The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

We’re back in the archives with Suzi Ruffell from 2019, where we discuss:

making sure that LGBTQ+ people in the audience feel seen
how punishing she found being a new act (and whether she could do it all again)
and why she finds happiness terrifying

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Catch Up with Suzi: Suzi Ruffell is currently on tour with The Juggle, find out all the dates and more at suziruffell.com.

Everything I'm up to: Come and see me LIVE - find out all the info and more at stuartgoldsmith.com/comedy. Discover my comedy about the climate crisis, for everyone from activists to CEOs, at stuartgoldsmith.com/climate.

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Exactly 500 episodes later one of the UK’s most acclaimed comics, Sara Pascoe, returns to the show. Fresh off her latest tour, I Am A Strange Gloop, we discuss:

how comedians become addicted to rejection
the imbalance of what the circuit means for different comedians
why there should be a workshop for comics to survive panel shows
the impossible balance between truth and funny in stand-up
whether using writers in comedy is “cheating”
and we find out if Sara Pascoe is happy…

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why corporates can feel impossible from the start
the different standards held between public and private shows
and we unpack the survival tactics used by pro comics on the circuit

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Catch Up with Sara: You can see Sara Pascoe for one night only at this year's Edinburgh Fringe at the Underbelly on the 5th August. Find all the info at sarapascoe.co.uk. You can keep-up-date with Sara on Instagram, @sara.pascoe.

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PLUS you’ll get access to the full back catalogue of extras you can find nowhere else!

Everything I'm up to: Come and see me LIVE ON TOUR, find out all the info and more at stuartgoldsmith.com/comedy. Discover my comedy about the climate crisis, for everyone from activists to CEOs, at stuartgoldsmith.com/climate.

Other things: Find out more abotu Lee Kyle's book at imleekyle.com.

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HUGE NEWS: I'M GOING ON TOUR!

I'm heading on my first UK tour in nearly a decade with Canary. As the miners scrambled to safety, they’d try to grab the dead canary and then immediately revive it with pure oxygen, condemning it to a constant loop of singing, panicking, dying and then singing again.

Which is a tiny bit like medicating your chronic dread by making people laugh about the climate crisis*
*As certified by The TImes: "The funny side of climate change… No, really!"

LIVE DATES

Edinburgh | 17th to 30th August

Cambridge | 3rd September
Glasgow | 16th September
Oxford | 20th September
Manchester | 2nd October
Cardiff | 9th October
Maidenhead | 16th October
Sheffield | 6th November
Birmingham | 13th November

PLUS, the biggest headline show of my career...

Bristol Old Vic | 18th November

Tickets now on sale at stuartgoldsmith.com/comedy.

This show blazes with fierce hope! I'm really proud of it, and can't wait to take it out on the road (sustainably of course). Hopefully see you there!

- Stu

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This week we’re delving into the archives and going back to episode 259 in 2018 with that year's Edinburgh Comedy Award winner, Rose Matafeo! We discuss:

how she ensured her hilarious material about female sexuality in Horndog brought the whole room along with it
how she's actively mining for hot takes
and why she has a quintuple-threat approach to performance

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✅ Exclusive membership offerings including weekly-ish Stu&As

Catch Up with Rose: You can see Rose Matafeo working up some new material in Edinburgh this summer, find out more through the link in the show notes.

Everything I'm up to: Come and see me LIVE - find out all the info and more at stuartgoldsmith.com/comedy. Discover my comedy about the climate crisis, for everyone from activists to CEOs, at stuartgoldsmith.com/climate.

Get in touch: If you’re listening and thinking ‘I’d love to work with ComComPod on getting something out there’ or ‘there’s someone you should absolutely have on’ - drop us an email at callum@comedianscomedian.com!
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This week I’m joined by two-time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee, Ian Smith! You may also know him best as the co-host of the Northern News podcast with Amy Gledhill, as well as appearances on Live at the Apollo, Have I Got News For You and on his own Radio 4 series, Ian Smith is Stressed!

He’s now back with Ian Smith: Foot Spa Half Empty - a sharp, surreal and painfully relatable look at stress, love, and the kind of life choices that include buying a magic spell off Amazon. In this episode we discuss:

the brutal on-the-job experience that actually makes a stand-up
the uncertainty of what actually leads to TV work
learning the value of other comedians as “outside eyes” on your material
why comedy as therapy is limited (but why it still helps anyway)
the stuff that gets cut from The Northern News
and we find out of Ian Smith is happy...

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how writing for The News Quiz taught him to write on demand
why previews are meant to be messy
and how deadlines remove self-doubt and force clarity in creative decisions

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Catch Up with Ian: Foot Spa Half Empty is on its final leg of the UK tour. You can find all the dates and more at iansmithcomedian.co.uk. You can also keep-up-date with Ian on Instagram, @iansmithcomedy.

Support our independently produced Podcast from only £3/month at Patreon.com/ComComPod:

✅ Instant access to full video and ad-free audio episodes
✅ 20 minutes of exclusive extra content with Ian
✅ Early access to new episodes where possible
✅ Exclusive membership offerings including weekly(ish) Stu&As

PLUS you’ll get access to the full back catalogue of extras you can find nowhere else!

Everything I'm up to: Come and see me LIVE, find out all the info and more at stuartgoldsmith.com/comedy. Discover my comedy about the climate crisis, for everyone from activists to CEOs, at stuartgoldsmith.com/climate.

Get in touch: If you’re listening and thinking ‘I’d love to work with ComComPod on getting something out there’ or ‘there’s someone you should absolutely have on’ - drop us an email at callum@comedianscomedian.com!
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