The Comedian's Comedian Podcast with Stuart Goldsmith Page 11
Stuart Goldsmith talks to fellow stand-up comedians about how they create funny stuff and manage their career. These in-depth interviews are interesting and frequently revealing.
Previous episodes
Episode 277 - Jessica Fostekew
28th January 2019 77 minutes
Character-filled comedian and actress, Jessica Fostekew is also the presenter of her own podcast Hoovering, and guest co-host of The Guilty Feminist. We talk about how noticing her own faked...
Episode 276 - Ed Aczel
21st January 2019 76 minutes
"Britain's greatest living anti-comedian" (Guardian), Ed Aczel is an oddball among oddballs. We analyse his "instinctive adventure" within comedy, and discover how to create and burst tension in unexpected ways;...
Episode 275 - Doc Brown
14th January 2019 99 minutes
Ben Bailey Smith AKA Doc Brown is a prodigious talent, with clean-cut stand-up and roof-raising comedy rap, as well as a parallel career as an influential and respected rapper. But...
Episode 274 - Phil Ellis
7th January 2019 94 minutes
A masterful architect of the complete shambles, Phil Ellis plays "a permanently nose-diving version of himself" on stage and in his BBC Radio 4 series Phil Ellis Is Trying. We...
Episode 273 - Laura Davis
17th December 2018 74 minutes
Incredibly insightful and darkly funny, Laura Davis is a truly gifted artist who holds aspects of herself up to the light and says 'you too?' We discuss the iron resolve...
Episode 272 - John Robertson
10th December 2018 65 minutes
Creator of The Dark Room, one of the most exciting, imaginative, maddening and hilariously cruel live experiences Stu has ever been a part of, John Robertson is also a stand-up,...
Episode 271 - Laura Lexx
3rd December 2018 69 minutes
Unfailingly bright and bubbly, Laura Lexx has recently shifted into higher gear, with a breakthrough fringe show about an ongoing mental health struggle. We learn how her director Jessica Fostekew...
Episode 270 - No Such Thing As A Fish (Live)
26th November 2018 93 minutes
QI Elves Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, Dan Schreiber and James Harkin join Stu live onstage at the London Podcast Festival to break down the process by which they unearth...
Episode 269 - Sean Morley
19th November 2018 70 minutes
Peep inside the mind of the 'infinity lad' Sean Morley, a mysterious Northerner naked but for his own fragility. We talk about intelligent surrealism, the risk of commodifying weirdness, why...
Episode 268 - Imran Yusuf
12th November 2018 84 minutes
Swaggering and slick yet positive and passionate, Imran Yusuf talks fast and funny, and dances around accusations of arrogance. The first free fringe act to be nominated for Best Newcomer...
Episode 267 - Elf Lyons
5th November 2018 86 minutes
Elf Lyons is a comic phenomenon; a sexy clown with weaponised vulnerability, who loves tackling impossible theatrical challenges. Recorded before some complex health issues took her out of action, this...
Episode 266 - Ismo Leikola
22nd October 2018 75 minutes
Crowned 'Funniest Person In The World' at the Hollywood Laugh Factory, Finnish Ismo Leikola is often described as a Scandinavian Mitch Hedberg. We discuss his intertwined logic and absurdity, learn...
Episode 265 - Mark Thomas
15th October 2018 60 minutes
Mark Thomas is familiar to fans of British comedy as the innovative leftie agitator whose Comedy Product show entrapped arms dealers, torturers and Tories to hilarious effect, and at genuine...
Episode 264 - Janeane Garofalo
8th October 2018 83 minutes
Championed as a Hollywood icon of the Slacker generation, Janeane Garofalo is a brilliant and fascinating stand-up, with the structure-free style you'd expect from someone who read from notes on...
Episode 263 - Garrett Millerick (Live)
1st October 2018 72 minutes
A comedy firebrand who channels his anger into punchy stories with great characterisation, Garrett Millerick had a breakthrough Edinburgh fringe this year with Sunflower, a show that was meaningful despite...
Episode 262 - Alice Fraser (Live)
25th September 2018 71 minutes
A purveyor of rigorously intellectual stand-up, searing personal material, and diamond-hard puns, Alice Fraser joins the ComComPod community for a live special episode - moments after the entire audience had...
Episode 261 - Alex Edelman
17th September 2018 58 minutes
Responsible for the best reviewed comedy show at EdFringe 2018, Alex Edelman is an irrepressibly funny comic, with a grasp of joke structure and narrative arc that is both innate...
Episode 260 - Jack Docherty
10th September 2018 66 minutes
Best know nowadays as Chief Commissioner Cameron Miekelson from BBC Scotland's Scot Squad, Jack Docherty first came to comedy in 1980 with his sketch group The Bodgers arrival at the...
Episode 259 - Rose Matafeo
3rd September 2018 65 minutes
Winner of the 2018 Edinburgh Comedy Award (called it!), Rose Matafeo brought the thunder to #edfringe this year, with a barnstorming performance of her show Horndog. We discuss how she...
Episode 258 - Nick Thune
21st August 2018 64 minutes
Whipsmart hipster Nick Thune combines hilarious club chops with genuine insight. In a hotel room at SXSW we discuss how he has fashioned a beautiful cage of a career, the...