and they'd always you got any comments, I'd say something polite, and it was just, they may be, and they'd always you got any comments, mate, and I'd say something polite, and it was just. They made me awkward and they all decided to come to a show once and you know, I just went fucking here, we go Watch this, and had one of them flawless gigs. It just killed him. And then they come up afterwards like, oh my God, like you're so quiet, you're just unleashed. It was like a different person up there, but I didn't have the heart to go. Well, I can't get a fucking word in with this, so I just gave up.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, just never disliked him, it was just like fucking hell I can love the sound of your voice and that relationship went tits up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's an alter ego thing a lot of the time. I reckon you know the two sides of being a comic.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you either are or you aren't. We know people that are always on, but I'm not.
Speaker 2:I find the people that are always on a bit painful, Mick, to be honest.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they're probably hiding something, but I'm not.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 3:I'm pretty funny when I go to gym class. Is that right? Yeah, I don't know what it is. I think it's endorphins and adrenaline, and I've just got a group of. I always hang around with the ladies, is that right?
Speaker 2:So are you participating in this class or taking?
Speaker 3:yeah, yeah, no, no I mean I'm in the class, right, and they've never seen me do comedy. But uh, yeah, they just. I just have a great time. There's a girl called carmel. I mean I just laugh their heads off in class. Yeah, I just said I'm just. I was just said now we'll do squats and lunges and I said I'm just constantly farting every lunge stop it I says I'm just being honest with you, I just don't don't be upwind of this yeah, I've thought that about.
Speaker 2:Uh, that hot yoga, you know, like, yeah, like really do you? Do you really want to add heat to all of that methane? I know?
Speaker 3:I know, and they're all on fibre.
Speaker 2:You really are, in the time that I've known you mate, you're in great shape now, like I mean, you have really, you know, embraced the whole fitness thing and like it's been something that's been a big you know change in your life, hasn't it?
Speaker 3:I know, in the time that I've known you, yeah, I guess it was always there, but I just didn't know how to untap it for a long, long time. So, yeah, it's part of my mental health survival guide.
Speaker 2:I would have to say yeah, right.
Speaker 3:If I can't work out, then yeah, the black dogs come sniffing around is that right?
Speaker 2:yeah, yeah, definitely definitely and the whole. And so the time in recent years where you've been really leaning into the whole, you know exercise and what are you? Run marathons and stuff now and all that sort of jazz like have you, have you noticed that it's really helped put the black dog at bay in relation to? You're probably a bit more maybe resilient when you're hard up against stuff and all that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, well, like we said, laughter is the best medicine. I'd say exercise is a pretty good medicine for me now. So yeah, I know I can get out when I'm on a cruise ship. That's when you probably get the saddest, because you're just on your own. I'll go to the gym. Yeah, Just do a couple of little workouts during the day. I'm chilling down. I'll just go and get on a treadmill. I've got a little routine. I do 100 push-ups, 100 sit-ups, 100 lunges and 100 squats. I do that daily when I'm on a ship, every day.
Speaker 2:You can pump out 100 push-ups.
Speaker 3:Not at once. You just do it in sets of 10 or 15 or 20.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:It takes about eight or nine minutes, yeah, right, and you're absolutely rooted, but the endorphins are popping out of me. I'm like, yeah, let's go, I'm ready to go, eh, yeah yeah. Listening to music.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I'm in the element. You know, like far out, Like I wish I could teach people to do all that.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:That would be if I could give anyone a message. That would be it. But you've got to find your own thing, and I found this, yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, mate, you're very lucky when you've got a partner that's fully supportive and into it and kind of gels with the pair of you, doesn't it? Because I know that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, she's a teammate. She's like it's a team M&M. We got a half marathon on Sunday and then another one in two weeks after that.
Speaker 2:Wow.
Speaker 3:So we yeah, that's a great relationship. It's incredible like that, that was how I met her. That's unbelievable.
Speaker 2:So tell us that story. How did that come about?
Speaker 3:I don't think I've ever heard this. Well, I was in a bad relationship and I was kind of bringing myself out of it and I kind of started getting fit. A lot of people think it was my partner who got me fit, but I was sort of on the way, Changed my diet, Then I got out of that relationship. Then I lived in Manly for a while with a friend's friend, which is a great part of the world, Manly. I was doing boot camps on the beach every morning. Then I just met Mo on Tinder.
