
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 288 - Chris Addison
16th April 2019 80 minutes
Star of The Thick Of It and In The Loop, and award-winning director of Veep, comedian Chris Addison is the director of new feature film The Hustle, starring Rebel Wilson...
Episode 287 - Eugene Mirman (Live)
8th April 2019 77 minutes
One of the godfathers of alt-comedy, Eugene Mirman is an obsessive innovator of different forms through which to be funny; laminated signs, letters to councils, lectures on how to advertise...
Episode 286 - Sindhu Vee (Live)
2nd April 2019 72 minutes
A disciple of "chaotic joy", Sindhu Vee's rise to stand-up stardom is about as meteoric as they get; just a hop and a skip from the open mic circuit, to...
Episode 285 - Roy Wood Jr (Live)
26th March 2019 72 minutes
Daily Show correspondent Roy Wood Jr is a socio-political powerhouse of a comedian, taking huge topics about race and community and making them hilarious and relatable. We go into detail...
Episode 284 - Kathy Griffin (Live)
18th March 2019 87 minutes
Grammy and double-Emmy winner Kathy Griffin holds the Guinness world record for most comedy specials: 23 shows packed with her trademark scathing wit and merciless celebrity takedowns. But in May...
Episode 283 - Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw
12th March 2019 76 minutes
In a double first for the podcast we speak not only across a transatlantic internet connection but also to our first critic! But Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw is unlike any other;...
Episode 282 - Toby Hadoke
4th March 2019 84 minutes
Toby is a quintessential English gent; bumbling, noble and Dr Who obsessed. He's also a very deft writer whose work keeps making Stu cry, as well as a respected compere...
Episode 281 - Jake Johannsen
25th February 2019 88 minutes
A quintessential stand-up, with over three decades' experience and forty-five Letterman appearances, Jake Johannsen is an infinitely warm and funny man. We talk about how his decisions have defined him,...
Episode 280 - Jeff Innocent
18th February 2019 88 minutes
A diamond-hard joke writer and phenomenally deft performer, there is no aspect of Jeff Innocent's act that hasn't been honed to perfection. A purist about several aspects of comedy, some...
Episode 279 - Police Cops (Live)
11th February 2019 67 minutes
If I told you Police Cops met at drama school, mucked about to make their fellow students laugh and now tour an action movie spoof comedy show, you might turn...
Episode 278 - Eggsy
4th February 2019 99 minutes
One of the co-founders of Newport's finest musical export Goldie Lookin Chain, John 'Eggsy' Rutledge is an irrepressibly joyful soul who raps but isn't a rapper. We talk about the...
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...