The Comedian's Comedian Podcast with Stuart Goldsmith Page 13
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 237 - Ola The Comedian
14th March 2018 111 minutes
Provocative, disarmingly frank and very funny, Ola is an emphatic voice in British comedy. As well as getting into the nitty-gritty of his creativity, we discuss Ola's faith as the...
Episode 236 - Julio Torres
8th March 2018 88 minutes
An astonishingly original and creative approach to comedy finds El Salvadoran American 'space prince' and SNL writer Julio Torres describing his favourite shapes to an audience, at some length. One...
Episode 235 - Colin Hoult
26th February 2018 119 minutes
Colin's sublime creation Anna Mann is a faded actress (little ripple of recognition?) on a mission to fight the fascists! But she is only the tip of phenomenally creative and...
Episode 234 - Arabella Weir
13th February 2018 98 minutes
Her writing and performance in The Fast Show made her one of the most influential women in British sketch comedy; now Arabella Weir reflects on her work and the balance...
Episode 233 - Jonathan Pie (Tom Walker and Andrew Doyle)
7th February 2018 84 minutes
Motormouth reporter Jonathan Pie is the creation of motormouth actor Tom Walker. His online videos of a furious news reporter apparently caught on camera are massively viral and often hilarious....
Episode 232A - James Acaster: Returns (part two)
18th January 2018 63 minutes
In the second part of our conversation, comedy craftsman James Acaster examines his relationship to his audience, and how that changes under a variety of different pressures, and also reveals...
Episode 232 - James Acaster: Returns (part one)
17th January 2018 82 minutes
About to drop four interlinked stand-up specials on Netflix, James Acaster is also the only comedian ever to have been nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award five years in a...
Episode 231 - Jess Robinson
19th December 2017 98 minutes
Jess 'Mighty Voice' Robinson is a phenomenal vocalist and impressionist, who has her audiences in tears of bliss as well as laughter. We talk about her experience on [i]Britain's Got...
Episode 230 - Dane Baptiste
12th December 2017 114 minutes
Dane Baptiste is raising the bar for articulate, socially-conscious stand-up, and pulls no intellectual punches in this conversation, which takes in chakras, Arthur Maslow's hierarchy of needs and transcendental perception......
Episode 229 - Zoe Coombs Marr
4th December 2017 84 minutes
I've never seen such an immediate standing ovation as the one we gave Zoe Coombs Marr at the end of her show Trigger Warning this year. Her multiple award-winning creation...
Episode 228 - Howard Read
28th November 2017 101 minutes
Uniquely funny and inventive stand-up Howard Read has recently been performing a double-act with an animated cartoon child version of himself. We discuss the madness behind his method, explore the...
Episode 227 - Sarah Kendall
13th November 2017 85 minutes
A superb comedian story-teller, Sarah Kendall's work is suffused with genuine meaning. She talks vividly here about controlling her anxiety and the aftermath of a nervous breakdown. We also delve...
Episode 226 - Sean Patton
30th October 2017 84 minutes
Infused with the lyrical virtuosity of his native New Orleans, comic and story-teller Sean Patton is adept at finding the meaningful in the profane. We talk about his OCD; his...
Episode 225 - Reginald D Hunter
23rd October 2017 90 minutes
Recorded at the close of the Edinburgh Festival, this toweringly-charismatic lay-preacher of comedy is astonishingly candid in his reflection on the past few years. We get deep into some very...
Episode 224 - Tim McGarry (Live)
16th October 2017 70 minutes
One of the writers and stars of Northern Ireland's most successful sitcom Give My Head Peace, wonderful Tim McGarry is adept at walking the tightrope of offence. We talk about...
Episode 223 - Jo Caulfield
10th October 2017 86 minutes
Is there such a thing as warm malice? One of the UK's classiest comics, Jo Caulfield wields spite like a glittering scalpel, to hilarious effect. We talk about her evolving...
Episode 222 - Joe DeRosa
3rd October 2017 95 minutes
In this 'lost' episode recorded in Edinburgh in 2016, Joe DeRosa peels back the layers of his hilariously disgruntled stand-up about anxiety, therapy and suicide. He rails against comedy being...
Episode 221 - Michael Legge (Live)
26th September 2017 62 minutes
Fuelled by a seemingly-bottomless well of anger, and capable of articulating it hilariously, Michael Legge rages that life isn't as beautiful as it should be. We learn how his own...
Episode 220 - Sasheer Zamata
18th September 2017 75 minutes
Former SNL cast-member Sasheer is a phenomenally accomplished stand-up and comic actor, as well as a celebrity ambassador for the ACLU. At Just For Laughs Montreal, we discuss the confidence...
Episode 219 - Sugar Sammy
11th September 2017 64 minutes
Montreal's biggest comedy export, Sugar Sammy is a textbook example of a comic who made it happen all by himself. We discuss the cultural currents involved with his ability to...