Speaker 3:I went out on a date with her. I thought we'd just be mates. It just kind of blossomed from there. She taught me how to run. I hated running, but now I love running. Running is like. But yeah, it just kind of blossomed from there. She taught me how to run. I hated running, but now I love running. Running is like because we travel a lot, we just run everywhere, Like we'll be in Europe, we'll just go, we'll arrive in a city and then we'll just run 6 o'clock in the morning and then you see half the city and then you go. We'll come back here, do that, do that, do that. So yeah, I just met her on an app. Who would have thought eh.
Speaker 3:I'm fascinated by the whole statement. She taught you how to run. Yeah, we just went for runs and I said I can't run and she would tell a better story Like I would complain all the way through that run. Oh, I think my leg is going to fall off.
Speaker 2:I think my hip's broken Right, so it was an injury.
Speaker 3:It was something that was giving you the ache. Yeah, she's a run coach, so she has a program, which a lot of run coaches do, called Couch to 5Ks.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:So you basically learn how to run 5Ks without stopping over a period of time, and she did that to me, but I don't think she told me she was doing it, I just ended up doing it. So when I made my first 5Ks without stopping, it was quite a thrill.
Speaker 2:Wow, yeah, that's cool. So what's the marathon you're doing on Sunday coming up?
Speaker 3:That's a half marathon.
Speaker 2:And how long is that?
Speaker 3:It's 21.1 kilometres. It'll take us about two hours and 15 minutes maybe.
Speaker 2:Wow, Did you ever dream, did you ever think you know, that you'd be a 60-year-old man running marathons?
Speaker 3:No, no way, I never even thought about it.
Speaker 2:That's cool man.
Speaker 3:It's more, it's half in your head too, though, which is again mental health.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:It's 50% body, 50% getting that. I say positive things in my head Right, Whereas you know, in the past I was a very negative person. Like I'd just say how good are you? Look at you, look at you, go buddy, go the big fella.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and then you try to overtake someone older than you. Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2:Mate, I'm just never. I'm always blown away by the stuff that you guys get up to, where you go on your adventures and you know, here we are running up this mountain or doing that marathon or whatever. Yeah, yeah, brilliant, yeah, it's a great way to see the world, mate as well. And do you reckon that doing all of this is you know you were saying about it's good for your mental health? Do you reckon it's changed your approach to your career and comedy and has it had any kind of influence on that?
Speaker 3:I probably have more jokes about being fit. I have old jokes about being fat.
Speaker 2:Right, like, do you feel as though it's kind of because this can be a rough and tumble business? Let's be honest. You know like working in the entertainment industry you can go from the penthouse to the shithouse pretty bloody quickly. Rough and tumble business. Let's be honest. You know like working in the entertainment industry you can go from the penthouse to the house pretty bloody quickly. You know you can go from an abundance of gigs to go. I don't know any gigs in the dive for the next two or three weeks or whatever. Has it helped you deal with?
Speaker 3:you know the ups and downs and the rough and tumble of it all I probably took my career very, very, but I probably realized there's more to life than comedy now. Yeah, great. With the health and the fitness.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I know that it's not the end of the world. If you have a bad gig, yeah, Early days, which you would have experienced as well, You'd have a bad gig. You think that's it? I'm done. I'm no good at this experience as well. Like you have a bad gig, you think that's it? I'm done? I'm no good at this. I can't do this Even now I'll still do it, but I'll just go for a run or I'll go to the gym.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it kind of washes away. Yeah yeah, oh yeah. First, you know, when you have those gigs where nothing goes well for you, it can split you in two. You know like all you want to do is go home fetal position, suck yourself.
Speaker 3:You know like really, yeah, it's hard to explain to people.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it is hard to explain.
Speaker 3:And it's all. Well, probably 90% of it is bullshit in your head, yeah, and the other 10% is fact, yeah, so your?
Speaker 2:brain's% is fact yeah.
Speaker 3:So your brain's just going. Because we're creative minds, we start creating scenarios in our heads.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so have you got places? Now? You know you've probably performed in just about everywhere there is to do gigs around Australia and that now have you got places where you just go. I'm really looking forward to going back there and doing like all your favourite gigs that you go. Yep, that's one of my favourites.
