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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.

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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...

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...

Not Going Out. Daisy (Katy Wix). Copyright: Avalon Television / Arlo Productions

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...

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...

Luisa Omielan's Party. Luisa Omielan. Copyright: BBC

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...

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