
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast with Stuart Goldsmith Page 12
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 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...
Episode 257 - Myq Kaplan
13th August 2018 62 minutes
Myq Kaplan just bubbles over with jokes; every punchline has a topper and every topper has a tag in his absurdly punchline-dense cascade of comedy. We talk about structure, rhythm...
Episode 256 - Jen Brister
30th July 2018 62 minutes
Jen Brister is one of those comics who has been excellent for a long time and is finally getting some proper recognition. Her passionate, witty material about love, motherhood and...
Episode 255 - Scummy Mummies
23rd July 2018 62 minutes
Scummy Mummies Helen Thorn and Ellie Gibson are a pair of stand-ups with a hit parenting podcast unlike any other. Unafraid to get shit in their eyebrows and tell you...
Episode 254 - Paul Foot
9th July 2018 91 minutes
Paul Foot has one of the most refreshingly original comic voices in the world. We delve deep into the 13 years he spent being brilliant but unreliable, and the psychological...
Episode 253 - The Raymond and Mr Timpkins Revue
3rd July 2018 68 minutes
Vaudeville musical prop-based comedy dickheads, the Raymond and Mr Timpkins Review have been winning standing ovations all over Britain for decades. We talk about their origins filling in during the...
Episode 252 - John-Luke Roberts
25th June 2018 90 minutes
Splicing together physical absurdity with beautifully cerebral joke-writing, John-Luke Roberts is responsible for some genuinely ground-breaking comedy. We discuss how he was vice-president of Cambridge Footlights while not feeling part...
Episode 251 - Robin Ince
19th June 2018 85 minutes
Comedian, broadcaster, science-afficionado and author of forthcoming psychological memoir I'm A Joke And So Are You, Robin Ince's ideas flow through him like neutrinos. We discuss his constant state of...
Episode 250 - Simon Evans
11th June 2018 87 minutes
A fitting guest for the Sestercentennial of the show, Simon 'The Patrician' Evans was once Guest Zero - without him the podcast might not exist at all. A touring and...
Episode 249 - Anuvab Pal
4th June 2018 88 minutes
Anuvab Pal is one of a new generation, exploding out of India's relatively recent "comedy Big Bang". This disarming, witty act reveals how hard he finds it to embrace the...
Episode 248 - Sophie Willan
28th May 2018 86 minutes
Sophie is a hurricane of comedy in action. Possessed of a singular voice, she focuses her wit on genuinely important subject matter, including the cuts to social and mental health...
Episode 247 - Ben Target
21st May 2018 83 minutes
Considering oneself 'an artist who works in the field of comedy' is the starting point for a fascinating re-framing of the whole goddamn thing, in this conversation with the wonderfully...
Episode 246 - Anne Edmonds
14th May 2018 64 minutes
Recorded in 2017, this episode refers to Anne's previous Barry nomination and not her most recent one, which might hint at the kind of quality of comic we've got here......