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 3:My favourite ever gig was in Egypt for the troops Really Fantastic 25 nationalities in a little bar called the rhubarb which was on that was on the border of some peacekeeping in the supporter of Israel and Egypt well it's always occupied by different countries and I got lucky enough to go and do that gig, but yeah, that was a great key talk us through the.
Speaker 2:Talk us through that, because that's a. So where were you in your comedy career when you got that opportunity? Because that's a pretty big-ticket item.
Speaker 3:I was about 12 years in, I think maybe.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you just get a group of soldiers that look after you. There was like a few musicians in our group and a host. Yeah, it was just a fantastic, magical moment, mate.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:When they picked us up, all the soldiers went which one's the comedian? And I went oh, it's me. And they went. Well, we'll see about that.
Speaker 2:Oh God.
Speaker 3:So it was on.
Speaker 2:Right, okay.
Speaker 3:And then, like 10 minutes in, they brought up on stage some shots I think it was tequila Right. They went yep, you've won us over, here's a shot. I said thanks, guys, I'll have that afterwards. And they went no, you can have that now.
Speaker 2:So I had to have a shot and didn't do another 20 minutes. Oh shit.
Speaker 3:I still talk to some of those guys, yeah.
Speaker 2:Is that right?
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So how intimidating was it. How many nationalities did you say was going to be in your audience?
Speaker 3:25.
Speaker 2:Wow, that's a lot to get your head around as a comedian 25. How did you approach that?
Speaker 3:I just stuck to my guns. I had an idea and then I yeah, they all pissed themselves all the way through it and a lot of the people thought English wasn't the first language. They were laughing at other people laughing at me going. Yeah, yeah, it was just a lot of joy in the room. It was and yeah, it's something you'd love to recapture Like I just remember just one minute in there fucking crying.
Speaker 2:Yeah, awesome.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and I was, you know, hanging shit on people. Yeah, yeah, because you're 10 foot tall up there, aren't you?
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, and the other thing is is that that's a beautiful case study of the fact that how contagious laughter is.
Speaker 3:Yeah, exactly, yeah exactly.
Speaker 2:You know, you're in this room, you're entertaining all of these people, these people that can't speak English, but they're losing their shit because the people behind beside them are doubling over.
Speaker 3:Well, the Colombians, who were tiny little soldiers, were sitting up the front and they're sitting. They're all in their army gear, they're all in camouflage. So the Colombians were in this like brownish camouflage, but they had a fluorescent orange scarf on. I was just hanging. I said what's the fucking point, mate? What's with the scarf? You've just blown the whole thing. Yeah, people, just like a sniper just going. I can just see an orange scarf.
Speaker 2:Have you ever heard of the word camouflage?
Speaker 3:I know, and they were like, yeah, they were like the people who first language wasn't English, but they were piercing themselves Like it was so bright, like the brightest orange you've ever seen.
Speaker 2:Yeah right.
Speaker 3:And they came up and bought me drinks all night. That was so bright, like the brightest orange you've ever seen. Yeah right, and they came up and bought me drinks all night. That was so funny.
Speaker 2:Beautiful, beautiful people. Yeah, that's cool, Mick. What a rewarding experience that must have been at the time and what a very cool thing to look back on in your career to know that you've gone and done that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I was probably in a bad way mentally too, so it was a real boost for me. I just divorced bad divorce, I was living on my own, I was single, I was unhealthy, but yeah, that was an incredible gig and I remember, because they give you the Australian government, they give you all these contacts, or they contact you like your local paper will ring you and do an interview.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:So my local paper, the person, the journalist, didn't take it very seriously and I said I feel that you don't really give a shit about what I just did. And they went, oh, I'm just doing my job, mate. I said, well, let's just call it quits. I don't really give a shit about what I just did. And they went oh, I'm just doing my job, mate. I said, well, let's just call it quits, I don't want to do the interview. I said it was a joyous moment. If you can't capture that for me, then this interview's over. And then the journalist kind of changed tact and it ended up being a really good interview. They were just fucking what's this dickhead going to talk about? You know?
