The Comedian's Comedian Podcast with Stuart Goldsmith Page 19
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 120 - Mark Watson (Live)
15th May 2015 82 minutes
Comedy's marathon man Mark Watson is known for his feats of intellectual and performative endurance, and also for his phenomenal comic story-telling. We get our teeth into the anxieties he...
Episode 119 - Nina Conti (Live)
8th May 2015 73 minutes
The complex relationship between a ventriloquist and her puppets is brought to life in mind-expanding detail in this live episode, as comedian, clown and filmmaker Nina Conti lays her creative...
Episode 118 - The Midnight Beast
1st May 2015 90 minutes
Teenbait rap comics The Midnight Beast have generated tens of millions of YouTube hits and two TV series by spoofing boybands, whilst secretly being basically a real one. They combine...
Episode 117 - Nick Mohammed
24th April 2015 90 minutes
A startlingly creative character comic, Nick Mohammed produces utterly silly work with a rigorous technical backbone. We talk about his most enduring creation Mr Swallow, and how he has cultivated...
Episode 116 - Des Bishop (Live)
17th April 2015 78 minutes
Burning with narrative intensity, Irish-American Des Bishop learnt to perform stand-up in Gaelic and now Mandarin, such is his commitment to following through on an idea. He gives us a...
Episode 115 - Gina Yashere
10th April 2015 86 minutes
'Russell Peters stole my shit!' So alleges dynamic and outspoken comic Gina Yashere, who sold up and left the UK to make it in the United States, becoming the only...
Episode 114 - John Gordillo (Part 2)
3rd April 2015 60 minutes
In the second part of this conversation, we look in detail at John Gordillo's principles for directing stand-up. Not so much a list of rules as a whole approach to...
Episode 114 - John Gordillo (Part 1)
27th March 2015 73 minutes
Director or script-editor of over sixty other acts including Michael McIntyre, Eddie Izzard and Reginald D Hunter, John Gordillo is a superb comedian in his own right. The antithesis of...
Episode 113 - Tim Key (Part 2)
20th March 2015 71 minutes
The second half of this conversation with the warrior poet/comic/divvy focuses on Tim's relationship with comedians Alex Horne and Mark Watson, and how his position as their respective foils gave...
Episode 113 - Tim Key (Part 1)
13th March 2015 67 minutes
A lager-sodden 'not deliberately bad' poet, Tim Key is responsible for some of the most startlingly theatrical fringe comedy of the last ten years. From his outrageous origin as a...
Episode 112 - Liz Miele
6th March 2015 76 minutes
A smart cookie based in New York, Liz Miele combines punchline density with social media acumen. She runs, she dates, she cries, she talks about it all. But is she...
Episode 111 - Brendon Burns (Interview 2)
27th February 2015 66 minutes
Brendon Burns returns to the show, live at Dave's Leicester Comedy Festival, to clear up some matters of condescension, technique and the petulance of his youth. In addition to discussing...
Episode 110 - Lou Sanders
20th February 2015 83 minutes
Lou Sanders is off the rails. Her deliciously shameless stage persona is backed up by punchy writing, peppered with surreal flavours. From gurus to glitter, we discuss the technique behind...
Episode 109 - Andrew O'Neill
13th February 2015 56 minutes
Occult comedian Andrew O'Neill describes jokes as 'spells to make people laugh'. We talk about the differences between magic and faith, getting information about the world through stand-up, nailing your...
Episode 108 - Harley Breen
6th February 2015 75 minutes
Cult-runaway, Harley Breen is a man mountain with a barnstorming club and festival act. Underneath his loudmouth lumbersexual persona is a deeply principled single father with a reflective nature and...
Episode 107 - Urzila Carlson
29th January 2015 64 minutes
South Africa-born Urzila Carlson is now one of New Zealand's favourite acts, winning Best Female Comic there an astonishing five years running. Irrepressibly cheerful, she combines her natural talent with...
Episode 106 - Thom Tuck
24th January 2015 74 minutes
A wilfully preposterous boozehound in a pashmina, Thom Tuck is a superbly theatrical stand-up, one third of fringe-conquering sketch outfit The Penny Dreadfuls, and co-ringmaster of The Alternative Comedy Memorial...
Episode 105 - Katy Wix
15th January 2015 76 minutes
Star of the brain-smashingly surreal sketch show Anna & Katy, and Daisy in Not Going Out, Katy Wix is an actress with an exceptional comic mind. We talk about the...
Episode 104 - Alfie Brown
8th January 2015 94 minutes
Alfie Brown is variously known as the future of British comedy, the enfant terrible of the comedy circuit, and/or a jumped-up posh kid rebelling against anything that'll have him. Frustratingly,...
Episode 103 - Mickey D
19th December 2014 70 minutes
Mickey 'D' Dwyer is an outrageously charismatic comic, with an almost mutant ability to win over the toughest room, from the UK to his native Australia and back. Retaining the...