The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

We’re delving back into the archives once again and opening up episode 345 with Larry Dean! Recorded before his rise to global fame with SNL UK, we discuss:

• being manipulated into working hard by people who understand you
• deliberately mining opportunities for embodying the jokes
• and the thrill of writing for revenge

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Once again we’re back in the archives of ComComPod towers with Ben Bailey Smith aka Doc Brown, a prodigious talent, with clean-cut standup and roof-raising comedy rap, as well as a parallel career as an influential and respected rapper. We discuss:

• the state of mind that led him to turn down a 220-date national tour
• how his stage name became a millstone
• and why he struggles to make a meal he wouldn't eat himself...

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The Smartest Man In The World, Greg Proops, returns to the show 13 years and 468 episodes later to discuss his new album, Kidding. But STILL.

A stand-up comic and improvisor from San Francisco, Greg is best known for his appearances on Whose Line is it Anyway? but also as one of the two-headed pod racer commentators from The Phantom Menace! We discuss:

• the process of riffing a whole album live like a jazz musician 
• Bill H...

Welcome back for another ComCompendoum, this time with Stevie Martin where we discuss:

• the huge amount of time and prep that goes into her work
• the internal battle to feel like a “proper comedian” in an industry that prioritises certain styles, backgrounds and looks.
• her brilliant former sketch outfit Massive Dad and whether their aesthetic made them “unapproachable” as performers
• the relative loneliness of ...

Some people have been in Edinburgh all month long... well, the cool kids are now finally in town! Starting today, I'll be at Monkey Barrel Comedy's Cabaret Voltaire everyday at 2.25pm until 30th August.

Although it's about the climate, this show isn't bleak! I tackle our hypocrisy, the barefaced lies of big oil companies, and the things we tell ourselves to cope with it all.

It's consistently hilarious (as evidenced be...

Welcome back to the second part of Nish Kumar's return (again!) where we discuss:

• whether comedy actually changes minds or just offers comfort
• whether anger or hope is the bigger driving force for Nish
• how we can still win the climate crisis battle
• has he finally learned to mix with James Acaster properly
• and is Nish Kumar happy...

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You know him. I know him. Nish Kumar (Pod Save The UK, The Mash Report and in his own words, one of Taskmaster’s greatest losers) returns for his third appearance on the show ahead of embarking on his new tour, Nish Kumar: Angry Humour From a Really Nice Guy. In the first part of this special, we discuss:

• how Bridget Christie, The Mash Report and Taskmaster all gave him permission to be both serious and goofy on stage
• Nish'...

Chances are you’re already familiar with Kristen Schaal's work. You've seen her in What We Do in the Shadows, The Last Man on Earth, The Muppets, Bill & Ted Face the Music, My Spy, The Boss and A Walk in the Woods. And as a voice actor, you’ve heard her as Louise Belcher in Bob's Burgers, alongside memorable roles in Toy Story, Gravity Falls, and BoJack Horseman.

Kristen now comes to the UK with The Legend Of Cry...

Bilal Zafar is an award-winning stand-up comedian who first broke through with a lastminute.com Best Newcomer Award for his debut show, CAKES. He’s now back with Rubicon, a multimedia, interactive hour with games, prizes and stories, promising a genuinely life-changing experience.

Bilal has appeared on screen in Catastrophe, Sick of It and Paul Feig's Last Christmas and to many people, he’s known best as a full-time ...

We’re delving back into the archives and going back to episode 152 with Daniel Sloss, recorded live at the Edinburgh Fringe! We discuss:

• the pleasures and pitfalls of really committing to an angle
• learning who urinated on whose bag
• and why he likes to get his teeth into an argument

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Joe Sutherland is a stand-up, actor and writer with sold out runs at the Edinburgh Fringe who has appeared on Roast Battle and Hypothetical, acted opposite 30 Rock's Jack McBrayer on Urban Myths, and picked up a walk-on role on EastEnders as a Head Judge of a Walford beauty competition!

Joe has also done tour support for the likes of Sophie Duker and Ellie Taylor, as well as RuPaul's Drag Race stars Trixie Mattel, Alyssa Edwards...

We’re delving back into the archives and going back to episode 220 with Sasheer Zamata, the former SNL cast-member, phenomenally accomplished standup and recent star of Masters of the Universe! We discuss:

• the confidence with which she frames her act
• we delve into her first standup special "Pizza Mind"
• and uncover her enthusiasm for life-coaching and it's effect on the finely-honed application of her will power

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Amy Annette has been described by the Guardian as a ‘delight to behold’. Her debut hour 'Thick Skin' was a total sell-out at Edinburgh and was nominated for Best New Show at the Leicester Comedy Festival. Prior to stand-up, she was an experienced producer, script editor and editorial consultant - and is currently working on the comedy drama, Pretty Face. She’s now back with Say What You Like About Me at Edinburgh ...

Joe Wells is known best for his shows exploring mental health and his neurodiversity being autistic, while before that he first made his name as a political comedian with shows like Night of the Living Tories. Joe also hosts the podcast Neurodivergent Moments with Abigoliah Schamaun, of which their book is out today! We discuss:

• how performing for a neurodivergent audience can change the mechanics of live comedy
• the impact parent...

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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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 &ld...

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 cert...

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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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...