Speaker 2:Mate that's. You know. There's a few comics that I know that have done that over the years gone over and entertained the troops and you know it would be something that I would. You put your hand up without any second thought. If you're asked to do that, I know I would Like. When you got that call like that must have been a pretty special moment to get that call.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I did it three times, so what a great honour that was.
Speaker 2:Awesome, did you? By the time you went back for the third time? Well, you're obviously more familiar with procedures and all that sort of stuff, but did you change much? You know going back, because I'm assuming that it's a different audience that you've gone back to the three times.
Speaker 3:Yeah, different audience, different countries. All like all three experiences were very special. Hmm, very special. And then Australian government they take you out for a big dinner afterwards and you'd meet some famous acts that had done it with you. So you're sitting at a table with all these country music artists, troy Cassidaly sitting there.
Speaker 2:Yeah right.
Speaker 3:It's just amazing. Yeah, it's good.
Speaker 2:Well, that's cool, jeez. I bet you'd be on a high for that, like after doing that gig. Like you know, you talk about being on a high after a gig, but you must have been bouncing off the walls for weeks after doing that you get a plaque and you get dog tags.
Speaker 3:You get a plaque of the trip and like a medal.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And when I was moving, my daughter found one of the plaques and she was like she's as hard as nails. But she was like shit, did you do this? I'm like, yeah, you remember that she goes? No, she's like, if you like you know he's in war zone. I said, well, it wasn't really a war zone, it was just peacekeeping mission. But she was like proud of me, which is nice because she's a bit of a nutbag.
Speaker 2:My daughter yeah right, hey, so was it actually peacekeeping the whole time? Did you have any incidents during those three tours that you thought to yourself, oh, this is a little bit suspect.
Speaker 3:Yeah, the Egypt one. When we were coming into that camp we had to wear armour body armour yeah. And as you come into the camp, there was a lot of rocks thrown at us.
Speaker 2:Rocks.
Speaker 3:Rocks. So we were in like a Humvee, like the armoured vehicle.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:With UN written on it.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:A lot of rocks and drink bottles. Drink bottles were thrown at us. We just got peppered with stuff and then I was just sitting next to one of the soldiers and I just looked at him and he goes because, like, a drink bottle hit the windscreen and all water went everywhere and he went. Yeah, yeah, they're just thirsty man, they're throwing they're throwing raw.
Speaker 2:So was this the general population like? They're happy to have you guys there like the village.
Speaker 3:No, no, we're going going into a like. You had to go through gates with guards on the doors, right, yeah, they didn't like us, the locals, the village. So obviously I didn't ask what their problem was and I don't think they're going to tell us anyway. Yeah, but yeah, we had to get kitted up as we came into that area so I knew there was something going on.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but yeah, we had to get kitted up as we came into that area, so I knew there was something going on. Yeah, wow.
Speaker 3:I did get one cancelled to Afghanistan from when there was a bombing, so it would have been four. Okay, but I did the three.
Speaker 2:You ever been up to New Guinea and done those gigs?
Speaker 3:I've done New Guinea about six times.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're pretty. That's a frontier land as well, isn't it yeah?
Speaker 3:It hasn't changed much in the time. I've been going there for probably 15 years. It's still the same.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, and it's a rough and tumble place. The gigs I remember the first time I did it they said you know, we're paying you all this cash and make no mistake, this is danger money that we've given you. And I remember thinking at the time that I'm just not going to tell my mum that I'm going until I get back.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, it was pretty the first time I was there. I guess it got a little bit better over the years, but the first time. Yeah, I've got stories, but I won't say it on here bit better over the years, but the first time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've got stories, but I won't say it on here. Yeah, yeah, no, fair enough too, Miko. So, mate, I'm so appreciative of you having this chat today and really that's some very cool stuff about that going over and entertaining the troops. That is something that I'm sure you're going to look back on for many years and be quite proud of going and doing that.
Speaker 3:Absolutely. Still got me dog tags.
Speaker 2:That's cool, man, that's totally cool, is that right? So they're actual dog tags, you know like they were yeah, yeah. Right, and so have you got a number, or is it just your name? I've never seen actual dog tags.
Speaker 3:They're hanging in the bathroom because I've got like a memorabilia bathroom so I haven't really checked the number in a long time. But yeah, I'm sure I would have a number. Yes.
