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No. 134: The Isolation Conversations - Jayde Adams
Tuesday 21st April 2020
Her great year looked to have stalled, but Jayde Adams is achieving a long-held ambition with her anything-can-happen Couch Cabaret. Here we also tackle review snobbery, that Kylie Jenner title change, and her TikTok triumph.
No. 133: A Quick Caucus with Jena Friedman
Tuesday 10th March 2020
She worked on Jon Stewart's Daily Show and The Late Show with David Letterman, and is now a fearless political stand-up, with a run at the Soho Theatre coming up. But what will Jena Friedman do if another comedy of errors lets that orange fellah retake the White House?
No. 132: A Day at the Museum with Robin Ince
Thursday 28th November 2019
We were wondering where in the West End to meet Robin Ince for a chat about his books (out and forthcoming), progress hinderers, problematic material, and this year's two-city Nine Lessons and Carols for Curious People. What better setting than tea at the British Museum, right next to some totem poles?
No. 131: You Only Live Twice, Andy Smart
Wednesday 20th November 2019
Comedy Store Player and global comedy traveller Andy Smart is back volunteering for Crisis again this Christmas. We met the former Vicious Boy to talk hitchhiking, homelessness, and his early death.
No. 130: Ed Byrne Peaks
Tuesday 8th October 2019
His new show's getting good reviews, but he's got a system for the bad ones. Meanwhile he's using the kids as a device, and his Tweets are full of mountaintop scenes. Has Ed Byrne worked out the unlikely secret to long-term stand-up success?
No. 129: John-Luke Roberts' Background is all Punchlines
Monday 23rd September 2019
Late in the Edinburgh Fringe we hunkered down with John-Luke Roberts to talk about his splendidly-crafted but stupidly-named new show - now on tour - plus TV writing, tricky audience sizes, Izzard, Python, his early stuff, his awkward stuff, and that surprising award snub last year.
No. 128: On the Road, to the Maxx, with Shappi Khorsandi
Monday 16th September 2019
As her UK tour rolls into Soho Theatre, Circuit Training finds Shappi Khorsandi in a high street store, actively juggling life and comedy. It's a balance that wasn't really working before her big TV break - but this show celebrates those circuit days. Although that I'm A Celebrity windfall was clearly handy too...
No. 127: Nick Revell still has The Write Stuff
Sunday 11th August 2019
Back on the circuit and oozing with odd tales, Nick Revell talks us through his bearpit Comedy Store baptism, heady gag-writing days at Drop The Dead Donkey and the tricky road back to stand-up after a decade off.
No. 126: A Saturday Afternoon Kick-Off with Lloyd Griffith
Monday 10th June 2019
The last time Circuit Training bumped into Lloyd Griffith he was embarking on a new job with Soccer AM. Now - as he limbers up for a 3pm kick-off at Richmond's Big Funny Fest - the busy Sky, Netflix and net-minding comic is going international.
No. 125: Celebrating Milestones with the Anything-but-Silent Kevin Smith
Friday 10th May 2019
Yikes! This month it's ten years since the first Circuit Training dropped, and so to celebrate we go deep with the UK-bound, also-celebrating Kevin Smith. It's 25 years since he inspired a generation of budding directors with Clerks, then inadvertently became a stand-up, a job that nearly proved terminal last year. He's in splendid form about that, his Springsteen-like live shows, podcast wives, Marvel vs Mallrats, and - unexpectedly - Ian Cognito.