106 - Thom Tuck
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2015
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
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 Society. We delve into the challenges of developing a festival-friendly solo act for the live circuit, and discuss whether his commitment to character is ever a cage. He also reveals a surprising anger...
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| 1:07.0 | Hello and welcome to the show I'm Stuart Goldsmith and today I'm talking to a |
| 1:17.8 | human smoking jacket of a man the wonderful drunk professor archetype that is Tom Tuck. |
| 1:25.0 | You'll know him from the Penny Dreadfuls. |
| 1:28.0 | You'll know him from his own solo work. |
| 1:30.0 | Tom Tuck goes straight to DVD and other shows besides the square root of minus one we talk about and also the one in the middle the name of which temporarily escapes me. |
| 1:40.0 | Tom is an excellent actor, a very fine comic actor and a really interesting and unusual stand-up comedian. |
| 1:50.0 | We're also going to talk about the alternative Comedy Memorial Society of whom he's a founding member, |
| 1:56.0 | and there's plenty to talk about. So let's get stuck straight in. |
| 2:00.0 | This is Tom Tuck. Last night I was trying to look up a quote and get the exact thing of a quote from a review from ages ago. |
| 2:10.0 | And so I read through the old review and I thought you'd like that. |
| 2:14.0 | Tuck is very adept at noticing stuff. |
| 2:17.0 | For a no less hallowed a publication than Fringe review. |
| 2:21.0 | Well done. |
| 2:22.0 | That wasn't the quote. I was actually trying to look up that there was |
| 2:23.5 | I think it was innately solipsistic. Innate. Wow, okay? Solipsistic is given to self-reflection is that right yes |
| 2:33.7 | and my flat I went hang on Tom you're googling your own name and the word |
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