Speaker 2:When you first got those, did you wear them? Have you worn them?
Speaker 3:I wore them on the trip. Yeah, Everyone wore them on the trip. Yeah, I only got them on the first trip, never got them ever again.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:I'm allowed to march on Anzac Day with the entertainers. There's an entertainer group in Sydney Is that right so you can march and you wear your dog tags.
Speaker 2:yeah, Really, have you ever done it?
Speaker 3:No, I've always had something else on, but I should do it one year.
Speaker 2:That's cool. That's cool that they recognise the importance of you guys going and doing that.
Speaker 3:Absolutely.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, that's very cool. So, miko, as we wind it up, I'm going to ask you the final, what I call the feel-good five. Feel-good five, all right, feel-good five. The final five questions and answers. As long or as short as you like, mate. Feel Good Five, all right, feel Good Five. The final five questions and answers. As long or as short as you like, mate. So number one on the list is to get to know Mick Meredith a little bit deeper. What makes you happy, Mick?
Speaker 3:What makes me happy? Jeez, this could be long, couldn't it? I like cooking. I like a good meal Nice. I like a nice cold glass of beer, nice wine. I like the company of my friends, particularly my wife, and I like to see my kids be successful. Yeah, that's cool, it makes me happy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's very cool. Yeah, I love that. Other people mate. Other people make us happy. You know it's important to have them in our lives, isn't it?
Speaker 3:Yeah, look, as much as you people say they love flying solo, got to have them other humans around. Very good for your mental health.
Speaker 2:Absolutely. Well, we talk about, you know, physical health, mental health, but social health is actually a thing. You know, absolutely, social health is a thing.
Speaker 3:I can sit at home being a bit shitty with myself and I'll just walk up the coffee shop, right?
Speaker 2:into a mate. I'm fine, I'm good, yeah, nice, yeah, that social interaction is so important. What are you grateful for today, micko?
Speaker 3:Grateful for discovering exercise probably. Yeah nice Making it a part of my daily routine. Also grateful for kids and wife.
Speaker 2:Nice, yeah, love it and got anything. You're looking forward to Mick coming up. What are you looking forward to, mate?
Speaker 3:I am looking forward to something that I can't reveal, because it's a very big secret.
Speaker 2:Okay, I think.
Speaker 3:I will be a little bit shocked if I pull it off, right, but I always look forward to a good gig. What's this space? Yeah, if I'm on with a mate like you cruises these days, if you're on with a few comic mates, that's something we'll look forward to.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:I'm taking my wife on a comedy cruise soon, so that'll be her last one and nearly my last one, yeah okay so look forward to that one, and I think we might just splurge and go to Luke Mangan's every night. What do you reckon?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, go to Mangan, Luke Mangans, every night. What do you reckon? Yeah, yeah. So when you say your last one, I'm assuming you're referring to the change in the way the cruising industry in Australia is operating and that sort of stuff, with the change of comedy cruises, and that You're not about to retire, mick, are you?
Speaker 3:No, no, that five-person format. I think that might end at the end of the year and I think I'm doing the last ever one if that's it, so I'll be grateful for that. I might go out with a bang. I might go on stage with no pants. Come out to the song you said it brings joy. We'll see.
Speaker 2:We'll see mate, as long as that song's not sweet low, sweet chariot.
Speaker 3:Like my testicles.
Speaker 2:Okay, two more to go Biko. So what's your me time? Like when you want to, just you know, zone out and do something for you and you alone and you, just you know. This is your time, me time. What's your go-to?
Speaker 3:I like a good movie. I like going to the movies yeah, physically going to the movies yeah. Or I'll watch a movie on my own, or I love to discover new music Okay. Same with watching young comics.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Like I will, physically and mentally, try and find music. I try not to, and as much as we've said, our music is the best music in the world, what we grew up to. I'll go seeking music, yeah right, so what's your?
Speaker 2:current genre. What's your current? Like your most recent find that you've gone. Wow, this is cool.
Speaker 3:She's like a bull. I think that her first name is definitely Amethyst. Yeah, highly recommend.
Speaker 2:Amethyst. Did you say Amethyst?
