The Comedian's Comedian Podcast with Stuart Goldsmith Page 6
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 376 - Josh Johnson
24th June 2021 73 minutes
Josh Johnson doesn't put a foot wrong. This masterful young US comic never stops working and is reaping the benefits with a place in The Daily Show writers' room, and...
Episode 375 - Jessie Cave
18th June 2021 77 minutes
"A drill-sergeant not a perfectionist", Jessie Cave enjoys simultaneous careers as an actress, comic, artist, and performance artist, all of which marry an extraordinary pragmatism with an attitude of artistic...
Episode 374 - Piff The Magic Dragon (John Van Der Put)
11th June 2021 86 minutes
How did a grumpy table magician find a way to turn "being pathetic" into 400 shows a year in his own theatre in Las Vegas? Only Piff The Magic Dragon...
Episode 373 - Greg Jenner
27th May 2021 88 minutes
If you thought wrestlers shared some of the tropes of comedians' lives, wait til you hear about historians! Comedy-adjacent public historian, writer of Dead Famous and other superb books, and...
Episode 372 - Rosie Jones
20th May 2021 64 minutes
"Not a cute ragdoll, but a disgusting sex robot", Rosie Jones is a triple-threat in ways of which you couldn't dream if you hadn't seen her act. Leveraging hugely punchy...
Episode 371 - Ian Moore
14th May 2021 76 minutes
Laser-guided comic, writer and corporate host, the "modnifique" Ian Moore is every inch the Comedy Store headliner, but in the early part of his career his battle with stage fright...
Episode 370 - Stuart Laws
7th May 2021 81 minutes
Is Stuart Laws an absurdist rambler who froths up a load of increasingly hilarious nonsense whilst honking in a gilet? Or is he an astute and quite private man who...
Episode 369 - Catherine Bohart
9th April 2021 69 minutes
Scintillating comic, podcaster, and co-host of Gigless, one of the online success stories of the last year, Catherine Bohart knows herself inside out and has a powerful mental toolkit for...
Episode 368 - The Delightful Sausage
2nd April 2021 75 minutes
Gloriously disgusting double-act The Delightful Sausage is comprised of jointly and severally brilliant Amy Gledhill and Chris Cantrill, for whom every line is a rug-pull, every image a rat being...
Episode 367 - Sooz Kempner
26th March 2021 89 minutes
"Come for the musical theatre, stay for the trauma!" That was the manifesto of the "Asda Kate Bush" Sooz Kempner, on her debut hour, an extraordinary verbatim performance of the...
Episode 366 - Loyiso Gola
19th March 2021 63 minutes
On the eve of his first solo Netflix special, one of South Africa's finest comedy exports returns to the show to discuss the challenges of filming a show in Covid...
Episode 365 - Ramon Rivas
11th March 2021 72 minutes
Comedian and go-getter Ramon Rivas lives in abundance as an artist, despite his lack of financial privilege. Interviewed in his hometown of Lorain, Ohio, we talk about his realisation that...
Episode 364 - Olga Koch
5th March 2021 86 minutes
Russian-born and raised in Surrey at an American school, Olga Koch is a fiercely funny act with unique perspectives that aren't simply confined to her unusual backstory. We talk about...
Episode 363 - Bethany Black
26th February 2021 101 minutes
Bethany Black makes a powerfully funny connection with her fanbase, and has been wielding it to great effect over the course of her heavily-shielded pandemic experience. We explore the effect...
Episode 362 - Russell Kane
19th February 2021 71 minutes
Energetic, elastic and totally committed to being "the toughest kid on the estate" when it comes to his ability to get laughs, Russell Kane has firm ideas about his precise...
Episode 361 - Tom Neenan
12th February 2021 67 minutes
Head writer for The Mash Report, show-runner for Hello America on Quibi, and profoundly nice man, Tom Neenan has a practised ease with pulling jokes out of thin air. He's...
Episode 360 - Jordan Brookes
6th February 2021 79 minutes
Winner and still holder of the 2019 Edinburgh Comedy Award, Jordan Brookes' marriage of stand-up and clowning is an absolutely extraordinary experience. He deftly walks a tightrope between frankness and...
Episode 359 - Aunty Donna (return)
24th December 2020 62 minutes
Zach, Mark and Broden return to the podcast on one of the last stops of the campaign trail for their new Netflix special Aunty Donna's Big Ol' House Of Fun....
Episode 358 - Nigel Ng (return)
17th December 2020 71 minutes
There's going viral, and then there's Uncle Roger. His MSG-loving, rice-reviewing, phone-case wearing archetypical Asian uncle character has seen Nigel Ng jump from 20, 000 to 2.8M YouTube subscribers during...
Episode 357 - Athena Kugblenu
12th December 2020 68 minutes
Athena Kugblenu is an impassioned and very funny comic, intent on making people laugh even when they disagree with her. We talk about joining the comedy circuit from a successful...