The Comedian's Comedian Podcast with Stuart Goldsmith Page 20
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 102 - David McSavage (Live)
19th December 2014 69 minutes
David McSavage is one of Stu's all-time favourite performers, with an incredibly elastic, glib and scathing sense of humour. In between slinging barbs at his homeland and his fellow comics,...
Episode 101 - Nish Kumar
4th December 2014 84 minutes
Fiercely intelligent political and socio-political comic, friend of the show and self-confessed 'great laugh', Nish Kumar is at the height of his powers. We discuss the self and the presentational...
Episode 100 - Phil Kay (Live)
27th November 2014 70 minutes
It's episode 100 of the podcast and Stu's been saving this one up! If you've donated in the last few months you'll have heard this one as a sneaky pre-release...
Episode 99 - Luisa Omielan
20th November 2014 84 minutes
Luisa Omielan has established herself as a comic force to be reckoned with, by-passing the usual club/progression route, and cultivating an audience all her own. We explore the dynamic between...
Episode 98 - Ross Noble (Part 2)
14th November 2014 53 minutes
In part two of this conversation with the free-wheeling comedy craftsman, Ross Noble argues that ideas with unusual logic are often mistaken for 'surreal' comedy, and explains his process of...
Episode 98 - Ross Noble (Part 1)
6th November 2014 73 minutes
Ross Noble makes apparently casual improvisation into an artform, breathing life into nonsense for hours at a time and provoking gales of laughter. In the first part of this conversation...
Episode 97 - Prince Abdi
31st October 2014 80 minutes
Prince Abdi is a sublimely daft story-teller, whose material spills out of a life where he can't help saying 'yes'. We talk about his upbringing and his reluctant involvement in...
Episode 96 - David Cross (Part 2)
24th October 2014 66 minutes
In the second part of our conversation, stand-up and comic actor David Cross explores offence, outrage and sensitivity. We also talk about his work on Arrested Development and Mr Show,...
Episode 96 - David Cross (Part 1)
16th October 2014 70 minutes
The star of Arrested Development, Mr Show and The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, David Cross is also a phenomenal stand-up, whose work howls at the stupidity and hypocrisy...
Episode 95 - Trygve Wakenshaw
10th October 2014 83 minutes
Bloody lovely Trygve is a superb physical improviser, and more of a "weird lanky white brittle idiot" than a clown. We dissect the hilarious savagery of his imaginary worlds, and...
Episode 94 - Tom Stade (Live)
2nd October 2014 75 minutes
Although he's frequently referred to as a 'philosophical' or 'stoner' comic, Tom Stade is actually a Level Twenty Comedian. He waxes lyrical about striving for wisdom in his writing, rather...
Episode 93 - Eleanor Tiernan
25th September 2014 63 minutes
Eleanor Tiernan makes tremendously articulate comedy, often out of morally murky ideas and subjects. She talks here about the comedy scene in her native Ireland, how to find the bits...
Episode 92 - Josie Long (Live)
17th September 2014 66 minutes
Irrepressibly positive, and relentless in her pursuit of betterment, deliriously funny Josie Long is much more than a figurehead for 'whimsy'. We talk here about how her humour has developed...
Episode 91 - Steen Raskopoulos
15th September 2014 64 minutes
Impro aficionado Steen Raskopoulos has mastered a style of audience interaction that lets his volunteers contribute to the show, rather than simply supplying a punchline. Nominated for Edinburgh Best Newcomer...
Episode 90 - Bridget Christie (Live)
5th September 2014 61 minutes
The leading voice of feminism in UK comedy, devastatingly funny Bridget Christie is adept at unearthing humour in difficult or important topics. She talks here about her comic origins in...
Episode 89 - Phill Jupitus (Live)
28th August 2014 78 minutes
From Porky the Poet to Never Mind The Buzzcocks to his own stand-up tours, Phill Jupitus is responsible for a prodigious comic output. We discuss his origins as a performer,...
Episode 88 - Sam Simmons
14th August 2014 70 minutes
Sam Simmons is not a 'surreal' comic, despite his propensity to turn into a horse whilst windsurfing. He's responsible for some of the funniest, most imaginative comedy in the world,...
Episode 87 - John Hastings
30th July 2014 80 minutes
John Hastings has the soul of an alt comic, hiding between the power-chords of a bullet-headed club-jockey. He describes in detail how the Canadian circuit differs to the UK, and...
Episode 86 - Noel James
24th July 2014 74 minutes
A master of off-the-wall wordplay, Noel James is disarmingly honest about his struggles with comedy and real life. We analyse his use of metaphor and analogy as well as delving...
Episode 85 - Kyle Kinane
17th July 2014 59 minutes
A self-confessed 'sad, bearded white dude', Kyle Kinane has more empathy than the next road warrior, and more bite than the next peddler of whimsy. He talks here about eschewing...