Speaker 3:And I'm in a group, amethyst Okay Kaya I think her name is Kaya yeah, american musician. I'm in a group where every year, me and my mates, we do our top 20 songs that have come out for the year. So that keeps me my finger on the pulse. Mate Keeps my finger on the pulse.
Speaker 2:Wow, that's a big commitment, because I don't know if I could name a new song that's come out in the last five years, let alone one, because I just am stuck in my little 1980s, 90s grunge bubble.
Speaker 3:You know why you are. Why you don't know that, mate? Because you're an old fart.
Speaker 2:Come on get on board. Well, yeah, you're right, I do need to kind of re-educate myself, but it must be. I remember when I first discovered I got introduced to the Tower of Power.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, yeah, you got me onto them.
Speaker 2:You know and I'm like man how good's this sound Big band, Earth, wind and fire, all of that jazz Mate, and, yeah, big fan.
Speaker 3:Right, I just discovered a band called Brass Camel too. You'd like them if you like sort of funk rock.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 3:Very groovy shit.
Speaker 2:Brass Camel Okay.
Speaker 3:Brass Camel.
Speaker 2:Right, where are they from?
Speaker 3:America.
Speaker 2:Okay, cool, look them up.
Speaker 3:Both guitarists have twin neck guitars, so they look as cool as fuck on stage, yeah nice, yeah, cool, that's great, love it Okay.
Speaker 2:So yeah, nice one, vicar, that's a great thing to lose yourself in is discovering new music, and you know, and your last question on the Feel Good Five is what's made you laugh recently, mate?
Speaker 3:What's made me laugh recently as in a joke?
Speaker 2:or Whatever it can be, mate. It can be someone you've hung out with, something that you've seen driving around, something that you've spotted on the news. It can be absolutely anything, mate.
Speaker 3:My wife makes me laugh. I think she's probably she comes across as a very serious person. But get a few wines in her, she'll crack me up. We do this late night thing if you have a couple of wines together. She loves Rod Stewart.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:And she gets put a bit of rod on. Put a bit of rod on, all right, whatever she's wearing, and she can waltz. Very good waltzer, and I can't waltz.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 3:So, yeah, she'll start waltzing with the mop.
Speaker 2:Oh, there are videos out there, but I won't show Mate that's a sad indictment on your waltzing skills if you've been trumped for the mop.
Speaker 3:So it's a double win for me, because I can watch my beautiful wife enjoying herself and she's cleaning the floor at the same time.
Speaker 1:I love it.
Speaker 2:Cracking stuff. That's a genius. Nice work, miko. Well, mate, thank you so much again For being my first comedian guest Mate. It means a lot to me. Our friendship means a lot to me. Like I said, I've always been a fan of your work, funny as mate, a great human being, and I'm so glad that after all this time we're still mates it really means a lot to me, mate.
Speaker 3:I don't think we've ever had a crossword with each other.
Speaker 2:No, no, absolutely. And, mate, I wish you all the best as you go forward. And have you got gigs coming up this week? What's going on? Oh, you've got your marathon on Sunday.
Speaker 3:Marathon on. I've got you can go to my Instagram page, mick and Meredith, for all my gigs. Got a lot of uh gigs coming up. Yeah, nice one. All in sydney, unfortunately, or sydney newcastle's and is that?
Speaker 2:the best place for people to follow your stuff is on instagram or you got web your website website is very rarely updated, so instagram has all my own.
Speaker 3:I'm a big fan of that canva app, so I'll make little creative posters with all my gigs on it.
Speaker 2:Right, okay, cool. Well, I'll make sure that I have your handle in the show notes, mate. So what is the handle? Is it an easy handle to get your head around?
Speaker 3:Instagram. Yeah, it's just Micko Meredith. One word.
Speaker 2:Micko Meredith, micko, mick, meredith, mikko, mikko. Love it, mate. It's been a treat, it's been an absolute treat. Thanks again, mik.
Speaker 1:Safe travels.
Speaker 2:Thanks mate, cheers mate.
Speaker 1:Love you. Thank you for listening. The information contained in this podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes. It is not intended, nor should it ever, replace advice received from a physician or mental health professional. Want more info? Visit thelaughtercliniccomau. If you enjoyed the episode, please share and subscribe. Thanks again for listening to A Laughter Clinic Podcast with your host, mark McConville.